Day 50: Stretching decreases, leaves looking good. pH is still 7.5.
Day 52: pH dropped to 7.2
Day 54: Watered 3L, pH 5.5, 700 ppm.
Runoff 300 ml, pH 7.4, 610 ppm.
Day 56: Watered 3.5 L, pH 5.5, 760 ppm.
Runoff 500 ml, pH 7.5, 750 ppm.
I’m impressed by how resilient this strain is! Due to a bad soil mix pH is buffering to 7.5 always. I thought it will get lower in time if I feed with pH 5.5. Still runoff is 7.5 every time. The plant looks very strong and healthy, no signs of pH imbalance, no burnt tips, lots of green leaves and bud sites. First trichomes appear. In the beginning I thought she will die soon and if not, will be weak. But she did so well! Royal AK is definitely a strain worth trying.
@bobo66, good results! I don’t think there’s a huge difference between the most popular stocks, as genetics and technology is pretty similar. Proper selection from scratch would take decades. They produce at least few strains every year. That means they are keeping the wave of strong genomes by constant crossing the most good-looking phenos. All base strains were developed long time ago. Anyways, RQS is one of my favourites.