OK where was I. Oh yeah mite spray and smoking, which reminds me smoking. I have sampled a few times. The first was when I took clones three weeks into flower, I was trying to trim out scrawny stretched buds and I coulding stand to waste it. It was pretty good, got buzzed, wasn't too harsh. Yesterday we took a bit off the bottom again, trying to bulk up the top buds and because we were a little dry. Anyways I know know what it is like to smoke bud full of nutes. It burns funny, and is hack your lungs out harsh, it had a nice kick that lasted a while but a strange somewhat headaches sensation, anyways when you have none, it does the job.
As for the clones I took then 3 weeks into flower, 2 from each plant. Some I cut the bud off of and others I didn't. A day or two later they were exploding with mites, their weakened state from cloning let them run rampid. So that's one way I found out the ladies were infested. Half of those clones went because of the mite I wasn't going to fuck with the. now all but 2 have rooted in 12 days. But I think I have enough plants for my next crop so these were mostly experiment since I don't want to reveg them.
Hmm what else is there? Oh yeah I've had an interesting Mg deficiency to figure out. The plants were also burnt a few times during veg.
Now that I look at everything I've put these plants through I'm amazed that they are being as nice to me with their buds as they are. They've been quite frosty for a while. The Afghanis hairs are shiveling up and the Northerns are just starting. The Afghanis have short heavy bud, and the Northerns long Fat buds. I'm trying to watch the trichomes but have ran into a slight problem. when H was moving them in and out of his car yesterday he must have garzed the tips because the nice balls are mostly gone on the very surface of the top tiny leaves. This isn't much yeild wise but they were the best to see the tricomes. When I do havest I think I will do a gradual harvest in 2 stages leaving the later harvest a week later to stock up shaded buds. The plants are all getting nice and stinky and looking very yummy. H is getting super impatient and I have nightmears of finding he's chopped a main cola too soon. But I think I have him in check. I'm really hoping to get at least an ounce a plant. When we dry the weed it keeps it's size pretty well but it has to be pretty dry to be able to smoke it but hopefully that's just because the nutes are making it hard to burn.
Well thanks for sticking with me but I've run out of things to say right now, if I think of anything else I'll try to find time to post it, and I'll try later to get the rest of thise pics up.