week of 12/07- 12/13/25
Showcase Flower Room - The Room is Fully trellised and the plants are rapidly growing as they are now in flower cycle.
Showcase Flower Room
The plants entered Week 1 of flowering (days 1-7) when the lights were switched to 12 hours on/12 hours off on Wednesday, December 11th. The plants were given a little extra vegetative growing time this cycle and this allowed us to gradually lower the daylight length over a period of about a week which helped the plants settle in the room nicely.
While it may sound counterintuitive the intensity of the light is increased while the length of daylight is decreased. The lights are currently at 70% strength and will be increased by 3% each day till the light intensity is at 100%. Carbon dioxide was also increased this week to approximately 1200 parts per million. Irrigation length and strength were also increased this week. The plants are growing so fast right now and are happily accepting all the increased inputs we are providing them. There are some abnormally large fan leaves on some of the strains, especially the Biscotti Bliss. Overall the plants look happy and are growing well.
The room was pruned heavily this week removing fan leaves as well as lower and insignificant branches. Aggressive pruning at this stage focuses the plants energy onto the branches that will produce the nicest flower. This is an important step in trying to maximize the growth and yield of the plants.
A view of plants in F0A Flower Room in week 9.
A view of Pablos Driver in F0A Flower Room - week 9.
A closeup of Pablos Driver - Week 9.
F0A Flower Room
The plants entered Week 9 of flowering (days 56-63) and exciting things happened this week. While the majority of the strains in the room are still ripening (there are some really pretty flowers), the first strain in the room was harvested at 58 days!
The G13 Haze NYC Diesel x Cuban Black Haze turned out to be surprisingly quick while maintaining nice flower structure, color, and an interesting terpene profile that caused a lively discussion amongst the employees. This strain was gifted to us by our friend High Steppa from Western Maine. It’s a unique strain that we are lucky to have and hope you will be as excited to try this as we are.
As for the rest of the room, fan leaves are still being removed on a daily basis, as needed. Lights and CO2 are being decreased roughly every other day, and the nutrient strength is also being tapered as the plants get closer to finishing. It also looks like we are on pace to harvest a strain next week as well.
Clones starting to vegetatively grow awaiting transplant. .
A round of fresh cuttings in early rooting stage.
Mom and Veg Room
This room is slowly but surely being brought under control. The moms all had clones taken from them this week. Half of the moms were aggressively pruned, basically cut in half. Several underperforming or problematic strains were culled and won’t be grown again. The rest of the moms will be pruned in the oncoming days.
The next round of plants for a flower room are finishing up the cloning process and will also be planted early next week. The new clones have transitioned well to not having a humidity dome over them and have started growing in the tray which is the sign they are ready for transplant. All the new clones are in humidity domes and look healthy so far. A new cloning trick was tried with these plants and we will let you know how well it worked in the upcoming blogs.
The next round of trial strains are coming along nicely. The majority of the new strains are being grown from regular seeds which produce male and female plants. We aren’t keeping males at the current time so as the plants show their sex in pre-flower the males are culled and the females are labeled and numbered. The females will have a round of clones taken for future flower trials. There is more unique and rare stuff in this trial so stay tuned for what will be grown in future rooms.
That wraps up the blog for this week. As day light continues to wane and temperatures plummet, we are thankful for growing Cannabis which lets us experience growing conditions indoors while also benefiting from all the magic Cannabis provides. Thanks for reading and stay warm out there.
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