micro 30x30 grow RQS Bluematic

A week after I started the germination, the plant looks good and healthy (at least as far as I can tell :)). I started with a more proper watering with a root stimulator. In the middle of the week, several small spots appeared on the leaves. My guess was too much of nutes, since the royalmix substrate ca be a little too hot for the young plant. I gave it a small flush with power roots nutes only. If someone can tell, what it really is, let me know please :)

The plant still looks pretty ok :). I would like to see some growth in the following days, so I can start with the LST asap and the plant would still have some time to get bushy before the flowering starts. The spots from the last week are still there, but it seems there are no new problems appearing. I will probably stick with just power root nutes for the royalmix until the first weeks of the flowering. Day 17 update: She reached 10cm in height, so I started with the LST. Hope I managed not to stress her too much :).

I was adjusting the LST today and accidentaly cracked one of the side branches right at the stem a little. Hope she will recover, because the rest of the plant looks fine. Started a question if I should keep the branch and wait for it to recover, or if I should just remove it to make it easier for the plant. Any tips welcomed :) https://growdiaries.com/grow-questions/39657-will-the-branch-recover-from-a-crack

The snapped branch from the last week seems to be healing itself pretty fine, no signs of the stress on the top of the branch :) It is almost a week since she started to show pistils so I started to feed her also with the flowering nutes. She went waaay too crazy with her flowering stretch. She made 15cm (doubled) in one week and I hope it is going to slow down, because there is not much space left :/. I have done some research, which suggests she should get cca double in size with the flowering stretch (which she already did), so I hope that was all she had predestined. day 34 update: The plant was still stretching too much, so I had to LST her hard. I have tied down more branches and also created a scrog-like net to manage the overall height. Should be already fine, if she stops growing soon. I have also removed few leaves from the bottom, because they were not getting enough light and I also hoped to stress her a little to stop the growth for a short while. I will probably take some more leaves later, when she settles a little.

Well, she just won't stop stretchig... Still needs a lot of bending to keep her low. The main stem is now cca 62cm long and according to the RQS strain info, it should go max cca 10cm further even without the training. Some of the leaves also started to get their tips yellow looking like a light stress or a nutes deficiency. I have checked some other diaries with this strain and this yellowing is pretty common in this stage and shouldn't get much worse. Just to not underestimate it, I have performed some more bending to get the tops lower and added a green sensation nute to the watering a week or two earlier. Also did some more defoliation on the lowest levels hoping again to stress her a little more and slow the growth.

Finally, she is done with the aggressive stretching. Some of the stems were almost broken from all the bending, but she does not seem to care that much. Still trying to figure out, why some of the leaves keep getting yellow. Found out my run-off PH is pretty high, so I started to PHing my water with the lemon kick to 6.0. Also did one flush by just the PH adjusted water to dissolve any salts built up in the soil.

This week, she only grew a few centimeters in height and finally started to focus on the buds :). However, some leaves are not only yellowing, but also some spots have appeared. Still trying to figure out, what to do about that. Day 54 update: after some other research, I believe nutrient burn could be the reason of my yellowing leaves, so I only did 1 plain watering with just a PH adjustment and will be reducing the nutrient amount by half. Also did (hopefully) last small LST, some of the buds were already very close to the fan.

Nothing much to say this week :). Continuing to feed just a half of the nutes in a hope that the leaves were dying because of a nutrient burn. Unfortunately, there is already too many yellow leaves from the previous problems and some leaves dying in this stage of flowering is kind of normal, it is hard to say, whether its helping or not :/. I will have to try this approach from the start next time I guess :). Anyway, the buds are still getting bigger, so I can still hope to have som decent harvest at the end. We may see the final results in just a few weeks I guess.

Little bit gave up on trying to fix the leaves problem. Hard to say what could be the reason, but the spots and yellowness are not spreading that much. Guess I can't hope for more in this stage :). Buds are getting denser and the plant could be ready for harvest in cca 2 weeks. At least according the RQS data :)

Some pistils are getting brown, trichomes still clear to milky. She still has some time to go. Lot of yellow leaves, but at least the spread of the yellowness has slowed down and no more leaves are falling. Looking forward to the harvest :). edit: started flushing

Continuing with the flushing. Some of the trichomes are clear, but lot of them are already milky/amber, so I guess she is getting ready. Will update with the harvest week soon I guess :).

So far I have only removed the biggest leaves and hung it upside down. I have pretty low relative humidity at my place now, so I have kept most of the plat together hoping for it not to dry too fast :). I will get back with some more info, when it dries and I will get the weight of the harvest. Note: The wet weight 330g is also with the stems and stuff :)