Amok’s KushXL auto first grow. Daily ups

Day 43: Welcome to the first day of the second week of flower. Well at least one is flowering nicely! 🤪I am still not sure what to do about River, she doesn’t seem too light stressed being so much closer to the light the Clara. But Clara literally cannot handle anymore light with out burning up :( I did try and LST River again today as best as I could with what little room I have so we will see I guess. Making some mid flower nutrient recipe today to top off the early bloom recipe that is already in the reservoir. I am really hoping the lack of nitrogen doesn’t hurt River but rather pushes her to actually stop stretching and flower up. Anyone have any concerns with this approach? Could I be hurting my potential yield? Other than all that I think everything is going about as good as it can. Cheers! Day 44: Same ol’ same ol’. Still in stretch city with River. The tallest branches I bent over are already taken over and surpassed from where they where before I bent them over by other branches. This is getting really frustrating. She has not shown any signs of nitrogen deficiency yet after cutting it out of her diet. At this point though it looks like I may have rearrange the upper part of my tent to try and raise the lights soon. I was really hoping to not have to do that. I checked in on the plants before lights out yesterday and when I do I usually check the reservoir for PH level. When I did it this time it was at 4.57PH!!! Brought it back up to 5.9ish before the last feeding last night. Checked again this morning and it was about 5.4 so once again I brought it back to 5.9ish. Hopefully it will level out and stabilize now. My reservoir also seems a lot cloudier than previously. Not sure why it isn’t bacteria as it is fresh and only a few days old and sterilized with H2O2. I am thinking it might be the terpinator I am using. I started adding a lot more to the recipe now that we are in flower. Anyone else experience this with terminator in a reservoir? So anyway that’s about it for today. I might just go climb that beanstalk to the clouds that is River and see if I can’t find a golden egg. Cheers! Day 45: Good morning all! So quick update on each plant first I suppose. Well River is still stretching a little seems like it might have slowed down some at least. She is not putting on an inch plus every night now. Flower sights seem to be tightening up a bit more as well. Hopefully this is it and she will really start producing flower now. Fingers crossed. Clara is still trucking’ along and her flowers are slowly getting bigger. I tried to defoliate her a bit more to open up some air and to get some more light penetration to the lower flower sites yesterday. But both are relatively healthy and growing. All good things. Now for my reservoir… ugh! It has gotten a bit more cloudy today. Also the PH was spiked to 6.55 after adjusting it yesterday morning to 5.9. I readjusted again this morning to 5.8 and added my H2O2 to the reservoir per my normal routine for sterilization. I still think it is all that terpinator they tell you to use on the bottle. Next reservoir refill I am not going to add any and see what happens. If it is not the terpinator. Then I will cut out the yucca as that is just a setting agent and see if that is the culprit. I suppose if it’s not neither of those then it could be bacteria, however, I am not seeing any slimes film or any smell. But as we head into mid week of week two of flower, I think everything is going better than not. So happy farming everyone and good luck with your gardens! Day 46: I actually think river is going into full flower finally! She already needs a good haircut and trim. I think I will wait until she is flowering a bit more though. Clara is still chugging along and doing fairly well. Noticing a bit more light burn but there is nothing I can do about right now since River is doing good. I will just remove any burnt leaves. But it has been weird weather and getting a bit warm in my tent as well, so that might be a factor as well. Now for my reservoir… that has some crazy sediment or something in the bottom even with my power head keeping everything else really mixed up. I am now pretty sure it is the terpinator. I am going to wait until my 5:00pm feeding and make some more flowering recipe nutrients and this time leave out the terpinator. Last thing I want to do is have to clean out my reservoir every 2-3 days because of it. Defeats the purpose of having a reservoir and auto feeding. I will report on how it looks in a few days if not start of week 3 of flower. If anyone has any comments or concerns please let me know. I am trying to learn and research in my own but having some feedback is always a good thing. Cheers all and happy farming! Day 47: Good morning all! Nothing much new or exciting today to report. River is still stretching ever so slightly. I have pictures from my cam 8 hours apart from overnight to see just how much. Clara is still packing on the flower, even though I feel it is slow. That might be due to me having to average out the nutrients between a plant stretching and one in full flower mode. Now that I have went to early-mid bloom nutrient recipe, you can see the lack of Nitrogen in River, as well as some light stress. So last night I had to empty and clean the reservoir again. It seemed that only after like 2-3 days it got super cloudy and slimy. I removed the terpinator from my mix and we will see how it looks in a few days. I mean does it even make sense any plants need 20ml per gallon of that stuff? Seems excessive. I have to make another 6 or so gallons of nutrient recipe today sometime as I ran out of time last night before I fell asleep. 🤪 I did add in my Kessil H80 Flora Nova little refugium light perched just above and to the side of Clara. That will give her some UV and IR. Or it should in theory. It was really good at growing macro algae into giant balls. 🤓 Time will tell. Again good folks, have a great day and grow on! Day 48: I am getting so stressed at River, she just won’t stop growing and has officially overgrown my space. No matter what I do to her she just won’t quit. I have no place to bend the tallest branches, but the way she is growing all the branches are going to hit the lights soon. I cannot raise the light any higher the ratchet straps are maxed out and there is no room at the top anyway with my filter in the tent. So basically I am at a loss here. Clara is putting on weight but very slowly. She is starting to really get frosty now though which is cool to see. But she isn’t getting as much light as she should be because of River! So far my terroir has maintained its clarity and cleanliness without that nasty terpinator in it. I will still feed terpinator. But, I think I will only do it on the last top up of the reservoir before I am scheduled to clean it anyway within 2-3 days. Well that’s all I got today folks. Have a great day! Day 49: So yesterday afternoon I had to clean my tents “attic”. I took all electronics, power strip, timers, etc. out of the top of my tent space and moved them outside. This allowed me to get my light up another 8 inches or so. River keeps growing and growing. If you look at the pics of her does she not look like she is in flower mode? This is the only reason I haven’t gone to 12/12. Clara is still flowering well, even though it isn’t as fast as I would have hoped. Checked my reservoir this morning as I always do, and it is still clear and the PH rise over the last day was minimal. So after the last 2-3 days I can say the turpinator was definitely the culprit. We close out week 2 of flower and that is all I have for this morning. Good day all!