1st Scrog-Blue Dream with Timber COBs

Entering week 6 of flower and things are looking good so far. This is reportedly a 7-9 week flowering strain, but I bet I go 10+ weeks. Canopy is thicker than I would like to see, but I believe I’m too far into flower to defoliate further. My concern is air movement around colas and preventing bud rot. I will be researching defoliation today. Colas are surprisingly small on one Blue Dream and even smaller on the other. Perhaps this strain doesn’t produce large colas, or I’ve done something wrong. 3 fans on the canopy (1 from below, 2 from above) to keep air moving. The oscillating fans are programmed to run at higher speeds as temperatures rise, so the plants get a break from the high velocity at night. Fingers crossed this is enough. I decided to test some ACI sidelight LEDs. After an easy install, I decided to order another set to get more light around the SCROG canopy. If I had defoliated better, it would not be as much of an issue. But based on the easy manageability and the flat canopy, I’m planning to stick with SCROG in the future. So far I’m not seeing any light stress near these sidelights. Recommended at 100% intensity and 6 inch distance. Also added the Agromax UVB lamp and tested that yesterday. I plan to run it for three 10 minute sessions per day. I will increase next week. Seeing some nutrient burn and possibly light burn on a few leaves otherwise. I Fed 3 gallons of 6.5 ph nutrients at 800ppm today. Runoff at 1400 ppm. So Im not seeing any heavy salt buildup any more…..not like before when I was over 2000 ppm runoff. UV Exposure notes: More trichome development on the rear of canopy by day 4. I think Im seeing a difference with UV. Front buds could be blocked by LED, and UV rays don’t reflect off Mylar tent walls. So I suspect the rear buds will end up more frosty unless I shift the lamp location around every day. Feeding notes for the week (the boring stuff) Sunday. 3 gallons, 6.5 ph, 800 ppm, runoff at 1400 ppm. Used 3grams/gallon of MegaCrog, 5ml/gallon of homemade Terpinator, 8ml of Cal Mag total. Monday. 3 gallons with Floraclean….waited 30 minutes, then 2 gallons with Megacrop (2gram/gallon), Terpinator, Sweet Candy and Bud Explosion at 1g/gallon. Trying to flush some excess salts from soil due to burnt leaf tips. Tuesday. No water or nutrients today. Let them dry out. Wednesday Fed 4 gallons of water with 4.8g/gallon of MegaCrop and 5ml/gallon of Terpinator. 850 feed ppm. 1300 runoff ppm. 6.5 ph on feed. Forgot to add CalMag despite adding a gallon of RO water! Dangit! Thursday: added 2.75 gallons of water without MegaCrop. Added 1g/gallon of Bud Explosion, 6ml/gallon of homemade Terpinator. Ph to 6.5. 4 ml Cal mag too. Friday. No water or nutrients Saturday. Watered with 5g/gallon MC and 1g/gallon of Bud Explosion