Monster&Midget 1st grow.

14/1/22 Hydro Diary Update So, I'm going to do something fairly drastic. I'm going to increase the growth nutes 4 fold and lower the fluids, hoping to get some growth reaction. I've tried everything but they are just in no compassion at all to the speed and level of nodes, and color. Maybe I'm missing a few steps I don't know. So, I'm changing things up. I know it's a risk. But this is meant to be the last week of growth nutes, and the organics, well, they are weeks ahead and I wanna do the flip for all and keep them in the safety of the Grow tent. I've laced the outside of the pots and zipper/air intakes with peppermint oil. powerful stuff. Has my eyes watering every time I walk in where my tent is. I also have bug sheets to lay on the substrate after watering and bug catchers to hang of branches, I've also got neem oil if things get out of control to spray the plants. I try to keep opening the tent to a minimum, probably to the risk of the health of my plants, as of neglect as for watering and tending to the hydros, I'd say if I kept more care of them and watered regular they'ed be a lot bigger but who has the time, I think organic/ferts mix will be my next experiment and try perfect the minimal approach but get all the benefits I am now from the organics. Anyways, back to issue on hand, 'Once you get a bug problem it's so hard to get rid of, I don't want to give them any chance at all. Always try keep outside your grow space clean if you do have you Windows off make sure they have mesh nets and have oil around areas where you think bugs may get in. It'll be impossible to stop completely but you can do everything in your power to get your plants as healthy and as big as you can before they have to face any major stresses. Just a my opinion. Anyways here's to a week of new, what more damage can I cause these slow ladies, I'm really hoping this extra poten juice they will be getting will kick start them they way I need them to this week is the make or break it for the hydros. Cause they are running the Risk of being transplanted into supersoil, I know I said I'd run with it till the end, but, well, yeah, they take long enough to grow I DO NOT WANT TO BE PULLING 7GS OF A PLANT. ITS NOT WORTH THE TIME OR EFFORT. Let's see what this week brings. Pray to the cannabis gods. Anyways here's the pics. Slight improvement but nothing close when compared to the organics change. PPM and PH count as always will be given from run-off and I usually say look back to week 1 for individual PPM and PH READINGS but as this week that has changed I'll update on all the nutes ph/ppm for this week tomorrow. For now readings are from last week's testing which was taken 2 days ago, showed more or less the exact results as the week before PPM count was down 50 and PH down by .5 15/1/22 Well, to my surprise, I'm actually getting some results if all a little slow, it's starting to mature slowly. 18/1/22 Decided to top both hydros. For some reason both hydros this week have grow about an extra 5 cm between the 4th and 5th/6th nodes, maybe it had something to do with the extra high dose in growth they got. Am moving them to bloom this week. I know they are very skimpy looking but they are growing colas all a little slow compared to the Organics but in turn the organics are very small and bushy, defo going 5pot set up with what I did for the organics and doing scrOG, 100%. Now if only I can figure out how to make my organic TDA taller instead of being bushy. But well I want them a lot more busher than the hydros are right now, looks like the bitches have been starved skinny. On the other side I have to fat stumpy girls. Why can't I get a tall filled gal. Some colas to be grabbing, lol. Hopefully i can do this wit the TDA. She seems to be suffering though from overfeeding and a few nitrogen issues I think. See, I didn't add the Westland Cacti to the TDA so I've had try supplement it with Sensi coco bloom but clearly I haven't the right tools for the job. As the soil I did use, same one in the other organics just missing the cacti, which is fucking perfect for plant growth btw. All I have added was my supersoil formula and voodoo juice for root growth. And only once I overwatered them. But other than that no problems so far, but I've a really strong feeling I'm going to have to start adding some sort of nute cause the cacti only has a shelf life for a couple of weeks and then the goodness will be used up. 20/1/22 The hydros seem to found their roots, still far behind their sister organics but none the less they have at least doubled since deciding to heavily dose with nutes and give regular water feeds more often this week than I have before, I didn't nute burn them, just leads to my suspicion that the drainage is just to easy, I'd say adding some neutral clay so it can hold water will be a 100% surety if I decide to go hydros again. But that being said, as stunted as the hydros are they do look healthy, so I'm getting the balance right. Anyways, that's all folks for this week's other than the update regarding PH/PPM readings and the rest of pics for the rest of the week(21/1/22 I took the run-off and got the PH/PPM that was from the entire week. Results are in the weekly update) . Next week should be fun adding a whole host of new nutes. Stay tuned thanks for visiting my diary. Gottagrowsometime