Hey Guys!
Here goes some updates :
During this 4th week i decided to do a measurement of the runoff ph, that too my surprise was WAYYYY to low. in between 4.5 and 5. Of course being a noobie I went a little crazy, going through the internet for some information.
Don't get me wrong, plants looks amazing, especially after the low stress training done this week. It's really thriving and building up all those potential bud places, still I'm picky and the ph bothered me, so besides there being big number of variables to this I went straight to the source and contact Advance nutrients growers support where I got amazing reply and guidance.
Seems like instructed by them I was getting too little run off, even though I'm feeding nutes around 1/4 of the dosage recommended, I should be getting about 10 to 20 % runoff per feed to get all those extra salts and minerals out of the medium avoiding high concentration which will lead to nutrients lockup. I don't think I'm there yet as plant seems to be doing very well but what do I know, I don't have much to compare with besides of a few grows I follow here.
Nevertheless I flushed the medium a little, and a few hours later I could read a little higher PH, almost reaching 5. Hopefully i can rise it to 5.5 at least in the next couple of days.
Another hassle was that I broke an Hulkberry Auto I was growing, FU*#ing broke my heart by I learn the lesson, dont be anxious, let your babies grow to at least 15 cm, then train them, otherwise, it might crack! I repotted a new Hulkberry though :D
For the good side of thing is that the LST on this plant is looking AWESOME! you can really see her opening up, letting all that light in and multiple colas seems to on its way.
I started of slow, and doing retouches every other day, nothing major, just little tweaks. Since Im growing maybe a plant to many in this grow space its gonna be important to educate the ladies to take the most out of it.
I did some minor defoliation on some bigger leaves covering big areas or possible bud areas of the plant.
Feeding Schedule for this week, but as you have read, we are flushing some to raise the soil PH to a comfortable level:
Late Vegetive Stage
Low stress Training
13th April to 23th April (Day 20 to day 30)
1.5ml/L - Grow / Micro / Bloom
1ml/L - B52 / Bud Candy
0,3ml/ - Biobizz CalMag
Watered 1 liter 14th April
Watered 1,5 liter 18th April (ph runoff 4.5/5)
20th April flushing to raise PH
(4 Weeks)
Any advices on this would be greatly appreciated :D
@GMSgrows, Indeed! cannot complain. Bought a fancy bluelab ppm pen to nail the feeding also :). Im super curious how much im going to get. been checking yours also. Super nice mate!