Real Growers Challenge 2022

Day 36 - Today's highlights: Both plants have exposed pistils. It's on! -------------------------------------------------------- Day 36 & 30 Notes (from late last night):​ •. I wasn't comfortable feeding back the runoff water into the AquaValve compartment. •. E.C. became too high. •. I diluted one-gallon of Run Off water to 0.836 E.C. • Added 3 more gallons of RO water with the following additions: (a) SLF-100 Enzymes (b) Mono-silicic Acid (c) Mr. Fulvic • New E.C. -- 0.336 (more inline to what was in Rez) • pH'd to 6.00 • 4 gallons total to Rez • New Depth: 17.25 inches -------------------------------------------------------- Day 37 & 31 Notes:​ Nothing of significance. -------------------------------------------------------- Day 40 (SS) & Day 35 (DG)​ Notable: (1) Day 40 - Super Skunk is Topped (2) Day 35 - Double Grape is sort of Topped. Closer to FIM (unintentional) (3) Drained AquaValve Chamber after CA/MG treatment. • Measured 4.39 pH & 2.19 EC • Corrected to: 6.00 pH & new EC of 2.285 • Turned Reservoir Back On - let valves stabilize. -------------------------------------------------------- More Day 40 & 35 Photos Potential Bud Sites ​ These ladies are not happy with me. They just started learning about "tucking." The rest are just showing you potential bud sites from the angle I was shooting. It's not a comprehensive photo shoot. There were flower locations not seen. -------------------------------------------------------- Day 41 - A New Day​ Follow up to: Operation Raise My Damn pH • This morning my ACV pH was 5.18. At least it is out of the 4's. • After recycling and treating (adjusting pH & EC) the Runoff Water, my 12-gallon reservoir is almost full and measures 19" deep. • The Reservoir now has an EC of 1.16 (3x the usual 0.350 EC) -- 6.00 pH • As mentioned last night, I wasn't going to waste the dissolved Grow Dot nutrients by dumping runoff water • The fluid was reused over & over during the runoff exercise • Then pH raised and dilluted to keep under 1.5 EC (because there are still nutrients suspended in the soil) • The water was filtered of Coco debris and the ocassional Fungus Gnat - There was surprising little coco to filter. I must have washed it well to start Now it is Day 41 for the Super Skunk and 36 for the Double Grape ​ Notable: At Day 41 there is almost no sign of impending flowering for the Super Skunk. Not gonna sweat it for now It better not turn out to be a Regular On the other hand: The Double Grape is sprouting pistils all over, just no organize cluster yet. -------------------------------------------------------- Day 42 & 37 More Spots Thursday Last Day of Week 6 Overall​ Still getting leaf issues. My guess is that they were in the process (but not as visible) when I discovered the others yesterday. Recap on my choices for corrections. From Before: Coco was super "hot" and very acidic (pH on average about 4.2) in the AquaValve Compartment (AVC). I started siphoning out liquid from the (AVC). Then I raised pH of siphoned liquid back to 6.4 (ish) and pour back through coco. Once the mixture settled back in AVC, I would raise pH to about 6.2. Re-open valves, replace cover and call it a night. Thoughts: I'm not ready to throw blame on the Grow Dot nutrients. For now, I am going to blame very low pH Coco. Still perplexed as to how I can pour RO water that is pH'd almost to 7.00 through multiple times and still get pH in the 4.xx range Maybe I didn't charge the Coco enough. Next time I'll do an overnight soak with Ca/Mg at 1.5 bottle rate for gallon My new technique is working at bringing the AVC fluids to the higher 5.xx's.