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This weeks comment will be quite a bit longer and informative: Lights are at 50% the nitrogen issue seems to have fixed it's self. I'm going a bit slow and lazy this round but I'm making an SST now🤣🤣. I made some labs the other day so I'll use that soon also... * Mid week I will do a foliar feed of Home made PNSB (when ever im home b4 lights come on or go off) * SST: Im using Rye and Barley seeds: Rye for its higher Auxins & Barley for a good balance of Auxins:Cytokinins and elevated Gibberellins. * Top dressed some alfalfa for triacontanol. (Didn't really measure how much) * Watered with aloe, coconut water, FAA and microbial inoculants.(I think I threw in some agsil for silica but not 100% sure.) Will probably flip in the next 2- 3 weeks. (There wasn't a seedling stage to put as an option I calulate my growth stages differently than this grow diary allows. I go off 8 phases of growth not 3.. in my book im 2 weeks into veg) ----------------------------- SST info and why: Auxins - Promote Stem Elongation, inhibit growth of lateral bud sites due to it being responsible for Apical Dominance. Auxins are produced in the Stems, Roots and Buds. Auxins increase on the shaded or dark side of a plant increasing cell growth on that side which is what causes your plant to grow towards the light, known as phototropism, and occurs from seedling to harvest. During the flowering/fruiting phase Auxins promote ovary maturation as well as fruit/flower maturation and has the highest benefits for flower maturation and growth in shaded/low light conditions. Gibberellins - Promote stem elongation, germination, flowering and enzyme production. Also assists with the production and release of specific enzymes that assist in the break down of protiens into amino acids. Also assist in promoting flowers/fruits in low light or low temperature environments. Found in the stamen of flowering male parts that influence flower production and pedicel growth. Cytokinins - Involved in cell division and new plant roots and shoots. Delays Senescence. In conjunction with Auxins at varying ratios they boost root growth, shoot growth and help heal damaged parts of the plant. Cytokinins also assist in leaf growth and chloroplast development. Also helps to promote flowering and is great during transition from veg to flower but is needed even in flower to produce flowers and new leaves as well as healing damaged flowers or fruit. -------------------------------- Benefits & why of what I watered in: Coco water and sst has amino acids that include Alanine, β-Alanine, γ-Aminobutyric acid , Arginine, Asparagine and glutamine, Aspartic acid, Asparagine, Cystine, Glutamic acid , Glutamine, Glycine, Homoserine, Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Ornithine, Phenylalanine, Pipecolic acid,Tyrosine,Tryptophan, Threonine, Valine, Dihydroxyphenylaline, Hydroxyproline, Pipecolic acid, Abscisic acid and Salicylic acid Aloe has amino acids that are Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Threonine, Valine,And Tryptophan. Alanine, Arginine, Asparagine, Cysteine, Glutamic Acid, Glycine, Histidine, Proline, Serine, Tyrosine, Glutamine, And Aspartic Acid. FAA has amino acids that include Aspartic Acid, Glutamic Acid, Arginine, Lysine, Valine, Threonine, Leucine, Tyrosine, Histidine, Isoleucine, Phenylalanine, Methionine, Cysteine, Glycine, Proline, Alanine Plants Growth Phases: Imbibition is the first step in life. This is the process of a seed uptaking or imbiding water which makes the seed swell up hydrating the enzymes and carbohydrates in the seed that initiate life. Germination occurs shortly or immediatly after imbibition and is the process of the reactivation of metabolic machinery in the seed resulting in the emergence of a radicle (tap root) and plumule (shoot/stem) and the uncurling of the cotyledon leaves and shedding of the seed husk resulting in a sprout. Seedling is the stage directly after germination in which the sprout has formed its first set of true leaves not the cotyledon leaves. We are now in the seedling stage. This stage lasts until plants have 4-6 nodes. Vegetative technically begins when 4-6 nodes have formed. This is often when we see the most vigorous change in vegetative growth in seedlings. This stage is the transitional period of plants from juvenile to sexually mature adults. Sexual maturity (preflowers will form shortly after) starts when branching goes from symetrical to asymetrical. This stage can be indefinite with a photoperiod species of plants like cannabis as long as we maintain proper light hours to keep in this stage. Floral Transition is when we flip from veg lighting to Flower lighting schedule. Most start counting days of Flower at flip but we still have the natural Floral transition phase which takes, on average, 7-10 days before we begin to see actual floral bud sites forming which is the formation of 2-4 brachts (clayx in the cannabis world) and the cooresponding 4-8 stigmas (pistils in the cannabis world) at the apical growing shoots. This is first day of flower and flowering should be counted from here. Floral Bud set/budding is when we physically can see an accumulation of 2-4 brachts and cooresponding stigmas at the top of each branch or the apical meristems. This is day one of actual flowering. This will naturally occur over a weeks time in flowering light schedule. Flowering Stretch occurrs 7-10 days after flip and lasts 14+ days depending on the Cultivar. Some people refer to this as the "Q-tip" stage. When we have small q-tip like puffs of white floral formations we are officially in flower and are past the floral transition phase. Flowering begins immediatley after the Floral Budding stage and begins during the stretch as we can see bud sites increaseing in size and quantity. Those Q-tips become cotton balls. Flowering continues in to the bulk phase where we see a massive gain in size and density. Early stages of ripening and senescence begin here and is why we see a fade. Ripening begins late in the flowering stage with abscision and senescence. Ripening is the maturation of the flower (trichomes) and/or any seeds. Proper ripening will bring a fade as abscision and senescence begin and the plant switches from nutrient assimilation to nutrient catobilization which results in a reduction of Nitrogen and Phosphorous from the leaf tissue and allows Magnesium to assist in the breakdown and removal of chlorophyll which gives way for other plant pigments such as Anthocyanin (Red, Blue and Purples) and Carotenoids (Yellows and Oranges) to present. Death occurs here at our discretion since we are harvesting the flower of the plant. I personally judge based on trichome maturity coupled with flowering times to ensure peak potency but if we didn't intervein the plant would eventually start to decompose and rot and return to the soil from which it came. --------------------------------