Looking ready soon? pics and story..

HolyAngel

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so not my first grow but first with these issues and not sure what to do or think on this one.

I've had this girl DWC with bennies in a 10gal tote under two qb288 rspec boards at ~340w. Day temp is ~75, night temps are ~65. Humidity is right around 50%.

Had some root rot issues for a week or so in veg but got past that and got into flower no problem, inches of growth a day, water and ppm's falling, ph slowly rising, everything going smoothly. At day 22 of flower I defoliated her of some of the bigger fan leaves towards the bottom of the plant and ever since then the ppm's have been climbing. I had her around 550 ppm's or 1.1 EC before the trim, and after the trim she was hitting over 600 inside of 12 hours. Every day for two-three weeks I was topping off or replacing water to get the ppm's down and damn near every single day they were rising a good deal and ph was tanking, like in the low 4's from 5.8 inside of 6 hours.. I got burn on the top of two of the branches and eventually on all the leaf tips and its just been a struggle keeping the ph in check. I finally decided to try a sterile res, and after a few whole res changes the ph is finally holding steady with about 300ppm's in the res but they're still going up and not dropping, they go up around 20 ppm's in 24hrs currently.. My tap water is 150-180ppms by itself, like 70% of that is calcium carbonate and the rest is magnesium, according to my water report.

Just kinda not sure what to do here. Keep lowering the nutes until she's on straight tap and hope for the best? Give her like 1+ EC to see if she starts eating again? I had tried 600ppms for a day last week but the ppm's were climbing by 10's every 20minutes or so and ph was tanking quick, so I replaced the water to get it back down where i was.

Freedom of Seeds says it's a 56 day strain. I know that's usually wrong but from looking at the top buds and the trichomes on them, to me, she's lookin like she'll be ready about then, like two weeks or so. Am I wrong and she's gonna pick back up here and grow some more? I was expecting another month of growth or so and some fat buds, not like 10 days and these small buds.. She's now at 48 days, the pics are of days 45-47 or so. Did I totally screw her over and just gonna get crap for yield? or what can I do, if anything, to fix it? Do you think this is just normal on some strains? they just start shutting down from week 3-4 on and need less and less nutes? Usually i'm increasing until at least week 5 or so and then tapering off. This should be start of week 8 and she seems like she just wants plain tap water.
 

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Some loup pics..

To me from looking at these tops, I'm seeing some clear, a bunch that are cloudy, and a couple that are amber. I do like me some amber, less than 20% though. She also just started throwing out new buds as of the night before last, you can see them in the pics. The pics are from last night, as of this morning the majority of those new white pistils are starting to turn brown.. To me, I'm thinking harvest is this coming weekend(which would actually match the breeder description) or at most, next weekend. But it's been a over a decade since my last grow. How long do you think before she's ready?
 

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yeah, thanks! I'd had that this whole grow. I got the ppm's and ph stable and she's growing again. Earlier I was looking for input on this type of issue, wanting way less nutes in week 4 on but I think I got that figured out. Just trying to figure out how much longer to go before I need to get some jars and stuff for harvesting/curing..
 
Wish we could edit the OP or even the option to just delete the post entirely..

Anyways, I got this all figured out. She just needed a flush for a day and a res swap. Got her fattening up now for the last couple weeks here before harvest. Here's some more pics. Godberry at Flower day 54.
 

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So just to close this out, I cut her down on the 14th with around 5% amber as I thought I needed to get it done early before my trip that ended up being cancelled due to covid19. I definitely could've let her go another week or so to get more amber.

I hung dry at 65F/55RH for 10 days. Then I took down the branches and trimmed all the leaves off the buds and then put the buds in cardboard boxes at 65F/50RH for 3 more days and then jarred. Stems snap, buds are dry but still springy, super lemony-berry smell and taste! 172 Grams all said and done. Potency is on par with the best I've gotten from my local dispensary, and better than 99% of the black market commercial I've had. Now just maintaining the cure.

Here's a couple pics of the fresh trimmed not quite dry yet bud from 10 days in, haven't taken any other pics yet.
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