Greetings all, its coming to an end of week 7 in the cave. Things have been a little a bumpy this week, about a week ago I came into the tent in the middle of the flower cycle and my tent was completely black...My timers had come on, but my light wasn't working. I tried 3 different power sources that were running working fans..and nothing. I went and had a look a what new light I was going to buy, came back an hour later and tried the light again...and it worked. Awesome think's me, as I don't have any back up lights. A couple days go by and the lights working fine, then bang...same thing happens, I come in and the lights out (I also replaced the timer after the first black out). I give it 20mins, then re-plug it back in and it works again! Great that it works, but it's given me the shits, since I am week 7 of flower and I am not that happy that my 18month old HLG isn't working. I contacted HLG and with 48hrs they get back to me, and stay the lights covered by the 3yr warranty, just contact the retailer. Which I did, they are going to send me a new replacement driver for free. But it brought to my attention that only having a single running flower light gives you zero back up plan if your light stops working. Also I wasn't sure how much longer my existing light would keep working or when the new driver would arrive. So took it as an excuse to buy a new light, I grabbed the HLG 650R. Its a sweet light, it has a dimming knob function, that drops it by 60watt increments. Given the age of my plants in flower I'm only running it at 70% and its still much brighter than the 550, the spectrum is very different too, much whiter..with added far red. So now I have an extra 550 in reserve for any future issues...or a larger flower area in the space comes available in the future.
Other than that things have been good with the plants. They don't seem to have been effected by the light issues. I have search for any surprise sacks. The 95 Afi and the Killer queen have both been on nothing but water this week. The Sage and the Sage and Sour are both being feed at 1.2EC same nutes as last week.
The Afi is pretty much done, she's smells incredible, like sweet baby powder and citrus. I have been drought stressing her this week and shes packed on a little extra light. I went 3 days with no water, there was visual increase in the amount of resin. I don't know if this was due to the age in flower? or the stress? but she plumped up. She's this tiny little bowling ball of a buds. She's only about 1foot from the top of the hempy bucket. The hempy bucket has been really cool, once I learned to always feed to about a 3rd run-off, you can't get lazy or else they burn...which you can still se evidence of me doing hahaha She's look almost ready, another couple days and I'll give her the chop.
The Sage is still cruising. She's a true 10week plant..and you can see it the bud structure. Still a lot of maturing to go as we come into week 8. She smells great, almost identical to the last sage I grew. I think I stunted her growth with the lack of feeding due to the aqua valve. Anyway she is looking healthy and has another 2 weeks to go.
The Killer Queen looks almost done, I'll probably give her another 5 days or so, she looks like she'll be done on day 56. She smells great, I get a lot of the G-13 funk, with a pineapple, cheese. I have take a few leaves off her to open the lower bud sites. The shaded buds sites on this plant still grew really healthy and full resin. Which is interesting. Because that doesn't happen on all plants. The 95 afi for instance..the shaded buds are light green and under developed larf, any way just an observation. This plant has cruised through flower once I worked out her feed. The early yellowing in the leaves never truly corrected, but the bud sites still appear resin clad. Now that she is on water, she is yellowing much faster than the other plants, but she's ready sooner than the others too.
The Sage and Sour has been the star of the tent. her buds are huge fox tailed bracts, with a beautiful deep colour. I mainlined her and got four huge tower like spears. She is starting to smell sweeter this week. She feels like shes going to take 10 weeks. @Chad.Westport, I think I asked you, but did yours take 10 weeks? She is really filling out, the lower leaf covered buds have put on resin and weight no issues.
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