10/09
Fed all plants their first mix of nutrients:
2 tsps grow big
2 tsps tiger bloom
3 tsps cal mag
1 gallon of 6.5 ph water each mixed with the above nutrients. I am now using my home natural spring water from the well and just making sure to adjust the PH before giving it to the plants, as the reverse osmosis water never helped the Afghan Kush gain better color---however, it does appear the recent feeding with Cal Mag is helping!!!
The ppm of the mixtures ranged from 775-790 after mixture.
10/13/21 Added a bigger light, removed 1 smaller light as shown in above pictures
Height Measurements:
Plant 1 SD = 24 1/4"
Plant 2 SD = 25 5/8"
Plant 3 AK = 42 1/4"
Plant 4 AK = 30 3/8"
10/14 Gave all plants 1 gallon of water mixed with 3 tsps of Cal Mag each, since the Cal Mag really seems to have helped the Afghan Kush since I started feeding it--laid off other nutrients for now
10/15 Took clones, defoliation of bottom 15-20% of each plant removed. Pictures above.
- Made sure water was 4.5 PH before spraying onto the cubes to get them wet for the clones (cubes are by default at a 7 PH and stabilize at 5.5), then after spraying the 4.5 PH water onto the rockwool cubes, I tested the water in the dome pan and it came out to about 5.5 PH, which is the recommended stabilized PH to around 5.5 as recommended for rockwool cubes. After putting the Clonex on all the clones and putting them in the cubes, I misted all the plants with 5.5 PH adjusted water and placed them in with their sisters for now. I'm waiting on a grow tent to arrive in the mail so I can flip the big girls and put the clones in their own room. =)
Thank you for checking up on my grow! I'll update everyone again next week!
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@Rodamis_Prime, thanks!! I managed to make more room above between the lights and these huge plants, and hoping I don't run out of room before harvest lol
@sativaman, They were much more sensitive than the other strain since the beginning, but I've learned through this process that the Cal Mag REALLY helped it. I tried everything else and I think that's what it needed this entire time.
Kindly offering my sympathies to you.
Gonna have to flip lights on those huge plants!! They are almost at the highest for this tent! Do you plan to put them out??? Expect 2-3 times stretch after 12-12.
@mariharam, Hey I am a total noob so take this with a grain of salt!
First, I am really sorry to hear about your sister.
I was just in a grow shop yesterday and they sold me some potassium silicate to help strengthen stems and branches during the last few weeks of vegetative and the first few weeks of bloom.
In addition to strengthening the stems, they also referred to it as a "stretch stopper" as the stems tend to get more girthy rather than tall.
The idea being that flowers will only grow to be as big as the stems can support. So if you end up with a shorter stout plant, you should have bigger buds.
@sativaman,Trying to figure that out. I wanted to give em a few days to recover because I just chopped off like over a foot from the tops because they were so big, and I didn't flip them two weeks ago like I had planned because of all that shit happening with the family. Hmmm I do have the closet still which gives me an extra foot I can swap them back into if I have to, but I think I'm going to cut the recover time and just flip them in a day or two.