So I'm doing things a tad different on this grow... I'm putting my clones after only 2 weeks in the cups in veg, into 1 gallon pots with my Ed Rosenthal fortified soil mix. I'm going for smaller and tighter on this one... Leaving the 2x MH 1000 watt on for this week, then upcoming Tuesday (which for some reason has become the beginning of my green week) I'll swap into my HPS bulbs.
Had a mild outbreak of PM AGAIN :( Realizing that it's in my duct work, I did a few things: 1- started a regimen of Dr Zyme (medium strength) This, along with some other foliar sprays (compost teas and diluted fish emulsion biomarine) gets me in the habit of checking daily and feeding thru the leaves, which showed me great gains on the last grow , 2 - Keeping my humidity up around 60% and as close to a 'green' value of Vapor Pressure Deficit, encouraging stomatic intake of CO2 (i think) and prolly making it harder for mildew spores to propogate in the air... 3- bought a UVC light in case shit gets outta control. (I did my research on this one, but will only experiment in this realm if it gets completely fubar'ed) 4- considering buying a UVC light for my ducts/furnace output, and will revisit this after the grow
Put 8 plants in the flower room and in the 1 gallon (yes, i know they're small) along with some cover crop (assorted clover from Build-a-soil). I chose smaller plants/pots because:
1- Chocolope is a heavy sativa hybrid.... This ol girl will stretch in the first week of flowering anyway, and with a 13 week flowering period, i can assume a solid 10 days or 2 weeks total of stretching, so I don't want another jungle of sativa that i have to top like crazy, especially going into summer with an indoor room that i've some history of having temp issues in the past in...
2- I tend to over-water my plants, 1 gallon pots should whizz thru the h2o quicker than my 3 gallon pots i'm used to using...
3- I'm reintroducing co2 to the mix... I saw insane results last time i did it and look forward to kickstarting the stretch in the first week with said compressed co2 tank and an electric slow release valve selanoid dealie. I got hella timers and set up all the fans to die for an hour while the co2 fills the room, and chills for 20 mins before the fans and filters kick back on again
Just being hyper anal about the temp and humidity on this grow, still feeding it some weak 'week 4' general organics mixture with diamond black added to encourage the roots to boogie.. I'll start a flowering feed next week when i put the hps'es up.. more pics coming... please, Growdiaries, YELL AT ME WHEN I'M BOTCHING SOMETHING UP, as I want to make this disp level erb... TY :)