Good morning OFCs.
I had a pair of plants that had 100% brown ambered trichromes on the very top and 100% white on the rest. I tried a partial harvest to see if the lower branches would mature without the competition for light. I left one alone to see if the other would recover okay first. Then at 10 pm, the bottom dropped out of the whole thing dumping water from the raised reservoir to the floor. A mess. The 12 gal. totes aren't as strong as I thought. I threw it back together and refilled the reservoir. Of course the grandkids were around, so I had to do it on the sly. I'll check to see the damage to the plants from a tap water flush, but at a week or two from harvest, it's going to be a water flush with corrected pH and molasses finish. I heard many claim that the flush doesn't matter, the cure is much more important to the smoke. So I have another experiment to keep track of.
One mistake I made was to attach my screen to the walls of the closet. It made checking root health almost impossible. I got lax, thinking I had everything triple covered. The roots looked iffy. I'll be checking that this morning too. There may be a problem in the aeration. It might be that the roots were stained from my last feed. I was occupied with getting it back online and didn't take the time to check. The branches took a beating but none were broken, so that part went well.
My wife wants me to cut down on the grow. Electricity use went up, the risk if we need work in the basement machinery or laundry facilities ruins the stealth. Three grow areas are too many. I know, that's crazy talk but I will cut back. Of course, in doing so, I have to rebuild my closet to bigger and more stealth. Compromises always work to everyone's benefit in the end at our house.
I was browsing a new seed supplier and saw a stealth breed of pot. The leaves are a serrated mitten shape. If super-cropped, it loses the pine tree shape, too. The rest of the genetics seemed average, but an outside grow is more achievable on the county ditch land by my yard. Along fence lines makes it unmowable. The seed bank also claim a strain that hits 40% thc and high yield too, breaking the 35% barrier. Excess trichromes is how it's done. A hybrid of those two sound interesting.
Those d4mn weeds show up everywhere. What the heck is it, anyway? Doesn't look like any weeds I've ever seen. Not my land, just keep those weeds out of my yard. The county really owes me for fixing their problems and then their plants keep getting carried in by fence sitting birds. Sound plausible enough, Keef?
