I’d say the back building was a success! I’ll be using that for foxtails on top from now on, depending on how far along they are , of course. Those SSH have some purple going at the top?! Looking good man
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I thought same thing. Hopefully will be more pronounced as they grow.
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I hadn’t noticed but now that I look at it it sure seems to be… I’ll have to go look more closely.
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Quick update today. The SSH didn’t need anything done to her and the GL needed a top off of water. She got plain water for the top off. I totally forgot to check PH and PPM. I’ll go do that later but I’m sure it’s right around 6.
My “bud stacking” experiment seems to have worked out pretty well. Wish I would have done it on a couple more tops:
The SSH is starting to look like she might give me some yield finally:
Pic of the front edge of my GL. In the lower right hand corner you can see my homemade hygrometer.
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They’re cruising along very nicely!
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This is my favorite part of the grow I think. Watching them fill in very nicely @Bogleg
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Man those look huge! Filling in nicely bro
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It’s a bit of an optical illusion. 
But thank you!
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Thar SSH might beat gold leaf to harvest? Just comparing pistils so you’d know way better obviously. I’d love to toke some of that with you!
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I’m not sure. It’s my first time growing a heavily sativa dominant strain, but my understanding is that they often have 3 growth waves in flower - and she kicked out a bunch of new pistils in the last couple of days so I think she’s hitting her third gear, so to speak.
I’m expecting her to go three more weeks and I’m expecting the GL to start turning soon… but what do I know. 
Maybe I got the GL pheno that leans to the sativa side as far as lifespan goes…
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I prefer sativas so I would be cool with that!
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I’ve grown a couple of GL and they took the full 65 days to finish.
My GSC-X is expressing sativa dominant characteristics, week 5 of flower and stopped. Maybe that’s why…
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Pulling weight from heavily leaning sativa always seems to be a chore. Or at least you’ll rarely see brag type numbers out of them. Seeing a couple of very distinct pushes out of them is fairly normal. Bud structure is obviously different, but you should see a late swell out of them as well.
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Over the last week or so I’ve noticed older fan leaves on the SSH developing some odd markings. I asked about it in the Lab and am being advised it looks like necrosis.
I had planned to flush the SSH during the last res change but totally spaced it - so I started a flush today. She is now resting in 8 gallons of plain water with 5ml/gal of Florakleen. I will let her enjoy that until tomorrow then I will set her at 900ppm and start reducing her nute loads a little earlier than I had planned.
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It’s always good to have a plan: that way you have something to change, or blame haha!
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Mostly along the veins as in pic? Can’t say I would proceed any differently. You are about the point that you may see them hog a little calmag under the cobs, but that generally shows more as leaf issue. So I wouldn’t treat for that yet, but would kind of keep an eye on that moving forward.
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That is Cal def and quite normal later in flower since most sources of Cal are high in N you don’t treat it as aggressively as if you were early flower or veg 
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Thanks - that was my initial feeling was a cal deficiency. In flower the plant has received some variety of the following nutrient schedule (per gallon):
Micro / Bloom in a 1:2 ratio
2.5ml CalMag
5ml Liquid Koolbloom
6ml FloraNectar
Last res change I used 8/16 on the Micro/Bloom measurements and PPM was 1100-1200.
She started having a major crashing PH a week or two ago and I’ve just adjusted up each day. I figure a flush is my only recourse but I’m also close enough that as long as she doesn’t die overnight, I’m not stressed about it.
@dbrn32 - yeah, all along the veins and not every leaf, or even every blade on the leaf - although some of the other ones have been on all the blades. I have plucked all the fan leaves I’ve seen like that (I was plucking them anyway).
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Not sure how it would jive with your nutes and and in hydro altogether, but I use earth juice oily can. It’s nitrogen free and provides some humic.
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Ya, I probably never paid enough attention to catch it that point. It obviously was the area I was thinking, and @Donaldj would know better than I. Probably a safe bet he is correct.
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