Herbies Beginner Auto Mix Grow

Day 38 - Girls did surprisingly well with dad away for 4 nights, and the flowering has moved ahead on all. Bud site spacing on the Ape Fruit Auto is mint and the LST has paid off, but the other two are still a bit dense to be workable, which is leading me to consider defoliation. Will need to seek advice! Day 39 - Quiet shoutout to @Roberts and @GrowingGrannie for swiftly coming back to me about my deficiency, which would appear to be calcium. I don't have any liquid nutes that target calcium/magnesium in particular and they don't seem to be available at regular garden shops (other than a Hydrangea Pinking Liquid which is 47% calcium by volume!). I'll have to do some recon of grow shops on the weekend. To answer a question, I'm still using a homeopathic dose of vegetative nutrients because a couple of places recommended it in the transition to flower. No feed today, but girls are getting 1L of water at a time and producing very little run through, however the run-off has tested at 6.3 ph, which is about what goes in (water-wise) according to my Bluelab pen. Nervous about the calcium deficiency being allowed to run its course until the weekend, but not well-positioned to deal to it until the weekend! Day 40 - Flowering continues but the AFA looks to be a solid week ahead of its contemporaries (or perhaps my LST has just been much more effective for it). Really disappointed with the Godzilla Cookies Auto just because it remains a giant jazz cabbage that I can barely get amongst to train. In my next grow I am going to use air pots that I can tie to in all directions because these fabric pots have their limitations. Girls got another feed with both a decent dose of bloom nutes and a homeopathic dose of veg nutes. They continue to show signs of calcium deficiency and I cannot wait to pick up some calmag tomorrow. Day 41 - Worked on the girls while a little bit wazzed and must say they are hanging in there, calcium deficiency and all. In fact, can I confess I felt something like affectionate attraction towards the myriad budsites of the AFA? She has been such a good girl, happy to be trained to my whims, utterly lacking in apical dominance. I got so excited I took an "artistic" bokkeh-filled photo of the phuture phrostiness. She quivered in the light breeze of the oscillating fan. Ahem. Day 42 - Finally got some Flairform CMX with the intention of addressing my deficiency issues diagnosed as calcium deficiency, only to have that diagnosis immediately cast into doubt. After reading that calcium is an immobile nutrient, it doesn't make a great deal of sense that the yellowing off/die-off has been focused on the lower leaves. However, I don't think the homeopathic dose of calmag is gonna do any damage. Upped my bloom nutrients to 4.5ml per litre and cut out the vegetative nutrients as suggested. Sugar leaves on the budsites look awesome!