Update: State of the garden
Things in general are rolling along really well. It’s about 3 weeks since flip for the photoperiods so I should be giving recharge to the 7gal HBB plants. I think they’re about due for a drench so I’ll aim to recharge tonight at lights-on.
They also desperately need a post-stretch tidy-up. That’s assuming stretch is over, which I’m fairly sure it should be, at 3 weeks. Experienced indoor growers pls confirm, or deny
This what currently greets me when I open the tent...
The autos are ripening really well. I know folks mostly say that we should add time to breeders’ predictions for finish, but Dope Seeds put these at 70 days and I think they’re looking right on target.
Auto Amnesia (on the left in the pic above) is at day 66 with almost 100% dried pistil hairs and is starting to look generally ‘ripe’ as they recede, but the trichs are not quite cloudy everywhere as yet.
Top cola:
Lower, secondary cola:
And a couple of closer looks:
I will let this one go for a little while past the breeder deadline as it doesn’t quite look 4 days away from ready, and it’s a Haze so I don’t want to take it early, but it’s not
too far off.
The
Auto Blueberry is at 65 days and looking very much closer. The pistils hairs were all still white until a couple of days ago and they’ve turned really fast in the last 48hrs. To my eye about 95% of the trichs are almost completely cloudy or more than half cloudy and in one or 2 places I see faint ambering starting to happen.
Main cola:
It’s very likely I’ll harvest this one pretty soon. It could easily go longer but I’m not
too fussed because I really want the space in the tent! I’m very keen to be giving the larger photoperiod plants some room to spread out and I think it’s looking close enough that not long after the 70 day mark will be ready.
I’m going to harvest the purple
DDA d#3 on Monday next week at the latest so perhaps I’ll do them both together, that would make washing a single budsicle seem less wasteful of water and energy
Speaking of the d#3 purple, that’s the one with the guttation going on. There was more last night and I played with getting some different angles but the way the light was lighting up the drop just isn’t as good and the drop itself isn’t as good. Kinda got some trichs in there alongside the light-rig reflection and it’s a nice shot so I’ll share one here, but the first ones are still the best.
It will be a slightly early harvest for that one. I wouldnt do it if it was the only DDA, but I have all those other budsicles and the green/pink pheno to come down in a few weeks or so, so I can certainly have some fun with this one in the meantime
You couldn’t really see the big brix kids in the tent shot above, so here they are squished in behind the autos, Bubba on the left:
So you can see why I don’t care about harvesting the Blueberry a little early - these kids need space!
I’m really stoked with how they’re coming along. They’re at 3 weeks post-flip.
Candida CD-1: I remember thinking the Candida I grew outside last summer was
the frostiest, stickiest plant I have ever grown and this one is shaping up just to be the same. The whorled phylotaxy effect hasn’t stopped it flowering normally (
phewf!) and it’s absolutely stacking on the frost already.
Bubba Hash isn’t frosting up as much as that but it has plenty going on and it looks just totally gorgeous to me. I hope I like the toke, because
I feel love when I look at this plant!
I’ll get some whole-plant shots of them when I’m able to get them out for a recharge and to open them up a bit etc., which actually might not happen until next week after I harvest, because my body is too whacked to move those pots ATM.
Although, I’ll have to recharge them before that. I think I will have to do that sooner, tonight like originally planned, and
in situ then... that could be tricky. I’m sure I’ll work something out... I wonder if 4-5 more days will matter so much.
That is the current state of the garden and I couldn’t be happier!
Sending many good vibes to all, across the seas in all directions.