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GTOD is right on the money, those buds will fatten up and the trichomes with get cloudy when they are ready to be plucked. He is spot on about the waiting part too...I keep thinking of the Tom Petty song..
"The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you get one more yard
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The waiting is the hardest part"
Thanks for the replies, I appreciate it. Yes, that orangish bud was very close to the light before I moved it so I can see where it would be burnt. Its the only one and I'm careful about that now which is why I'm bending everything this way and that :-) I have about 3 weeks left on my schedule so the time frame you listed sounds spot on. Ill keepo posting pics and hopefully there will be an obvious moment where everyone says "Time to cut" :-)
DAY 60
Wow, I'm quickly approaching my final week of nutes this Saturday. Everything's going well, the babies have stopped growing upwards thanks to the bending and the buds becoming dense and heavy enough they are actually weighing the branches down.
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Well today I made a startling discovery. I finally decided to get inside and cut away all the bottom section dead leaves. I had noticed one of my BD's, the mutant one that grew two out of one rockwool cube, had a lot of dead leaves, and I thought that was because the dense canopy killed them all, but that's not all it killed. The babies as stone dead! It grew as tall as the canopy of her evil sisters and then died. I noticed right off that her stem was hard and rigid, not the same color green a the other two, and very thin. Her roots look OK but it was just a stem attached, no buds nor licing leaves.
What's amazing is, about 95% (the other 5% being my GDP) of the growth you see in the following pic's are from two huge BD plants that stretch about 6 1/2 - 7 feet from the far left side of my cab all the way over to the right side, producing AL of the growth you see in the pics. Just from two BD's!
On the one hand I'm bummed that I lost another baby, but since the others are doing really well, including the GDP, I'll be ok ;-) I learned a lesson in how to bend the plants so others don't die from lack of light and my next grow will be that much better.
Other than that the branches are getting really heavy with dense buds. I may tie some strings around the branches and tie them to the ceiling to support the long branches as multiple top colas are growing on them and I'm afraid they may snap. This is my last week of nutes, then I do a two week flush.
I took some pics of my GDP flowering and marked them in the list.
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Nice job!! :thumbsup:
DAY 65
I did a wee bit of trimming away at the dead leaves blocking the lights of the lower buds. The weather has been nice and cool and the babies love it. Even my GDP is exploding with swelling flowers.
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Pics not there but I am sure they are looking fine. You stayed on top of things very well. :thumbsup:
Hmmm, I don't know why the pics stopped working. Here's some that should work.
I fixed the problem, here are the fixed pic links :D
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DAY 67
Well, my GDP was doing so well, but over the last two days it suddenly died:
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I have a feeling some left over rotted roots from the other plant that share its bucket is to blame. I'm probably not going to grow two different strains together at the same time again, and most definitely not doing two in one bucket ever again.
The good news is the BD's are still swelling up, with one bud measuring 6 inches long or about a meter and a half long : http://i946.photobucket.com/albums/a...y/DSC02166.jpg
I begin my two week flush tomorrow.
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I don't think I have asked this yet, but is it OK to ignore the pH of the water during my two week nute flush? Will the babies be OK or do I need to use pH up and down to keep it within a specific range while I flush them out with un-nuted water?
I wanted to expand upon my last post a little bit. I have done a lot of research on whether or not to pH the water during flush, and most people are split down the middle. One camp says NO, because the point of flushing is to force the plants to use of their internally stored reserves of nutes providing for a better taste and burn. The other camp says YES, because altering the pH may shock the babies even at this stage and that the babies internal pH is the pH that the grower has been keeping their water pH at, thus altering the pH at this stage will lock up the nute intake inside the plant itself.
I'm thinking of doing a compromise here. I'm using RO water, so all it needs is two or three drops of pH down to get it just into the respectable range (probably get it to 6.6 or so), but I'm thinking of leaving out the cal/mag all together.
ByrdDog55 commented earlier in this thread that two weeks of flush wasn't necessary for hydro, but I'm going to try it out this time around just because I've used high levels of nutes this entire grow.
