Monster&Midget 1st grow.

Flowering Week 8 D50. Done HST on the first set of nodes and 1 node on the 2nd set of the CBD. Reason I didn't do the 2nd node on the 2nd set cause I want to see the comparison as both bud sites were more or less the very same size before HST was applied. I know, HST it to be desired on autos. But it's only on the lowest nodes and I'm thinking they'll have well enough time to recover as I didn't do the whole plant. 13/2/22 Increased the PPM by 100 and will continue to do so right up until flush. 14/2/22 Done a measurement on both hydros. Zkittlez is growing at an alarming rate, if she doesn't slow down I think I'm going to have a real height issue. May even lead to me having to get a larger tent. She's topping out at 55cm that 15cm in 7 days folks, her organic sister is just hitting 40-43, CBD's on the other hand has barley moved in 2.5weeks, hitting just 42cm her organic sister is larger with 45cm. All plants with the exception of CBD HYDRO has been getting bushier and taller. Interesting results. 15/2/22 I'm gonna have really problems if Zkittlez Hydro keeps growing the way she is, she should be focusing on producing flower at this stage she well ahead in ways but behind in other crucial ways, I'm putting it down to her starting her own DWC cause right up until 2 weeks ago she was a runt. And now she's outta control so to speak. I'm going to have to start making spacers for the top and start stringing string up around the top 4 bars and start doing some LST outwards on top. Cause if I don't I can't see it helping THC/BUD production. Maybe if I do some heavy defoliation it will start to put her into flower? 16/2/22 Dunno what I'm going to do with the CBD hydro I'll have my microscope this week and will ask is she ready to harvest. She hasn't changed in a week. 17/2/22 PROBLEMS. Looks like I have been hit by "the claw", and no, I did not name this. This is what it's called. It's when your plant is showing signs of stress, it happens more in autos rather than phenotypes, I'm assuming this is down the fact autos have such a short life, and can run into these problems I'm going to list, even though I'm 95% sure what my issue is, that might not be the case for you. So here they are, if you need more help please message me: Nitogen Tox, wind burn, overwatering, underwatering, too many nutes leading to; nute lockout, just too many different diverse delivery methods of the same nutrient, cause the plant the lock that nute out, this is a very rare case, as we give our plants the likes of micro enzymes to break down nutes and help uptake. Drainage is too good not allowing enough water to be trapped, Magnesium deficiency, light is too high. That's really all I can think off. Mine is a case of 2 factors and also maybe a 1/3 with the plant been done so early, just ready to chop, but I doubt it. I'll that by the end of the week, waiting on microscope. I did do a run-off test and it 2300 PPM. Should not be that high, meaning; nute lockout. Too many nutes causing lockout. So, for the fix, I've flushed the plant twice and even on the 2nd 5l distilled water the PPM was still 12-1500 I think. But, then I decided because I have not drained the Zkittlez plate in over 2 weeks I checked her PPM nearly fuking 8500ppm I nearly dropped dead. Had a close look and she is also showing very very early stages of "the claw" pics above^. Some light nute burn but because the lockout was soo bad, it's why I'm starting to see that horrible light green color on the zkittlez. Fix: flushed twice. Am taking 3 nutes off the chart. And doing 3 nutes a day then changing the clearing the run-off, doing a flush and starting her on her new 3 a day. Hopefully this will fix her. Fix 'em both CLAW UPDATE: With my plant being so close to harvest, I'm not all 2 worried about this. But, it would be great if I can fix this. I've added extra mg after 36hrs of flushing and started back on 1/3 NPK+MICROS+ SENSI CAL MAG EXTRA. Thinking I'm gonna cut most of the nutes out and focus on bloom boosters and sugars. Either way, it's gonna be possible the worst harvest to date on this platform 😂 Thanks for reading, Ha messaged fastbuds and they just said its the luck of the draw. Will update with pics on the tricks. 18/2/22 lots going on this week. some early sign my plants are running into trouble, well my hydros to be exact. Think I've figured it out. Ordered airports and there were way too big. So, I used the base, which fit in the lowest groove on the inside. But I made the pot itself smaller by folding it over into a cone and then used ties through the end of the airpot holes into the base mesh, but in doing so, I left the 4 molded stand holes on the outside with some of the pot going over and roots had grown into it and from weeks of run-off it clearly built up with salts and so on and was drinking high EC/salt built up water. That and the run-off from the plate was 8500ppm, which is crazy, so the roots were drinking the water and leaving nutes behind or somehow it built up on the plate from being stagnant water, only reason I can think why the PPM would be soooo high, and the readings are correct I checked with a superior friends ppm/ph 300e meter and I got the same ph and ppm was 8550 50 PPM more (early signs are a foresight into future problems with your plant, signs to watch out for, "the claw", nitrogen tox"discoloration on the backs of leafs","burnt tips", odd coloring of the leafs, browning stem, which is the worst that can happen, google for more info on that, but you will see signs of the claw before any deficiency like magnesium comes up, so if you watch out for signs of "the claw" pic above, you are in with a chance of fixing it, it can also be caused my many other issues that I go into above ). So my pen is good. Drmeter, btw, PH PEN MUSTS; you have to store the diode the part that reads the PH in a buffer solution.( buffer 4ph-7ph.), dont usectap water as the chlorine and that will ruin your readings also. Otherwise after a few weeks you won't get proper readings, do this unless stated otherwise my manufacturer. Report and results on what was done this wk. Well it's been one of my hardest/busiest weeks with the hydro. I noticed late stages of "the claw", so I went through a few things and figured it was nute lock thanks to the CBD I saw early signs of the claw on my zkittlez hydro and done a PPM reading from run-off was 8500 so the roots drinking from the plate were just drinking the water and leaving the nute behind. Flushed 3 times over 24hrs 6.3ph distilled water. Restarted her on her nutes but instead of making a mix I broke it down into 3 different mixes adding micro to each they all stayed around 1400 when being poured on. 3 days later I checked the RUN-OFF and it was in the low 500s 510ppm to be exact. So Nitogen tox is gone, aswell as light mg def that had started to show I think, it's also gone and nute lock, the claw has stopped on both plant so a hard wk but a success all the same. Happy Growing, stay safe gottagrowsometime