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Here we go, am I crazy doing this and some outdoor ones? You decide!
Tent has been cleaned and cleared out from the last grow, no other choice but to start up a new round!
Tent settings currently at 70-90% RH, 70-82F, light at 50% intensity.
6/21/22 - Two nice little seedlings have sprouted. I've switched the light intensity to 100% for the temperature boost, will keep an eye out to see if that does any harm. One thing I've noticed is that the tent keeps pooling water because of the humidifier, not sure if that's the fan placement or what but it's becoming a problem. I'm keeping the humidity at like 75% at this stage, just making some adjustments to try and correct that.
6/24/22 - Oh you'll love this. I discovered I had the fans and lights plugged in backwards; fans were connected to the switch and lights were always on. So these poor plants have been subjected to 24 hours non-stop light and sitting in probably 100% humidity at night. Fortunately I've caught it now and will get back on track...
Planned to give them 400ml each but since they're still little seedlings, the soil still feels heavy/moist, and the humidity likely shooting up at night, I just did an easy 200ml each.
So will continue to monitor and make sure things are good; I've been drying out the tent every morning but may take it apart just a bit and give it a good dry down to be safe.
6/26/22 - Oops. Gave them 400ml each today. Need to remember that they will likely not need water for a bit, especially with the high humidity.
7/1/22 - Going to try and start lowering the humidity a bit, 5% each week? Gave them both 800ml this morning, not much else going on! Growing nicely compared to last time, so we should be on track. Will probably water in a few days if they soak all this up.
7/5/22 - Gave them both 1200ml early afternoon, what's odd is that they're growing well enough but they're not stretching upwards at all it seems. Shouldn't be any issues with nutrients as they're still in relatively new FFOF, and again the plants look healthy enough. Will try to do some digging into this.
Actually coming back to this issue I wonder if it has to do with the light intensity. I've had them at 100% basically this whole time, last plants I tapered it from 50%, could have given them incentive to stretch upwards more.
7/10/22 - Ahhh waited a bit too long between watering, but they should bounce back from this. One of the plants was looking thirsty, the other one seemed to be okay. Gave them both 1200ml, 6.5ph, no nutrients yet. May start next week.
Still weirdly flat and dense compared to the outdoor ones which are tall and sparse. Humidity down to between 50-60%.
7/14/22 - 1200ml each again, nutrients next week I think. Still very dense and not growing tall, very bizarre.
7/17/22 - Oops, starting to wilt. I can't believe I'm UNDERWATERING when overwatering seems to be the biggest mistake. Just going to put them on a schedule of watering every three days for the time being. 1600ml today. Hopefully I didn't stunt them.
7/24/22 - Pretty much need to water these guys every other day; 1600ml. Giving bloom nutrients. They're starting to stretch out now, lifting the light up helped I think.
7/31/22 - Growing nicely and lots of nodes, but starting to see yellowing and dying leaves making their way up. Not sure why. Just sticking with the schedule, watering every other day, roughly half a gallon each. Doing nutrients on Sundays :)
8/6/22 - Doubled the calmag to 1tsp per gal to see if that helps with the yellowing/rusting. Did a lot of defoliating between the two of them. Been sticking with 1600ml every other day.
Nutrients stopped for about two weeks now. There's a slight "planty" smell in the tent, not quite musty, but all the leaves near the top have crisped up and died, soil is compact and doesn't seem to absorb water. However, new growth at bottom is lush and green, thrown by that.
Boy, you've got me stumped... you really do! All I can tell you is that the plant is basically toast which you know already... The only thing I'd like to point out is your watering... I know, reading through every week of your diary, you were concerned that you might overwater ... but I think you were TOO worried about that. Overwatering is a state of always being wet... never having the soil dry... and overwatering is more of a concern when the plants are really young - from seedling to veg... I noticed also that you were on a strict schedule as to when you watered and what day you gave nutes... A better option would be to let the plant tell you when it needs something... from veg on through harvest, get used to juding when the pot is dry by picking it up ... if it's super lightweight, it needs something... you can actually get to tell when there's just a little bit of water in there and even WHERE that water might be... but that's beside the point. If the pot is heavy, don't water... if the pot is light, water... And also most people will follow a schedule of water/feed/water/feed or water/water/feed/water/water... so you MAY be feeding on Sundays - but you might also be feeding on Wednesday or any other day of the week.
The other thing about watering is that when you DO give it just plain water, you need to water it enough so that there is water running out from the bottom. I always have a saucer under my pot and when water runs out, I let it sit in the saucer for about 15-30 minutes to see if the soil soaks it up from the saucer - and it usually does, especially if I've let the plant go a day too long - the soil gets so dry, it can't soak the water up immediately and it runs out. I water mine until there is standing water left in the saucer... if the plant soaks it up, I give it more water, etc. After 30 minutes or so, if there's still water in the saucer, I dump it out because you don't want your plant to have "wet feet" which could lead to root rot. What having this kind of runoff does is helps the soil clean out the excess nutrients and the salts that might be building up in it which could cause things like a calcium lockout... meaning your plant just can't absorb the calcium even if you're giving it calmag..
I have ZERO explanation for why your plant died so quickly or why your soil seemed not to absorb water... everything I've read about that condition just seems not to apply... I'm sorry your grow ended up this way - but don't give up!
Good luck
rividium
