~CherryPie~FemaleSeeds~ Bad Landlord :(

Time to Acclimate! Small dose of nutrients & LEDs will go from 50 -75% over the course of the next week. ~~~~~~~~~~ Roots look good, transplanted and ready to explode through veg! Nutrients will be on next week's post - the above is what I use to acclimate.

Second set of leaves have popped out, roots are fixing to explode, and its gogogo veg time! ~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately found some red algae in the system a couple days back - this is due to the opening between the lids and buckets. Luckily the CEO of VisionaryHydro is a solid dude and he had already reached out to me with some free upgrades! Should be here within a couple weeks and I'll just have to deal with it for a second. HAH! Scratch that - the lids showed up via FedEx while I was typing out this diary entry - Fantastic! This red algae doesn't stand a chance with no more light to live on (the new lids sit flush and have some overhang), and I will end up pumping it all out with old nutes. ~~~~~~~~~~ Lights will go from 75-100% this week

I transplanted too early! Myyyy bad, I knew better. After dealing with the electricity at my new place shutting off repeatedly and having to start over - was a bit stressed and itching to get things going. Lesson learned; I will always let my seedlings go 14 days before transplanting in DWC. Part of the issue was my AC, after all was figured out and fixed, I had a couple nights that got too cold after transplanting - this coupled with a root system that just wasn't ready / big enough just yet lead to some transplant shock. One plant keeled over during one of the cold nights and never popped back up, another almost did and is stunted but still growing (kept her water level at 4gls to encourage her root system to pop this week - one or two top feeds to keep her from drying out and keeling). A third plant decided that the LED's were a bit too much - had it not been for the transplant shock, she would likely be just fine like the other 3. Felt prudent to keep the LED's at ~85 all things considered; they will be up too 100% by end of week! ~~~~~~~~~~ The roots on the gals that took the transplant shock like champs look good and ready to take off! Pony pump worked like a charm 🙏🙏🙏

We got the AC and electrical figured out at the new place for the grow - awesome... However, the house AC unit turns out isn't good enough to cool the whole house, the unit is too small. We had two professionals come in and confirm that the unit is fine - just too small for this sized house. Every day the temp in this place climbs to 80F, my child has autism and is constantly gogogo playing - she cannot live under those conditions or risk a heat stroke etc. Because the unit is constantly running - our bill was a chunk more than it should have been. My landlord doesn't seem to care, and because no past tenant has ever complained - she's not replacing the unit. When I expressed that this was not ok she offered to let me out of our lease, cool beans...next day she's for whatever reason not ok with my indoor grow and threatens to evict. She is completely in the wrong and I have broken zero laws, and have been entirely agreeable up till this point, but I simply do not have the time, patience, let alone the money to pursue her in court over this garbage. So, sadly I was forced to trash these plants and put any/all plans aside while I hunt down another place to settle and start over. 😓 ~~~~~~~~~~ Plants were looking good though here at 29 days, the two that were showing signs of transplant shock were still going. The one with some LED stress would have grown out of it as she got bigger I'm sure - and the little gal had a root system that was starting to explode, she would have made it just fine. Would have been time to top and start mainlining, trellis after that. Towards the beginning of this grow I had thought I had some red algae pop up due to the old Hydrobucket lids letting in some light - I was wrong! Turns out that Southern AG bacillus is just waaaaay way more concentrated than hydroguard, I should have noted this and gave them .5 rather than 2ml. No harm done, you cannot really OD on bennies, they simply start to die off as there they culture and less food is available and can eat at your roots - these two things can start to resemble rot. (I feed my bennies to avoid this, fish emulsion and/or molasses - keeps the issue at a minimal and allows for smaller doses). A good example of this is my Alien Rock Candy diary - check the harvest day, picture of the roots. Thats what it would look like - I was using more photo-plus than was needed. Not something that will harm your plant per say, but it will result in smaller roots and some opportunity for growth lost. ~~~~~~~~~~ In-depth information regarding my day-to-day / common practice may be found on the front page of my profile (in the comments). Questions & Feedback are welcomed, feel free to message me! Thanks for stopping by growmies! 🤙🤙🤙🙏🙏🙏