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Potting up I moved them into coco soil. I'm using an electric oil radiator to keep the temperature up, it's going to be too big soon so will need to look into a smaller heater if British summertime doesn't heat my north facing room enough.
I swapped the oil radiator for a heat fan and also added a humidifier. Lots of learning about the best places to put these has been experienced! The radiator was drying out the White Widow in 12-18 hours; it's looking in good shape but a few too many brown specks. Probably going to be doing some pruning and LST next week, once I've decided which route to take!
A real learning curve this week (ego talk for I messed things up!) I was too firm with the LST, caused a couple of splits and had to trim more severely than I hoped. The WW was twice the size of the others so I tried to trim it accordingly. Also, I completely overwatered the healthiest looking Kryptonite, it's looking sad and overwhelmed but after 3 days at a southfacing window she's drying out. Lots to learn!
White Widow got some burnt tips, must have overfed her. This week I just gave her water without any nutrients, she's looking both thirsty and overfed! The Purple Alsakan is looking pretty good. Kryptonite 1 is recovering from a huge overwatering and also being knocked upside down of a window sill and Kryptonite 2 is staying short and fat.
This week was the first time I've opened my tent in the morning and been impressed. Despite my noobie level watering and clumsiness with the fan, the plants are healthy!
All coming along nicely now. Looking through the site I'm seeing much bigger yields than I have (touch wood). So far, I'm putting it down to bot watering enough in veg, overwatering and a bad hack job for LST. Still, live and learn, there will be enough to go round for sure :)
I'm happy with the quality of bud but the yield is a fail. The next lot will benefit from my experience gained! I installed an RODI unit so they've been getting flushed with nice water, The plants still lack greenness but since the addition of RO water they have been getting a bit green again. Hopefully the buds are improving too!
Hey there friend. Would you be alright with me offering some pointers? So cannabis plants LOVE heat and humidity. It is the buds that hate it. In veg we want to take advantage of this fact to help our plants grow along much quicker and more vigorously. In veg we can look for temps of 79-84 MAX with lights on & no more than 9 degrees less with lights off. If we allow for too much temperature swing between lights on and lights off while the plant is still growing vertically up to day 20 of flower, We will cause the plant to stretch ALOT which we do not want. So in veg & early flower, Keeping our temperature gaps nice and close between lights on and off is key. Utilizing humidity in our rooms during veg will also help out a lot with more rapid growth but we must introduce it properly. In our rooms we have our temperature and humidity set-points, But when we combine those 2 it forms a third set-point which is the most important & that is called VPD, Vapor pressure deficit.
I strongly recommend every new grower or old grower who has not learned it yet, To study and understand it & implement it into your room, Logging your numbers daily.
https://cerescann.com/importance-of-measuring-vpd/
For soil, We generally want to go for a PH of 6.1
This website does a GREAT job of illustrating it with a nice graph & very good detailed explanation for soil.
https://autoflowerseedshop.com/cannabis-ph-chart-guide/
As we briefly touched on before, During veg & early flower we want our temperature gap's nice and tight to avoid stretch. Why exactly our plants stretch in response to this is a genetic trigger being activated by the environmental stress essentially telling the plant the end of the season is closer than it really is. In veg & early flower the plant is still in its first stage of development which is to grow up wide and tall so when it produces seed, It can cast them out nicely. Remember, Whether we are growing our plants for seed or bud their genetic responses do not change as they gh sidedo not know any different. Once the plant has finished that first stage of growth by weeks 4-6 of flower with most strains, It is by day 20 of flower. Autoflowers you have to watch for it, But once the plant has finished this goal its new mission is to focus 100% on producing nice big flower clusters & to get very sticky so it can attract pollen to it successfully.
So once that vertical growth is finished, We actually now want to begin to expose our plants to larger temperature swings between lights on and lights off. This will help activate that genetic response and allow us to draw out the most potential from the strain utilizing the plants genetic triggers to environmental stresses at the right times. We can also take this a step further with doing light deprivation in the last 2 weeks using less light to simulate cloud cover. Very cold feed temps on the last flush is very good too. If you do not have them already, Get yourself a good PAR meter & thermal laser temp gun to monitor your plant top temperatures & optimize how much light your plants are getting. We are currently in the middle of producing a very comprehensive tutorial series for everybody to learn from & understand how to grow the highest level craft cannabis all on their own. If this interests you please check out our youtube and subscribe. The first 2 episodes are out the next one is coming in a few days. If you should ever have any questions or need any help, Please feel free to follow my profile and shoot me a DM. I will gladly help you with the pull down & make sure you get the best quality harvest possible as it is the most important step of the entire process. I really think you would benefit from our tutorial series on youtube, Our channel is linked off our main grow diaries profile. We just put up week 3 of plant life care so you got time to subscribe and catch up before the next episode is out! I look forward to seeing you over there and hearing your feedback to better help me shape the tutorials
Happy growing friend!
@LegacyMarketFarm, Thanks for the wisdom, I'll check that out. My tent is in a north facing room so I had a few teething problems with getting the temperature consistency right. Initially I had an oil filled radiator in the tent but as it's a small space, the plants next to the radiator would dry out and the ones away from it would drink at a normal rate. I changed to a fan heater and it seems to have kept things consistent, altho now I find out it needs more fluctuation!!! I've invested in a RODI unit for the next grow and after that I will be using a bigger tent with enough room to fit a few more bits of equipment to get it right.
Ross_Pure420
