Impressions about plant
February 17, 2023 Day 85
Light at 70% power. Around 45 DLI
This week will be harvest week for WWA-1. She will be harvested at 90 days. She has mostly orange pistils and stopped taking in water. Her trichomes are almost all clear. Just need about 10% to 15% amber.
WWA-2 needs about a week longer. She'll get a defoliation in a few days. Then harvest on day 95 I think. Her pistils just started turning orange and she has a few cloudy trichomes. Definitely needs the extra week though. I might be playing host to another 2 seedlings for a few days. We shall see.
No more nutrients for either lady now. Last leg of the grow. I'll also run a 48 hour dark period.
Grow System Environment:
Temp: 71.6°
RH: 54.5%
VPD: 1.18
February 18, 2023
Today both ladies got a watering. No nutrients. Just water. I feed a gallon of water in 2 parts as I can only fit a half gallon in my reservoirs. So WWA-1 is on her final watering. WWA-2 has 1 or 2 more to go.
WWA-1 looks amazing! Her trichomes are nearly all cloudy. Amber is at around 5%. Pistils are around 60% brown. Her buds are uniform in size, chunky and well shaped. There is some foxtailing, but they still look good and dense. The flowers are swelled up pretty fat.
WWA-2 is starting to get brown pistils. Not too many. Maybe around 15%. About 2 more days and she will be getting her final defoliation. Her buds are mostly green with small pistils. She has a wonderful uniform cone shape. Her flowers are really small and the buds are dense. I'm guessing they will fatten up in a couple of days. Or they will stay tiny and get really tight and more dense.
Grow System Environment:
Temp: 71.3°
RH: 54.7%
VPD: 1.16
February 19, 2023
Not much today. Started trimming some 9f the lower leaves off WWA-2. I will do the full thing tomorrow. Just needed something to do today. So I pulled leaves on 1 side that really could benefit. Other than that, WWA-1 is almost ready. I think day 90 will be perfect.
Grow System Environment:
Temp: 71.5°
RH: 54.8%
VPD: 1.17
February 20, 2023
Today our ladies are soaking in the light and getting ready for harvest. WWA-1 is really chunky and dense. Buds everywhere. She will be harvested in 3 days. She got her final liter of water today. That should last for the next 2 days and then a day of dry. WWA-2 had her pre-harvest defoliation today. Just to finish up from yesterday. She will be ready for harvest in about 7 days. Her 2 liter reservoir was topped off today. She will get topped off again with the last 2 liters when this runs out in a couple of days. She should have her final watering 3 days before harvest. It will be just a liter. Just to make sure she gets exactly what she needs. WWA-1 Seems to be starving herself. She's barely taking anything in from the wick system. So that's really good. WWA-2 is still drinking at a healthy rate. I expect her to slow down in a few days as well.
Grow System Environment:
Temp: 72.8°
RH: 54.7%
VPD: 1.22
February 21, 2023
Last day for WWA-1. She's had a wonderful life. Trichomes are just there. Pistils are almost all orange. She's chunky and hefty. She's also just drying up. Tomorrow will be a great day.
WWA-2 still has some time left. About 6 days from the looks of her. She has a mix of 50% cloudy to 45% clear and 5% amber. Right around the corner. She also started to put the weight on. She's getting big fat colas that are nearly solid. Not as chunky as WWA-1, but really well formed and visibly heavy. And with nearly a week left to go, she should get a little bit fatter. Can't wait!
Grow System Environment:
Temp: 72.8°
RH: 55.1%
VPD: 1.21
February 22, 2023
Today is harvest day for WWA-1. I didn't get a wet weight because I forgot to. But I'd say around 15 oz wet and maybe 2 to 2.5 oz dry.
WWA-2 still has a good 5 days left. Maybe 7. She looks great but is still very green and has a lot of white pistils. She was late anyway, so waiting I shall do.
Grow System Environment:
Temp: 72.2°
RH: 54.9%
VPD: 1.19
Update: I've been using this HiGrade app to check bud quality. It ranks 1 through 5 stars based on 3 pictures at different angles. After some testing on different strains of all quality, this app seems to be pretty accurate. Cheap stuff ranks between 2 and 3. Then there is 4 star which just doesn't make the cut. Finally 5 stars for high quality bud. I'll rank the dried bud and share the results. Cured is definitely better, but I only have a week after harvest to get a dried bud pic. It's not perfect, but gives a pretty good idea of what I'm looking at.
February 23, 2023
WWA-1 Day 1 Drying
WWA-2 is looking good. More orange pistils. I haven't checked her trichomes yet. She isn't ready for that.
Grow System Environment:
Temp: 70.8°
RH: 52.3%
VPD: 1.20