09/22 Le sigh!
OK, after having to flush both plants because of a soil pH issue (and resultant nutrient lockout), I now believe that I got a bum bail of Sunshine #4. Others have reported that some bails seem to go way acidic all on their own. I seem to have one of those bails.
I have some dolomite lime that I'll be top dressing with, but if I ever decide to use any more from this bail, I'm going to be amending it with more dolomite. I'm thinking about setting up a test pot that I just water and monitor the pH in and see if it's safe before I try growing anything else in it. My first grow had the same issue but I thought it was because I wasn't keeping up with calibration of the pH pen or some other newbie mistake. Well now twice in a row, and me being ultra vigilant about pH, and I'm left conclude that is the stupid soil. The run off pH had been creeping down, but it finally fell "off the cliff" and all I could do was flush until it came back into range, but I know that didn't fix anything. I just have to the dolomite top dress in there and then deal with amending the soil if I decide to use it again.
I caught it earlier this time, so the damage isn't so bad, but I was hoping these girls would more presentable to the end. Hopefully no harm, no foul.
I am amazed at how different the phenotypes are. AC #1 has that purple thing going on and is only showing a little frost at this point. She also doesn't smell that strong. On the other hand AC #2 smells all dank and fuely and the buds are really putting on weight.
There are more stacks coming.
****Weeks 4 and 5 got run together (it seems odd that this is coincident with the weirdness in the display mode.) I manually separated when I discovered it way out in week 11/12 (it took me a few days to figure out what happened.)****
The calendar should look like this:
Week 0 7/27/22 (seedlings broke the surface of the growing medium)
Week 1 8/3/22
Week 2 8/10/22
Week 3 8/17/22
Week 4 8/24/22
Week 5 8/31/22
Week 6 9/7/22
Week 7 9/14/22
Week 8 9/21/22
Week 9 9/28/22
Week 10 10/5/22
Week 11 10/12/22
Week 12 10/19/22
@delray_kevin, I use the used solution from my RDWC to water my tomatoes and paprika....paprika is still green, but the tomatoes are the biggest motherfu##s i ever saw. Good luck with all your ventures 😎🍻🍅
@Metatronix, thanks man! I appreciate it. They're both starting to look like plants instead of a couple of leaves stuck to the top of the pot! 😁
Me thinks that they're both going to get a little Recharge today, I've never used it in my grows, but picked up a bag after my last grow and have been using it on tomatoes and peppers with some pretty nice results. I was waiting for them to get some substance to them before trying here. I think this is the day... Yet another experiement.