Still battling the mites on day 55 of flower. I still find little groups of them trying to web up the flowers. I go in, ruin the web, and smash any I can find. Usually I notice a web about once a week. Last night I found two. Ugh. But all told, I'm smashing about 10 or so a week, maybe a tad more. Not bad considering what it used to be.
I've been trimming the fully yellowed and partially necrotic leaves as soon as they look useless to the plant. This means I take a few off every other day or so (not on all plants, but on at least a few). It's amazing how much vegitation there is still! I think this is helping considerably to control the mites. It's not ideal, but it's what I've gotta do.
The buds don't seem to have suffered much though! They're looking nice and frosty and smelling wonderful. All of them are still putting on weight and fleshing out daily.
We went away this past weekend so we had a dilemma with the freshly hung top cola of Ruby. They had only been about 2 days cut, so not quite ready for a jar. Yet, if we left them hanging in the cardboard box, inside the cab's veg room, they'd be too dry by the time we returned. So we did a halfway measure by placing them in a jar, but leaving the lid off, and putting them back in the veg room of the cab. It worked great! I lidded the jar and am now burping it a few times a day.
That reminds me...I weighed the pieces we cut off Ruby today and she comes in at 8g's, which is about 75% of what they weighed after cutting them. Nice! That's just the top of Ruby, and there are a number of good bud sites left on that plant. This means our harvest is definitely going to be larger than our last. That's good news!
Another important bit of news: we'll be taking them all down by day 62 or so. This is far from ideal, but it's what we must do if we want time to revamp the cab before the next grow (and get the veg room working finally!). I estimate that most could go 65, with the WR going 70 or more. That said, I think they're looking really, really good and I don't think taking them a bit early is going to be too devastating.
I've been trimming the fully yellowed and partially necrotic leaves as soon as they look useless to the plant. This means I take a few off every other day or so (not on all plants, but on at least a few). It's amazing how much vegitation there is still! I think this is helping considerably to control the mites. It's not ideal, but it's what I've gotta do.
The buds don't seem to have suffered much though! They're looking nice and frosty and smelling wonderful. All of them are still putting on weight and fleshing out daily.
We went away this past weekend so we had a dilemma with the freshly hung top cola of Ruby. They had only been about 2 days cut, so not quite ready for a jar. Yet, if we left them hanging in the cardboard box, inside the cab's veg room, they'd be too dry by the time we returned. So we did a halfway measure by placing them in a jar, but leaving the lid off, and putting them back in the veg room of the cab. It worked great! I lidded the jar and am now burping it a few times a day.
That reminds me...I weighed the pieces we cut off Ruby today and she comes in at 8g's, which is about 75% of what they weighed after cutting them. Nice! That's just the top of Ruby, and there are a number of good bud sites left on that plant. This means our harvest is definitely going to be larger than our last. That's good news!
Another important bit of news: we'll be taking them all down by day 62 or so. This is far from ideal, but it's what we must do if we want time to revamp the cab before the next grow (and get the veg room working finally!). I estimate that most could go 65, with the WR going 70 or more. That said, I think they're looking really, really good and I don't think taking them a bit early is going to be too devastating.
Looking good, KJ! Kind of a race against time now with the bugs, huh? Gotta say though, they are looking pretty tasty!
