Hey everyone!!
Lots of excitement here at the house as we prepare the girls for harvest! They have been flushing now for about 5-6 days with RO h2o+ Molasses, then just yesterday with RO+ Final Phase (AN).
The Blue Widows and Chem are so sticky that they are hard to separate each other for maintenance. The Blues smell like danky feet, like always, but we had a problem with the A/C unit in the room that I didnt notice and remedy until just 2 days ago. The A/C was set for 65F but the room wasn't cooling past 73F..Yada yada yada..long story short, I changed the air filters, drained the condensation line (dual de-humidifier feature), and just generally cleaned the unit up. She's back up and running at full tilt, now a cool 63-64F at night. Unfortunately, the room hasn't been cold for long enough to get the blue colors out of my Blues. Sorry guys, guess you'll just have to take my word that they do turn blue.
![April 16, 2013.jpg](/data/attachments/1838/1838659-fb7d6adacdf2f4eef87847c7a8ae1d0f.jpg)
We haven't ever really noticed too much of a color variation with this strain of Chem, but they are frosty as hell and smell divinely hashy. Can't wait to smoke her up. We also noticed that the one flower that we pollinated has very swollen seed bracts; 2 or 3 of them are already split open! Hopefully we get 5-10 mature seeds of our BlueDawg strain, so that I have a nice spectrum of phenotypes to choose from to go f2 with. Ideally, we'd grow out 100's of them to look for that true killer mother, but alas, we just don't have the space.
![ChemDawg week9 #3.jpg](/data/attachments/1838/1838663-2a365fc645133c8cacd20d12cf53e65d.jpg)
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In other news, the Cotton Candy and the Criticals are on week 5 and looking great! We noticed a few small spider-mite linger-ers so I introduced them to my friend max, Aza-max! Ha, Take that!
![Cotton Candy week5 #1.jpg](/data/attachments/1838/1838664-b5e8bd0146f1a3da7648e1db1246bc95.jpg)
![Cotton Candy week5 #2.jpg](/data/attachments/1838/1838666-204a458793bfc7aa6d8ccb7e4b84dc03.jpg)
Finally, I took some samples (popcorns) off 2 Blues and the Chem to do my customary, 'Harvest Double Check Test.' Basically, what this is, is just a quick pre-harvest sample that I take to smoke to check if the buds are fully flushed or if they will spark when smoked. I microwaved a few popcorns (4 econds on, 10 seconds off) until they were dry enough to smoke. I put flame to them and drew it thru the bong, but didn't inhale. Sure enough they all ashed a nice whitish-grey and with no sparks! Of course I know this isn't necessary, but after one early harvest a few cycles back, I started doin' it just to make sure.
![4-16-13 Harvest Sample #1.jpg](/data/attachments/1838/1838671-0431edc536148ea1322cad53356c9715.jpg)
![4-16-13 Harvest Sample #2.jpg](/data/attachments/1838/1838673-e3b1b41ef9d5bd897b7fde10a5b5bc7f.jpg)
Comments and questions welcome! Thanks for watchin guys.
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-ST