Greetings everyone! Today finds me examining trichomes and looking for the signs of ripeness. Things have gone very well and it looks like we are about a week away from that magical point where all the trichomes have gone milky and a good percentage are beginning to show bits of amber. Today I see that maybe half to 75% are milky and there are a few spots where I am seeing amber already.
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Three days ago I gave Hillary her last nutes and told her it was water from here on out. I let her slide today and gave her one last hit of molasses, but the next water in 2 days is going to be a complete flush with 3x the container size or 9 gallons of water. Published data says that this is an 8 week flowering plant, so next Thursday is the day that she has flowered for the 56 days and possibly when she is at her peak. The pocket microscope will tell the story between now and then. When I decide it is going to be time to harvest, I will keep her working until she uses up her water, gives her last gasp... and then out come the snippers.
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I can see that some parts of the plant will be more "ripe" than others at this point, and I am going to try to separate out a couple different kinds of meds as I harvest. I am already planning for the next round and Hillary's 3 clones and 2 unknown seed startups should be ready to move to the flowering room for a summer crop at just about the time I have finished using the flowering tent to dry this one. I am very pleased at the timing and I would not have been able to do this without all the help I have received here over this last 4 months.

My next update should be at the harvest party and I will in the next few weeks wrap up this successful grow log with wet and dry weights and the obligatory smoke report afterward. This has been fun!
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Hope everything is going well with all of you,
Emmie