First try 7-2-2021

Week 8 was a series of near disasters. First I ran out of Grow Big hydro so had to rely on the fox farm Grow Big soil version I had left over. I did not notice the soil version has 6 parts nitrogen, vs 2 for hydro. It spiked the nitrogen level and caused sporadic leaf curling, dark green leaves, and tip burning with some faint leaf tip yellowing as noted in photos above. Noticed it 3 days into the week’s latest water change, so took immediate action to dump the reservoir water and start over with just the big bloom and tiger bloom and beastie bloom. My ppm in this week’s stats reflects this heavy nitro level in the water mix at start of week, but after change out, ppm is at 514. In midweek I reduced the mix to 6 teaspoons of big bloom and 6 tsps. Tiger bloom in 5 gallons water (about 1/2 strength), plus bestie blooms 1/2 strength (1 tsp.) vs. Hydro chart recommended levels from Fox Farm for week 8. This has been in the system four days now so hope the curling abates. Crisis #2: upped the light hours to 18 after reading that auto flower strains don’t need to use 12/12 to initiate flowering, and could increase bloom yield with longer photo on periods but i did not see any warning about changing from 12 hours back to 18 during flowering as a risk to stimulate return to vegging. That may be the cause of the leaf curling too, and seemed to me the leaf growth was overtaking blooming growth as well as the curling, so I went back to 12/12 to make sure the weird smooth leaf edges and strange twists in new leaves does not progress, but i have seen some more today anyway. So the 12/12 started back just one day ago, and articles I read suggest the return to shorter light periods will resume the flowering mode if it is a re-veg issue. Crisis #3. Then today the water pump decided to stop spinning, so took all day to fix. Required running the pump on its side to clear an air block inside the housing apparently. Meanwhile she started to wilt from lack of hydration, but only a 6 hour gap before I caught it, so hopefully there is no permanent root and leaf damage. Looked like the blooms took a hit as they are dull and less puffy and smelly today as well. Will update this entry once she is back on track, I hope that’s the end of the drama!