Hello Everyone,
Today was a quick photoshoot in the tent. Not much has changed since yesterday, she's just swelling up a little more every day now while using up stored nutrients.
I've been feeding her a minimum dose of MaxiBloom during flowering, and the fact that she is still depleting stored nutrients tells me that I have not been overfeeding. I would rather underfeed than overfeed because overfeeding can cause potentially more damage to the plant than underfeeding.
Today I didn't feed, tomorrow I will and it will be the last time for this grow.
 Strain: | Crack Mack |
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 Dominance: | Sativa |
 Nutrients used: | MaxiBloom 5-15-14 |
 Phenotype traits: | Intense Fruity Aroma/Dank Undertone |
 Lineage: | Green Crack/Big Mack Superstar |
 Current growing stage: | Flowering |
 Current plant age: | 52 Days-FLOWER |
 Sex: | Photoperiod/Auto recessive |
 Location: | Syracuse New York |
An indicator that stored nutrients are being depleted is the yellowing leaves on the plant. They are depleting at a really good rate, not too much, not too little.
I find it surprising that the buds are this well developed with eighteen days left in flowering, but I think that is a great sign.
I don't know if they will swell up a lot in these last eighteen days but I am grateful either way at this point, as the plant has already produced a lot of bud.
The pistil coverage at this point remains about fifty percent brown and fifty percent white. This is indicative that new pistils are actively shooting out, and this increases the density and amount of bud that is packed on the branches.
With so many white pistils still present, I think the odds are great that these buds will swell up to an even bigger size over the next eighteen days.
Harvest time Harvey is a routine little guy. He likes to hang out with me in the grow room during plant tending time, and he prefers this spot by some bags of soil that I have bagged up. He will surely meow up a storm when I finally move this bag of soil.
The frost level is impressive on the Crack Mack, but her terpenes are even more impressive. A very fruity strawberry smell mixed with a dank stinky smell that comes through with a touch of banana. The danky banana smell is a trait of the Big Mack Superstar parent, and her strawberry fruity aroma I've not seen prior to this and I suspect it came from the Green Crack parent genetic.
With feeding coming to an end, there isn't much left to do except water and wait it out.
I've always been an early harvester so it's not easy to wait, but I feel confident that this sativa dominant cannabis plant will benefit from a little longer flowering time. Sativa dominant varieties usually take a little longer and require more patience, but the reward is usually very desirable bud with great psychoactive effects and excellent flavors.
That will do it for today's update.
How is the Crack Mack looking to all of you?
Would you find it hard to be patient waiting for harvest too?
I'd love to read your thoughts in the comment section!
Thank you for stopping by!
Have a good day! -@futuremind
