Plants are 102 days old from sprout today and flipped them 55 days ago and they have had pistols in tops for 44 days now.
Biggest plant starting to foxtail and temperatures with lights on is 77 to 78 and only giving them 52.000 lux with light 18 inches above plants and cut back calcium nitrate so it must just be the pheno plant, other plant looks ok so I will leave a few bud's on it after harvest and plant it outside and see if i can get it to reveg for clones.

I notice the pictures I put up you couldn't see the frost on the flowers.

Another week or so and they will be ready.

So i will harvest next Sunday on father's day, starting to see some amber in some of the flowers, next Sunday will be 77 days of the flip.

It will be 74 days from flip not 77 my mistake

Thats some serious trichome production!!

yeah bro, serious trichrome production

Going to harvest Sunday, I think trichomes look ready.

Clearbluesky said:

Going to harvest Sunday, I think trichomes look ready. View attachment 2682533View attachment 2682534

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Not much clear, all going milky. I dunno man, long stalks for washability but the trich heads are kindy puny smallish still. You think it needs a little more time for the trich heads to swell up a bit more?

I know you know what your looking for and 4-5 more days sounds and looks right. Don't let others who don't know your work question your ability to recognize your preferences. Do your thing, do what you wanna do makes no difference who your talkin to!!

Clearbluesky said:

Sorry, I don't have any to pass out, but the OG is a good site for good people hooking you up.

You can get some cap junky x C99 from BG and you would be very happy with that cross.
I've growed it 3 times and it's very potent and just as good as cap junky in my opinion.

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I have 2 j99 from bg glad to know they are fire
Plant looks amazing btw

No Sunday these two plants will be 121 days old from sprout and 74 days of 12/12 and this cap junky from seed junky is some very potent stuff, Sunday is harvest day for me. Time to take a little break

Clearbluesky said:

No Sunday these two plants will be 121 days old from sprout and 74 days of 12/12 and this cap junky from seed junky is some very potent stuff, Sunday is harvest day for me. Time to take a little break

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Understand that feeling. I am looking forward to shutting down for the hottest months. Mine has couple more weeks at least. Not even fully changed color. Then 2 weeks later the other tent. Trimming on top. I will hit pause until the fall for sure.

Afterburner said:

Understand that feeling. I am looking forward to shutting down for the hottest months. Mine has couple more weeks at least. Not even fully changed color. Then 2 weeks later the other tent. Trimming on top. I will hit pause until the fall for sure. View attachment 2682701

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It looks like it's in the window for harvest depending on what type of buzz your looking for.

Clearbluesky said:

It looks like it's in the window for harvest depending on what type of buzz your looking for.

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Yeah, you are right. The photo is a little deceptive, a little blury. Still clear trichome heads. May 14th it had its first little bud sites. I started flowering light schedule on May 3rd. On the 14th it had its first bud sites formed. This weekend will be 7 weeks since its been on flowering schedule. It turns black when its ready and it's been starting to be moving towards that this last week, changing color. I am guessing 10 or more days. One of them anyway. It has 2 phenotypes and I have one of each the dominant and the recessive right next to each other. The taller one finishes faster. The shorter pheno takes a little longer. Second run on these so I remember from last year. I ended up harvesting both at the same time one at peak and the other early. It worked out well. This time I will let the shorter one go another week or so, reaching its peak with all milky trichromes. Looking forward to it. But also a little sad. I really got attached to these plants. The way they grew, the stems and branching are beautiful. Kind of sad to think of them dying. The high is intense. Creative and inspirational so I don't want to ruin that and add sleepy effects on that. Has an interesting time warp effect. You get lost in something or heavily involved in some project and several hours are just gone. Really pleasant. Gas, berry, and lime taste. Leaves that greasy or oily feeling on your lips and mouth. It's something I want to grow regularly. I'm hooked. I can't say its replaced my old favorite yet. But maybe. If anyone wants to watch one turn color, its happening now and over the next week or 2 will ramp up the change. It can be fun to look at.

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What are you using to get such good photos? Photos through a loop? What does what you are using cost? I can take semi-good photos if I use a camera stand. But I often don't want to bother with doing that. Just water and go do something else. Its not until they are finishing do I really feel like taking the time. Wide shots are easy but the closeups are never as close as I would like, and sometimes too blury. I use my zoom on my handheld device to help me see the trichomes better.

I just use my phone camera with a cheap 15 dollar loop, I got other things I used to use but don't want to take the time to set them up to look at trichomes that I can do good enough with phone camera.


I bought the two mammoth mint white 880w led's in August 2024, so i haven't had them 2 years yet and they have produced very well for me, i went back and looked at what they have done so far which is about 14 pounds of smoke with out this grow being added yet.
I've did 4 runs with them and my 5th is growing now.
Here's numbers for the runs.
First run - 1472 grams 4 plants 20 gallon pot Promix
2nd run - 1446 grams 3 plants 20 gallon pot Promix
3rd run - 1403 grams. 3 plants 20 gallon pot Promix
4th run - 1836 grams. 4 plants in coco 2.6 gallon pot
5th run coco 2 plants?

Bigalmoby said:

I have 2 j99 from bg glad to know they are fire
Plant looks amazing btw

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The cap junky x C99 has a few pheno types, but here's one of them I grew last may I think it was.

Clearbluesky said:

I just use my phone camera with a cheap 15 dollar loop, I got other things I used to use but don't want to take the time to set them up to look at trichomes that I can do good enough with phone camera.


I bought the two mammoth mint white 880w led's in August 2024, so i haven't had them 2 years yet and they have produced very well for me, i went back and looked at what they have done so far which is about 14 pounds of smoke with out this grow being added yet.
I've did 4 runs with them and my 5th is growing now.
Here's numbers for the runs.
First run - 1472 grams 4 plants 20 gallon pot Promix
2nd run - 1446 grams 3 plants 20 gallon pot Promix
3rd run - 1403 grams. 3 plants 20 gallon pot Promix
4th run - 1836 grams. 4 plants in coco 2.6 gallon pot
5th run coco 2 plants?

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I lost my loop years ago. Never replaced it. Cool you keep track. I don't weigh it. I always have something so its good enough.

Afterburner said:

Understand that feeling. I am looking forward to shutting down for the hottest months. Mine has couple more weeks at least. Not even fully changed color. Then 2 weeks later the other tent. Trimming on top. I will hit pause until the fall for sure. View attachment 2682701

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After seeing this picture now I know where I seen it before, you have it posted on GC under your name @starliner, I've been on that site for 5 or 6 years under @Clearsky.

Clearbluesky said:

After seeing this picture now I know where I seen it before, you have it posted on GC under your name @starliner, I've been on that site for 5 or 6 years under @Clearsky.

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Cool. See you there. Superjoint is a good guy. There is much less troll activity tolerated there, and he takes care of it fast to keep it clean, for the entire community, not just single users ignoring each other like the trend here and the rest of the users are still exposed to their bs and interruptions to keep stats/numbers higher at the expense of the community. I like the optics here though and video uploading, especially dark mode. My other grow journal, Baker, is not on GC. Im still roaming around trying to find the right forum for me. Still looking.