My inexperience finally caught up to me in Wks 4-5. I should've used a PK booster on the big girl for Wks 3-6 of flower but didn't recognize the signs, upped CalMag which did nothing, and stressed too much about the purple stems and MagSulfate instead.
It didn't ruin anything but I could sense a slow-down in Wk 5 for a couple days. Because I'm in Blumats (and ran out of Big Bud last week, which I'm done with) I watered in (just the big girl) 1ml of Koolbloom into 20oz of water twice in 3 days, and I'll give her 1 more of those before I stop feeding her. Plants should typically need nothing with this GrowDots/Blumats system from seed to harvest, but really big girls need to feed, so lesson learned! Thanks again to WTTGT on youtube for all the vids- he's simplified so much of this stuff for me in the last 2 months.
The leaves that were already showing spots, and discoloration probably got a little worse in a week but not terrible and some of it looks inevitable, but it did spread some to other leaves. Clearly a PK deficiency with all the spots and yellowing. I think the Big Bud helped a little, and I hope the Koolbloom helps a little more. In spite of that, the big girl is fattening up and nodes are connecting. I'm hoping to see more white pistils (?) turn orange- there's a tiny bit happening on Day 1 of Week 6 of flower. Again, NEXT TIME, future-me, bigger anything EATS MORE so I'll start with 5ml per g in my reservoir in Wk 3 next time- up to 10ml depending on how big the girl is and how pale she is in Wks 1-2 of flower.
Thanks for checking out the grow!
The other 2 are well-fed, turning purple and fattening too- I'm just hoping that giant girl is the gmo pheno! So many marijuanas! 2wks unless the big girl was stunted last week a little- dunno. Wk 6-7-8 should be fun!
Grow well homies! ππ€
I'm following this because of the Grow dots. I see they're becoming a little problematic. I hear they work best on autoflowers in coco/perlite because of the way they time release. I'm going to do a side by side on a couple of autos my next round and see what's up.
Good luck, your flowers are looking pretty good βοΈππ±
@Wanda, Thanks! I think some of it's the strain- wants to touch the light and eats a ton, and now it looks like could take at least 9 weeks flowering to finish.
I think the bigger issues were mostly my fault. The other 2 Growdots plants were well-fed but I should've seen how pale the monster was getting in wk 2-3 of flower and just used a PK booster- the bigger mistake was turning off the Calmag in coco loco and then letting her get 10" from the light.
I've run some Growdots in everything including just peat moss with some perlite and they work in everything but you're prob right that they work best with autos- 1 pot, no transplanting, 11 weeks. Happy experimenting! ππ