They looked good, but what happened? Last few harvest have increasingly been tasting off....
Road back to flavor ....
Getting pissed is a good thing. It's how Irish do progress. Really though, as with most of growing, it's a matter of effort - I've been slacking. And cheap - not throwing things out. This current crop though was benefited by a 'hunt-for-everything' that could be causing off-flavor/burn while in flower, they sure could have used in it Veg though.
Hmm... things i dropped...(Small Grow Problems) my roots product went bad slowly, and it also had more in it than I expected, and I was using it most waterings. It was liquid. I only use dry now. Temp was a little too high. I was insane with the photons I was pushing. I'm down to a normal amount and a breezy 75F at canopy now. I moved my plants tops and the HPS, up vertically in the tent space... now just fielding for the perfect sized pots/plants/strian combo. Pushing the light to the very top of the tent, radiates quite a bit of the heat to the outside of the tent by proximity and transfer, it works better for temps now. Also my foliar was bad. There was settlement on the bottom, and what was left in solution measured crazy PPM on my meter, at directed app rates, so it was too rich in some things, defic in others. And, my sugar was far more acid than it should have been, and has been replaced.
Not wanting to waste things, but sometimes the small bottle is the best bottle...and even if throwing half out. Also, Simple ingredients that don't go bad quickly, are better.
I'm going to narrow my future feeds down on how many things I mix into to solution.. to like 5-8 things, with a few drench 2-3 drench minerals, as few as possible. The soil mix is almost water only at this point. From an NPK perspective, OGs and Cake like plants could prob go start to finish, in true 3 gal pots. I measured the last batch of soil so I have a recipe and can now keep track.
Flavor though, is fucking back. So are the plants, they have been set free. Even ChemD is posing like "yo man, you gonna run me ...YO look how good I look".
I was smoking JoshD early pull testers that and weren't quite dry, and the last hit from the bowl, was tastier and cleaner than anything I can ever get from the dispo. Hell yeah. Potency is nother level on both the Josh and Diesel testers too. This run will be some crazy crazy flowers. 75F/50RH is where it is at with some of these gals, they don't even look or smell the same. Cake and GMO went for the roof so they were a few ticks higher in temp, which is fine for them. The Diesel and SourD hate heat, so smaller/shorter plants would be better. Worked out well by accident this time.
The Veg tent... I just flowered two SSH .. it was pretty tight a minute ago. Waiting on new driver for the Cree, so it's wicked red in there. CFLs? Don't mind if I do.
, unless you get the one with the pump.
