I envy you now that I lost mine. Looks good, and I hope you have great success. :thumbsup:

Quote Originally Posted by emilya
Hello dear friends,

Today is day 12 of flowering. The plants are changing almost daily now in ways that I can see without much trouble. A tremendous amount of stretching is going on still and with it a more than doubling of the water needs from 3 cups every 2 days to 6 cups. I suspect that in the coming weeks when we start putting some weight on these buds, those needs will double again, but not knowing for sure I still monitor water use very carefully and log each exact time and amount as well as if it was a nutrient watering. I have been following the recommendations from Fox Farm and have been giving the recommended amounts of nutes, every other time and just plain PH'ed water in the in-between times.

The smell has changed noticeably too. Now, its not as much a green growing thing smell with a bit of a pepper spice, it has become sweeter and a bit more pungent. Not so much the "green" smell now as it is that of a flower getting ready to bloom. I am really looking forward to experiencing the smell of the maturing buds in the next 6-8 weeks.
The bud sites are everywhere now and the buds are changing from the leafy vegetation growths that we have seen up until now, to something completely different, denser and filled with pistils. They are indeed starting to turn into flowers. It is a beautiful sight... the pictures just do not do it justice.

The SCRog screen is working wonderfully. I suspect that in the next 5-7 days we will see an end to the stretching and all effort will be on building the flowers. Training on the screen will end when I see that happen. When I first placed her under the screen she filled aproximimately 4% of the available holes. Today's count puts her just over 30% of the 3sqm screen filled. This is incredible to me, and now I know that putting more than two 9 week old plants with good side growth under this screen would be way too much. The ideas presented earlier about putting younger plants under the SCRog make much more sense to me now that I have seen this.

It has been a long journey getting to this point, but we are now in the downward stretch of this grow log. I will update when I see noticeable changes, which I suspect will come once or twice a week until we are done. According to the seed supplier, this is an 8-9 week strain, so we are 6-7 weeks away from harvest if that holds true.

Here are the pictures! I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Emmie