Ah yes, excellent bulking-up!
I thought you would agree! It's amazing, I can't wait to see what another week does and then the next 4 cause my Gorilla Glue Super Lemon Haze is a long finisher! Plenty of time to make those even bigger!
Hiiiya Bode!
So much to talk about! All those colors, the fat buds, long legs, oh my! !
Its like the Wizard of Oz but better! Oh My!
Those trichome shots told quite a story. Surprising, isn't it? But they were pleasing to look at!
Sure is but now I know!
And yes, GG x SLH top buds! Wow! You'll choke smokin' on those, lol! They don't need supports yet? They look topheavy. But, then, so do all your ladies!
You know, Gigi never needed support either. This GGSLH is super strong limbed. You would think she would but, nope. Branches are soooo thick!
The long legs (tall bare stalks) pictures were ZDF? Their heigth doesn't show most of the time.
That was everyone so yes, to the left were the ZDF girls. They are nearly 50in so they're pretty tall, too. I think the lolliopping accentuates their legs and height more...like wearing a mini skirt. (Although I need to shop in the kids section for a skirt that goes anywhere above my knees with my lack of height lol)
And all those colors - Sirius Black is going to changed to a deep purple? She'll be gorgeous! She is gorgeous!
I am loving her!
Quite a tentful! And you had a testor from the lady in the back, and loved it. I'll bet you're pretty pleased with yourself! Well, I'm pleased with your efforts also! Love those trichome shots!! Happy Smokin'
I tried a tester from Gelato-K, yes, and it was yummy! Still have some leftover for today in fact! Have a great day Bode! Always a pleasure!
Food + Ladies all looks delicious as I would expect nothing less from you Jersey. Good food + enjoyable times makes life easier for when things aren’t as enjoyable.
good food is the key to happiness lol well in group settings with lots of Italians...it sure as heck doesnt hurt. My sister brought me 7 layer cookies, might as well have brought me a gold block. Those cookies make me happy!
Personally I don’t eat very healthy but when I return to Florida it will be 90% fresh fish. Can’t wait to combine my new hobby with my favorite, fishing. CL
Aaaah yes! Fishing and fresh fish. Mmmmm. So good and sooo healthy!
No disrespect taken Jersey I know what my people are known for and coming from many generations of alky’s and being a retired one myself we tend to live up to the stereotype. CL
Lmao thank goodness, I didn't want to lose my robe buddy over this! Hope all is well Clover, been a minute my friend!
So hello one, hello ALL!
TODAY IS:
DAYS 102/103, DAY 45 FLOWER, WEEK 6
I have been wracking my brain looking for reasons for fast finishes from cannabis. I really haven't found what I was looking for, to tell me why this Sativa dominant Zombie Death is ions in front of her sister and close to the readiness of her tented Indica sister, Sirius Black.
I did a trichome check on Falkor, the
@Weed Seeds Express Sirius Black because I wanted to, A. Compare it to Zombie Death, Gizmo and B. To generally check and see where we were in terms of finishing so I can gage when to drought.
Now normal droughting, specs say Week 7, do it. I've kind of adapted a different process over the last year, waiting til closer to Week 8 for most. I just feel like I've had great success in doing so at that juncture-the final last push.
Now, we are already seeing in Sirius Black what we see when droughting, the coraling trichomes. She is so full of them, it is really hard to get clear pictures of the trichomes. I may invest in a better scope because I'm not getting the quality I want, even with the gooseneck holder. It's better but not there and I think it has to do with the scope now more than anything else.
This was a decently priced scope but I can't use its magnification functions from anything over 1.0x. It immediately blurs the picture. Needless to say, I'm not getting the said 1000x magnification on the product label. I'm stuck at idk probably somewhere around 750. I'll look around this weekend and see what I can find.
I am thinking we need to drought Sirius Black next week at Week 7, as she is finishing early as well based off of these trichome shots. So come Monday, I will have 4 droughting...2 in this tent in our Zombie Death Gizmo and Falkor, our Sirius Black and my 2 Big Bulls in the 3x3. It's gonna be an easy week on me making jugs of feed! Woo-hoo!
I'll make up for the time not spent doing that though, trying my very best to document all of these girls. Ive never had so many droughting at 1 time. Honestly, never had more than 2 droughting at one time, so I need to be cautious in my approach and very regimented with checking in on all of them daily.
So since we have touched on a lot of topics in this journal, we have also discussed each of the strains parents in detail, we have done Plant of the Days we have done Full Tent Days, we have also even mentioned back-building buds as of late.
Today, I wanted to touch base on all the ways our indoor grown cannabis plants can finish early and why I think we have some early finishers, especially in Gizmo, this run.
First and foremost, at early flower, we had a cold streak here, it was bitterly cold. Temps dropped down to 60 a few times in the tent. I believe this triggered our Meditteranean growing Sativa, Gizmo, to say oh man, winter is coming early this year. Since then, temps have been consistently above average for this time of year but enough to continue to signal to the plant that she needs to get going.
Second, and I always do this, but running veg at 24 hours also helps to expedite the flowering and finishing process. 24 hours of light allows these plants to do a lot of stuff, including creating a foundation for quick development and optimal health. The plants take in that 'sun' and run with all the benefits the photosynthetic process offers them during the vegetative stage.
Third, flipping the lights sooner. As opposed to me running my plants for 56 days of veg, I went 44 days with this tent. In that time, we go back to point #1, where we had the early onset of cold days and nights come that flip to 12.
Fourthly, trimming them and pruning them regularly allows for the crop to signal its GRN to send increased nutrients to the bud sites, helping them to develop more efficiently and expeditiously.
Fifth, adding in
@DYNOMYCO in veg and Humboldt's Flower Stacker in early flower, provides a lot of extra available Potassium and Phosphorus. These two nutrients are the go-to sisters for bud development and when moving through the plant's system, they trigger the plant to bulk and finish.
Lastly, just having the perfect mix of nutrients, evidently forces a plant to finish quicker.
Maybe that particular Zombie Death was just grown a certain way, her seed was predestined a certain way and she happened to personally like the mix of nutrients she received more than the others, just based off of her special genetic makeup that is solely hers.
So with all that said and all these heavily amber inundated trichome pictures to look at, I'll leave you with some bud shots of the lavender, crystalline flowers that Gizmo has been working on finishing up.
I did go ahead and snip off a sample tester to make sure we weren't getting ahead of ourselves. It hangs along with a little nug I cut off of the branch (for quicker testing) and I stand here typing this impatient to try its delectable super-sticky goodness. The little branch hanging, was a bottom bud and she is nice and thick already! Here is a really quick pic of the little bud I took off of the branch to test tomorrow!
OK so that's all for today, thanks for coming by and loving on my girls, they love every minute of it.
We saw Zombie Death and Sirius Black today, my goal is to get some nice shots of our Kannabia Gelato-K via
@CannaPot, hidden in the back of the tent, tonight, so that we can do a Plant of the Day focus on her tomorrow.
Salute friends!
mesmerizing 
but I have some new baby's going 
