Day 30 of flower
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Beee-yoo-tee-full!
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Can’t wait to start mine my A5haze has another month 1st. looking Good!
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They are looking fantastic… great job.
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Day 37, the purpley one front right is super frosty, but smells way more musky and purple. The rest smell like fresh oranges and vanilla ice cream, pure sour creamsicle.
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That’s spectacular!!!
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Thank you!
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I have some of those beans. Your plants are lovely. I will be anxious for the smoke report.
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I’m excited as well, but to be frank, I can tell you already it’s going to be the Tangie smoke report. Everything about these plants right now is exactly as-described everywhere I’ve done research online. These are F2’s made by a member, but I can definitely see the consistency and work done on this line to get these seeds to market.
Out of 5 females only one is really different in appearance, structure, and smells. The purpley one in the front right has a tiny bit of that orange peel “Tangie” smell, but is way more indica-musky with some of that classic purple smell to it. Definitely seems like it’s more on the road to an afghan purple than a citrusy orange peel flavor like the other 4.
Also, this strain is so yieldy…day 42 and they’re already bigger and denser looking than a finished og-type strain. I’m a bit nervous about bud density, it’s super humid here right now due to a long week of rain. That’s more a “me and my environment” problem than the strain, but ideally I’d be sitting at 50% RH to finish off, get that “dry&cool” final flowering environment to make them grow trichomes.
Lights are also dimmed down and raised up a bit, it might be my imagination but I thought I saw some tiny foxtailing on the tips of the top buds, and I’d like to avoid that if possible as I think it ultimately looks ugly.
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Well, as is often the case, life does not provide the experience you are expecting…I was closely inspecting the plants this morning and noticed that 3/5 had serious Botrytis going on in a couple of the main colas, and a fourth had some suspicious looking leaves.
The only plant that seems entirely unaffected is the plant going in straight ProMix HP. The other 4 are all in Cyco bagged coco, identical sized pots and same nutrients.
I’m not sure what to make of that; Botrytis is a systemic problem that begins with infection through the root zone, so perhaps there’s something to this ProMix offering a more aerated medium with less opportunity for a pathogen to take hold.
I also continue to need to re-learn the lesson about container size, plant size, and moisture control. While the plants have been super productive this grow, they have also been sitting at a higher RH than I know to be wise, and I’ve been crossing my fingers that I could get further into flower until the HVAC really kicked in for the season. The last week of heavy rain and cold temps has led us to warm the house, so humidity in the grow has been way out of line for what I knew should be the correct levels. I really didn’t want to buy and run a dehumidifier, but obviously this is the price you pay for that stubbornness.
Oh well, live and learn, very interested to see how ProMix performs going forward, and will have to rethink my canopy density yet again to keep things manageable in the future.
Plan from here is to watch things with an eagle-eye and cull aggressively at any sign of disease. Ideally I’ll get 1 or 2 plants through the target harvest window in 3-4 weeks, but with the clone backlog I have now, I won’t weep if I have to chop things down early and just reset.
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Probably only removed 1/6th of the total grow now that I’m looking at it, I removed all the large fans below the canopy on the plants that were nasty to get the airflow up and keep the soil drying out more quickly from the fans blowing downward.
I find that my exhaust fan does a pretty good job of pulling the moisture out of the air. I run mine all the time. Moisture control during veg and moisture/odor control during flower.
The other day my ducting fell off the fan and I didn’t notice. In the morning the humidity was 99% The walls of the tent were actually wet. The fan pulled the moisture from the tent in about an hour. I actually bought a dehumidifier when I started growing indoors a couple years ago. It’s still in the sealed box.
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Yeah same, the most I can keep mine running at is 7 on the cloud line controller before the walls suck in. It’s just on all the time as well, I have it set to 60% but 63 is the lowest I’ve seen it get, and that was with the house at full HVAC chug. When the house is cycling, the tent has no hope. Maybe that’s the key takeaway…
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My walls suck in too. I just let them suck. It doesn’t appear to bother my plants. They still grow like proverbial weeds.
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