Blue Ox

22 Jul 2021 Today starts week 15, and I started to flush her with properly pH’ed chilled water in order to harvest her on time. I must say that I was a little shocked after looking in on my plants today. My Blue Ox is developing some serious leaf issues! About 3 or 4 of the colas are showing some problems that are making the tips brittle and crisp which break the moment you touch them. This wasn’t a problem just a few days ago, and I must say that I’m concerned about the rapid onset. If I were still seeing human patients, I would be very worried! However, she’s just a plant, and I hope I can find the cause of the problem and fix it! Her buds still look lovely, and it appears that the problem is only affecting her larger leaves. Going to do some research to determine the possible causes and find solutions for the problem. Today, she just got fresh water, chilled to 59F with an initial pH if 8.2. I added 13 gtts, roughly 1.25ml of pH DOWN which adjusted it to 6.7. The TDS going in was 80 ppm. Runoff pH was 5.9, and TDS runoff was 1920 ppm. So my starting point is 1920. Hopefully that goes down quickly. I’ll take some pics of her trichomes and post them in the upcoming days. Hopefully everything gets better and goes well. 25 Jul 2021 This is a late entry because I went out of town for a day trip on feeding day and didn’t have a chance to record or upload my entry till now. I’m not happy with how she’s been looking lately, and she doesn’t seem to be improving. Her buds still look fine, but many of her leaves are looking awful! I continued to flush her with properly pH’ed chilled water in order to prepare her for harvest. On the 25th I gave her a gallon of water chilled to 45.3F that had an initial pH of 7.8. I added pH DOWN 15 gtts (1.5ml), which adjusted the pH to 6.8. TDS going in was 69 ppm. Runoff pH was 6.2, and TDS runoff was 1495 ppm. The temperature in the tent was 82F, and humidity was 54%. 27 Jul 2021 Today I’ve been playing catch up with my logs. I wrote the log for the 25th earlier today, then fed my plants again, now I’m writing this log hours upon hours later. I believe I found the cause of my leaf issue. Old age! Not really, but really. I think the problem is that she’s much farther along than I thought she was, and the proof is in her trichomes!! I’ve been flushing her this entire week, and her levels are coming down handsomely. When I checked out the trichome pics I realized that she is way ready for harvest right now! The leaf issue is the normal end of life stage for some. That’s why it seems to be happening rapidly. It started when I started flushing her, so I guess she’s showing her age more since all her nutrients were cut off, and I’ve been flushing out any residuals in the soil. 🤷‍♂️ Oh well. Today my Blue Ox received a gallon of water chilled to 56.3F with an initial pH of 8.3. I added 15 gtts (1.5ml) of pH DOWN which adjusted the pH to 6.6. The TDS going in was 74 ppm. Runoff pH was 6.2, and the TDS runoff was 1134 ppm. So far, my initial flush runoff was 1920 ppm. Flush #2, TDS runoff was 1495 ppm, for a reduction of 425 ppm. Flush #3, TDS runoff was 1134 ppm, for a reduction of 361 ppm. Little by little, but as soon as she gets down far enough I’m going to harvest her! Temperature in the tent today was 82F, and the humidity was 45%. I’m going to harvest her tent mate tomorrow, so soon she’ll have the whole tent to herself.