I'm so excited everyone!! These are coming along so nicely for my first grow. My first harvest will be on the Afghans within the next week (already started flushing).
Let me catch up this diary for everyone:
12/26 Prepared tea for all the plants using two strainer bags filled with worm castings tied to the side of a 5 gallon bucket, along with liquid seaweed and molasses. Brewed it for 2 days using an air pump until it had foamy bubbles on the top and gave 1 gallon to each plant to replenish microbes.
12/27
AK#4 3 gallons water only, run off PPM was 1746 and a PH of 6.14
AK#3 3 gallons of water only, run off PPM was 909 and a PH of 6.23
SD#1 3 gallons of water only, run off PPM was 1900 and a PH of 6.14
SD#2 3 gallons of water only, run off ppm was 1194 and a PH of 6.23
My PH run offs were low, likely because my PH meter was recently off and needed to be calibrated, which I took note of for my next watering that I'm about to notate next:
1/3/22
Fed the Sour Diesels today the following each: 2 ML Cal Mag, 2.55 CC of Cha Ching, 6 ML Tiger Bloom, 7 ML Big Bloom. I mixed this all into one gallon but then split the mixed nutrients into 3 separate gallons.
SD#1 fed 3 gallons of water with the following readings with the above noted nutrients:
Gallon 1 - 6.77 PH & 329 PPM
Gallon 2 - 6.68 PH & 296 PPM
Gallon 3 - 6.68 PH & 370 PPM
TOTAL PPM: 995
Run off readings: 1128 PPM & 6.41 PH
SD#2
Also fed this SD with the same nutrients: 2 ML Cal Mag, 2.55 CC Cha Ching, 6 ML Tiger Bloom, 7 ML Big Bloom. Mixed together in 1 gallon and then split into 3 gallons before feeding to the plant as follows:
Gallon 1 - 6.77 PH & 301 PPM
Gallon 2 - 6.59 PH & 240 PPM
Gallon 3 - 6.41 PH & 463 PPM
TOTAL PPM: 1004
1/4/22
Gave both the Afghans ONLY water since I'm starting the flush and these two plants will be ready for harvest VERY soon (the SD's have a long time still lol)
AK#3 - 3 gallons of water only, run off PPM was 6.41 and PPM was 611
AK#4 - 3 gallons of water only, run off PPM was 6.32 and PPM was 755
1/10/22
AK#4 Water only, 4 gallons this time instead of 3 with a run off readings of 824 PPM & PH 6.41
SD#2 Water with 1 ML of Cal Mag mixed at 209 PPM, 3 gallons with run off readings of 6.5 PH & 856 PPM
AK#3 Water only, 4 gallons this time instead of 3 with a run off readings of 572 PPM & PH 6.5
SD#1 Water with 1 ML of Cal Mag mixed at 207 PPM, 3 gallons with run off readings of 6.5 and I freaking forgot to write down the PPM reading but I know it was like 800 and something
***Pictures of all the plants are taken as of 1/10/22***
Hey! Happy growing my friend! I hope you do well and get some good results! I will come by sometime to see your progress! Keep on growing!
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Peace & love L.S.T 🌟❤️🔥
@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.