Day 56 of Flower update.
After checking the trichomes on everything and looking at how everything was developing, I decided that today was Harvest Day.
A couple of the plants could have went a little further (Jamaican Shipwreck, one of the Acapulco’s, and the more Sativa Mazar), but they all were within the harvest window in terms of development (probably midway) by looking at them and some of the others were telling me that they needed to be harvested pronto (a couple were starting to stress out big time).
Since I only have one space to dry them, I decided it was time to pull the plug on all of them and chop them.
Things I learned this grow:
1) That Timber 4VS is one powerful light! I kept it significantly further away from the canopy this run (nothing got closer than 24” and that was more towards the perimeter of the tent, most were more like 30-36”) and still I was having some Light Stress signs from a few of the plants. I also had some buds that popped out of growth nodes way down on a few plants that wound up developing surprisingly well and being solid/dense buds when it came time to harvest them. Realistically this means that I probably don’t need to Lollipop nearly as much as I had thought and
@RainDan isn’t kidding when he talks about the penetration power of the Timber COBs!
2) Fighting Mother Nature sucks! All done with that crap! I think this was probably the most “plagued” grow I’ve done yet. I’ve battled aphid infestations in the past, but this round I had a battle with Spider Mites and Powdery Mildew! Luckily won the Spider Mite battle using Nature (Predator Mites), but damn if I just couldn’t win the PM battle (only just kinda survived it). As a result, and after doing much research on the subject of Living Soil, I’ve decided to start working with Nature and letting her fight my battles for me, rather than trying to control and/or fight against her. Compost (Berkeley Method) is already cooking and I plan on using my used M3 as a base, combined with the homemade compost and probably some Promix HP (pretty much just peat and perlite) in there as well; all in a 3x3 Fabric Raised Bed that I got off Geopot. Also got a Blumat Fabric Pot kit so I won’t ever have to worry about them drying out or not getting watered when I go away and some red Wigglers to aerate the soil, as well as furthering my Soil Food Web.
3) I found a definite keeper (at least as far as how it grows) in the Jamaican Shipwreck from Sequoia Seeds. Both Acapulco’s (from Barney’s Farm) were nice plants as well, though one pheno was slightly better in terms of growth, plant structure, and flower structure (will be interesting to compare their effects). Next run I am gonna do fewer plants and have decided that the Jamaican Shipwreck, Acapulco, and Lambsbread have made the cut. Nothing else I grew this time did (though I have clones of most of them currently going now in my outdoor grow, so I will have more of each and could always potentially take a cutting from one to keep the genetics going if I decided that I really liked it). One of my buddies got a cut of some Panama Pupil from Mass Medical Strains though, so am gonna get a cut from him and put that in for my 4th plant in my bed for the next grow.
Thanks to everyone who has been following along. Here are a few pictures of the plants in the tent with the lights out, ready to be chopped.
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