White Widow Extrm Auto

Thu Sept 1 - I churned the soil in all of the pots. The side of the tent where I used the watering can, the soil was more wet than the other side, but not to any extreme degree. - The plants are growing fast. The leaves are all looking healthy. - I'm expecting to not have to use nutrients or at least not much since they are autos and are in Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil. - So far, I'm not seeing any nutrient burn from the FFOF which has happened to other people. - I expect I may have to use CalMag at some point, and maybe nutrients when getting closer to the end, but we'll see. - I normally flush the plants when there's 2 weeks left and then just use water from that point forward. - the 2 weeks is determined when 50% of the trichomes are clear and 50% are milky, that way, in 2 weeks time, all of the trichomes will be milky. I've read that when all trichome are milky, that is the peak strength. - for a more couch-lock high or to be able to sleep, let the trichomes go til they are amber. Sat Sept 3 - I've decided to put the taller plants on one side and the shorter ones on the other so that the grow lights will the at the most appropriate height for the tall ones and the shorter ones. - the tallest plant is 7 inches high and the shortest plant is 4.5 inches high. All plants are looking great! Even the shorter ones have great leaves and are nice and full. - I also noticed that it didn't seem to matter about watering the plants with a 1 Litre measuring cup or a watering can. Both sides of the tent had an equal number of tall and short plants. The style of watering didn't make a difference. (Mon Aug 29) - I will probably just use the 1 Litre measuring cup, it's faster and make less of a mess. - my grow lights have a dimmer on it, so I increased the light intensity as is common to do as the grow progresses Mon Sept 5 - I watered the plants with ph'ed water. - all of the plants are looking great. No signals of deficiencies. - the tallest plant is 12 inches and the shortest plant is 6 inches. - as mentioned before, I separated the tent making one half the tallest plants and the other half the shortest plants. - don't really know why half grew tall and the other half stayed short. - but the good thing is even the shorter plants look great. - it's my first time growing autoflowers so it's exciting. I assume in about 1 weeks time I'll be seeing the white pistils forming Tue Sept 6 - Today is the end of the 4th week and the beginning of the 5th week. - I could smell a faint but noticeable aroma when I came home - I'm not sure, but I think I can see the very beginning of the white hairs of the pistils - I noticed the plants had the tips of the leaves pointing down, do "the claw"…just the new growth, not the older growth - The reason for the tip of a leaf doing "the claw" is nitrogen toxicity - I feel this is happening due to the fact that the plant is leaving the vegetative phase and is now requiring less Nitrogen but the plants haven't used it all up in the soil, so it's maybe causing some issues - I feel that I may need to flush the soil, but I also don't want to do that as I'd also flush away phosphorus and potassium - I think I may need to water using the watering can. As mentioned back on Aug 29th, I did half of the plants with the watering can and the other half with the 1 Litre measuring cup. I have noticed that the plants that were watered with the watering can have less of a claw effect, some plants don't have the claw happening. Where as the other side, all of the plants have doing the claw. - what I noticed when using the watering can, is that the soil gets more saturated and it is probably doing a very slow flush - Plants start off needing more nitrogen, less phosphorus and less potassium, as the plant processes through its living phases, it will need less nitrogen, then more phosphorus, then slightly more potassium, then it will need even less nitrogen, less phosphorus and more potassium - the only unfortunate part is that the plants are not scheduled for another watering until Sunday. I'm going to churn the soil in the plants to hopefully dry out the soil faster. I'm not 100% sure, but I've read that plants cannot absorb as much nutrients when the soil is dry Wed Sept 7 - The churning worked! The plants are going back to normal. The claw is now way less prominent and some plants don't have it any more at all. - I'm not out of the woods yet though. All I did was stop the plants from absorbing too much more…but the nitrogen is still in the soil. - I'll be watering on Sunday using the watering can and hopefully flush away more of the nitrogen. - I also noticed today that the plants were looking a little crowed as they are growing slightly beyond the growbags. So I added more flood trays and separated the plants as best I could. - I know that the window of opportunity to do the defoliation is any time now. So, once I do the defoliation, I will probably be able put them back into close quarters with each other. - I may also use a trellis net once the defoliation is done