Never mind… listen to @happilyretired
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So seems it’s been a few days of the adjustments u made. How do the leaves look on the plant now. Happy sad. Green light green yellow ect. If they appear a nice even green id leave the light of u happen to notice that pistils start to change a slight bit on colors and then all the sudden I have a tonnage of new white then I would start to worry a slight bit and either raise light or lower the power a touch. Otherwise of all looks good roll with it. I havnt done autos in a little minute now as they don’t give me enough for what I do. I press or extract everything I burn so autos r depressing to try and use for extracts. I pull prolly 10 to 12%more return from a photo than an auto
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Did you end up getting one? Won’t regret it for sure!
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The Tricross Auto is nearing the finish line!
I’d really like to chop this one at the “optimal” time. Right now, I’m seeing mostly cloudy, with some clear, and a very few ambers. The plant is still producing some white pistils, but that’s slowing down at this time. I have fed only water for the past week. What are your thoughts about timing for this one? Really appreciate any thoughts you’re willing to share.
The Gnome Methane plant has come along during the past few weeks, too. I’ve done a little maintenance, defoliating a bit and pulling the big branches away from the main stem.
I think this plant is looking a lot better, and I’m excited to see it develop. These two autos were planted on the same date, but one will outlive the other by about a month, it seems. Just goes to show you, autos sometimes live up to their u predictable reputation!
Outdoor garden is coming along.
Will be rolling out some outdoor cannabis plants in the next couple weeks. Very excited for that!
Have a great day in your world! Happy Friday, and have a fun weekend!
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The TriCross Auto is chopped, washed, dried, trimmed, and jarred! It smells really great. It tastes pretty good, too, and the high was excellent. I expect the taste to change over the next few weeks in the jars. I didn’t weigh it, but I wound up with two 2-qt jars and two 1-qt jars full.
I washed them in a little peroxide water and then a couple rinse buckets, and then I hung them from my ladder to drip.
Here in SE Virginia, the weather is always changing. I have dried in my garage and inside my house—wherever I can get conditions closest to 60F/60%. This time, I dried in my garage for a day and then in my house for another five days. Total dry time was only six days, but I still over-dried about half my buds. 
About half this plant is sitting in the jars at 61%, but the other half that waited an extra day is down to 54%.
This over-drying is a bummer, so I need to fix my method. Am going to buy a used fridge. Before I do so, I have a question for all those with opinions! When drying in the fridge, do you leave space between branches? That is, how “full” can you fill the fridge with buds? I don’t know if I can get away with a little dorm room model, but I sort of doubt it. Thanks in advance for any guidance you can provide!
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Take a half a paper towel, (6x6”)wet it with RO or distilled water. Ring it out just as dry as you can get it. When you think you got it dry enough to do it some more. Take the lid off your jar that’s to dry put that over the top of the flower push it down on the sides all the way around. Put the lid back on and check it in the morning. If it’s still too dry, just Do it again. If it goes a little bit too wet, just pull the paper towel out put the lid on and leave it overnight. The dried stems are going to continue pulling moisture if they are dry too. If you get it to moist, you just burp it like you did to start with. After doing it a few times it’s easy. 
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Thank you, sir!! I will do this and report back. 
Hope you are well, and thanks again for this advice!
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I used to use a piece of lettuce.
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Yeah, I’ve done that before and put a carrot in before. The problem is, what lettuce or a carrot may take in the bag with it. A brand new half sheet of paper towel and RO water seems a lot more sanitary. 
I keep it around for a year or two so I try to keep it as clean as possible.
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Hap, all my jars are sitting right at 62%. Thank you very much for the tip, sir. Half paper towel did the trick!
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You are quite welcome.
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I just flipped my next round of photos to 12:12. I wasn’t thinking when I made that adjustment about a week ago, and the timing really doesn’t work for my schedule. I am not getting enough lights-on time while I’m at home to do plant maintenance.
So here’s the question: can I modify the light schedule and move the 12 hours of light to a more schedule-friendly part of the day, or will that cause a problem?
Anyone have any ideas on this? Thanks for any thoughts!
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It shouldn’t be a problem, I have done it in the past with photo’s and auto’s.
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I just did it with mine. Was coming on 5:00 am and off at 9:00. Now I have it turning on at 900 am to off at 9:00 pm.
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Yes I have just done it also ftom 6am on 6 pm off to exactly opposite.
I just left the plants in dark for that extra 12 hours
The power company was charging us double during the day so it was mostly a financial decision
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I’ve done it a bunch of times. Just leaving extended dark period to get it straightened out.
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Hi! Long time since my last post. I have kept at it over the past couple years, but I haven’t improved a thing. I’m growing in soil in Grow Buckets. Am feeding GH trio plus cal mag at roughly bottle doses.
I planted these plants on Dec. 1. Been flowering for a couple weeks now. The bad looking one is an Atlas TriCross. Could you please help me diagnose and troubleshoot this one?
This one is Mephisto Sour Stomper.
I’ve done a little training and a little “supercropping” to spread these plants out a bit. The Sour Stomper plant is looking pretty ok, but it too seems to be showing a deficiency (or maybe something else) recently in the light green baby leaves. Any idea what could be the snag?
Thank you for taking the time to check these out, and thank you for any input regarding fixing the TriCross especially!
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Sorry. I should have mentioned that I stopped all bottle nutes for the TriCross (the ugly one) a week or so ago. Been on plain rain since then.
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Welcome back man!
We need to know as much as possibke to diagnose. Pics help a ton but doesnt tell the whole story. See if you can fill this growers support ticket out.
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Thank you, PreyBird! I’ll address each item below.
Seedbank — Atlas
Strain — TriCross
Indoor
4’ x 2’ x 5’8” (h) tent
Spider Farmer sf2000
Light height — top of the tent
Temps — day - 75; night - 70
RH — forgot to check!!
Added air — clip on fans, one blowing across canopy, another at the bottom corner, pointed up
Ventilation — ac inf cloud line
Pot sizes — five gal bucket w GroBucket insert, so about 3.5 gal of soil
Soil — homemade based on subcool recipe
Nutrient type — GH trio
Ph — water - 7.2; soil - 6.15
EC — water - 14 Ms/cm; soil 1104 Ms/cm
Ppm — water - 007; soil - 543
Water temp — 45f brrr
CO2 — no idea
Germ date — Dec 1
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