Amok’s KushXL auto first grow. Daily ups

Day 36: The first official week of flower for me. Super excited and proud I have made it this far. We are just about half way there. So yesterday afternoon was pretty much hands off the plants except for just a bit of defoliation. I did make my first true early flower nutrient recipe and used that to top up the reservoir. So that was a bit exciting 🤓 The PH in the reservoir dropped some overnight so I raised that back up to 5.9-6.0 this morning. But today should be another autopilot day and waiting on River to start her flowering cycle a bit more. One question I do have is when to setup the second 6” scrog net? I feel I should wait a bit more to see how far they do stretch in the next week. Any recommendations are appreciated. Have a good day and may all your gardens be fruitful. Day 37: So, yesterday I did a bit more defoliation, as these plants are dense and bushy as heck! I also setup my second Scott net now. I figured it wouldn’t hurt to have it in place if I need it. I am still waiting on better signs of flower for River and hoping her getting some flowering nutrients might help force her to come along and join Clara a bit faster. However, I am seeing more and more pistils everyday just not as fast as Clara. Checked my reservoir this morning as I always do and it went up to about 6.15PH. I am going to leave it there today. I will probably need to make some more nutrients and clean out my reservoir tomorrow. I also raised my lights by about 1-2% late last night. I will need to keep an eye on this today and tomorrow. According to my phone app they are only at about 420ish ppfd. Which is a bit low for late veg and flip. I m hoping to slowly increase them to about 700 ppfd by the end of this week or early next if they can handle it with these monster lights I have in such a small space. Goal is about 800 if possible or as high as they can go. I am running a CO2 bag just about 6” above them. I plan on not touching anything in the garden today and just letting it do it’s own thing and hope I can actually keep my hands off. I feel they are a bit stressed and droopy from my messing with them everyday. Day 38: So OMFG these plants grew over 3 inches from yesterday afternoon to this morning. Talk about stretch. And, this kush was one of the smaller strains they had. I put my scrog net up 2 days ago at a height I didn’t think they would reach until the end of the week. But they are already starting to surpass the net. If they are stretching like this my nutrient mix I’m making today I will have to add a tad bit more nitrogen to it to support the growth. I also had to raise my lights as far as I could. If they get any taller I might have to redo my tent to uncluttered the top in order to get my lights up another foot. Not a bad problem to have I guess. River still is not in full on flower mode but getting closer and closer it looks like. She is going to be about two weeks behind Clara at this point. That being said today is reservoir cleaning and disinfecting day, my least favorite garden chore. I will probably make 12 gallons today. But I will say that now that I know how often and when to add H2O2 to the reservoir I can go a week or two without any ick in it. So to recap today is just maintenance with nutrients and reservoir and maybe raising my second net. Autopilot for the rest. Day 39: Ok so… This stretch has got me a bit worried as I am quickly running out of space . I mean it isn’t a bad problem to be in, but, I also don’t want to burn the tips of my plants either. I think my plants have been stretching for at least 2 weeks I am hoping they are done in a week at least. It also is starting to make no sense in trying to get individual plant pictures any more as it just looks like on big jungle in there anyway. I was able to manage to keep my hands off the plants for the most part yesterday and this morning. It seems this stage is going to be mostly on auto and adjusting my reservoir PH when needed. This morning it was a bit low so I raised back up to 5.9. But overall I’m pretty happy with the results so far, being we are only half way through week one of flower. A quick question I do have is considering these are autos, should I still defoliate this canopy a lot more? Seems really dense to me. It is really hard to also get to the back of the tent to do any pruning or maintenance. Cheers! Day 40: Well this morning when I went to check on the garden just with the 4 hours of dark and maybe an hour before lights off when I last checked the plants they had on average about an inch more growth. River is stretching the most and really showing her Sativa side. I had to tuck her leaves and LST a few flower sites down a bit AGAIN. Last night I also did a bit more defoliation from the bottom up. I started getting any new growth off from below the canopy and tried to work my way up each flower site. It must have been a good 5-10% off each plant again. Of course you can’t even tell from the pictures, but, the airflow is much better now. Checked the PH of my reservoir this morning. It was sitting at 6.09 so I left it to drift up to 6.2ish before I PH down it. I did add 3ml per gallon of H2O2 to keep it sterile. Basically another day in the books and looking to be about a month or so left of flowering on Clara at the very least. River is another story (or Song) lol 🤓reference. Cheers all and happy farming! Day 41: Nothing new to report really. Found some rust colored spots on a few leaves. I removed them and raised the light as far as I could. I think it is mostly light burn maybe a bit calmag issue. I did have to pull the reservoir and disinfect it. I found some black ick in the bottom. Making early flower bites now about 12 gallons worth. And we will see how it goes from there. Day 42: Well River is still stretching and now I am truly worried she is going to be to big for my setup. She looks like she should just start bursting forth flower any day but she hasn’t packed on any weight yet. Clara is chugging along doing her thing as well. She needs more flower nutrients but River doesn’t so it’s sort of a compromise between the two. For these being supposedly the exact same strain from the same pack, there is a wild difference between the two. PH in the reservoir was at 5.97 so I left it alone. Other than that please let River stop stretching and flower more, please.