Took down a whole bunch of branches... time to spend Friday night having some beers & doing some trimming! Gonna shoot to do half of the remaining ones tomorrow & the other half Sunday.
I think we probably did about 30% of the colas maybe... between my wife and me, this round of trimming took a little less than 90 minutes. Not bad.
Thanks man! Still a bit more work to do yet to wrap this one up, but definitely feels good to be harvesting a nearly error-free grow! Hopefully the rest of the harvest goes as planned & I can get my Forum Stompers moved into the cab on Sunday...
Speaking of - morning tent update before running some errands & doing trim round 2. The Liberty Hazes have put on some really nice growth the last few days. I'll probably let them go to 8 or 10 nodes before I top them. Planning to take a bunch of clones off the one in back on the left and then pick the 3 best clones for resuming the grow. The Stompers have tolerated the crappy treatment pretty well, actually. I bet within 10 days of going in the cabinet they are gonna put on some serious size.
Really busy day today finishing the harvest and transplanting the autos... First up was chopping the remaining branches and rigging up some extra PVC & fittings to give me room to hang the rest. After giving the cab reservoir system a thorough wipe down & cleaning with h2o2, I filled back up with low-dose veg soup & moved the forum stompers in. They had actually put on some decent roots sitting in the trays w/ extra hydroton. Trimmed up a storm & filled the dry tent up. Hope to get weights later this week...
Got the tent dialed in with the sweet new baby girls. 4 cmh 315's. I took off a lot of leaves and little branches that won't make anything. Some of the roots look like the flame job on a hot rod! Haa! And lightning!
Thanks man! Can't wait to try some of it come xmas time... Definitely still another day or two before I'll be ready for jarring/curing.
Forum Stompers still struggling a bit in the cabinet - humidity has not been easy to manage so far. This morning RH was at 23% in the cabinet - not at all good for seedlings... this is even with a humidifier running and more or less pointing right at the intake vents on the cabinet. Made a few adjustments that I hope will help - basically looking to manage heat. The plants were getting 30k lux, but my QB fixture was at the max input setting (320W). I dropped the input to maybe 50% of what it was, then moved the light down far enough to still be throwing down 30k lux. I suspect temps will drop off nicely and as such the RH should go up. I think the best I can do is probably high 30% - low 40% range, but at least they were doing decently with that much in the tent...
I worry about having water on leaves during lights on - don't want to have drips acting like little magnifying glasses ya know? The RH did get up to more like 35% before I had to head out for work today. I'll do foliar sprays tomorrow if things still look iffy
That even canopy has got to be from the QB lights & the constant game of musical chairs with the plants. They all got great exposure - even the lower buds weren't too larfy. Your grow is lookin awesome as always. I'm gonna shoot to be even more selective on branches with these next plants to get those monster colas like you turn out! Gonna get you using QBs one of these days tho... (@Or_Gro how do we get this guy using QBs...)
Grow bigger, better, more yield & potency; per watt, sqft, grow; for less time, cost, work; with cheaper, brighter, better spectrum lights; over and over and over again... in short, we shame the shit out of him...all over oklahoma...
So I'm starting to think that the transplant is what made these autos so unhappy. Humidity is much better today (42%) but the plants look even worse. Guess they didn't like going from the "soilless medium" (hydroton) into hydro. I'll keep them running in the cab for now, but it does seem like the Liberty Haze clones are going to wind up taking the cabinet in a couple weeks. To that end, I'm planning to top the LibHazes later this week to get the laterals going. Will chop for clones next week once the laterals look ready to go...