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Pretty purpling
Thank you brother! I'm definitely not gonna be watering them, probably at all for the rest of their cycle. Mother nature will take care of them. And I've been watching the weather, pretty crazy weather up north! We've been getting the remnants, but soon we will probably see storms come at us like a conveyor belt, one after the other. Hopefully I can get this crop harvested before that happens.
Happy Holidays to you and yours! 
Kinda late but Merry Christmas and happy new year.....
Aloha Dennise, thank you and right back at ya! Merry X-mas and Happy New Year
I love the range of colors you have going here Lester. It's a shame there's not some simple and inexpensive way to keep the soil temperatures up. Have you considered packing the area with hay as an insulator? This is how my mother trained me to think.
Given the fact that they get no direct sunlight they're doing amazingly well. I'm impressed with the soil's capacity to keep going in the cold. If you can warm that soil up I'd think they should take off more aggressively.
Nice tip on the hay, but it would be too much work for me
The white tent material is anti-frost material used in the fields by strawberry growers so it keeps it relatively warmer in the tent rather than outside. As long as it doesn't freeze, we'll be OK. What I'm starting to do to help them is, I've been removing them all from the tent for about ~30 minutes a day into the pure direct/warm sunlight to help initiate further trichome production, and warm up the black pots they're in. I have also squeezed/bunched them all together into the corner of the planter bed so that each plant receives a portion of the Sunrise. I will remove them from the tent to sit in the Sun for a bit each day, and this should help their energy production (the advantage of container growing). If I had it my way, I would move them into the Sun all day each day, however the plants really need to, for the most part, remain in the sealed greenhouse for safety/security reasons. Nonetheless, they are doing quite well given the circumstances. I always love to see a flowering cannabis plant turn purple, it is one of the great joys about growing. Especially, the vegetative - flowering transition. Plants also produce "anti-freeze" proteins which lower the freezing point of their "blood" (water solution), so they have numerous tactics for surviving... They can also generate heat in different ways, by controlling the reactions that take place inside them. It's just that they've been spending the majority of their energy to survive/produce heat, rather than spending costly amounts on the fruit production. But with how things are set up now, and their daily allotment of pure light, they should get a nice boost and start growing more appreciably towards making the fruit.
The UD is doing just fine, it's the JD I'm trying to jump start.
