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Popped the lil seeds - had a slow start wasn't going to even give her a diary so sad n pale - sorting ppm and ph, going to change it up and refine her numbers n hope to see her pop
Had an absolutely appalling week. Using the new RO water the ph fell too far too fast and she did not take it well. Slowly bouncing back, but not looking good. Not sure if I should take off the dry crispy leaves or let them fall, she has been through so much- so sad
After almost killing her last week she has has a good veg, no sign of budding, but she did have a traumatic experience, smells good n leaves are nice n soft
Going really well, did some defoliation and wasn’t going to do any more, but she keeps getting huger, going to try trim the lower branches. Little tense yo! Did a bit of defoliation, hurts. The ph had dropped added some ph up. Very worried about a crash
Growing super well, being very light on the defoliation. Was going to take a few leaves but the ppm was up to 1000 and her ph dropped to 5,5 , so topped her up with come ro water and a spray of sumo boost on the leaves for her rest period n see how she looks later
My girl has a single drown leave on her, the ph has been stable, but she has been drinking about 2 litres every 6 hours, the ppm spikes n gets brought with fresh water, not letting it get above 900.
If your ph drops there is to high of an ec level cuz they drink more water than food. When your dialed in, they drink and eat pretty evenly. Ph keeps dropping because they drink to much water and if your ph rises they don't get enough food so they need higher ec. I would say with autos your ec is to high. Try 650 ppm 1.3 ec. See if that stabilizes your ph, but prepare the water 24 hours in advance to let the ph settle out before nuting and ph ing your water.
Bit of a rough week, starting to get a vague idea of how to balance ppm and how much she should be eating, I hope. Growing well despite my little mistakes
Everything was going fine, until Friday, when her ph shot up, to about 8, added some ph down, brought that down and stabilised @ 5,5 ph - 11pm , @ 6:30 Saturday was in the 4’s, put it in to clean RO water 0ppm - @ 7 pm was high, so changed the water to fresh Ro water with nutrien
Awesome set up man those are huge.
I’d consider maybe mixing up outside the buckets first.. letting sit for 24 hrs before putting in the bucket.
Those are massive plants for what looks like 5 gallon buckets, they’re in their prime time for sucking down water.. id be willing to be part of the drop in pH was simply from them suckin in water but not nutrients. When this happens the pH usually goes down.
CO2 being brought thru the air pump into the stones can also cause pH swings..
Hope this helps! Those are huge plants, good work
Is it too late in flowering to defoliate my plant? I have changed from a 600w bulb to a 660w led so getting a bigger foot print, started @ 25% for 2 days then will go 50% and repeat until 75% , plant might be too close to the top of the tent for 100%. Also changed air pump
You could if you really wanted to, no one will stop you.
But at this point I would just let it go and use some small amounts of LST vs defoliation.
Good Luck!
Plants got so high the light was touching and burning it, so got a Maxibright 660w, started on 25% went up to 50% today, increased the food over the last few days, got a lot of leaves, trimmed a few and that revealed several bud sites, going to let it rest a couple of days and see how she responds based on that I’ll take a few more and open up the inside more plenty sites there. My pump game was weak so got a new one, pushing good amounts of air
Picked up weight, gave a small trim lots of bud sites are getting more light, ph fluctuations are an ongoing concern. Will carry on with flowering feed until Sunday- then about weeks out ……
Put her on to the final feed, will flush from Sunday- humidity is a bit high so put dehumidifier inside, picking up weight now with a flew little amber trichomes.
Really easy strain, grew super well despite my battling to balance the ph, changing of lights and a massive temperature/humidity spike. Looks good and smells strong. Looking forward to the next grow.
GingerSkunk
