All the issues finally caught up with the girls. I was surprised with flowering clones on May 9th. After much dorking around, I finally got a suitable (or so I thought) flowering situation going Aug. 13th. After 75 days in bloom, they reached the point of diminishing return. Trichs were about 40%, but the bud leaves began degrading faster than they were turning trichs, ha!
I need to go back and slowly re-read this journal, but off the top of my head, some things I think I screwed up were:
Putting OC+ prills in the very bottom of the hempy bucket. Way too much got released. I know it's not supposed to burn the plants, but I made every condition just right to burn them anyhow.
Not paying attention to the temp. Perlite and OC+, heat, all the other problems, plus denial don't work well together.
Vegging too long under 288w of t5s, then going to 1000wMH... more stressed out than a long tailed cat on the porch of a retirement home.
Well water. TA off the chart when it was politely pointed out that maybe I oughta check it.
Bad pH meter, doesn't help much in a needy situation
Not exactly my fault, but, we had something like 117 days of over 90° this summer, and a bunch of those days were over 100. Phew!
If anybody sees anything else, either subtle or obvious, to add to my list, please feel free to jump in. I have very thick skin, and maybe some one can avoid plant abuse charges
On the brighter side of the road... this Old Power Plant kicks azz. House guests from a less tolerant planet, and freak humidity have slowed drying operations, so curing is still a way off.
The buds are tightish, but not dense. A good thing given the humidity.
Frostyness is nice.
Trimming was tougher than normal with the extra browning.
Buds aren't so big that I need a truck to move them around
This one's been drying for about four days.
Well, I'm sittin' here wonderin' will a matchbox hold my buds? LOL
The smell is delightfully fresh and the taste of some earlier cut sample is too. Kind of piney, but more just a real nice mountain meadow fresh thing. Medicative powers are substantial, and the ash is clean. Mrs Horse likes it, very important, and we're giving it a solid 7 right now.
Minus big stems, 1289g of total wet material. 4-5 days later 370g of bud w/ associated stemage, and 149g of trimmings.
I got a little humidity meter at xmart that I now see reads 10% lower than the other 3 big ones, jarring is a little ways off, but I might be eyeballing that.
I'll get the real dry weights up when, well, when it's dry
Thanks to everyone for all the help, and noobie directed kindnesses. Pretty nice crowd here at 420
Horse
Great journal.
That's a good deal w/ shipping it's 140 beans. My hydro store wants $149 for just the ballast. I've gotten 2 tents from HTG that I like, fast shipping too... too bad they don't carry cmh bulbs, tho.
Remind me not to do the over, under, and around weave the next time 
