CJS Apple Blossom
Flower Day 30
I know I haven't posted about this plant in a while, but at the 30 day mark I decided to bite the bullet and maybe post a picture or two.
One month into flower today. Checked out her environment this morning carefully. Decided to try my dehumidifier. I'll cover the little green light, that's simple. Wanted to see if it would have any measurable impact.
Indeed it does. This unit doesn't do much in my 5x5x9, but in this little 3x3x6,5 it has significant impact. Like 12-18 points improvement!!!! The pictures show the measurements right now, at 7:45 am or so here, and at the moment it's completely foggy outside as it is every morning until about 8:30. As a result, the humidity from approximately 4/5 am til about 9 am gets higher than I like, around 68-70% or even 75 sometimes. That's obviously too high for too long (imho), so I decided to clean up the unit and just see. You can see what I have going on right now. This is WAY better and in the acceptable range for that amount of time. Once the fog lifts she'll be in the mid to high 30's to mid 40's for the lion's share of her day and night. Both pleased and surprised that the unit is performing this way. To get an even better idea of how effective it would be, and also to display something we hear so much about, I put in a second temp/rh sensor down low. You can see that there really is a large difference in environment between below and above the canopy, just as advertised. Something to be mindful of for me.
I also checked out the foliage. I really don't feel the need to take a single leaf off this plant. All the buds are getting tons of light to a really good depth. I can easily accomplish what I want with tucking for the most part. I took one leaf today that was blocking a bud and couldn't be tucked. One. Heh. I'm going for the "keep every possible leaf on the plant for as long as possible without compromising the buds" approach on this one. I feel up to this point, between the extreme temperature swings I'd been using to bring out colors and the over defoliation I believe I've been doing relative to fan leaves, I have been compromising my buds no matter what they may look like.
So this time we keep the leaves and this time the temp swing between night and day is only around 5-8 degrees. Between that, the (for me) extra undercarriage defoliation and taking of flarfy branches, and the improved space between all the buds, I believe this plant will produce a much better end product.
And I have 100% resisted the stupid, insane urge I always have to want to add stuff to a system. Not with these
@Prescription Blend nutes. I couldn't possibly improve on where she is right now no matter what I were to add. Simply not necessary. I can't find a spot on the whole plant that says I need something anywhere. Spectacular nutes. These will undoubtedly lead the way in the upcoming tent grow.
So these first two pictures are the environment above and below the canopy, and yes, the sensor is sitting on dry dirt. See how big the difference is? (Ignore the 'all time' readings, lol)
And here's a picture showing the fan/sensor game I have going on with this plant. There's a third small white fan you can't see in the frame in the lower left.
This is the closest I can get to an overhead of the entire plant and still keep the frame large for the end result.
And these last two pictures attempt to show the lower buds getting plenty of light I was referring to.
One month in we're in pretty good shape. But I SERIOUSLY doubt this plant will harvest in 15 more days as advertised.
