1st Scrog-Blue Dream with Timber COBs

Welcome to flower week #2. Please feel free to jump in if you see me making any errors….I welcome feedback as I’m always learning. 10/2. No water or feed today as I gave them 3.5 gallons yesterday. I’m struggling with whether to conduct a heavy defoliation before putting the second scrog net on. I plan to start defoliating over coffee this morning and see how far I’m willing to take this. I will install the trellis net when I’m finished today. As far as lighting, the plants are receiving 47,000 lux at 15 inches (dimmer on full) 10/3 Fed 3 gallons of nutrients….over 1,100 ppm on the feed due to high ppm on my tap water (300 ppm). By the time I add cal mag, I’m at 500 ppm before adding anything! I also use an aquarium solution to neutralize the chloramines in the water. 10/4. No feed or water today. Installed second trellis net, tucked leaves. 10/5. Changing nutes….going to try MegaCrop dry fertilizer instead of the very full line of GH products. Supposed to grow great cannabis with less hassle. Mixed 5g per gallon of Megacrop and 1g per gallon of Bud Explosion. Unlike GH, the feed was at 6.5 ph without any adjustments. Very nice. High scores so far for simplicity. Let’s see how the plants react. Fed 3 gallons (1 gallon of RO). 1077 ppm in the feed. 10/6. Seeing the start of some brown tips….might have pushed too hard here. Fed 1 gallon each of water (50% RO water) with cal mag, silica and seaweed extract. Ppm at 770. Hope to prevent any further damage to leaves. 10/7. Wow….have they exploded! They’ve only gained 2” this week, but grew 1” last night. I believe the stretch has officially started. Raised the light from a 14” gap to a 16” gap. That provides 47,000 lux worth of lighting. I’m no longer weaving branches into the net….only using it to separate the colas and provide sufficient light and airflow. Fed 3.5 gallons (1.75 gallons each) of lower ppm nutrient to flush out more salts from the soil. Used 3g/gallon (recommended is 5g/gallon) of Megacrop and 1g/gallon of Bud Explosion. 900 ppm feed going into the plant. Runoff at 2070 ppm. I will start watering with more runoff to flush out more salts as I go….probably start using 4 gallons next time. No more Seaweed extract starting today as I don’t believe it’s beneficial in flower mode.i do get a small amount of runoff regularly when I water, but I am apparently not getting enough to flush out salts. It’s too early to credit the new fertilizer with this good-looking growth as I’ve only fed it once. But they look very healthy. 10/8. Last day of the flowering week 2. Fed 4.75 gallons of feed. I am seeing a lot of residual salts, so I’m feeding a lot more to drive excess runoff. 1050 ppm feed. 1900 ppm runoff. Collected 1.75 gallons of runoff water, so each plant held 1.5 gallons. See you next week!