Just curious, what do you base that on? You don't smoke the fan leaves, and if the buds/sugar leaves start yellowing or browning you're probably losing potency, and it's an open invitation to bud rot. Within a day or two of chopping there's very little active transport going on in the plant's...
Chlorophyll and sugars degrade by biological action during the curing process, and burping helps release the off-gassed N. I'm going to disagree with flushing, it does nothing to help the end product.
I used to live in Eureka, I'm now a couple hundred miles south, but still "coastal". Beautiful country, sparsely populated, great place to grow. I used to plant around this time, as long as it's warm enough, there should be a long enough photoperiod.
I have no idea of what kind of native soil you have, sometimes it’s great, other times, not so much, but I’d at least get a bag or two of compost/potting soil and mix it in.
Just for starters, they need more light, they’re very stretchy, but that can be overcome! When you repot, plant the stem deep, almost to the cotyledons. Are you growing in bags or in the ground? Are you using native soil or potting soil?
No way to really know, unless you have it analyzed. I know aloe and papaya leaf can be useful, don’t know about gardenia and Ti leaf. Try it on a plant and see what happens. How did you come to use those ingredients?
I checked the General Hydroponics website, it’s no longer listed as a product. There is still plenty available on-line, but looks like it’s been discontinued.
I don't know where you're located, but I use Fox Farms Ocean Forest, very similar to Roots. I get FFOF for $25 a 3 cu ft. bag, but I'm close to where it's made. If you're in northern Ca. I can give you a good place to buy it.
Definitely looks like sacs, your call on whether you want to try and remove them, if you do, be vigillant as it's got hermie tendencies and may produce more balls! Give it a shot, but if it keeps producing sacs, give it the habeus yankus!
At about 55%-60% RH curing stops and just becomes drying, so you want to maintain 60% or higher for as long as you can. After a couple/few weeks the bio action of curing is pretty much done. After that it's more of a personal choice of how dry you want your buds. I like around 60%, but some...
You definitely should wait at least a couple weeks. Lot's of options for drying, best advice is the lower temp and slower you can dry it the better it will be. So wherever you dry it, low temps and moderate humidity (50-60%) and out of direct light. A closet will work.
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A couple easy things, drop the PH of you input water to about 6.0-6.2, and up your feed to about 50%. FFOF is a very good soil, so is Happy Frog, don't know anything about strawberry fields. Also, let the soil dry back before watering.