Bruce is finishing up nicely. I gave her a pretty good clean up earlier in the week, pruning away quite a few lower branches. Her fat buds have a wonderful sweet and fruity smell.
Rez change today and I've started to reduce her feed a bit. Had a peak at the trichs with the scope today; things are mostly cloudy but she still has some ripening to do though. Probably 10-14 days from harvest.
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@Oozle, A break is good. I'm going to have to take a little growing hiatus myself. We have a trip planned to B.C. at the beginning of June so I won't be able to start anything new until I get back. I'm hoping I can at least get an auto or two going outdoors when I return.
@StunFlower, awesome. Thanks for sharing. I will look into getting 1. I am hoping I only need 1 more res change until the late summer/fall haha. Going to try and finish the season out in soil and take a break during the hottest part of the summer.
Stinks about your EC meter. I had that happen to me last year with a cheap $15 EC meter from Amazon. I bought a Blue Lab EC meter and haven't looked back since.
@Oozle, Oh, I have a Blue Lab meter. I think it lulled me into a false sense of security. The calibration was long overdue.
Money saving tip... My pen kept erroring out when I tried to calibrate it which led to me trying to find the 'recommended' Blue Lab cleaning kit for the probe which is about $18 CAD for a tiny tube of cream cleaner, a little cleaning stick, and a small pouch of calibration fluid. I already had calibration fluid, so the cleaning cream was all I really needed. Fortunately, as it turns out, my local hydro store didn't have one in stock and I ended up buying a bottle of cream cleaner (VIM) from the dollar store for $1.75 which did the job perfectly.
You're plants are zooming!
I still like liquid karma (botanicare's kelp product) in DWC haha. It def can cause problems, but I learned to not use it early until the roots are established and keep my res inoculated with hydroguard and use SLF-100 every so often.
It adds so much I can't add without a bunch of bottles: B- vitamins, amino acids, humic acids, + the kelp has natural PGRs and hormones great for the plant's health. I never tried Remo's velokelp, but it probably has a lot of the same stuff.
But you know, it isn't needed and you can grow bomb plants without it.