Day 68 - April 18, 2021 (Day 1 - Week 3 Flower)
Kicking off day 1 of week 3 in flower.
Worked on Canopy for F1, F4, F5, F8 most of the day. Ladies were thick. Starting to see some flowers forming. :)
Inspected each closely and all are female with no signs of hermis.
Remounted camera for timelapses and shouldn't have anymore movement on future videos.
Foliar Spray (9:00PM):
* ~1 Gallon RO Water (EC 0.05)
* 5ML Liquinox Iron & Zinc
* 5ML CalMag+ per Gallon
* 0.5ML Mills Nutrients Vitalize per gallon
* PH 5.85
* EC 0.64
Watering:
010:00AM-10:08AM
~0.25 gallons per pot
02:00PM-02:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
6:00PM-6:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
8:00PM-8:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
Reservoir:
* tested 8:45PM
* 1.87 EC
* 6.05 PH (Reducing PH ~6.0)
* 73.22F
Lights:
* Gavita LEDs On 12-hours (10:00AM - 10:00PM)
** 10:00AM Lights On (100%)
* Gavita LEDs Off 12-hours (10:PM - 10:00AM)
* UV Bars On 8-hours (12:00PM - 8:00PM)
Air control:
70F-82F (79F AVG) (Lights On)
66F (Lights Off)
65%-70% (69% AVG) humidity (Lights On)
65%-80% RH (Lights Off)
~1353PPM CO2 (Lights On)
~680PPM CO2 (Lights Off)
Day 69 - April 19, 2021
Watering:
010:00AM-10:08AM
~0.25 gallons per pot
02:00PM-02:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
6:00PM-6:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
8:00PM-8:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
Reservoir:
* tested 8:45PM
* 1.49 EC
* 6.19 PH
* 73.94F
Lights:
* Gavita LEDs On 12-hours (10:00AM - 10:00PM)
** 10:00AM Lights On (100%)
* Gavita LEDs Off 12-hours (10:PM - 10:00AM)
* UV Bars On 8-hours (12:00PM - 8:00PM)
Air control:
70F-82F (79F AVG) (Lights On)
66F (Lights Off)
65%-75% (72% AVG) humidity (Lights On)
65%-80% RH (Lights Off)
~1269PPM CO2 (Lights On)
~720PPM CO2 (Lights Off)
Day 70 - April 20, 2021
Watering:
010:00AM-10:08AM
~0.25 gallons per pot
02:00PM-02:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
6:00PM-6:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
8:00PM-8:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
Reservoir:
* tested 8:45PM
* 1.87 EC
* 6.19 PH
* 73.40F
Lights:
* Gavita LEDs On 12-hours (10:00AM - 10:00PM)
** 10:00AM Lights On (100%)
* Gavita LEDs Off 12-hours (10:PM - 10:00AM)
* UV Bars On 8-hours (12:00PM - 8:00PM)
Air control:
70F-82F (79F AVG) (Lights On)
66F (Lights Off)
65%-75% (72% AVG) humidity (Lights On)
65%-80% RH (Lights Off)
~1260PPM CO2 (Lights On)
~700PPM CO2 (Lights Off)
Day 71 - April 21, 2021
Pushing on the envelope on humidity. Dumidifier should be ready for pickup mid next week at the lastest barring any delays. In a worst case scenario, I'll turn off co2 and exchange air in the room until I can get dehu setup.
Overall, been busy and haven't done much in the room. Just watching the growth, think we should be at the end of stretch, maybe one or two days to go. F7 has really been reaching up.
Also recived my Jack's Nutrients today. Will finish out this grow with Mills Nutrients and will give Jack's a go on next run. Pretty excited to compare.
