Cheese by Zamnesia

All going good. Topped once now as well. These photos were taken before that tho. Probably flip in a week or two…. I just watered and gave them their weekly microbes and iv noticed something compared to my last run. I’m using the nutrient line that I got on Amazon CHEAP. I know a lot of tomatoe farmers and such use it. It comes as a powder and you first dilute it into a concentrated liquid like you would buy other nutrients - then you use the watered down A and watered down B in diff ratios in my res each week. Great value for money - like crazy cheap but last time I had real issues with it precipitating out of solution so I was literally throwing it down the drain! Iv narrowed it down to the fact I was adding the nutrient solutions PRE PH’ing the water. My water comes out at 7 consistently so I am adding the PH down BEFORE adding the nutrient solutions. Works like a charm so far but we will see about when we switch up the ratios and increase the EC. SPEAKING OF:I need to buy a new TDS meter, iv no idea where mine went. Other than that the grow is going really well - just noticed I can increase the EC a little which is good. I also have noticed how incredibly used to autos I got. The growth structure is really quite different - particularly in the early vegetative leaves. They are way ‘fuller’ for want of a better term. Hardly any three finger leaves. It’s just interesting to me as I havnt grown photos for a loooong time. I think I’m going to need some black tape to stick over my inkbird meters and general ‘smart’ meters. I think they are mainly red LED’s which I’m guessing are extremely bad for photo periods considering that is what the early LED grow lights basically were. I’ll dig out the gorilla ‘glue’ tape. I am also realising that the kalini Asia is going to get less screen time than the cheese, purely because they are the closest to the door. Also the monstor zkittlez seems to be the most vigorous so far. Iv actually been amazed at how quickly they’ve grown since they’ve been in the post seedling veg stage. The lights have been joined together and are dimmed to the lowest setting. I don’t know if it’s the auto/photo thing again or it’s the positioning of my light but the nodes seem to be much tighter together than last time. I know they stretch during…well..stretch but even so.