First Grow 8|

4/21/22 - The two 5gals needed to be watered today, will again refer to them left to right as A, B, C. A - 1600ml B - 400ml C - 1600ml ph was 6.3, measured the runoff at 6.1 on A and 6.3 on C, so we should be good to bump ph back up to 6.5 moving forward. A was clearly in need of water, was drooping pretty badly. After watering and coming back to measure runoff it was visibly improved already. I'm seeing some crispy leaf tips on both 5gals, I believe that's an overload on nitrogen. Hoping they do okay after today's feeding, I plan to cut the Big Bloom in half next week, but will do some more reading on if I should skip that entirely moving forward. I think you're supposed to cut out nitrogen feeding entirely in late-flower so the plant can focus on buds, but the nitrogen deficiency from earlier needed to be addressed imo! Honestly was pretty surprised and pleased when I checked on them and they seemed to be responding well to the Epsom salts and nitrogen. The crisp tips are a cause for concern but will just continue to monitor. My biggest worry now is the fact that both 5gals have lost a significant amount of foliage; virtually all of the big fan leaves are gone now. Will do some reading up on that as well. They're all very light green too, again not entirely sure if that's supposed to happen in flowering. I've seen some pics of the same strain looking a lush dark green during flowering, so I don't think so... Lastly, seeing some of the stigmas turning amber, that's cool. Can also see the trichomes when zooming on the pics. Nice. 4/23/22 - Just a quick water on the 3gal, starting to droop so gave it a clean 800ml. Other two are fine and still moist. 4/26/22 - Did some watering, should have watered the 3gal yesterday, its in quite bad shape--worst I've seen for it. The stems are bent over and the leaves look very sickly, it hopefully just needs a boost from this water and it will spring back. That being said, it's still in pre-flower and at this point I don't know if it will ever move out of that stage, poor thing is just stunted. I'll keep at it of course but I plan to use the tent for drying out anything I'm able to harvest from the other two, so I may need to relocate it or compost it after a bit. Watered as follows: A - 1200ml B - 800ml C - 1200ml Straight water with a ph of about 6.3. Based on some comments I got earlier it may be time to just flush with straight water from here on out, we may be in the final weeks. If I do feed them at all I'll probably do strictly budding nutrients, but honestly it sounds like I should just do water at this point. All new leaf growth is looking good, still light green but not sickly yellow. I've trimmed those off so just have some smaller leaves growing in. Otherwise the two 5gals are looking pretty good, I can definitely see the benefits of LST and will for sure do that on the next grow. - Quick update a few hours later, little 3gal has perked back up, standing straight and leaves looking much better :) Just needed some water the poor girl