Platinum Gelato (I)

The plant has some potential. After 35 days of flower, Platinum Gelato is getting frosty. Starting to see a little purple in the buds. I've had dark, purple-ish buds (GGxWW) and i've seen purple leaves, but these might get pretty in a different way. The pictures are a day behind the notes. Even more frost is noticeable after 24 hours. It is listed as a 65-75 day flower period. It may look fairly bud-like by 42 FD (next week), and guess another ~3 weeks to ripen. Seems accurate enough, and a bit refreshing it errs on the 'other' side of things rather than overpromising and underdelivering. Very much a bushy plant. Axillary growth will happen on its own, but obviously topping or LST will help spread the growth out more evenly. Strong limbs, so i don't expect any need for a trellis, not that i'd ever use those devil's tools! That's why we get natural disasters. Quit upsetting god, damnit! I had 2x Platinum Gelato, but one was developing balls, so i killed it -- Muahaha. He-she won't be nutting all over my other plants. Potassium bicarbonate seems effective against mild WPM. Will likely incorporate some sort of weekly or bi-weekly preventative foliar spray. Still appying mosquito bits. Think i stopped a tad early or just need to to it constantly. It had been about 2 weeks since i saw any. Put some fly traps up and re-applied bits. I tossed in some spare Future #1 clones with this crop, as it is the last of the perpetual grow cycle. While smaller, i expect them to be fairly good yielding plants, surprisingly. They are 1 week behind. Garlic Storm is also in the tent, but not sure if i'll make diaries for these other plants. The notes posted here will likely mention them often. Hopefully, they aren't too much different timeframe regarding bloom periods. Upcoming changes... Re-model is coming up. Taking opportunity to end the perpetual garden logistics. Not knowing a more precise bloom length too often makes it incredibly wasteful - space and/or electricty depending on how you go about adjusting for the unknowns. Also, replacing the wooden boxes with a 4x4 tent and a 3x3 tent. This is a total of 25 sq ft compared to 22.5 sq ft before. Mobility is going to be useful, so the change is necessary. Once new cycle is in motion, all areas bloom plants and power at least some portion of vege, too during a cycle. The vipar led grow light will be used for early seedlings before transplant and any mother plants that exist. Should shave ~3 weeks off production cycle of tents. Not quite 5 harvests per year results, but damn near. Automated watering and drainage is coming, too -- Entails a control box, solenoid vavles, pump relay switch, drainage pumps and fun with PVC. The profit margin some of these companies run is disgustingly grotesque, and they are all little bitches rubbing an exorbitant shipping and handling in our faces too. holy fuck. As someone who understands a good bit about accounting, trust me in saying that they are ripping us off. Hopefully, by the last week of May I'll be back up and running full-bore with improved per sq ft production per year and a hell of a lot less effort from me.