Quote Originally Posted by pushit
You should be getting close to harvest by now huh? Don't forget to flush for the final 2 weeks.
I "think" I'm real close to harvest. It becoming REAL hard to keep from 'tasting' that other plant, with those 4 huge buds. But I've been a good boy and kept my grubby little fingers off of it.

I'm seeing a couple of amber trichomes scattered around on the bigger pant, and as soon as I see about 10-20% amber, I intend to flush. I've quit foliar feeding with superbloom and am just using plain distilled water to give the flowers a bath nightly now, as I want to be absolutely sure that I don't leave any chemical nutrients in the buds as they tighten up. I'm VERY impressed with this other plant (see 2nd link above) considering it's just 'bag seed'. I don't have any fancy schmancy name for it, but those 4 buds are thicker than my wrist at the top, and filling in nicely down the stem! That's going to be my "Christmas present"... (I hope!!) I'll just call it 'Santa's homegrown'....

So while I wait for that one to finish, I'll start drying the 'smaller' of the two plants, with the nanners ... tonight. Nanners? CUT IT! It will give me 'some' idea if I've been doing this right, though the trichome count on the top of the leaves is pretty low. The bottom of the leaves actually have more on that one plant.

Damn! I hate that the one is popping nanners, but that's part of the game I guess.

I have one plant in vegetation that's apparently an quto-flower strain - just more bag seed... and two that I'm just about ready to move to the flower boxes. I've topped the shit out of them and have 12 main stem growths on each. I hope they're girls and they do well.

The 'auto-flower' girl is not 'exploding' with flowers, but it's shown it's sex and I can't get it back to vegetating - even when I took the lights to 24/0. So it will be what it will be - staying in there under 18/6.

When these other two go into the flower boxes, I think I'll order a few seeds from Attitude to start the next rotation. Any suggestion on any particular strain that will handle heat (and an inexperienced grower) well?

Summers here average in the 90's and while the back porch is 'cooler' than outside, it's still pretty damn hot. I'm sure that MH lamp is going to produce enough heat to keep the vegetating area in the high 90's starting early in the spring and getting into the 110(+) range in the actual summer..... There ain't a damn thing I can do about the heat without installing an air conditioner back there - to which just the ideawould cause my wife to have a COW! So I need to find some real 'heat resistant' seed strains.

Of course, <sarcasm> I want that 87+% THC strain, ya know! Ok, ok, ok... I'll 'settle' for 20% - how's that? 8-15%?!?!? Damn! Well, if I have to... :stoned:

(Course, as I'm probably 'smoking' 3% and growing 5% right now I guess I shouldn't complain, huh?)