SolFire / Mind Flayer

funkyb Day 8 as-of this weeks image (treating as end of week 1). Gradually upped EC from 0.5 & 2oz to 1.2 & 4oz with a dose of recharge today.

funkyb End of Week 2. Gals are looking good, transplanting to the 4x4 and APs in two days. First day of week 3 transplanted into the 4x4.

funkyb Bouncing back from transplant. Intend to top soon.

funkyb Through week 4 a lot of change - had 2 of the 4 respond poorly to one fertigation event, it was the day after we topped them. Not sure if that is related but thinking is it was a PH issue on 2 of the 4 jugs prepared the day prior. Flushed them a bit earlier than normal with 1.4ec freshly mixed & tuned to 5.8, which seemed to stop any further issue progression. At end of week 4, installed the AP trays & rez, flipped to sub-irrigation. Also took time for initial LST - snapped a branch by accident on the largest plant, taped it up & will monitor to see if it can recover. Started rez with a light dose of UC Roots to keep things clean.

funkyb Shut off the rez for 2d dryback before end of week 5, completed 2nd round of defoil + training, turned rez back on w/ slightly lower ec @ 1.4 while they recover.

funkyb Bumped EC to ~1.5. Seeing signs they're hungry and need more mag. End of wk 6 re-trained, installed trellis, and on last day of week flipped to flower timings.

funkyb Flip week. Developed concern of early lockout, ran low EC in rez for most of the week, followed by a higher EC flush + recharge. Plants liked it and more pics on week 8 but have eventually moved back to rez at 1.35 ec.

funkyb Stabilized after the low-ec res and flush events, back to 1.35ec and they seem happy. well into stretch, lowered trellis last day of w8.

funkyb finishing week 3 of stretch. Plants started to look pale, unclear if it was leaving the rez on too much vs. just hungry for higher EC. Towards end of week pulled them out of the trays and put drip trays in to give them a top-feed with generous runoff + some recharge. Pics of that are more in next week's photos.

funkyb Plants in drip trays + top feed for now. Bumped the the EC over time, walked from 1.4 to 1.6 at end of week. Between that + recharge + allowing runoff color is returning nicely. Stretch appears done now and completed a light d21 flower defoil + lollypop. Will likely give 1-2 more top feeds w/runoff before returning to trays/rez.

funkyb Kept them out of the trays and continued to top feed. They seem to like it a lot better - tells me I have some learning to do with rez on/off times in APs. Going strong now!

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funkyb Entering the proverbial "2 more weeks"! Plants looking good, bulked a lot over the last week. I had concerns my cheapo EC meter was off and got a replacement cheapo - sure enough, they were 0.3EC different from each other which is too much for my comfort. Ended up deciding to get a nicer one and am using a 3pt calibrated Apera EC60 now - much better and while the newer cheapo is closer to it, it's still about 0.2EC different (meaning for the week my old pen was off, i could have been 0.5EC higher than i thought I was. Yikes!

funkyb Gals are hardening up, guessing 1 more week or so, starting to monitor trichomes. Stopped MKP a few weeks ago but seeng some signs of K def so adding in a small amount at the end of this week (0.5g/gal).

funkyb Why oh why doesn't growdiaries allow grams per gallon for feed inputs... Anyways things looking good and plants are thirsty girls! Going through maybe 6-7 gallons every 1-2 days. Trichomes are almost ready. I expect to chop sometime in the next week, and how I don't mess up the dry!

funkyb Amazing harvest. Weights quoted are dry (we didn't weigh wet) - can't figure out how to change "wet" to "dry" on the GD interface. dense and sparkly buds w/ heavy overall yield, exceeded expectations. Note post-trim pics don't show all plants; didn't think to take pics of 2 of them before grove bagging them to cure.