Amok’s KushXL auto first grow. Daily ups

Day 50: Welcome folks to what I am going to call officially week 1 of flower for River, and week 3 for Clara. River still slow to really flower but she definitely is. She seems really healthy and with super thick stalks and branches. If she decides to really flower I have a feeling they are going to be massive. Clara is awesome, even though I am probably light stressing her a bit still. I am going to make another diffuser and check the intensity later this afternoon. Yesterday afternoon I made 6 gallons of mid bloom nutrient recipe and added terpinator back into it. I also cut out all the grow nutrients from my GH trio lineup. Now I always wait a good 15-20 minutes before checking and adjust final PH when making solution. Then I wait again and keep it up until it is perfect. I did all that yesterday. PH of the reservoir was at 6.04 before I added the new mix at a PH of 5.82. However this morning I think due to the terminator my reservoir was super cloudy (after less than 24hrs) and had a PH drop down to 5.34… 😢 what gives here? I always make sure it is clean and always top off my H2O2 every 2 days or so. I am not super happy with this product at the recommended dosage they ask for. Seems like major overkill. Next grow I have been thinking of trying Advanced Nutrient line, just because it sounds really easy in Coco and keeps a good PH for a long while. That Kessil H80 refugium light I added is totally working. I can see even fan leaves mid to below the canopy that should not have trichomes on them have them only in the spot where that light gets through and almost concentrated on a certain spot. It is cool to see. I could not for the life of me get a picture but I will try harder later this afternoon. Other than all that rambling I just did, I will be hands off (but not eyes off) the garden today. Have a fab day all! Day 51: Nothing new to report from yesterday other than my killer hangover today. Everything seems to be trucking along as best as it can over here. Apparently I take really crappy pictures when I am hungover. River is still a monster pheno, and the colas stems are as thick as bic pens. Clara seems to maybe have stalled out or bud growth just isn’t as fast for me. Probably from her being so crowded and light stressed. I will be turning the lights down a bit today. Checked PH and it was at 6.34 so all I have done today and yesterday was adjust the mad PH swings that terpinator seems to induce in my reservoir. Enjoy! Lol Day 52: Good morning all. So yesterday was all hands off except for PH stuff for the reservoir. Today I need to clean and disinfect my reservoir after my next feeding. Should be pretty much empty after that. Just to clarify I only have to clean it because of the terpinator I put in on my last too up. That stuff makes a feed our very unhappy and gross. I will be filling it with a mid flower nutrient recipe and cutting way back on cal mag as I think part of Claras problem is to much for her stage right now. Still trying to keep the balance for both plants. River is about two weeks behind Clara. But since they both get fed out of the same reservoir I have to find a balanced diet for both. Been a learning experience for my first grow. That being said I assumed I wouldn’t have this problem this bad since I planted the same strain from the same breeder at the same time and did everything the exact same for both. The differences in these phenos is astounding. River is literally 3 times bigger than Clara and looks very Sativa to me. Any who… As I said earlier today is reservoir and nutrient day but little else. Oh one last thing. I just raised my lights by a good 8 inches plus last week, River is already as close to the lights as she was before I moved them. 😜🤓 Have a good day peeps! Day 53: So woke up checked in garden like usual, yup just like in my garden picture there is my fan that apparently had fallen in the night on River. 😢 I am pretty sure she will be fine, just sucks. Besides that River is still growing like crazy and flowering at her own damn pace. But she seems to be liking everything I give her and is super resilient, as we can attest to by the fan on her head. Clara is doing all she can considering she is a foot shorter and getting really crowded. I have been keeping rivers rogue arms away from her as best as I can. But other than those heat it cal mag spots on some leaves she is trucking along just fine. I went to inspect some flower sites for any anomalies l, and accidentally full on grabbed a flower. I can now tell you she is already ultra sticky and smelling great. I cannot pick out any real defining smells yet, as she pretty much just smells like normal so far. Cleaned my pumps and reservoir yesterday and checked it this morning. Without the terpinator in it, it is again nice and clear and holding a steady PH. With the caveat of the known PH creep over time. She went from 5.8-5.9 yesterday to 6.01. So that is excellent. Dropped my feeding times by 20ish seconds yesterday as well. I noticed I was getting way more run-off than needed. This also should allow me to go a lot longer without topping up and saving me some money. Well I have a busy day today with having a show tonight and work. So, that’s all I got today folks! Have an excellent day/night and we will update again tomorrow. Day 54: I didn’t really do much at all yesterday. Maybe took a lollipop off here and there from River. Tucked some leaves and pruned a couple leaves. Checked reservoir this morning and it was at 6.31 PH. I lowered that down to 5.85 and left it. I will probably make some nutrients this after noon just to keep the reservoir full. River has once again grown into ALL of her space allotted. She is about 3-4 inches from the Spider Farmer SF-4000. I’m just going to let her hit the light at this point, as I have no where to bend any branches until Clara is finished. Speaking of Clara… I added a few pictures of a couple leaves, I thought it might be light stress, and I guess it still could be. Especially with that Kessil H80 on her. But anyone else I’ve any ideas? My PH has been stellar between 5.8 and highest 6.3. I feed 5 times a day for a minute each. Might be overkill but I know I am getting plenty of runoff. They are in 70/30 Coco/Perl with a light schedule of 20/4. I have not tested runoff as I am not super concerned about it with all the run off I have. I am feeding an EC of anywhere from 1200 - 1300 depending on what I feel they are craving and or need. I can try turning both light intensities down today and see if it helps and either way if it is a nutrient issue I have read that turning the lights down a bit can help slow an problems and give you more time to fix. Ok this is a long post. Thanks for reading and visiting my diary have an awesome day! Day 55: Another mostly hands off and boring day yesterday and today. River seems to have stopped just a few inches from the lights but the other flower sites are catching up to those. She is flowering a bit more slowly as far as new flower growth a bit slower than Clara did it seems, but honestly at this point it is hard to say for sure. Clara is still getting more spots on her leaves. But, she is still packing in the flower and some flower sites are starting to stack up. She is definitely frosty and the smell is getting a bit more pungent. It quickly fills the entire basement once I open up a tent flap. All new growth in her is lookin forestry good though. I did forget to try and turn down the lights yesterday, but I will try to remember to do that today and see if that helps. As for the reservoir I topped it off with 6 gallons of all flowering nutrients recipe. It is starting to get a bit cloudy today but the PH was at 6.1 so I left it for now. Either today or tomorrow I will make a batch of flowering nutrients with terpinator (got a bunch left). I will have to clean my reservoir after that is all used up. 😢 Considering everything I learned and experimented with I still feel everything is going as best as it can for now. Especially with my two completely different phenos of the supposedly same plant. Again, next run I think I will just run one plant and fill the tent with that. Ok farmers have a great day and enjoy! Day 56: Good morning and welcome to the last day of week 1 flower for River and week 3 for Clara. So not a whole lot going on yesterday since I wasn’t home to pester my plants. Both still chugging along and doing their thing. Ended up finally turning my main lights down yesterday before I left from 80% to 70%. And my Kessil from 100% to 50% to see if I can figure out if the leaf discoloration on Clara is light/heat stress or whatever. I will be posting some pics of them in a question thread today hopefully. River seems to have stopped stretching a bit or at least it looks that way lol. She just won’t give up. Lol. But she is definitely going to produce some huge colas if the lights don’t fit her first since she is only a few inches away on quit a few flower sites. My reservoir is near empty but holding a nice 6.0PH. I will be doing one last 6 gallon top off today with terpinator added since it is due for a cleaning anyway. We talk to you all tomorrow for a new week! Cheers!🥃