Well, hell! Fancy meetin’ you all here again!
Hope this cold/hot/cold we’re facing in the river valleys isn’t rearing its ugly head where ever you hang your hats, and that your people are gardens are happy and well-tended to. The Almanac says its gonna’ be a brutal one here this season, and I don’t doubt it with the temp swings we’re getting outside.
Inside, though- That’s another story. Shake off the cold and spark one, we’ll go over the week.
As the story goes so far, it was another easy week, as the girls all cruised right along. The DSCBD30:1 are both looking to be making a lot of spears, having stretched all through the week. Nodes have opened up a bit in spacing, and we’re seeing a lot closer to 2"-3.5" apart on the tallest branches. The leaves are narrow on both plants, and both continue to give off a STRONG aroma of gingerbread or @JustTieflingThings ’ home-made spice cake. My old man got to stop by during lights up this week, and immediately agreed. Hahahah I think I caught ‘im droolin’!
Our NB are showing some big differences in expression by this point, with NB #QT remaining small and sturdy, though in the final tucks of the ScrOG we have been able to open her up quite a bit with little major fussiness, if a little bit of stunting. NB #FD is stretching right along with the DSCBD30:1, showing the same trunks-for-branches as her sister, but much more vertical growth and spacing. Fan leaves remain few and huge, and grow with great structure. Strong as hell. The smell on both phenos remains similar, with that Mushroom-Steak seasoning @JustTieflingThings is now getting a slight note of citrus in, deepening the steak seasoning savory qualities. Some differences in the two may be related to the time we waited before topping NB #QT, or how shallow we got NB #FD in her RDWC site.
We passed day 21 of flowering, and had waited more or less patiently to do much defoliation or pruning, wanting to see how the plants managed themselves and not wanting to risk too much stress with the ScrOG already in play. Over the course of three days we started taking many more leaves, then built up to pruning the majority of the branches that did not seem to be making it up to the canopy. There’s a few more to get (ain’t it just always so) that we’ll be getting today and then- HANDS OFF!
This was an alternate week, so we set to dial the whole environment up a bit more, setting all the ACI automations to a VPD of 1.10 and raising the light before dialing it up to maintain and slightly increase DLI. We raccoon to be at about 40% output, at a distance to the highest canopy of about 28.5". According to Photone we are netting roughly a ** 35.6 DLI and 777 PPFD, center tent. ** The plants seem grateful for the slightly increased temperatures thanks to the driver working a bit harder and there doesn’t seem to be any negative reaction to the increase.
Here’s some root porn and the feed schedule, with a shot of the tap water we were running.
Unfortunately, in the pruning, there was a casualty as I reached for what I thought was one of NB #FD’s massive leaves, only to pull out a beautiful little branch that would have otherwise been fine.
So it goes. We made the most of it, and @JustTieflingThings wore it in her hair a while.
I done a goof.
BAREBONES STATS
76 Days from seed, ~32 Days of Vegetation 
, 21 Days of Flowering 
All plants continue to flower well, and are getting their final tucks, All have been lolipopped and defoliated below the screen.
Lights raised to accommodate stretch, then dialed up. ~29" from canopy, 35.6 DLI and 777 PPFD at center tent.
Feed schedule remains the same, with slightly better tap water this change out. 6.0 pH 58.5 * F and 1400 PPM
Environment steady all week averaging 72.6 * F , 58.7 % RH, 0.97 kPa VPD. Ratcheted up automation on day 21 to 1.10 kPa VPD target. Nominal day/night cycle differences. Tap water was fairly cold, at 51 * F to start feed.
In other news,
Jessicat the Mail-Bearer had a slower week, with the arrival of a letter 
from @JustANobody regarding some beans courtesy of CaliCaveman. The surprise left-over spread from Thanksgiving was a delicious sounding (Watermelon Zkittlez X Grand Daddy ORANGE) X Cherry Bomb. The cross sounds amazing, and @JustTieflingThings and I will have a hell of a time at this point deciding on the next photo run line-ups. Thank you again!
I also posted up a nice shot of a baby bud in the POTY thread. Thanks to all the donors there and especially to @Heliosphear for running the big show and everything else he does around here.
Make sure you check it out and post up in there! OGTW with love!After a busy week/end outside of the garden, we’re looking forward to taking an extra, relaxing day and maybe trying our hand at making a medicated salve/lotion out of last rounds trim and some lowers. I raccoon we’ll knock it out of the park and have something to be damn proud of and grateful for by the end.
As always, 
Thank YOU!
for all you do around here, any share of your own grow you have going, following along, all the kindness and generosity, all the information and resources compiled at our finger-tips and any and all encouragement, feedback, questions, constructive criticism or otherwise! Keep kicking ass, and-
Stay up!
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