Sue Anne Update
Day 66 (HSC counts from the seed popping, so in HSC language, Day 70)
First Flush
Natural Light Photo Special with perspective shots
Hi Guys - Day 66, or day 70 if you want to count the way Humboldt does. Sue Anne is beginning to show a few amber trichomes here and there - maybe 1%. We are real close. So today I end flushed her for the first time. I will be able to get two complete flushes in before she finishes, which in my limited experience so far is plenty. I have flushed all the autos I've grown in a similar manner and two has done the trick every time. To flush her I took her out of the auto rig and brought her out to the driveway, as flushing her in the rig would be extremely tricky with all the power cords and such. Way easier to put her on the driveway, and let the runoff simply run out there. Which also gave me the opportunity to take some real light photos of her, which is cool. Flushing her consisted of running 10 gallons of clean water through her one gallon at a time. I put five through, wait a bit, smoke some weed I grew (lol), and kill around 15 minutes. Then I come back with the next five gallons, again a gallon at a time with a wait in between each one of a few minutes. I guess in my mind the wait allows the salts to flow to the bottom and get closer to flowing out, versus just using the hose and a continuous stream, although I've done that too and it works fine. Anyway, after the ten gallons of clean water and another fifteen minute wait, I top her off with a gallon of water with molasses. For the last two flushes I double up on the molasses and use two tbsp. per gallon. A last sugar rush for the junkie. Soon Sue Anne will find out if she's afraid of the dark, as this plant is high enough quality to justify the 36 hours of darkness. So when she's ready in a few days, that's her next step and last one before the chop.
So some description of Sue Anne:
Appearance: you can see, but you can't see the plethora of purple tucked inside this bud - the finished buds are going to be gorgeous
Smell: SUPER strong, dank from the Sour Diesel side, sweet and fruity from the Magic Melon side
Density: I find it hard to translate how it feels on the stalk to what the final density will be, but she is heavy and seemingly rock hard. She is harder/denser than Sadie was at this point, for comparison.
Trichomes: Not sure it comes through in the photos, but she's covered with trichomes top to bottom. They're fairly longish - much longer than the trichomes on the Cinderella Jack were for comparison. The densest blanket I've been able to generate on an auto yet.
So we'll see how much longer she takes. We're going for around 10% amber. Daily trichome watch underway.
Photographs:
- Outdoor natural light full plant shot
- Side Bud #1
- Side Bud #2
- Cola top shot
- Cola top closeup shot
- Good light photo of full plant on the way back to auto rig showing her actual colors really well
- Top shot showing girth of plant in relation to pot (this is a five gallon AirPot)
- Perspective shot with my hand showing girth of cola in general
Happy Monday Everyone! Good luck this week!