Real Growers Challenge 2022

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: This is a STUNTED Grow. Do not use these pictures to gauge your own grow. They were: Overwatered Burned the hell out of them with too much light As I write this it is Week 5 and they are healing and now growing normally, but they are behind at least 2 weeks. Expect growth to be closer to normal by Week 7. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day 22 - Photos & Notes: • Added Mosquito Bits as a "Cover" to Fend Off Future Fungus Gnats. • Re-Calibrated my Apera pH pen and set the Reservoir to 5.8 pH. • Used a 20 ml Syringe and gave each plant some very light nutrients and other bio-stimulants to encourage growth into the Grow Dot zone. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day 23 & 18 - Photos & Notes: Double Grape is starting to add to biomass. That's comforting. Super Skunk has the funniest Pheno with the split leaf. Photographer Note: No more Foliar with Recharge or Kelp & Seaweed. Those really made the leaves look horrible. I did put 8 oz of light nutrients and bio-stimulants around the outer perimeter and about 4 oz circle within 3 inches of the base of the stem. Hopefully, this can be the last outside nutrients before the roots find the Grow Dot laced coco. After that, I intend to do a Sunday top drench of Recharge (once a week). Most likely, I will make a cocktail of Recharge, Kelp & Seaweed with some Humboldt Enzymes. The coco is already bottom feeding SLF-100 enzymes. I'm also toying with the idea of shutting off the water valves from the reservoir and having the AutoPot valve chambers begin to lower, add in a Recharge mix from the bottom. Once that fluid volume drops then turn back on the water valve to the reservoir. I'll certainly try it once. The pictures tonight are not that great, but I did want to document the sizes. I won't continue size monitor after they are out of the seedling stage. Height might be more important during full-on veg. ------------------------------------------- Day 23 & 18 - Photos & Notes: Double Grape is starting to add to biomass. That's comforting. Super Skunk has the funniest Pheno with the split leaf. Photographer Note: No more Foliar with Recharge or Kelp & Seaweed. Those really made the leaves look horrible. I did put 8 oz of light nutrients and bio-stimulants around the outer perimeter and about 4 oz circle within 3 inches of the base of the stem. Hopefully, this can be the last outside nutrients before the roots find the Grow Dot laced coco. After that, I intend to do a Sunday top drench of Recharge (once a week). Most likely, I will make a cocktail of Recharge, Kelp & Seaweed with some Humboldt Enzymes. The coco is already bottom feeding SLF-100 enzymes. I'm also toying with the idea of shutting off the water valves from the reservoir and having the AutoPot valve chambers begin to lower, add in a Recharge mix from the bottom. Once that fluid volume drops then turn back on the water valve to the reservoir. I'll certainly try it once. The pictures tonight are not that great, but I did want to document the sizes. I won't continue size monitor after they are out of the seedling stage. Height might be more important during full-on veg. --------------------------------- Day 26 & Day 21: Nice growth. It looks like any problems from the start are continuing to fade into the distance. Plants are shut off from the reservoir, while I load up Recharge and some enzymes from the AutoPot valve chamber. Note how the Double Grape's initial light damaged leaves are not really noticeable anymore. Plus, Super Skunk is now growing in normal leaves. --------------------------------------------------------- Day 27 -- Stats VPD is better. Mainly, because I added a Swamp Cooler. They may not really cool all that well, but they do add extra humidity to help with my purpose-built humidifier. --------------------------------------------------------- Day 28 - Stats & Notes Last day of Week 4 Notes: • Raised the DLI to 32 • New Macro Lens Arrives today, pictures to follow. - This new lens is meant for trichome photography, but I'll give it whirl on the young plants as well. • Started logging reservoir temp. - Turned of Rez Agitator to see if its motor adds to increased temps.