Just a couple quick pics from tonight, as I was working in the cab nearly thru lights-out.
Roots:
I’ve done two 3-day 1-gal partial res changes since the last full res change, & will be due for another full change in a couple days (10 days). I can probably get away with doing one partial res-change on the fifth day for now since the plant is smaller, but no big. I’ve been checking pH with my mis-calibrated pen along with pH liquid test solution, & the pen seems to be reading around .5 high, at least within the range I’m checking. It might be a little more accurate down in the lower areas like 2, 3, 4, just based on what it was reading when I had it in cleaning solution & storage solution. But around where I want to run the bucket, it seems to be around .5 off. I’m going to keep using it & checking against the pH tester, just to see what everything looks like if the bucket swings up or down farther than it has moved so far. It’s been moving down from 6.3 or so, mabye .1 a day, & I haven’t had to add any pH up until today when it finally got down to around 5.9, & the liquid moved from a yellow to orangey-yellow. Originally it was more of a yellow with a green tinge. I noticed that the solution from the refill is about half as strong as what was coming out of the smaller dropper bottle.
I’ve done two lower node removals since the last post, & some shifting the tops around & lst pulling some up with wires to keep them even in height with the others. The two lefternmost tops probably will get moved more to the left one more screen-hole once they grow tall enough to reach over there & I can move them. The one in the center might get moved a little one way or the other, not sure yet. The others are pretty close but still might need minor adjustment.
The nearest top has probably been the strongest so far, & the one directly above it to the left has been the laggard (& also the one all the way in the back). Was thinking maybe go to six tops, but pulled anything short above the screen with some wires, & we’ll see what everything does.
Quick pic of the training:
Thermpro center above canopy, past 24 hours:
I cut my RH target a couple percent a few days ago, & by another 1.5% yesterday. I see lately the RH has been running a little lower during lights-off as compared to lights-on, probably mainly because the lights-off temperature exhaust fan target is set a little low & is running most of the time during lights-out, & also the a/c will cycle occassionally, & also the humidifier is timed off during lights out. Not too worried about it, just observing & taking note.
Same Thermpro, past week:
This Thermpro has changed slightly in position in relation to the canopy over the past week, because daily I’ve been lowering the light fixture it’s hanging from, & so it’s not been ending up in exactly in the same place every day even with re-adjusting it. It’s been in around the same spot. It’s definitely in the humidity layer above the plant, or at least the RH is higher there as compared to the sensor in the front right corner at roughly the same height. Moving to the light & the PPFD is probably around 500 to 525 depending on where I measure, although I haven’t checked in a day & should check tomorrow. I’m sure that most of the plant is under what the dli chart says, even if I accounted for the small amount of uv & fr that my meter doesn’t see, but it’s probably not too far away. I’m not trying to overdo it. Leaf temps have been running around 6f to 8f lower than surrounding air temps, & the plant has been moving around 6oz of water daily for now. I keep hacking off nodes so she’s not really starting to move all that much water yet, but it’s good for now.
Trimmed & jarred the latest haul, ended up with 8.1 oz no main stems.
I’ll probably jar-cure this for a while & then make bubble-hash out of most of it. Not sure how this flower will taste after a cure, but I think my pH pen must have been out of whack through at least some of the grow, & remember there were those darker green snaggled sugar leaves that I never really figured out what was causing those, but maybe the pH pen. But I won’t be surprised if this doesn’t cure out as well as the run before it. Plus I’m getting a little tired of smoking the flower of this strain so I don’t mind making bubble hash, as long as I have at least some flower too. That reminds me, I need to burp those jars. My hash from my last hash making has been drying out in the air, & I’ll weigh & jar it soon. There are 7 remaining pulls, & one is edibles quality (the remaining 160um wafer that didn’t go into the hash brownies. It’s pithy, not chewy, & smokable but not that great to smoke.) The 6 others seem to have turned out chewy & good in terms of smokability. The hash brownies took 6.5g & probably could have been fine with 5.5 or maybe even 5g lol. They’re pretty strong, & any hashy flavor is barely detectable. If I had gone to 5.5 or even 5g I think that it would have been almost undetectable, & they still would have been pretty strong. I’ve been doing 1x1s with ice cream, & anything much bigger than that & I can start to feel ‘too high’.
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