02.07.2022 Day 22
I'm switching to daily watering and now I have to find out the appetites of the plant. It is unlikely that there will be daily watering only with nutrients (according to the needs of the plant), but calcium deficiency has habitually appeared on the lower leaves. Therefore, I will add Cal Mag until it is restored.
I continue LST and today I made a mistake. Stretching the shoots, I noticed that one (which was smaller than the others) broke off at the very base by 80%. I stuck it in place with duct tape as best I could, let's see if it will survive or not (in the photo it has a wilted leaf). Even if not, nothing critical - everything will be occupied in the tent anyway, I have no doubt.
08.07.2022 Day 28
Over the past week, the heat has only intensified and the temperature in the tent has reached an indecent 32 degrees. I brought a fan and lowered the temperature to 30 degrees, too high, but tolerable. The humidity ranges from 45 to 55%, which is quite normal.
Meanwhile, the Star has been at the vegetation stage for almost a month, and at the moment I do not plan to transfer it to flowering yet, but it will be soon, more than half of the vegetation stage has definitely passed.
I have almost finished LST now. He started very aggressively - what did not bend, then broke, then wrapped with duct tape and bent by 90 grams with fixators (there are 2 such shoots). After the injury of the latter, I became a little more careful, and then one of the corners had to be manually filled with shoots, because a bald spot formed. That's what I was doing today - spreading branches on the right sides. Now, in my opinion, everything is growing in more or less the right positions, I want to give the plant time to move away from the constant LST and start stretching upwards, after that I will calmly transfer to flowering.
I'm still guessing the nutrition, the plant does not eat very willingly, but the size of the bush itself is small.
Traces of burns from nutrient solution hits are visible on the leaves, tk "skrog" from rubber bands and leaves does not help simplify watering.
Otherwise, the Star has a healthy, green color of leaves, the coming shortage of Kalmag has been eliminated, now I will feed it with a nutrient solution.
Speaking about the smell - filter while, of course, it makes no sense to attach, but if you touch the leaf carefully, the smell will remain on your hands. It smells like a classic, but there is something else that adds aggression and hints that before the flowering, the filter will need to be attached without fail.
Ok now that's interesting too. I'm learning . Alot here . Lol .
But gotta ask , I saw some red lights. Is that something u have one 24hrs or with the light cycle? Honestly never seen it so donno what I'd even have to Google to learn about it ..
Appreciate your insight and these diaries are golden. Thx for sharing
@Grow4Releaf,Thank you, it's a pleasure. Do you mean separate booster line with 660 nm diodes or do you mean red diodes on the upper lamp?
If there are red diodes that illuminate the tent in red while the main light is not on, these are far red diodes that simulate dawn and sunset to accelerate the transition of the plant from the daytime to the night phase and vice versa. The first two weeks work all day, then until the end of the cycle for half an hour at the end and beginning of the day, 15 minutes of which falls on the period before / after switching on / off the main light.