Mixed 50-gallons nutrient solution:
** 40-gallons RO Water
** 10-gallons Tap Water (In replace of Cal-Mag+)
*** RO + TAP water base ~0.38 EC
** 0.5 ML Mills Nutrients Vitalize (per gallon)
** 10.0 ML Mills Nutrients Basis A & B (per gallon)
** 8.0 ML Mills Nutrients C-4 (per gallon)
** 1.73 EC
Watering:
010:00AM-10:08AM
~0.25 gallons per pot
02:00PM-02:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
6:00PM-6:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
8:00PM-8:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
Reservoir:
* tested 8:45PM
* 1.89 EC
* 6.26 PH
* 73.94F / 23.3
Lights:
* Gavita LEDs On 12-hours (10:00AM - 10:00PM)
** 10:00AM Lights On (100%)
* Gavita LEDs Off 12-hours (10:PM - 10:00AM)
* UV Bars On 8-hours (12:00PM - 8:00PM)
Air control:
70F-82F (79F AVG) (Lights On)
66F (Lights Off)
65%-75% (72% AVG) humidity (Lights On)
65%-80% RH (Lights Off)
~1288PPM CO2 (Lights On)
~710PPM CO2 (Lights Off)
Day 72 - April 22, 2021
Watering:
010:00AM-10:08AM
~0.25 gallons per pot
02:00PM-02:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
6:00PM-6:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
8:00PM-8:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
Reservoir:
* tested 8:45PM
* 1.89 EC
* 6.19 PH
* 73.94F
Lights:
* Gavita LEDs On 12-hours (10:00AM - 10:00PM)
** 10:00AM Lights On (100%)
* Gavita LEDs Off 12-hours (10:PM - 10:00AM)
* UV Bars On 8-hours (12:00PM - 8:00PM)
Air control:
70F-80F (78F AVG) (Lights On)
66F (Lights Off)
65%-75% (72% AVG) humidity (Lights On)
65%-80% RH (Lights Off)
~1325PPM CO2 (Lights On)
~660PPM CO2 (Lights Off)
Day 73 - April 23, 2021
Watering:
010:00AM-10:08AM
~0.25 gallons per pot
02:00PM-02:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
6:00PM-6:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
8:00PM-8:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
Reservoir:
* tested 9:30PM
* 1.77 EC
* 6.19 PH
* 73.58F
Lights:
* Gavita LEDs On 12-hours (10:00AM - 10:00PM)
** 10:00AM Lights On (100%)
* Gavita LEDs Off 12-hours (10:PM - 10:00AM)
* UV Bars On 8-hours (12:00PM - 8:00PM)
Air control:
70F-88F (75F AVG) (Lights On)
66F (Lights Off)
65%-75% (72% AVG) humidity (Lights On)
65%-80% RH (Lights Off)
~1300PPM CO2 (Lights On)
~730PPM CO2 (Lights Off)
Day 74 - April 24, 2021
Watering:
010:00AM-10:08AM
~0.25 gallons per pot
02:00PM-02:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
6:00PM-6:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
8:00PM-8:08PM
~0.25 gallons per pot
Reservoir:
* tested 9:30PM
* 1.77 EC
* 6.19 PH
* 73.94F
Lights:
* Gavita LEDs On 12-hours (10:00AM - 10:00PM)
** 10:00AM Lights On (100%)
* Gavita LEDs Off 12-hours (10:PM - 10:00AM)
* UV Bars On 8-hours (12:00PM - 8:00PM)
Air control:
70F-82F (79F AVG) (Lights On)
66F (Lights Off)
65%-75% (72% AVG) humidity (Lights On)
65%-80% RH (Lights Off)
~1350PPM CO2 (Lights On)
~680PPM CO2 (Lights Off)
Look like Zinc and Calcium deficiency?
Watering with 5.8/5.9pH, 2.06 EC (Runoff 5.8pH, 0.78 EC)
Few leaves had small nutrient burn on the tips earlier this week. Nutrient burn appears to have tapered off.
@GuerrillaNo_4, Thanks! This is my first grow in about 9-years now. I grew for a couple years previously. Cut a lot of corners back then though and caused myself a lot of headaches lol Trying to be proactive this time around and maintain a bit more control on all the variables.
@greenthumbartisan, im presently in my first hydro grow and am using a torus hydro perfect ph balancer drop in and I haven’t had to adjust ph AT ALL as of this point. Might be due to large res with single plant but they make an inline version as well you might want to look into and could still add to your system at this stage. Was skeptical of their claims and am still in veg but appears to be working! Your plants looks great!
@TheCode, Gotcha, yea I've saw quite a few designs using PVC and scrog on youtube. I also saw a video on one Mr Canucks channel and grabbed the scrog nets he used. (found size that worked perfect for my setup) From there just played around with PVC pips to build a proof of concept for my needs and once I had the measurements down, I built 8x of them. Like 10 years ago I tried growing under 6x 600 watt bulbs and grew some pretty big trees; however, I spent two months having to army man crawl through the room to do basic maintenance lol. That experience was my biggest motivation to try and build something more modular this time around.
Still a few quirks I'm running into with my setup, but will hopefully get smoother and smoother over time. 2G per watt will definitely be god .
This is my first attempt using LEDs. Been a long time since I've grown, but the tech seems to have come along way since then. So far I've been very impressed. Hoping to see a good harvest them.
As far as the pens, couldn't agree more. For the bloody cost, you would think maintenance would be easy. They're a thorn in the side. Every time I test, there's always the thought in the back of my mind, is this thing even accurate? lol
Would be nice to not have to worry about pH (feels like its the bulk of the work)
Good luck with your goal! hope you hit that 2G/w bar
@greenthumbartisan, Well especialy for newbies when they start this hobby all ph things can look difficult I mean knowing what pen to buy how to keep it working it looks the TDS meter is much easier to maintain and use because it's simple device, but with ph pen it lil bit annoying lol for me i change those cheap pens every year ,every new grow try to calibrate it and when im using it and finish using it put it in distilated water take it out and just put the cap back so idk cant really keep it really nice i dont have a fckn laboratory it;s little bit annoying .