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Obviously 4 plants arent on week 1. They are on week 3 and 6. I also pre mix my nutrients in a 30 gallon container. Checkinh the tds before each feed due to evaporation. I cant mix this many nutrients and supplements 1 gallon at a time. I only add enzymes and microbes right before watering. I thought I had lost my MOJO. My last few grows were not great an all. I went back to my basics, see my very first diary and you'll understand. This one is starting that way. I'm also using airdomes in 4 pots. You put airdome in bottom of smart pot cove about 80% of it with pebbles and the rest with coco. My 4 biggest 1 week old plants have the airdome pumping 15 liters an hour. I alos built my first 30 gallon mixing station. Only thing I have to add is enzymes and microbes
Everything seems to be going well. 4 of the 6 inch tall plants are tied down 90 degrees with air domes pumping 15l an hour through hydro pebbles and coco. I'm having to water then a little every day. They are guzzling it. The 3 plants that look sort of mainline are budding nicely. Removing lower growth and popcorn buds. Gonna start Removing more big fan leaves in a week or 10 days and trim lower growth a little. All in all I think it's coming along
They really have jumped since last week. Feel free to compare. This is called a perpetual grow for you newbies. The idea is have enough plants at different weeks in life in hopes they follow each other by days or 3 weeks max. Replant 2 weeks before harvesting any plants or plant so they'll have a head start. Then harvest, plant seeds, harvest and so on. This way I'll never be far from some bud. Instead of waiting on a whole grow. I gave plants always a lot closed to being finished
Please let me know. I had started some very bad habits about growing and my results were obvious. I had gotten off track. I was over feeding over pruning stressing the plants too much. Now I water water feed, water water feed. Bought a humidifier for the seedlings, lmk thanks.
wow, you have individual parts for each nute it seems? Nice! total control over nute ratios and ppms.. love it.
The one pic looks liek you may have lollipopped or defoliated a little extra but certainly has enough canopy to finish. could also be the angle of the picture (top-down) exaggerating it.
less is more when removing leaves. They power all growth, so you want as much as you can without causing high local RH levels that might encourage microbial growth. ATP (energy for putting biological building blocks together - in our bodies too!) is mobile although a local leaf will provide more to local area on plant than one far away obviously.
Irrigation since you mentioned it... always water entire pot and you want 10% or more in soilless grow. This runoff is 'waste' water.. don't let them set in it. You can toss this water outside in a garden where the potential imbalances and concentration will be mitigated easily. Or, toss it down a drain.
EC is best way to measure this stuff, cause hanna, and 2 other companies use different conversion factors to "ppm or TDS". So, if i quote ppms and we have 2 different brand meters, it's impossible to communicate clearly for obvious reasons. So, if i mention ppm it's calculated from the labels which will be the same no matter who calculates them. Any meter reading on other hand is better to use EC or CF which is consistent around the world.
While you lok to have already dialed it in, a nutrient calculator is useful in a soilless or hydro grow, since we control 100% of what theplant receives. It really helps to track this stuff as you'll find clear-cut min/max levels that are very translateable between grows, though not 100% due to some genetic differences... but far less than most ppl perceive.
i regularly run 6-7 strains that are very happy with my mix. I don't need 5 reservoirs with 5 different concentrations. That's a sign of an imbalanced, esoteric mix.
Anyway, manic botanix has a nutrient ppm calcualter.. simply type in % off guaranteed analysis labels of products and tabulate it. If you know the math, you can easily make a re-usable spreadsheet. I have one around somewhere but it does not account for specific gravity, if that is needed for your products (my stuff is dry). W/v% or w/w% is key factor there.. labels should mention this distinction. believe it's the w/v% that needs SG? the manic botanix online thing does account for it.
Hello! I would say they all look good! The only one you can see that has suffered a bit is the purple one at 7 weeks of flowering, you can tell it had a burn from nutrients, but just giving it water like you are doing will be fine! The vegetative ones look great!!! You are very good don't worry, remember that "a little less" is always better than a little more...keep it up! anyway, another 2-3 weeks for the night owl :)
Plants are doing better than expected. I had 2 dimmers going bad so I lost some par. You don't realize how dim you lights are getting unti you fire up a new one. Then you'll see it. I called got two free dimmers and they made things right again. Temps are 15 degrees higher even. I tried various methods of training to see which is most productive advice is welcome.
RonnieB
