First Grow: ‘Ophelia’ Orange Bud (Auto)

Oct 10 (day 50): Start of week 8. She's looking good and I have trichomes! How amazing they look. Noticed that the pistils are turning orange at the ends, so raised a grow question. As always, the wealth of conflicting information is ridiculous. One grower responded and said that it was likely overfeeding and I should drop to plain water for a bit, then 1/2 a dose of food. However, BioBizz themselves told me not to reduce the dose for autos as its organic and very difficult to overfeed. I also saw some articles online, one from RQS on what to expect from your auto week on week. It said I should expect to see the pistils turning now. Confusion level 9/10 😑 Oct 11 (day 51): Still looking healthy and growing like mad. I am starting to worry I have TOO MANY bud sites?! I have counted over 30 now. I've read some people defoliate them to provide energy to fewer sites for bigger buds. Not sure what to do (again). Either way, she is looking fabulous despite her weird shape, but I am hoping when she stretches that will sort it. Whilst mixing up the feed tonight my PH meter read 1.5!? PH has consistently been 6.5 - 7.0 once I added nutes so this was very weird. Mixed up the calibration sachets and it was still off so I can only assume it’s broken. FFS 🤬 Bombed it down to my local grow shop and got a replacement 60 seconds before they shut. I went for a Blue Meter this time, given my cheap one from Amazon died at the most inappropriate time! Even so, it’s bloody expensive 🤯 Waterproof though, so hopefully won’t suffer the same fate as the last one. Once up and running again I fed her with week 5 of the nute schedule and 2L of water. Oct 12 (day 52): Looking good. Smaller flowers are stretching upwards a bit. Seems fine after yesterday's feed. Oct 13 (day 53): Looking good today and evening out with lots of stretching. Flowers seem to be doing well and growing. Gave her a litre of plain water today as some of the pistils are still darkening and the answers from my grow question seem to point towards excessive feeding. As always, there is plenty of conflicting information and signs from the plant. Yes, the pistils are browning in places but I am not seeing any other signs of nutrient excess such as the tips of the leaves turning brown. Some of her older leaves are quite a dark green (which also points to nute excess), but her newer ones look normal. Seems it is still a mystery. Confusion level 8/10 😑 Oct 14 (day 54): Doing well and looking healthy. Flowers are appearing everywhere and growing well. Oct 15 (day 55): Doing well and looking healthy. Huge stretch happening and the canopy is finally starting to even out and get higher. The main cola is much higher still, but it's incredibly rigid now and won't take any training at all. It's making it quite hard to get the height of the light right, but I am measuring the height from the overall canopy rather than the main cola and trying to keep that out of the strongest area of light. Monitoring for signs of heat issues and burning. Fed her with 2L of water and week 5 of the nute schedule at a full dose. Oct 16 (day 56): End of week 8. So much growth this week and lots of stretching to even the canopy out. She's really filled out and is looking fantastic. So many flowers though, she's a BEAST! NOTE: Nutrient amount is the total amount of nutes given during the week.