Old Dude Newbie - Looking for knowledge My First Post

Magnetoman

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Here we go 12 days since my last post and things look good to me but I welcome opinions or advice.
I did my first feeding with some Dr. Earth Flower Girl at 1/2 strength as a test 4 days ago. It seem to respond ok nothing crazy so with today's watering I am going to use it full strength. It is a 1-9-2 with Fish bone meal, mined potassium sulfate, fish meal, kelp meal, seaweed extract and earthworm castings.
I also added 4 more bulbs 2x more 23w 2700k and 2x UVB reptile bulbs. I am going to rotate the UVB around every 3 days as I have done with my other mixture of lights.
There is still 3x 43w 6500k in there.
Total of 14 bulbs in a 36"x20"x65" tent.
Temps are 78-82 in the day and 66-68 at night.
Hairs are starting to turn color, I can see them getting frostier.
I tried counting the buds across the top I got to 100 and quit.
I am starting to get a lemony smell with a bit of mint at times. Almost like spearmint gum, haven't smelled cannabis like that before.
Starting to get a bit excited - and my 4 clones are doing very well should be perfect timing when these finish up.
Im just taking a newly-educated guess here that I still got at least 10 if not 12 weeks to go.
Thanks to a few of you guys I have a handle on what my trichromes should look like, or what I want them to look like for my tastes and I am aiming for the side far away from any couchlock.
I want to have that first smoke of this playing my Santana album the seeds came from and hope for some good trippy shit. :)2016-09-12 09.34.17.jpg 2016-09-12 09.34.17.jpg 2016-09-12 09.42.15.jpg 2016-09-12 09.42.28.jpg 2016-09-12 09.42.34.jpg 2016-09-12 09.43.22.jpg 2016-09-12 09.41.24.jpg 2016-09-12 09.42.04.jpg 2016-09-12 09.35.13.jpg 2016-09-12 09.35.45.jpg
- Anyways here is some pics to accompany the update.
 

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Magnetoman

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Couple days later and I swear the buds almost doubled in size.
Tons more frost, not sure if it is a result of the UVB's but I will take it :)
I gently squeezed a couple and some serious finger glue already there.
One think I noticed is the mint smell is gone and and the lemon smell increased tenfold.
Smells like some crushed 10lbs of Lemon Heads :)2016-09-14 15.32.50.jpg 2016-09-14 15.33.55.jpg 2016-09-14 15.34.12.jpg
 

Magnetoman

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About 6 weeks into flower here - nailed the thrip issue last week.
Caught it just in time.
I was starting to wonder if the buds would get much bigger but low and behold they are getting fatter and fatter.
Seems to be constant growth of new white hair on tops of buds as soon as other turn color and retract into the bud.
Really hard for me to see a visual difference between the 2 plants when I look at the buds.
Maybe as they mature they will start to look unique to themselves.2016-09-29 11.08.14.jpg 2016-09-29 11.08.21.jpg 2016-09-29 11.08.30.jpg 2016-09-29 11.08.53.jpg
 

Magnetoman

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So today I am 6 months or 183 day since I put these 2 beans in the dirt, some where between week 8 and 9 of flower.

When they were in veg the Thai seed looked very sativa based on other things I have seen as expected.

The other(I have bunch of seeds from long ago) thought to be some Northern Lights from the late 80's I picked up near Seattle or some outdoor strain from northeast Washington that was typically Mexican, Central America and/or some northern South American Sativas and what was called BC bud at the time and all the resulting strains. It looked more Indica. But now in flower I'll be damned if I can tell the buds apart by sight or by smell. Maybe that will sort out after curing.

The bigger buds are gaining weight still, the little ones all jumped in size this week.
Most of the white hairs have curled and turned color.
Today I can see most of the glands are cloudy but only spotted a couple with some discoloration at the edges.
I am aiming for about 10-20% amber.
Not in a hurry at all but I do have some nice clones ready for round 2
I am thinking another week to a week and half.2016-10-04 14.26.57.jpg 2016-10-07 15.15.46.jpg 2016-10-07 18.53.06.jpg 2016-10-07 18.54.57.jpg
 
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