Indoor A 2x4 And Nothing More

[Cobstopper]

Day 63
Girls are still on the same feed schedule and flowers are starting to push out knuckles.
Top light is running at 57% and bottom is still at 100%. Tallest flower is reading at 25 DLI.
I finally have been able to get the RH in a reasonable range. Three days ago I installed a 4” Inline fan I already had and am pushing air in the bottom of the tent at a high rate. The Cloudline T4 is humming at setting 8. DD is putting out some chonkers and QB is loaded with trichomes.

 

[Cobstopper]

Day 70
Senescence has increased and they started drinking less a few days ago. DD continues to chunk up and QB is taking on fall colors.

 

[Cobstopper]

Day 72
Had to do some surgery on DD tonight. She came down with bud rot on one flower about two inches from the tip. This was towards the top of the canopy with plenty of air flow and no other flowers laying against it. Environment this week has been great so I’m chalking it off to shit happens.

 

[The Iconoclast]

a surprisingly large amount of people just don't get that while climate control is important to use if you have it, that whatever the climate, there is a completely separate micro climate deep into the buds near the stem,sativas or willowy stems are much safer thick indices are more susceptible, and the outside being perfect won't change that.

Also I've long ago trashed my 480p shitty digital magnifer/microscope and replaced it with a pretty impressive 4k version that connect wired to computer or on a wifi network to the iPhone. It will be great for a lot of stuff so I can now absolutely confirm that this device is in no way better than the BelOMO 10x achromatic triplet loupe. The clarity of the belomo at 10x is more revealing than a giant sharp version on a screen, you see no more. This did surprise me. All you ever see online is photos of cloudy trichomes posted or worse just a leaf with cloudy trichomes and an 'is this ready', but the tops always go like that, it tells you nothing about the whole plant.

It's like the old joke how much to tighten the head gasket...just keep turning till you feel the thread strip, then back off a little.

You cannot use any kind of microscope to look all over the plant, which you can do with a loupe and if you do that, as I've been doing for years, you will discovered that the cloudy top trichomes are like 10 percent of the plant and everywhere else is mainly clear, no matter how the fuck long anyone waits.

What I'm saying in a long way is pushing plants to some imagined goal without regard for the ever present danger of bud rot, is a bad strategy, which has taken me a short while to learn. I've left a plant simply because she was too pretty to chop down, and lost the best cola.

 

[Cobstopper]

Well said and completely agree Iconoclast.
I’ve never chased a set % of amber or cloudy trichomes. Heck I don’t even use my hand held microscope to determine when I harvest. I let the flowers tell me with my naked eye. I often see folks post pics of plants that are heavily necrotic and beat up trying to get to that set %. I don’t top or do HST and find that cycle/ harvest time matches up with what the breeders post.

 

[Cobstopper]

Day 77
The girls are in the harvest window. Tomorrow I plan to take the top third of the canopy on both before lights come on. I will drop the light down to maintain a 25 DLI and let them finish out over the next week.

 

[KingRatt]

Day 77
The girls are in the harvest window. Tomorrow I plan to take the top third of the canopy on both before lights come on. I will drop the light down to maintain a 25 DLI and let them finish out over the next week.
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Those buds look killer!! Great job!!

 

[The Iconoclast]

Well said and completely agree Iconoclast.
I’ve never chased a set % of amber or cloudy trichomes. Heck I don’t even use my hand held microscope to determine when I harvest. I let the flowers tell me with my naked eye. I often see folks post pics of plants that are heavily necrotic and beat up trying to get to that set %. I don’t top or do HST and find that cycle/ harvest time matches up with what the breeders post.

Yep, here's a great photo I found on the craft weed reddit, that perfectly illustrates the absurdity of chasing trichomes, so much amber virtually none cloudy.

 

[Cobstopper]

Day 78
The deed is done. Top light is now running at 45% with DLI 23 at tallest flower. Bottom light is still at 100%.

 

[Cobstopper]

I added a Govee smart plug to my tent.
It is plugged into the main light timer with the bottom SF1000 light attached. This will be helpful with the upcoming spring run and having the ability to turn it on and off with my phone app when the temps get too hot while allowing the top light to run on its schedule.