Blue Ox

24 Jun 2021 I’ve been a bad grower for two straight weeks. I’m lucky that my Blue Ox is still alive! But she is, and she’s looking healthy, despite my neglect. I harvested my first plant over the last 3 days, and was finally able to move her to her new home. She was vastly overshadowed by her tent mate in the other tent, and now with ample space she looks like the cute, healthy short girl standing next to her cute, healthy tall friend. Their heights are so different that even by pushing the support net as low as I could on my Blueberry Muffin, and trying to lower it further just on her side, only a few of her branches are tall enough to be put through the spaces. Enough rambling. This isn’t a story, it’s a log. 😜 I increased her feeding stage to the later Mid-Bloom stage. I gave her 1 gallon of water chilled to 56.1F. I added CALiMAGic 5ml, FloraMicro 7.5ml, and FloraBloom 15ml. Initial pH was 5.9, I added pH UP 2ml which adjusted it to 6.3. The TDS going in was 939 ppm. The runoff pH was lower than normal at 5.6 (I think my infrequent watering is building up solids in the soil). The TDS runoff was 2615 ppm. Temperature was 81F, and humidity was 39%. With the older plant harvested I can concentrate on these two in the same stage of growth. 27 Jun 2021 My Blue Ox is doing well, but she is much smaller than her tent mate…. still. She seems to like her new surroundings, and I’m hoping that she’ll still stretch a little bit more. It’s weird writing that when all I wanted my first plant to do was to stop stretching. Anyway, she’s healthy and doing well. The smell in my tent now is lovely. You can already detect some fruity aromas. It’s lovely! I’m keeping with the mid-bloom nutrient level, so today I gave her a gallon of chilled water at 44.4F. I added: CALiMAGic 5ml, FloraMicro 7.5ml, and FloraBloom 15ml. The initial pH was 6.2 and I didn’t adjust it. Her runoff pH was much lower at 5.7, and so was that of her tent mate this time. The pH is normally a little higher, and the runoff more the same. I’ll note that for future feedings. The TDS going in was 814 ppm, and the runoff was 2908 ppm. The tent temperature was 84F, and the humidity was 47%. Unlike her tent mate, the small branches I took from her before switching to flower have not rooted yet, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed 🤞.