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@omacoder the carbon filters do a pretty good job hiding the odor, but I happen to have an external carbon filter that I use as well.

Well, thought I'd try to grow a Sativa-dominant hybrid in the bloom. Since sativa's are usually taller and more scraggly than indica's... I thought this might be a bit of a challenge. Thankfully, I did some reading on the forum and got some great help.

This strain is called Slazerbeam and I started from a feminized seed. It's a cross between Super Lemon Haze and Gupta Kush.

I'm skipping to the good picture first, then I'll go back in time and share some of my tricks that helped this strain thrive in the bloom:

Today 11/30: Been flushing for 4 days now. Trichomes were still a little white, but I figured the middle of the plant was ready. If 60% or so of the plant is showing milky trichomes, then it's time to flush. Best to have a microscope on hand to check these or a really good camera.

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11/17:

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11/5 and 11/4: The one really tall branch was getting close, so I eventually took a suction cup and string to pull the branch down lightly towards the side. Doing this would avoid burning the top of the cola on the top lights.

Buds were beginning to fill in nicely and I was able to prune a few of the bigger fan leaves to make trimming a little easier later on.

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10/27:

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10/19 Before Pruning:

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10/19 After Pruning. The fan leaves were HUGE! So it's important to prune them often. This will allow light to penetrate the rest of the plant and allow the plant to take in nutrients where it really matters - the bud sites:

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10/13 Before pruning:

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10/13 After Pruning and training:

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I gently pulled some of the branches through various spots inside and outside of the trellis.

10/2: This was a big day! Plant was starting to shoot out pistols, which tells me it was definitely a female.

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I also flipped it to flower a few days after the pruning.

Before pruning:

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After Pruning & Training. The training might seem aggressive, but it worked out! Bending the plants spreads the branches out and allows each of the branches to get more light. I wanted to make the most out of the space in the bloom and this would allow more surface area for buds to develop later on.

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9/24 Last couple days in veg stage. Still loving those huge fan leaves, but they had to go:

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9/17 First Topping! You want 4-5 nodes before topping. The inner nodal spacing in the bloom tends to be shorter, which is great news for keeping your plants an appropriate size:

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...am well into my second grow with the BLOOM now and it is starting to take shape nicely, so I thought it was time to share.

Plant is OJ Kush Hybrid - Sativa 60/40. Latest pics taken yesterday (11/18/21) when 'Tropicalia Chem' recipe stage changed to Bloom 2 (stage5). Enjoy!

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The flowers have come in with full force! My plant is extremely happy right now and has made the full shift from growing a lot of leaves to focusing on the flowers. It is still getting taller each day but it has slowed down significantly which is good because I am starting to run out of space. Now I think it is time to trim off some of the bigger leaves so more light can reach some of the lower flowers and the flowers that are too low need to be trimmed off too. It's growing like a dream and I can't wait to see how big these flowers get!

That’s looking nice. How many weeks are you into flowering.

Hi @pdxbloom. Relative humidity in your area could slow down the rate of drying. To combat this, you can try to increase the temperature a few degrees. This should kick on the exhaust fans more often to begin to pull some of the humidity out.

It's pretty dry in my area so would love to know how this goes!

Raised the recipe temperature target to 75 and now the Bloom screen target shows 68. 7 degree differential vs. previous 5 degree (70 to 65).

As far as the stage advancement, I believe it was on schedule the initial time. I did cancel the grow and reset the grow while fast forwarding to the dry stage to see if that would solve the lighting problem the second time.

You won’t hurt it, but if you post a picture, I’ll show you where to prune!

@pdxbloom Looking nice and milky, I would wait another few days before flushing as well.

@i_like_plants that is crazy. We need a bigger database so we can learn the varieties that shoot like that one, vs the compact like the one pdxbloom Is growing. The research is sure fun though!

That is beautiful. A lot of changes in the logic they’ve made are making it easy now. That tomato plant does look... calm somehow. What do you know about the variety?

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Hello BLOOMers!

You may have noticed your BLOOM awoke today with a software update available.

The update includes some bug squashes and improvements under the hood.

If you did not see the message, you can still find the update by going to your BLOOMs Wi-Fi section and selecting Software Updates.

As always, let us know if you have any questions or issues about the update.

Happy growing!