Week 3 - Day 1 Minor LST & 1500mL water 6.2pH, 24C° 50%RH 575µmol 40DLI
Later this week she will get a dose of BioBiz week 3 schedule at 33%. BioBiz has a couple of schedules, the one I am following is their All-Mix sched, adjusted for autos. WK 1 I was dosing @ .125%, WK2 @ .25%, .33% this week and will get up to .5% in 2 weeks. Dutch Passion calls out this strain as not reacting well to sudden dose increases, thus the effort to take things slow.
Week 3 Day 2 - LST adjustments continue, growth sites all over her and working to keep the canopy as level as possible.
Week 3 Day 3,4,5 - She has been drooping more and more lately, this since her transplant and the LST. So aside from pausing LST for a bit I have been going through other things to eliminate the possible causes. On the night day 2 I adjusted the fan to ease the wind the wind they were getting, she was looking much better the morning of day 3, still drooping slightly.
On day 4 she was ready for a drink, first in 3 days, 1000mL, and a dose of BioBizz at 33%.
She could of used a drink several hours prior to this point but wanted to make sure the over watering is not a cause to the droops.
10 hours later on the morning of day 5 she was almost back to normal, but she once again started to droop by mid day.
The water she had the night before helped but not fully so I am next going to look into the health of the soil she is in.
I got a soil organic matter test kit developed by a university on the way to hopefully let me know the state of the microbe activity.
Another thought is; most everyone advises for auto flowers to lower the nutrient level in feeds from the label. To me that makes sense for synthetics but what about organics where the nutrients are feeding the soil not the plant, could I be underfeeding the soil by cutting the BioBizz doses way back?
First timer here so working through this, I think the soil test will shed some light on the issue.
On the plus side she is still growing and putting out an awesome smell, yummy.
Week 3 Day 5 evening I gave her a foliar of BioBizz Alg-A-Mic @ 1mL/L and in the morning of day 6 see was looking pretty good. Trimmed off a few leaves and gave her a bit of LST. 8 decent looking flower sites are starting to stretch quickly.
Day 7 - Got the organic soil test kit in and as sort of suspected, the result was relatively low on their scale indicating that the soil was underfed. This coincides with some research I did for people using BB with autos, I found plenty of people dosing at 100% the label with excellent results. Not going to jump to 100%, but am bumping todays feed up to 50% the week 3 sched with the addition of a 2mL/L dose of Root Juice to liven up the soil.
1000mL, 6.1pH, soaking up 630µmol / 45DLI
See ya in week 4
Healthy looking plants, just a few quick things from looking at your lights power output and how far away they are from the plants themselves. I would try and get the lights closer to improve the amount of PAR they are getting. Your log says 86 for daytime temp, but in the photo, the thermometer says 79 F . Cannabis plants love heat and humidity this early on. It is the bud during flower that does not like the humidity or high heat.