Gorilla Girl, Sweet Amnesia Haze, TPF1FV

Day 22 AM. The res was getting low in the morning just before lights off so I mixed a quick 5L up. Background EC 0.38 1/2 ml/L MC to 0.45 1/2 ml/L VK to 0.49 1/2 ml/L Mi to 0.55 1/2 ml/L Bl to 0.64 1/2 ml/L NC to 0.68 1/2 ml/L AF to 0.73 Added to res totalled 10L with combined EC of 0.81 PM. CL air temps 22-28c, roots 22-24, RH 48-56% Res EC had risen to 0.87 I decided to flush all 6 plants in the tent to give them a reset but with feed instead of plain water, so not to make too dramatic a change in the root zone. An 18L mix to give 3L to each plant. The feed levels were raised as a precaution to make sure the plants wouldn't suffer any hunger from the flush if they didn't need the flush. Background EC 0.39 3/4 ml/L MC to 0.48 3/4 ml/L VK to 0.51 3/4 ml/L Mi to 0.6 3/4 ml/L Bl to 0.72 3/4 ml/L NC to 0.81 1/2 ml/L AF to 0.86 The AF was kept at 1/2 ml/L as I suspected the EC in the compost would be high, hence the reason for the reset. The 3L was given to each plant very slowly through a 300ml syringe and gave a run off of roughly 1.8L each. This also expanded the root balls back to the pot edges. GG run off 1.6 EC SAH run off 1.29 EC TP run off 1.49 EC So looking at the run off EC I'm glad I gave them a flush when I did before running into lockout problems. SAH had been using the nutes up slightly better than the others. I'd made some raised run off racks earlier in the grow for sliding the saucers out but I removed them in favour of having the pots directly on the floor for heat from the underfloor electric blanket. Getting the run off rack under the plants was easy enough. I just used the one rack and pushed each pot in turn far enough back to sit the rack in front, lifted the plant forward onto it, then slid the whole lot back so I could slide the saucer underneath and back out when full. Reverse order to remove the rack and move on to the next plant. This was a chore for 6 plants attached to drippers and I was tempted to get lazy and put all the racks back in, leaving them in place for next time. But the girls had been happy with their pots sat directly on the floor on the leccy blanket so that's where they stayed and it saved me having to turn the Inkbird up more for the blanket. I turned the red up further on the LED to total 135w. Day 23 AM. EC in res 0.87 There was no need to top up the res at this time as the pots were still soaked from the flush, but I decided to add another 10L in advance in case work gets in the way. It's been a bit of a juggle between trying not to add too much in case I need to change it, and making sure there's enough in there in case I get called out for work at short notice. All in all though these Blumats have been a saviour for when I did get called out. Background EC 0.39 3/4 ml/L MC to 0.47 3/4 ml/L VK to 0.5 3/4 ml/L Mi to 0.6 3/4 ml/L Bl to 0.72 3/4 ml/L NC to 0.8 1/2 ml/L AF to 0.84 Added to res for a total of 18L and combined EC of 0.86 PM. CL air temps 20-27C, roots 15-23, RH 47-63% EC in res had risen to 0.93 Notice the lights off root temps of 15? lol I made a major feck up the night before when adjusting the LED wattage. There's no room to plug my watt meter in the 4 gang extention so I have to unplug the tube heater thermostatic plug every time I need to use the watt meter. Forgot to plug the thermostat back in afterwards in didn't I lol. I was a bit worried about hermies so I checked for a few days and there were none. It would have been a shame if they did throw some out because I'd done everything I could possibly think of to keep them de stressed throughout the grow. While it was still unplugged I plugged the meter back in and adjusted the far red some more while keeping the blue the same, taking the total LED wattage up to 145w. So a total wattage of 460w at this stage including the CMH. Day 24. CL air temps 22-28C, roots 22-23, RH 50-62% Res EC 0.92 Mixed up a 20L feed. Background EC 0.4 (sat overnight). 1ml/L MC to 0.51 1ml/L VK to 0.56 1ml/L Mi to 0.7 1ml/L Bl to 0.89 1ml/L NC to 0.96 1/2 ml/L AF to 1 Added to res for a total of 22L, combined EC 0.97 Since the root balls had expanded back to the pot sides after their flush I decided they hadn't been getting enough water prior to that and opened up the Blumat adjusters by one notch on each plant. I turned the far red on the LED the rest of the way up and this read 148w on the watt meter combined with the blue. Total wattage in the tent 463w. Day 25. CL air temps 22-28C, roots 22-24, RH 45-59% Res EC 1 Day 26. CL air temps 22-27C, roots 23-24, RH 48-62% Res EC 1 There were 7.5L remaining in the res so all 6 plants had drank 14.5L between them in 2 days. Each plant averaging 1.2L each per day. This is what they'd be getting in 11.4L fabrics hand watered. These are only 7.6L filled to less than 7. I had already moved over to the idea of keeping the pots more moist between waterings but these Blumats have really hit it home to me. I think most of the previous problems with my growing have been letting them dry out too much in between and then them showing signs of over watering from the shock of being too dry, then too wet. They weren't too wet at all, they were too dry in between. 20L mix, background EC 0.38 (sat a few hours). 1ml/L MC to 0.49 1ml/L VK to 0.53 1ml/L Mi to 0.66 1ml/L Bl to 0.83 1ml/L NC to 0.91 3/4 ml/L AF to 0.98 Added to res for a total of 27.5L, combined EC of 1 I turned the led blue up to 160w, total 475w in the tent. Day 27. CL air temps 23-29C, roots 23-25, RH 49-63% Res EC had risen to 1.1 I started taking leaves for a slow steady defol, one from the middle of each plant each day or 2nd day to allow more light in. Day 28. CL air temps 23-29C, roots 24-25, RH 50-65% Res EC settled and still at 1.1 The LED blue was notched up some more to 171w, totalling 486 tent wattage. The nearest tops to the LED on the TPFV were 20" and 21" so I super cropped them both (after taking the pics) and that left another close top 22" away. I didn't wanna super crop this one just yet and cause her too much stress. The stems were rock solid and took a fair bit of pressure to flatten them. I flattened them for a good inch and a half so the bend would be smooth and not split them. They stayed put nicely, no growing back upwards.