Well, grow journal #3 is a wrap. July 16th was the end and it was 65 days since the lights went to 12/12.
The four Humboldt Blueberry Muffin seeds that I grew out, have been cut and are currently all hanging in the flower tent...while I sit here contemplating the various scenarios where this could all just spiral out of control... Trying to keep things simple and safe.
The Mrs. and I took a quick trip and it was timing out to be right about when these plants were going to be finishing up. I thought about taking them down a week ago...but I really didn't want to take them too early. I did not water them before we left, turned the lights down to 30% and just kept the other parameters the same - keeping vpd in the 1.3 to 1.6 range. Lights on temps were running 74 and light off was 70 to 72.
When we got back and I checked on them, quite a few of the fan leaves were drained and wilting away. On 7/16 they were cut down just before the lights were scheduled to come on, all of the sickly looking fan leaves were plucked and then they were hung from the roof of the flower tent.
The
SE5000 was unplugged and will take a rest. Looking back - they were started with the light at 20% and then up to 30% at the end of veg. In flower they were ramped up to 40% pretty quickly and it took weeks to get them to handle the lights at 60%. I did bump it up to 70% for a brief period, and I see that I nuked them a bit....well, three of them. Plant #1 was unphased. I guess I shouldn't expect to be running at full throttle with the light stuffed in the 3x3 tent. I didn't think of that until it was too late. But now I know!
I will say that these plants smell freaking amazing, but plant #1 is checking all of the boxes for me -hassle free growth, plant was healthy the entire time through the end, frosty and absolutely smells the best, a rich sickening sweet smell. It even smells "warm" if that makes sense....
My first time using the dry nutes (
Gaia Green) and I did notice that I will need to do a better job at getting it mixed into the soil. It probably didn't help that with these plants in the 7 gallon pots, I did not have to water them very often, so maybe that impacts the "stuff" getting sucked down into the soil?
Anyway, thanks for giving me a fun place to track the journey and have it available form me to refer to for future grows. Thanks to all that helped along the way. This was my 3rd attempt, and up to this point anyway, my first successful run. Praying for a smooth dry and a carefree cure!
I'll document the final weight for each plant once they are dried and ready to be trimmed up.
Let's close it out with some pics!
One of the colas from plant #1 from July 9th.
Closeup of same bud on July 9th
Same cola, but right after the trunks were severed 7 days later.... July 16th.
Plant #1 after chop, July 16th. (me trying to get the buds out of the trellis delicately was an epic clusterfuck...LOL)
I think cranking your exhaust a minute or two before you open the door to the tent might help, and like you said also just leave it on while you’re working. And maybe don’t flang the door open like Cramer (not saying you do)
