First Time DWC/Coco/LED Tent Grow - Hawaiian Headband

Update for Day 37:

Seems to be doing well, I raised the light up another few inches but I'm pretty much out of space now, I might have to start dialing down the juice to the lights...
Here's a video from last night-



And a few pics from tonight;

Noticed one bud that has almost completely dried up white hairs-



And a couple spots on one leaf-



Other than that things are looking and smelling pretty good I think, still a little burn on the tips but it doesn't seem to be getting worse with me watching the pH a little closer.



And a quick little fly-by from tonight-



Just realized I did that one in portrait mode, it was for Snapchat lol

 

Day 39:

We've been having a heatwave lately but as far as I know temps in the tent haven't been going over 90... It's at 87 right now which is higher than preferred but still okay.
Definitely noticing a few things tonight that are worrying me though.

First I noticed that the overall color has faded from the very top canopy, the leaves are a pale yellow-


Second there's some brownish-purple color coming in on some of the leaves right now-





It also looks like a lot more of the white hairs are starting to turn orange and dry out, still normal or is this due to the heat? pH also dropped pretty bad, down to 5.1 right now so I'm hoping correcting this will fix the plant but we'll see. Anyone got any ideas?

 

Looked a little better last night so I turned the lights back up, but it might have been too much.. the leaves near the top seem to be a little more pale than before, and most of the growth lower down is a much darker green.

From last night, Day 42 of flower-







Lots of orange hairs showing up but still new white hairs growing out sooooo I guess she's doing okay depsite the lockout or whatever is going on..



And from tonight, Day 43 of flower-





Definitely seems more pale than yesterday so I'm going to dial the lights back down a little bit. Still seeing new white hairs emerging which is a good sign, hopefully it stays that way-



I've also been considering removing a small number of lower tops, like these ones... There's no harm in that, right, and will only divert energy to the larger tops? I basically want to go around the plant and remove anything more than about a foot below the top canopy.



As always suggestions and tips are always welcome

 

Thank you, so far so good, the pale color hasn't gotten any wore since turning the lights down a bit.

Update for the last couple days-

Last night I ended up giving her a pretty generous trim job, removing most of the growth that was barely reaching the top half of the plant, hoping to divert more energy to the top colas. Here's what was removed-





Is there anything I can do with all the buds that were on any stems I removed? Are they too young to let dry out and smoke? I hate to just throw them away with the beautiful flowers that they have right now.

Here she is after the trim-








And here she is from tonight, Day 44 of Flower-

 

Thank you! I wish I could have started a long time ago, but I'm also glad I waited to gather some knowledge and do research before jumping into it. I am really really hoping to go larger-scale, maybe even commercial sometime soon. If there's anything I'll be happy doing and passionate about, it's growing this beautiful plant. Just hoping whatever deficiency or lockout issue I'm having clears itself up. The pH didn't drop last night at all, maybe one point, it was at 6.1 which is the least I've seen it fluctuate in a long while.

 

@Spanish@rcher Roots look good, stems for the most part have always had some purple. Some of the burnt tips seem to have started towards the bottom of the plant, but it's also not all over the entire plant. I haven't been able to find a good iron supplement so I've never used one. As for the other deficiencies, shouldn't the Lucas formula more or less provide everything I should need?

Honestly, I was feeding at ~2000ppm from sprout, and never saw a burn like this until I tried dropping the ppm to under 1000.

 

Ooooookkaayyyyy you guys, big update since my last post, I think we are almost ready to harvest...??? Today marks day 64 of flower. I'd say around 60% of the hairs are turned orange, and I THINK the tricomes are cloudy but I do not have a microscope or magnifying glass good enough to see clearly. I do have a jewelers loupe and tried using that to take a few pics to see what you guys think. Here we go, first a few without the loupe-

Here's the whole girl-


One of the many tops struggling to stand up straight-


And here are the nugs (without loupe)!















And here are a few with the loupe on my camera lens-







As @Tammm mentioned, we smoked some of the buds that were taken off during some of the later trimming where I removed some stragglers, they definitely work even though they weren't completely cured properly. Dried under a cieling fan for almost a week until the stems snapped instead of bent, now some of is curing inside a glass jar... Here's some of that stuff-



These are definitely some airy hairy nugs, but that was to be expected after taking them from the bottom half of the plant.

So what do you guys think?? Am I almost ready to flush and harvest? What should my next step be and when? @Spanish@rcher @Tbone Shuffle @Aquakush I'm excited for your thoughts!

 

For the most part yes, I don't see as many new green hairs popping out as I have the past few weeks, maybe 2 or 3 per cola if that. I was thinking maybe a few more weeks before I went upstairs and took a closer look at her, I really think your estimate is closer though, it's coming along quicker than I thought.