Learning to grow, at home!

11/18 - Day 38 - She is moving along quite nicely. The calcium deficiency does not appear to be getting any worse, which is good. I did notice on one of her lower leaves that there is some yellowing in the one leaf's folial. Could be the start of a magnesium or nitrogen deficiency based on the fact that the leaf I see this on is a fairly small leave down near her main stem. Which would make that I would need to start adding nutrients at this point. She is getting pretty big and is probably only a week or two out from flowering. If it's a magnesium, then I am currently addressing it already with the calmag I watered with the other day. If it's nitrogen, I need to start adding nutrients to my next watering cycles. I am concerned with that though as the rest of the plant is looking very green already and I don't want to overload other nutrients in the process. I've got a few days before her next calmag watering and see from there. 11/19 - Day 39 - She is starting to look a little droopy again which makes sense based on our previous record. Today is day 2 and tomorrow day 3 when she will be dried out and ready for some food. I am expecting to water her tomorrow. She is still a bit damp in various places about an inch or two down. I mixed up a nutrient solution last night for the next watering. I did 10 ml of FF Big Bloom, 6 ml of FF Grow Big, 6 ml of FF Tiger Bloom and 3 ml of Calmag in a gallon of water. Got that mixed up, split in twain between two gallons to reduce the solution and then filled up and PH'd both jugs. I found that because my tap water is fairly alkaline (8.1-8.3), adding the nutes drops things down in a single gallon to about a PH of 5.9-6.1. From there, adding more tap water to fill the jugs back up brings my PH to almost dead on 6.5-6.6. Both gallons of the 50% solution came out that way. I plan to water her with 32 ounces of that solution tomorrow. I've noticed that the one leaf that looks like it might be a nitrogen deficiency has progressed further to encompass the whole leaf at this point. So I am hoping this will start helping alleviate that. The calmag leaves are progressing only a little. So thinking it is time for some nutes and we will see how she handles that then. 11/20 - Day 40 - She is sad because she is hungry. Because she has started drooping so early, I plan to give her more water today, probably 48 ounces or so. This watering will also be the 50% nute solution I mentioned in my previous note. Hopefully this will perk her up a bit more after that happens. Also expecting to start seeing flowers start forming here any time, which is why I think the nutes will help here as well. 11/21 - Day 41 - She loved the watering and the nutes! It is also looking like she might be getting ready to start her flowering stage. The timing would be about right and I can see the stigmas showing up in a few places. I've adjusted the LST a bit on her main stem as well as some of the smaller stems to try and move them around a bit to open up the lower leaves. The calmag deficiency appears to have stopped and not gotten any worse. But what I think is a nitrogen deficiency has taken hold of a few of the lower leaves. Interestingly enough the leaves impacted by the calmag deficiency are the same leaves impacted by what i think is the nitrogen deficiency. There's a total of I think three leaves impacted amongst the whole plant for both. I might remove the worst leaf at the bottom of the stem. Will do some research before doing that since she is about to start flowering, I think. Otherwise, she is looking mighty keen! 11/22 - Day 42 - I think I need to water her more. She drank 40 some odd ounces and is starting to look droopy again and the soil is drying out much faster. Going to go in a full 64 ounces tomorrow morning and see how she takes it. Otherwise, she is looking good. 11/23 - Day 43 - Super droopy and dry again. I watered her with 64 ounces today to see if that will perk her up for more than two days. Trying to keep her somewhat perky by the morning of Day 2 and that is a struggle. Depending on how she responds to this, I may continue with 64 ounces or might increase to like 90 ounces and see what happens. This watering was plain water. Next water will be with nutes again. The three leaves that had issues are still problematic and I may trim them off here soon. 11/24 - Day 44 - I feel bad because I have been underwatering her and I realize that now more than ever. I am keeping an eye on her to see how the 64 ounces goes and where it puts her. I may go 96 ounces this next time if she still looks a little droopy around day two or so and see how she does. This next water will be a nute cycle as well. I have probably stunted her a touch because of that and the underwatering might also be part of why I am seeing nute problems on a few of the leaves. But overall, she looks great. Only three/four leaves at this point are showing issues and they are really buried under that canopy. Most of the leaves that are also showing problems are the ones that showed the calcium deficiency as well. I adjusted her LST as bit as well to try and keep her low. She is handling that really well. I am trying to kind of move things in a circular pattern around the edge of the pot. Not overextend the pot too much due to space issues, both height and width. Because she has been low on water, I am only adjusting on days where she looks healthy to avoid the possibility of injury. Especially since you can start to see some early flowering signs showing up. Exciting times!