Day 97 above ground.
Mary’s shaping up really nicely. Her nugs continue to bulk up. Trichs are in no rush to cloud up. Jeff is another story. Mary’s internodal space is fractions of an inch and has very dense nugs. Check out the attachments. First one is one is from Mary - looking good. The others show one of Jeff’s…growths. They’re not nugs. I guess they’re not nugs yet, is the key phrase. The key, I think, is that the internodal space on Jeff is about 1” so there’s little chance that they’ll grow together to form a dense nug. Given the difference in stem length between the two plants, I may just end up with some very strange weed from Jeff. Mary’s stems seem to be not much longer 24” . It would not surprise me if most of the stems on Jeff were double that length.
This is the second grow where the plant in right side of the res towered over the other plant(s) in the res. The only difference that I can think of is that the inlet from the water chiller is on the left and the sensors for the Bluelab are on the right. I used hoses from the humidifier to try to get an even distribution of mist so that’s a difference — could be a factor?
Weird.
Now that this grow is winding down, my mind is on to the next one. I’ve got seeds for Gorilla Glue autos, as well as “Original Glue”, Girl Scout Cookies, and Chem Dog, all three are photos. I don’t know the yield I’ll be getting from Mary but I’d be quite happy to have a couple of plants that are shaped like she is but three times taller.
The Chem Dog has a pretty high yield but, after a couple of grows, the light is going on that yield is not that big a deal for me. I’ve barely made a dent in the harvest from this summer and, even if Jeff turns out to have a poor yield, I suspect that the nugs from Mary will last quite a while.
I got a small packet of Jacks 7-15-30 which is a really interesting formulation with enough K to stun a mule. I might swap the res this weekend but, frankly, the plants seem to be on autopilot so I’m not eager to change things. Water consumption has been good. After not topping off for a few days, I added 3.5 gallons of RO last night. EC dropped from 1.2 to 1 and pH was 5.8. When I woke up this AM, pH was…6.0. Yup, finally, after 97 days, the EC is stable and pH is rising.