Current grow cycle 09/10/22 Autos

~Week 6/ 36-42 days from sprout ~Overall: Check End of Week Summary at bottom of page ~VPD: VPD has been better compared to past weeks, but still lacking overall. ~Plants growing into the lights so DLI does not need changed, 35-43. Ended the week with DLI of 37.5-45 depending on plant height. ~Second top dress this week. Top dressed day 42. ~Watering as needed, about every 5-6 days. Plants should be watered on the 18th, but might have to be on the 17th if they are looking thirsty. Day 36 notes: Had a near miss last night. I noticed the temp in the tent was rising rapidly only to find that my outtake tubing had fallen back down into my tent. This meant that I was no longer pulling in the cold air and exhausting the hot air. My intake is too weak and it barely functions, thus most of my intake is passive airflow. This, combined with the fact that my intake was in the tent, caused temps to go up to 86F, and the plants were not looking good. I fixed the tubing and the temp dropped back down. As of today they are doing well. I may have to water them tomorrow though rather than day 38 as I had previously plans. Will check and see tomorrow. Other than that I have a top-dress to do this week. If I water tomorrow then i am going to top-dress on day 41-42. If not, I will top-dress day 38. The OG Kush is very interesting. Has shot up in growth even more. The OG Kush also has very strange pistil development. Some of the top colas have like 4 total pistils lol. Will keep watching. The two purple punches are doing well. The one in the back got squashed when the tube fell on it, but it recovered well. No issues so far. These purple punches have 5-6 weeks left while the OG Kush could easily go for another 8 weeks. Day 37 notes: Didn't take pictures today but I was forced to water today. VPD has been around 2.4 recently which is way out of range. This has caused the plants to use way more water than before due to the high temps and low humidity. It has been 4 days since the last watering. As of now I will water these autos every 4 or so days. I will be top dressing probably day 41, but maybe day 40 or 42 depending on how my environmental conditions are the next few days. Also no idea why the light in that tent is getting and staying so hot. My bigger light in my 4x4 is far less hot and its like 3x the size. It was fairly fine up until recently. I will see what I can do to maintain a good temperature. I also should buy some good quality clip on fans. I am using the ones I got when I first started growing and didn't know what equipment to buy. A combination of small usb clip on fans and a few Honeywell ground fans. I need to buy fans for the 3x3 and the 4x4. Will not do that for a while though probably. Day 38 notes: Looking good. Did not do anything today but peeked my head into the tent. Looking healthy and growth is good. Yellowing of bottom leaves is normal. The temps have also stabilized again so that is good. I do want to get the humidity up, but its being a pain as of now. Will water these plants either the 40 or 41st day. Day 39 notes: All good. OG Kush will not stop growing vertically. Expecting to water day 40 or 41, and will top-dress at the same time. No pictures taken today. Day 40 notes: Looking great. Tried to do some super cropping on the OG Kush but apparently it is no longer possible. The purple punches are both in great malleable condition, but the OG Kush is all fibrous and woody now. Other than that looking good. The OG Kush will be getting close to taking heat and light damage soon. Will reduce intensity in the next couple days or raise the two smaller plants. Raising the two plants is a better option but more difficult to achieve. Day 41 notes: Looking good. Can see the yellowing of bottom leaves start to speed up a bit, and there's definitely a slight nutrient imbalance. This is okay though as these plants are due to be harvested in about 5 weeks. Buds are already started to get triched up even though they haven't really developed yet. I will be feeding and watering them probably tomorrow I suppose. I was going to today, but it would not have been the optimal time. Day 42 notes: Started today with scratching the soil surface about 1 inch down, making sure to take care to not damage the larger roots. Put in 1/4 cup of 5-13-0 Fish meal and 1/2 cup of worm castings. The fish meal will provide Nitrogen and Phosphorus while the worm castings will add microbes and enzymes to help break down the organic fish meal sooner. The worm castings will also provide a small amount of nutrients and minerals to hold the plant over until the fish meal starts breaking down. I also watered with 1/4 tsp recharge and 1/4 tsp kelp meal. The kelp meal is essential now because my soil has run out and I am no longer feeding potassium. If I start seeing potassium deficiencies then I will add more. The recharge was to add more bacteria and microbes to the soil to further catalyze the breakdown of the organic nutrients. I also defoliated the dead leaves or leaves that were directly touching the soil. Also the Og Kush in the back was LST'd more in order to even out the canopy as it was getting to tall. Also showing some browning on some pistils. This is likely due to the light stress, but there's a slight possibility it could be bud rot. I doubt it however as there are no other signs, and the environmental conditions are not right for bud rot. I also have a ton of airflow. Also saw a stinkbug in the tent today so I need to watch out for more of them. Apparently they can lay eggs and start eating the plant as a pest. End of week summary: Great week overall. No major issues. A couple of small problems like my tent shooting up in tent a couple times, as well as VPD being off. The plants are doing well though. The OG Kush has shot up this week and completely overtaken the others. It is also looking the most mature of all the plants so far. It has very swollen calyxes and a few brown pistils. The Purple punch in the back is nice and dense with nice sized flowers all over. The purple punch in the front is also doing good. Purple punch in the front is more stretched than the one in the back right but it should be a great plant. Based off how things look now I would estimate 3 ounces per purple punch, and 1 ounce for the OG Kush. Last time I grew the OG Kush it was very larfy. Looking ahead to next week I do not have anything planned. Will just water as needed, with 1/4tsp of kelp each time. All plants are starting to trich up now, and the smell is getting very nice. Misc. comments: My DLI meter is being weird and I am just eyeballing it for now. My DLI was at around 40 the last time I checked. I turned the light up a bit to get closer to 50. Any signs of light stress and I will tune it down.