Boy I'm going to raked over the coals for this I have a feeling...last night I went crazy in my bud room and did some heavy thinning. What finally got to me was how much the buds seemed to be drowning in an ocean of fan leaves, most of which are yellow or yellowing rapidly. It was just so dense that large areas of branches, pretty much only the tops, are really receiving good strong light. And all these damned dying leaves blow around in the fan stream and abrade the buds and trichomes. I know many of you are proponents of leaving the fan leaves alone, but in this case I realized I was only a few days from harvesting at least the top stuff, and I want the buds and sugar leaves to get a full dose of light while they swell. I didn't cut much that was green, but I did thin out a lot of overlapping greens. Anyway what's done is done.:error: Feel free to explain to me why what I have done is stupid and I will add it to my "learning the hard way" folder which is fairly well stuffed.

The one thing this DID do was show me in no uncertain terms just how much material I have. If the calyxes keep swelling at the rate they are now, in a few days I'm going to be a very happy farmer (unless removal of leaves causes catastrophic failure in which case, um, well I'm not sure what kind of farmer I'll be).

And finally, while in there with my scythe, I accidentally hit the "off" button on the timer which controls the lights. Flipped on the green light and carefully turned everything back on and checked connections. Nothing seemed worse for it. The next morning I check it at 8:30 am just to make sure everything's as it should be, as I do every morning. The light is supposed to go off at 6 am. IT WAS STILL ON :wtf:. Somehow turning it off the night before had caused the program to become altered so that the "off" setting changed to "on". :wtf: THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE IDENTICAL TIMER WHICH RUNS THE LIGHTS IN MY SALVIA ROOM, AND WENT UNNOTICED FOR 2 MONTHS CAUSING THE PLANTS TO GO HAYWIRE. Stupid digital timers. I'm going back to my old clunky analog timers. I may not be able to tell to the exact minute what I am setting it to, but at least off is off and on is on. Sheesh. Pics tonight!