ETHOS Clones (Diary #8)

BLOOM WEEK 9 (Oct 17-23) --------------------------------------------- TARGETS: • 20-22c / 45% (Day) ❌ • 16-18c / 35-45% (Night) ❌ • SWITCH BULBS TO MH, LOWER TO 60%✅ • TAKE ONE HR OFF LIGHTS ON (10/14) ✅ • FLUSH ALL (USE UP FLAWLESS FINISH)✅ Home stretch!! Easy week, just dumping as much water as I can into these things and tying up heavy branches. I'm clipping most of the large fan leaves this week to drop the humidity a little more and increase the airflow. Probably going to have to leave the Cherry and possibly the Grandpa's Stash for a few extra days. They still looking like they're swelling and ripening. Hope they don't take like 70 days or my house is going to smell for weeks. I could take down the KCs, ELB and MC any day, as they're all ready to go. ______________ Oct 17 (4-6L) • Changed timer to 10/14 🌡️: 24c ✅ ❄️: 19.5c 🆗⬇️ 🌧️: 48.8% ✅ ☁️: 38.8% ✅ 📈: 1.78 ⬇️ 📉: 1.25 ✅ 📊: 1.51 kPa✅ Swapping out the HPS for MH bulbs after lights off. Not sure if this does anything but I read that plants respond to the blue spectrum more when they're ripening. May increase trichomes production too but I doubt I'd be able to tell. Flowers are caked up. At the very least I'll have some better harvest pictures 😆. Took another hour off the light schedule so we're down to 10/14 now. Dropped the intensity to 60% as well. This helps keep the temperatures down and lets the plants know it's time to wrap it up. ___________ Oct 18 (4L) Mix: 40ml Flawless Finish : 5 gallons water = 0.5 EC / 6.2 ph • Changed bulbs to MH • Moved plants around (last ones ready at the back) 🌡️: 23.5c ✅ ❄️: 19.6c ✅ 🌧️: 48.4% ✅ ☁️: 44.7% ✅ 📈: 1.32 ✅ 📉: 1.19 ✅ 📊: 1.24 kPa ✅ _______________ Oct 19 • No water 🌡️: 23.9c ✅ ❄️: 18.3c ✅ 🌧️: 48.4% ✅ ☁️: 44.5% ✅ 📈: 1.65 🆗 📉: 1.08 ✅ 📊: 1.24 kPa ✅ Bags still had a bit of weight so I left them alone. They won't be drinking as much with the lower temperatures and shorter days. Just clipping the biggest fan leaves for now and will leave the rest. The sights and smells are captivating. Trichome production is insane with a lot of the flowers looking like someone dumped a bag of sugar on them. This has to be the best run I've had and I actually can't wait to trim for once. HUGE SHOUT-OUT to @FrontRowAG_BrianG for the tips and advice along the way. You probably saved my grow brother. Big thanks. _______________ Oct 20 (4L) • Water only, no pH adjustment _______________ Oct 21 (10L) • Water only, no pH adjustment Basically just waiting on GS and CG to ripen more. Runoff EC is 0.4-0.5 (tap water is 0.3) so it's probably fine to chop. I may end up giving them one last drench on Monday night and let them dry out all the way before cutting them down. What's a few more days after 17 weeks __________ Oct 22 • No water __________ Oct 23 • No water __________ Oct 24 CHOPPED HAD my drying conditions dialed in at 60F/60%...Buuuuut we're getting a week of 75F. In fucking OCTOBER. It's 66F at 10pm. So tired of getting my environment flattened by ridiculous weather at the worst possible times. Fuck man. Running AC in October 🤣 Getting them hung up was a challenge. Won't be using those tomato cages anymore. They're great to grow with but awkward to remove and I ended up doing some damage to few plants. Everything is super gluey. Will try to pop back in now and then but this is it for the next two weeks or so.