D43 - At the beginning of the second week of flower and the girls are loving life.
Overall, I'm happy with the flat canopy, but there's one branch higher than the rest on the first girl. I've never super-cropped an auto, so I figured, why not give it a go and see what happens? It's only one branch after all and we still have weeks of flower to go. I also lightly defoliated the girls further. Nothing extreme, just cleaning up here and there.
I've been lazy and haven't brewed any compost tea in a while, so I hand-watered the girls with 1.25-liters of water @ pH 6.3 with 25 ml EM-1 to boost the microbes in the soil. I'll brew some tea in a few days and feed the girls then.
D45 - Minor LST. The first girl is bouncing back nicely from her super cropping.
D46 - I started brewing a compost tea last night using a pretty basic recipe of worm-castings, rock dust, kelp meal, and molasses. Today each girl got 1.25-liters of tea @ pH 6.5.
I set up automation to control the RH in the tent using an Inkbird controller a while ago, where the humidifier and the extraction fan are hooked up to the controller. If the RH goes above the set value, then the fan kicks in to extract the humid air, while if the RH goes below, then the humidifier starts.
With a stable temperature, it works like a ghetto VPD controller where the tent is in the ideal VPD range during the 20 hours of light but still in an acceptable range during the dark hours.
Controlling the environment is always a headache in a tiny tent, but this system works exceptionally well, considering it is cheap and basic.
D49 - We have reached the end of the second week of flower and everything is going great in the tent. The grow is pretty much running itself now that most training is done and the watering system takes care of the irrigation. I'm still dialing in the system though.
@love_2_grow, in Russian it's agro plionka. English - frost fleece. Any gardening center will have , I buy it on eBay in UK.
Honestly does magic ! You can spray as often as you want, you will never burn with water as magnifying glass or light will be too intense.
@THChili, Thank you! It's the first time I'm growing this strain, and I'm looking forward to the journey. It's been YEARS since the last time I even smoked White Widow. I'm so excited! :D