Haven't been posting much, but did harvest my cannabis. Hung it to dry for a few days, then finished trimming it off branches. It's still too moist to put in jars, so today it's in this stainless salad bowl continuing to dry.
I notice some buds may have bud rot, hadn't really noticed it prior to putting in the bowl all together. I guess that may mean I need to do something different about air circulation on next crop.
I'm certain this is the stickiest batch I've grown of this set of cuttings.
Thought to take a better pic of the vegetative plants. Yesterday they got 300 g nutes, this morning another 300 g. They're in what I think of as 600 mL pots. That means 600 mL of water from dry to fully watered, not including any runoff.
For bloom I put them in a slightly larger pot, a 1500 mL pot. During my last spring-bloom crop I found the 1500 mL pot needed 3 days between waterings. During summer I'd expect it to be 1 day less.
I've been influenced by that Fact Sheet, particularly table 1 as well as figure 1. Soaking is important to sanitation, 30 minutes to an hour. Scrub, let soak more if there are scrubbing-resistant deposits.
In the grow tent I still have fallen leaves on the floor and it all needs to be cleaned up and sanitized. Making progress
I uppotted 2 plants that will go into bloom within a few weeks to a month. I'll top them at least one more time, soon.
This is the pot size I now use in bloom. If the pots require watering more frequently then every other day during summer, then I will uppot to a larger size.
I have a roll of fly paper hanging in an unpictured corner. They're battling a fungus gnat infestation and are being treated with beneficial nematodes, which is reducing the gnat numbers, but not totally eliminating the problem. Fungus gnat populations seem to grow if I water without adding additional nematodes. I've read beneficial nematodes die when the rootball or potting mix dries. They certainly seem to need reapplication with every watering.
Seems like additional treatment is needed. Perhaps repel the gnats from the potting mix? Bounce Fabric Softener sheets are one way that one science report says works. A neem oil soil drench might also do it.