Any comments/suggestions on the final flush are appreciated, particularly on the use of Cal/Mag and/or pH during the flush.
DAY 73
Well, my first week of flush is over with, my final week of flower/flush begins tomorrow. The babies smell absolutely amazing, like sweet fruit trees! The leaves are turning yellow as the internal nute cache is drained. Only two out of my three BD's made it as you can see, and the cab looks so lonely without more babies, but look how far over to the right they bend! Pretty crazy.
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Originally Posted by Anonymousm0nkey
2 weeks of flush is overkill! Period. One week with hydro is all you will need. Hence the reason your excellent hydro always leaves the nice white ash when smoked.
I always add Cal/Mag and PH...until I flush. At week #8 I start adding just ph'd water to the res. I do not add nutes again past this point. Week #9 is ph'd water. LOCK OUT IS IMMINENT if you do not ph the water properly...and you can fuck up your weight in the most important days...Get those bitches to feed and swell!
to the folks who have been at this a while.
Always Ph your water,whether it has nuits or not.
Two weeks plain water is hurting your yield and quality.
rotten roots will give your chit a foul taste, and from the pics your burning them up. back off on your total PPM by 50%
curled under leaf edges and burned edges/tips is a clue, they also look as thow they need more air movement/fresh air
hope this helps, NOBODY knows everything, we have all figured out things others haven't yet, thats what this forum is all about. helping each other figure out its an elephant
Daddy
Thanks for the input; your experience and knowledge are very much appreciated. I may begin harvesting tomorrow based off of this information. My roots look healthy, but tomorrow will be day 8 of flush. My research indicated 7 - 10 days of RO/Hydro flush was fine, so my target zone for harvest is today through Wednesday. The babies smell fantastic and I just smoked a malformed, tiny bud I pluck from the bottom of the tree and that had been drying for just two days. It got me pretty darned buzzed and tasted great, even while still wet!
As my first time, "make the majority of your mistakes here" grow, i think next time all add 1 or possibly 2 weeks onto flower, and reduce my flush to just one week. This has been a great learning experience, many thanks to those who posted their advice and recommendations.
I forgot to mention in my last post that I had/have been pH'ing my babies even during flush. No one had responded to my first post asking about pH during flush but I thought that adjusting the pH was a good idea so i did. I did not add calmag as it was a flush. Thanks again for all the great advice, information, and commentary. I'll post pics of my chopped buds when the deed is done.
I harvested :-) I have no clue as to how much I have, that will be determined once its dried and cured. I was pretty sloppy on the trimming, but it was my first attempt and I have really crappy scissors. I had no idea how much work and energy it takes to chop down and trim a baby! WHEW!
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Again, many thanks to the kind posters who gave me their advice, suggestions, and commentary. I sure learned a lot and will continue to learn as I continue to grow. MANY THANKS. I'll post an update on the final dried and cured end results in about a month.
Followup: after drying and curing, I harvested about 3 1/4 ounces from my two BD's. It might be a little more because I weighed it when it was very dry and have since added some lemon rind for moisture, but that's the official weigh in.
It has a FANTASTIC medicinal effect, much better than anything I get at the local cannabis dispensary, which absolutely astounds me. Because I let it dry too long, when I cut the buds into glass jars and I laid a layer of cheeses cloth over the opening of the jar. I then placed a small cut of lemon over the cheese cloth and sealed the jar for 12 hours. PERFECT! The lemon wedge provided just enough moisture to hydrate those babies to a perfect consistency. I've sealed my stash in glass jars as it should keep my buds fresh over time, and this supply should last me a while (I hope!).
It has the most amazing odor (it did before i cured it, but now it has the hint of lemons, blueberries, and cotton candy for some reason), and its no longer dry. It's the perfect moisture/density. It's a little creepy: it hits you as soon as you smoke it, but it slowly gets stronger over a 2 minute period. It burns into white ash and is just a fantastic medicine.
Again, many thanks to all who posted offering advice, opinion, and/or help, it is much appreciated :hippy:
Congrats! You made it to my favorite part...curing! :stoned::stoned: