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@GrowwUp, thanks. Still having some problems but the water hardener is working great.

@WishiFishi, no worries. I deal with water chemistry at work, and I knew this water had high sodium, but I thought it would be a long term soil structure problem and not an immediate growing problem. Sodium isn’t normally an issue but the ratio is so off in this water that it prevents the plants from accessing Ca, Mg and K all of which are crucial. Anyway, should have the water sorted in a day or two and hopefully that will fix things. Good luck with your growing and thanks for the comment...always learning means rethinking things sometimes.

@Northern_Ent, ohhh, that makes sense! I'm still kind of new to growing, but I thought I'd try to help 😅

@WishiFishi, K thanks. It relates back to too much sodium which has messed up the cation ratios.

@NorthernChemist, hi and yes it looks to be a female. I’ll start force flowering all the photos soon. My side by side comparison last year on my two Wonder Pies showed that forcing clearly produced better buds. Flowers maturing under stronger light beats longer veg period.

@GrowwUp, not really looking much better yet but at least most of the cause has been found and fixed. Too much sodium was preventing the plants from accessing the other cations (Ca, Mg and K). Now have a way to harden the water by exchanging Na for Ca and Mg. And I stopped using barley sprouts for now as those are high K and best used later. Still dangerously low overnight temps aren’t helping but at least the cation imbalance has been fixed.