Actions:
-Finished harvest
-HPS Veg transplanted, transferred to Master
-New tarp in Master
-Feed/water
-Full veg rotation
VEG
300ml base
1000-1100 ppm
HPS Veg was too tall this time around, but may have been ideal height five days ago when the harvest was supposed to have been finished. I'll have to trim bottom branches and constantly adjust tops to evenly bend, thereby executing a correct SCROG. My other option is to allow the tree to simply grow to its full height without any restraints, but possibly at the cost of light penetration to the lower part of the canopy.
MH Veg is also overgrown, and I'm conflicted about what to do with it. Although this veg was initially meant for the Middle rotation, I may have an opportunity to open two more lights in the Master for these trees, as long as I can control the temperature in that room. I could also expand into my bedroom, but that'll take more time, effort, and money, although it'll be the only time I'll have to make any more modifications to the setup for at least six months. My main option is to continue the rotation as planned, but with two rounds of cloning; one tomorrow and another round in two weeks, to contain vertical growth and sprout more heads. With four weeks to go, they should have enough time to recover and I'll have maximized light distribution in the Middle with a shortage of trees.
Clones look like shit. The Phantom tray has been afflicted by heavy mildew, and I had to throw about ten of them away. It seems that dipping them in fungicide is now mandatory. Only a couple of these rooted. Some of the other strains rooted just fine or better than usual. The older trays are still holding on, surprisingly, or perhaps unsurprisingly, at this point. These fuckers were dipped in fungicide, so it's no wonder they've made it this long (almost a month).
MIDDLE
300ml base
150ml Terpinator
6 tbsp Big Bud
100ml Overdrive
1400-1600 ppm
I decided to introduce Overdrive at 2/3 strength while still using Big Bud at full dosage. It's possible that I may have been underfeeding during the mid-flowering stage of the rotation. 1400-1600 ppm seems like the right range for mid to late flowering, as said on forums and other sources. Without a combination of Big Bud and Overdrive, PPM might be reduced to 1200-1400, which might be inadequate considering the plant is entering its prime physical and reproductive state. It's too soon to gauge the effects this may have had, but I can always simply flush if the PPM is too high.
Colas are already looking bigger in this room than they were in the Master, although that isn't saying too much since the Master colas were pitiful. Thankfully I haven't seen a single tree with unusual development other than the ones being covered from light.
Mildew has returned, and of course, it's all over the Bubba. Fucking Bubba. Fucking mildew. Fuck everything.
MASTER (DAY ONE)
300ml base
This room is tall as fuck. There's going to be some heavy training over the next few weeks in this room, but I'll have to refrain from cutting as much as I usually do. The only consolation I have is with the amount of branches all these trees have despite all this overgrowth. If I had harvested sooner, I may have avoided this problem, but it's soon enough that I can take appropriate action. I'll most likely rely on proper SCROG or simply just allow everything to grow into the trellis. Humidity will be the main concern here. I cannot afford to have this room, or any for the matter, affected by mildew. I'll have to keep air flow constant as well. I've mounted a wall fan at the corner of the room blowing halfway into dead space, and another into the canopy. I'll have to put the other fan in the opposite corner to evenly shift the air. I'm also considering opening a hole in one of the AC tubes to point into the wall fan so it can blow cool air into the canopy.
The challenge in this room is going to be controlling the height. I could use Phosphoload in Week 2 to keep the trees short, but this will immediately halt vertical growth. I can only use it if I feel like I have the appropriate amount of heads to get a good yield. If I decide not to use it, I'll have to rely on bending the branches up to Week 3 to get a proper spread on the canopy. I also have to trim bottom branches tomorrow as well, which will probably stall growth for the next few days.
I'm also fucked with regards to the timing. Today is the 20th (or 21st) and I'm on track to harvest this rotation on February 21. If I decide to cut down a week early, it'll be February 12. Not exactly an ideal date to be working my ass off.
Harvest Notes
The Bubba was surprisingly bigger than expected. Many of the colas were actually hidden by excess foliage. Most of them were also pretty dense. The problem is that they're all covered in mildew. I tried to trim most of the mildew off, but there are still many colas that will have to be trimmed even further before I can sell them.
The GG is fucking horrible. Had it not been soft, it may have contributed to the yield significantly, but the weight is so light that I might have a problem selling it. There also seems to be an absence of aroma despite all the Terpinator I gave it. One of the trees didn't even grow beyond the mid sized pot; an indicator of some type of root disease. Either way, I'll probably have to break even, or actually take a loss on this yield.
There is another strain here that wasn't identified. Colas were tiny, but THC was more abundant on these trees than others, although it could've been because there was less surface area for the THC to cover. Colas were also pretty dense, and hopefully they won't shrink too much so I can actually sell these too.
I estimate that this yield is probably in the 1.5 to 2 range. Shitty, but it's enough to keep me going for now. Throughout the harvest I noticed that many of the trees still showed pretty decent growth despite all the trouble it went through. Bubba, in particular, had some beautiful well-rounded colas as long as it had sufficient exposure to light. This has led me to believe that light distribution played a key role in the yield here. Bottom colas were unsurprisingly small, but not by much.
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