Skywalker and Glue Autos

April 18, 2023 Skywalker OG: Day: 88 Wedding Glue: Day: 81 This week will focus on Wedding Glue as she has around 3 total weeks left before harvest. This week also starts Nirvana 4 ml/gal and Overdrive 2ml/gal nutrients. She has really thick tops and as I had hoped, are taking over the whole plant. I may have to do a light defoliation sooner rather than later. I'll assess today and decide what to do for tomorrow. Skywalker OG is going to be harvested tomorrow morning I think. She doesn't have quite enough cloudy trichomes. I noticed the trichomes are stacking on top of each other on some of the buds. I believe they are new trichomes and not matured ones. Either way, I can see the older ones and they are just about ready. Grow System Environment: Temp: 75.5° RH: 52.3% VPD: 1.41 kPa Dark Tent Environment: Temp: 68° RH: 50% VPD: 1.17 April 19, 2023 Skywalker OG: Chopped: Day 0 Wet weight: 1.3 lbs 10 to 14 day dry. Skywalker OG was chopped today as you can see. She is hanging whole for the next 2 weeks. The whole harvested plant was 20.8 oz. Based on the common practice of estimated dry weight, I took out 85% of the wet weight leaving 15% dry weight. The estimated total is 3.12 oz of dried and cured bud. Wedding Glue looks great! The bottle of nirvana came in today so she got a full gallon. 3/4 gallon in the reservoir and 1/4 gallon top feed. She is covered in frost and sticky and smells great! I ended up taking out some of the lower buds and some leaves that were blocking air flow. I know it's a little late for snippy snips, but they were taking up energy that could be utilized elsewhere. Not to mention, she has so much foliage and branches covered in buds, losing a few auxiliary nodes won't bother her. Not much anyway. I also took a few of the upper canopy leaves. The ones really overlapping and the ones getting essentially crushed by other leaves and buds. It's definitely tight in there. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.2° RH: 50.5% VPD: 1.40 kPa April 20, 2023 Happy 420 everyone! Hope the smoke is good and the snacks are sweet. Skywalker OG: Day 1 Drying Wedding Glue is looking better than ever. She put on some heft last night. Maybe the new nutrients I added are working that quickly? It's great! The foliage is super lush. She has an even sweeter smell too. Does anyone know how fast nutrients begin to work? Anyway, she seems to be drinking pretty fast. Her soil moisture went from 60% at fill down to 48%. She also went through about a liter of water from the reservoir. Very nice. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74° RH: 50.8% VPD: 1.38 kPa April 21, 2023 Skywalker OG Day 2 Drying weight: 12 oz. Wedding Glue is so smelly and sticky. I can't help but admire her in all her frosty glory. She's also cruising through her water. Fantastic! Buds are absolutely huge compared to her size. Cleared out a couple leaves under the canopy that were never going to see the light of grow. She is all bud and foliage. I can't wait to see how she turns out. 2 and a half weeks left. Grow System Environment: Temp: 75.6° RH: 52% VPD: 1.42 kPa April 22, 2023 Skywalker OG Day 3 Drying Weight: 8.5 oz I read that the best way to know when your plants are dry is by weight. When your plant reaches 25% to 30% of it's wet weight, it should be dry and ready for trimming. That's what I read at least. It'll be easy enough to know. Just do the snap test and see if it matches up. I'm using a hanging fish scale. Kinda wish it measured in grams. I'll find one eventually. But ounces is fine. Just a rough estimate of total plant weight. So I'll check at 6.25 oz. Then at 5.2 oz. Wedding Glue looks fantastic! She is getting super dense now and her pistils are starting to turn orange. I also finally figured out when to start flushing. Or what the "last week" is. After the pistils turn 60% orange, then start flushing for a week? I think that's it. Based on common information I found throughout the interwebs, flowering takes around 6 weeks with an autoflower. Up to 10 weeks I believe. We are in the middle of week 4 now. So another 10 days then she should be ready for flushing? This is all in theory, mind you. Anyway, she's looking great! Tons of frost all over the place. The leaves are getting dark and look like they are about to turn to a purple of some sort. No issues whatsoever. Let's hope for some beautiful harvest colors. Grow System Environment: Temp: 75.6° RH: 54.3% VPD: 1.35 kPa April 23, 2023 Skywalker OG Day 4 Drying Weight 7.3 oz. I believe I'm correct in saying that the first couple days of drying is when they lose most of their weight. Good to know. Wedding Glue needed a watering today. She got 1 liter of top feed and the rest of the gallon in the reservoir. I saw a couple more of those tiny flies, so I got out my foliar bug spray stuff. A couple mists under the canopy and on the soil. Should do it. When the top dries out a bit, I'll do a diatomaceous earth sprinkle. Grow System Environment: Temp: 75.1° RH: 57% VPD: 1.25 kPa April 24, 2023 Skywalker OG Day 5 Drying Weight 6.5 oz. I took a second weight reading yesterday afternoon. She read 6.5 oz. So I believe she is in the most important part of drying. This is when she starts to really push the moisture out of the buds. The environment is nearly perfect. Dry System Environment: Temp: 69° RH: 58% VPD: 1.02 kPa Wedding Glue is frosty and fat as ever. She still has a good 2 weeks left. 1 week of flowering and 1 week of flush. I'll also do a defoliation... A much REQUIRED defoliation a few days before she gets the chop. Pistils are around 15% orange. And she has more trichome production ahead of her. My real question is, will she get some purple leaves going on? Or is this a strictly the green phenome and will it turn purple after the flush? I haven't touched the buds at all, so I don't know how dense they are. There's definitely too much foliage to really see what's happening. I do know that if I touch a single bud, my hands will be sticky for hours. Hell, I get sticky pulling out a fan leaf or 2. Anyway, a natural grow with zero human contact. I have gloves for when it's time for harvest. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.3° RH: 55.1% VPD: 1.27 kPa