Week 6 flower update, things are looking up mostly

Popping in to share a quick update from the tent. We're at day 42 of flower on four Mimosa plants and two Zkittlez, and honestly the resin development on the Zkittlez has me pretty excited. Trichomes are cloudy and starting to turn on one of them already, which I wasn't expecting quite yet. The Mimosa girls are a little behind but they're stacking nicely. I top-dressed with some worm castings and a little kelp meal around week 4 and i think that made a real difference in bud density. No-till living soil doing its thing. The one thing bothering me right now is a slight claw on two of the Mimosa leaves, lower canopy. Classic nitrogen toxicity look, but i haven't added anything heavy in nitrogen so i'm a little puzzled. Could be the soil running a bit hot still, it's a relatively fresh batch. Keeping an eye on it and not panicking yet. For what its worth, nothing else looks stressed and the roots have been getting plain water only for two weeks now. Probably just ride it out. Anyone else seen late claw on an otherwise healthy plant in living soil? Curious if it just resolves on its own for you.

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Experienced1d ago

The claw thing in living soil is super common and yeah it usually just sorts itself out, especially if everything else looks healthy. The no-till crowd I run with basically never stresses about lower leaf claw late in flower, those leaves are half checked out anyway. What i actually want to know more about is which Zkittlez pheno is turning first. I've run Zkittlez a few times and the variation between phenos is wild on the terp side. Had one that was straight tropical candy, another that leaned more grape and almost floral. If you're getting early amber on one and not the other that's already telling you they're different animals. Would not harvest them on the same schedule without smelling them separately first, the faster ripening one might actually be the louder of the two if you let it catch up a bit. The Mimosa I'm less hyped on personally. Nice smell but the phenos i've seen tend to be pretty uniform, not a lot of hunting range there.

Expert Grower1d ago

The point about not harvesting the two Zkittlez on the same schedule is solid, but i'd push back a little on using smell as the primary signal. Trichome state under a loupe is going to give you more reliable data than nose alone, especially mid-ripening when terp profiles are still shifting. I've had plants that smelled incredible two weeks early and peaked way later than i expected, and vice versa.