Learning to grow, at home!

11/11 - Day 31 - She is droopy today. I believe this is because her soil is quite dry. I stuck a finger all of the way down into the pot in various places and nothing. Dry dry dry. I am going to give her the full water cycle this go around. The calmag is in the mail and should show up today but it could be noon or it could be 19:00 tonight. If it were earlier in the day and I knew it was earlier in the day then I'd hold off on watering until I could add the calmag. But I don't feel good about letting her go a full day this droopy. So I am going full 32 ounces this morning. Monitor the calcium deficiency for a few more days and start calmag on the next cycle probably on Sunday morning. *** UPDATE *** She has started to perk up after the watering from this morning and looking much better. Hopefully tomorrow's picture will look more normal. Also, Calmag showed up hours before expected. Expecting to water Sunday morning with just a calmag solution. 11/12 - Day 32 - She has definitely perked up after watering as you can see in the pictures. The calcium deficiency is progressing slightly and still on just those two leaves. It's not progressing super quickly and doesn't appear to be impacting new growth yet. So she should be fine to make it to Sunday when I water next, which will be with the additional calmag. Been adjusting the LST as it goes. Pulled her to the side a bit more today. After she gets a little taller, I want to pull her diagonally around the side of the pot. Going to attempt a cork screw style LST around the edge of the fabric pot. Will see how that goes. Need to do some research on different LST styles. 11/13 - Day 33 - Nothing really to report yet. Calcium def is only showing up on two leaves still. I plan to give more water tomorrow based on how dry she feels today with a 50% calmag solution. I plan to keep the calmag going through the rest of her grow cycle. Adjusted the LST a bit to pull her over to the side a bit more. She's growing a good 5-10% daily and seems happy. Her leaves are a little droopy and not sure why. Maybe too much water as a whole, but she is drying out after 2.5-3 days it seems. Maybe not as dry as I think deeper down? Will monitor. 11/14 - Day 34 - Calcium def still on two leaves only. I am debating watering today except that she is still a bit damp about an inch down and the pot does feel heavier. She looks healthy otherwise. A bit droopy though. Based on how things have been going today should be a watering day, so I am going to go with that and see what happens. Going to give 32 ounces of calmag and see how she does. 11/15 - Day 35 - Not much to report today. She is definitely growing. The calcium def has shown up on a total of three older leaves now. I am keeping daily tabs on that to see if it continues to spread or not. Hopefully with the addition of the calmag watering this time to start heading that off and continuing with that going forward, it will help handle that. I plan to continue adding calmag every other water at this point as well as adding it into my nute solution when I begin to start that up. I adjusted my LST to be further up on the main stem right under the first major node and pulled it further down a bit. This opened up the sides a bit as well. She does feel a bit small, though. I mean, her main stem is a good 12 inches long and maybe because of the LST she just seems shorter than expected. I don't know. She looks healthy otherwise. I think I have been overwatering her a bit, so plan to let her dry out extensively before giving another water. 11/16 - Day 36 - Not much to report today so far. She looks like she is doing okay. 11/17 - Day 37 - She is looking droopy again because she is dry! I have been watering every three days with 32 ounces and that seems to keep her happy for three more days. Giving her 32 more ounces today of standard water. Next watering will be another calmag watering. The calmag solution I made was a little weak because I did not want to entirely overdo it on the first go around. The instructions were 3-5 ml in a gallon of water, I put in 3 ml. I then split that gallon into two gallons, thus making it 50% of the original solution. This might have been split too much, not entirely sure as I am in new territory for me. But at this point I plan to keep going with calmag every other watering. Once I start nutes, I'll be adding calmag to my nute solution as well. Beyond that, tossed up a few pics of the calcium def progression. It seems to have slowed a little bit, maybe. But am going to just keep an eye on it. Still just on two of the older fan leaves and does not appear to be progressing much beyond the spots drying out that were already impacted. Adjusted my LST a bit as well to pull some of the extra nodes away from the main cluster. *** Update after watering. She has perked up dramatically and is looking mighty nice once again. Should show in the pics tomorrow.