That's so encouraging! Are the pollen sacs still just in the lower part of the plant?
Funny you should ask BL! I got a bunch of pics of the Candidas this morning for the Tuesday update.
Since I sprayed the entire plant, I am getting pollen sacs all over. Here are a few scattered across the plant:
And here are more closeups than anyone really needs:
Still no visible pollen.
Here is the tent this morning, all on flip day 29:
This is one of the top flowers on the Candida from seed:
And the Candida clone:
Not a lot of white pistils on them, so either there has been some unseen pollination happening with my daily shaking or they might be getting past the age of being receptive to pollen. If this doesn't work I will make some modifications to the process and start again with the clones I took. Hope springs eternal!
On to the quotes...
Ha! I‘m the same way. I always seem to add a little perlite to my potting mix.
Ha! Tell that to GDB.
Good job but dude, it’s the 21st century. Get yourself a digital scale. You can probably get a good deal today on Prime Day.
LOL! This just sits in the back of the closet. No one weighs themselves in my house, so the only time we use it is when we want to see what our dog weighs. My son picks her up, and she does not like it not one little bit!
I need monosilic acid for Prime Day, and it's more expensive than a scale for sure.
Your plants are looking good. Excellent pics and description of your thinning / #nolarf process.
Thanks BigD!
I'm a little confused. 4g/gal of what?
Of MC. That's what I had been using before making this switch to mixing nutes again, and the new mix is based on the PPM of nitrogen with MC at various g/gallon concentrations. Not sure if you read my posts a while back about using Hydrobuddy software to mix nutrients to hit specific targets/ratios for feeding plants. Let me know if you're interested and I'll find them for you.
Your Red Dragon is a beautiful grower. I started one this year to give to LiquidIntel, and to me it looks like the best one of his six. Not bad for a freebie that's been sitting in my drawer for about 3 years.
IKR! Can't remember how I ended up with two seeds, but they've been around for a couple of years for sure. The other one didn't sprout, but this one is doing rather well so far.
That's a great suggestion - I think I might give that a try!
Nah, you just dump all those into the bowl trimmer and wave your magic wand. Poooof! Trimmed and ready to go.
Highya ITS,
Love your informative post!! Well constructed, great pics, very descriptive. My favorite part is comparing the before and after pics. Amazing how much you trimmed off and they still look so good! Great job. Thanks. Happy Smokin'
Thanks Bode! It's good to know that folks get good info from my updates. Well...some of them anyway.
Your thinning is unite from what i had always been taught was to take the large fans to grow bigger buds , but make good since after understanding all the larf that turn out to be pretty much nothing in the end . Thanks for the very good pictorial too .
Thank you sb! I don't see any reason to take off leaves that the plant will regrow, unless you're in veg and are trying to redirect that growth elsewhere. In flower, let the plant focus on growing flowers rather than regrowing leaves.
And I really
hate larf!
i do a pretty aggressive defol as well. 2 -3 times in veg, more if it goes long, and once 2 -3 wks after stretch.
to me it seems to increase production overall. that could be due to other factors though.
it does increase veg time. i don't mind as it deceases trimming immensely. i'd do it for that reason alone.
I may to some thinning earlier, but the big one is a week before flip, and then #nolarf after stretch.
forgot this bit ... as someone who uses a lot of perlite ...
it sucks but i find dry sifting better than rinsing. gets way more out, but you'll still get flour dust with either. you don't notice as much rinsing as it clumps on the larger pieces. in hempy i get far less perlite dust accumulation in the res when i dry sift over rinsing.
since you're using it in soil i honestly wouldn't fret. i wouldn't even bother cleaning it as much as i do for hempy. it's that neutral.
Thanks bluter! It ends up pretty clean using my two-pot method, and when the water backs up in the top pot and the perlite is floating, I can just plunge my hand in and unblock the weep holes where all the dust coagulated and clogged them.
Keeping the dust down seems like a good idea, as well as rinsing out the excess flouride. Takes but a few minutes!
Also, happy belated Father's day. 
