Yeah i was planning on at least 5 days drying time. The stems were cracking easily and 75% of weight was lost so I went ahead and started to cure before they got too dry.
I left them in jars over night, in the AM i noticed they are not sweating and they feel the same as they did before I put...
Final Update:
Harvested on 2/20. Wet weight was 381g after manicuring all buds.
Placed on drying rack in tent. Temps were constant at 73F and humidity 45-50.
Buds were already looking too dry after 3 days of drying so I moved to cure. Dry weight was 88g.
Doesn't smell very good...
UPDATE TIME:
Harvest time is around the corner. Trichomes are opaque, orange hairs shooting out, and pistils beginning to orange as well. I've been using a feeding schedule for Earth Juice that I found online, including the EJ Meta-K and Microblast. I've also been bubbling the nutrient...
Just watered and I'm still having severe problems with alkalinity.
1 gal RO water
-Intake 6.13 pH, ppm 7
-Output 7.32, ppm 357
I added another 1/2 gal to try and correct pH
-Intake 5.63, 7
-Out 7.15, 380
Also, I think some of the buds that I sexed...
So you say I "...probably had toxic levels of nutes in there," yet a couple of days ago suggested that I was underfeeding, "Even at half the recommended dosage you should be in the few hundreds" when referring to ppm intake. So my question is... should output ppm always be less than or equal to...
Lmao. Thanks I was about to put my 2 week notice in until this thing started dying :winkyface:. I'll ride this grow out till the end. Hope I can at least end this journal on a positive note i.e. survived till harvest and buds are somewhat pleasurable. Thanks for all ur help thus far.
I didn't use distilled H20 for any particular reason. I think I just had seen a couple of youtube videos where they use distilled to flush and that's what popped in my mind. Should've read up on it some more.
Man... this just happened so quick you know? I should have acted sooner to correct the discoloration but I've been busy working. Am I the only one that dreams of growing cannabis as a full time career? I would gladly leave nursing for that.
I'll refrain from pruning dead leaves from now on...
Well...my pH meter was the culprit i believe. When in neutral 7.0 solution it registered at 7.55. I decided to try flushing for my first time in order to correct the ph.
1st flush: 1gal distilled water
ph in - 6.55 ppm in - 0
ph out - 7.17 ppm out - 771
2nd flush (after 15...