12/12 All plants received approx. 0.50 tsp per 1 gallon of Beastie Bloomz by FoxFarm, measured run offs as shown below:
AK#4 Run off 6.23 PH & 2001 PPM
AK#3 Run off 6.05 PH & 1098 PPM
SD#1 Run off 5.95 PH & 2419 PPM
SD#2 Run off 6.32 PH & 2576 PPM
So I saw some top and bottom leaves with brown edges and spots, I believe I have a magnesium deficiency because of the low PH levels showing on the run offs. Turns out, my PH digital meter needed to be calibrated, too.
12/18/21 The Afghan Kush plants estimated harvest is within 6-7 weeks, whereas the Sour Diesels are known to flower 10-11 weeks.
Therefore, on this day, I only fed the Afghans 0.70 tsp of "Cha Ching" by FoxFarm (since I don't have many more opportunities to feed these ones and I have to flush them two weeks before harvest) and gave ONLY WATER to the Sour Diesels, since they have decently high PPM run offs and extra weeks of flowering time left still.
I retested the run offs today for each plant:
AK#3 Run off 6.23 PH and 800 PPM
AK#4 Run off 6.41 and 1939 PPM
SD#2 Run off 6.5 and 1941 PPM
SD#1 Run off 6.71 and 1668 PPM
12/20/21 Decided to give each plant some Cal Mag to address magnesium that caused some brown edges/spots on some leaves the other week, mixed in 0.25 gallons of water with a PPM of 515 and a PH of 6.5
12/24/21 Pictures are from today! I plan to feed the Afghans ONE MORE TIME within the next day or two, then I'll start the two week flush before harvest.
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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.