Coming into week 2 I got a little concerned the light was too close to the girls as I was seeing a bit of yellowing on the leaves so I've raised it up a good bit.
I've also made up a big batch of pH controlled nutes and kept it in a dark cool cupboard to ward off any growth. My tap water comes in around pH 7.5 but luckily the canna nutes to my spec brings it down to a perfect pH 5.6 - 5.8
If you've got slightly alkaline water this'll take out the need for some of the checks but it's still wise to keep the levels measured.
Also I'm taking a Simpsons theme for the naming. Meet Marge, Lisa and Maggie.
Day 12 and Lisa's recovered from the yellowing, she's not been too badly affected but there's an obvious slightly slower growth. Somehow Maggie caught up with the others and looks like she'd sprouted the same day instead of 3 apart.
The new lights are hella strong so I'll need to make sure LST is kept up on once we're into week 3 to avoid the height getting out of control and growing too close to the lights. Also the pH balancing has been a godsend, already noticing a massive difference between the two grows.
Nice my friend, I would definitely recommend topping as it can seriously increase yield and I find it easier to lst.
Buy if your gonna top then do it just before you feed then it helps with the stress πππ
@Kommandant666, never fimmed mate only ever topped and trust me I wouldn't go back to natural.
Key is nice healthy plant growing day by day top between the 2nd or 3rd week depending on growth and after you do it feed them it helps with the stress
I seen a guy put a small bucket in his tent with a towel half in and out if the bucket, pointed the fan at it and the towel acted like a wick and brought water up then when the fan air hit it presto it raised it and in the plus side if it goes up to much you can lift it out πππ
@Green_fiend, I actually tried the towel method with my NLA grow but it didn't work so well, a lot of hovering over it and making sure it didn't dry or get too humid. Wound up just placing a water dish in the corner and letting the heat from the lights do the work. Normally sit around 35% and that raised it to a nice 42 - 48% pretty reliably. Think there needs to be a pretty specific temp range for it to work like this tho, just been super lucky π