Current grow cycle 09/10/22 photos

~Week 5/ 29-35 days from sprout ~Overall: Great, check End of Week Summary at bottom of page ~VPD: Not accounting for VPD closely anymore but will go back to it closer if the plants start to look unhealthy at all. This is looking like a good thing. The indicas don't seem to like the high humidity as much so I am slowly going to let it drop over the next few days ~Plants growing into the lights so DLI does not need changed ~First top-dress in 2 weeks. Will also flip to flower at that time. Going to feed worm castings this week ~Watering as needed, about every 5-6 days. Next watering should be the 13th Day 29 notes: So far so good. Did some more training today. Plants getting super bushy and water is starting to build up between leaves during transpiration. Will be doing a huge defoliation when I water and light feed this week. That should be in 4 days. More training done on all the plants. The blueberry in the back left is growing so tall that I may have to top it to keep it on par with the other plants. Also starting to see some micronutrient deficiencies on the plants. This was expected because I did not use the best mix of soils, but I expected it later in the plants life cycle. I will monitor it for now. I have never really been good at identifying deficiencies though. As of now I am thinking that I should be able to fill out the entire tent ALMOST wall to wall just with the 3 plants I have. One more plant and I would definitely be wall to wall. Also definitely taking clones of both Blue Cheeses. Something seems special about these plants. Look like perfect indicas, and are already developing a beautiful fruity and gassy smell. Day 30 notes: More training today. Plants are recovering very well. Blueberry in the back left is growing a bit more bushy now thanks to the training. Some issues on some of the plants. I am not sure exactly what it is, but the plants are overall healthy. Will keep monitoring them. Pictures of afflictions posted above. Temps also seemed to be a bit higher when I checked the plants today. Temp was sitting at 84.5F. Now down to around 84. Still a bit high but lights off is soon and the temp will drop then. I haven't decided what to do about the temp. I think I will have to remove the drivers from the LED bar lights they are on. Definitely defoliating when I feed worm castings in 3 days. Day 31 notes: More training. All looking good. Smell is getting stronger by the day. Added a fan to circulate more air in my lung room and I have been able to drop the temp to around 82F. Plants will really benefit from the defoliation I am doing in 2 days. Day 32 notes: Not much to add today. Notes are pretty much the same as past few days. Tomorrow is a big day for the plants however. I plan to do a heavy defoliation on all the plants, and then top-dress with worm castings, I will vacuum the tent to make sure its clean, and water all of the plants. I am going to be putting quite a bit of worm castings in this top-dress. Possible 1-2 cups/ 10 gallons. I will also be removing the LED drivers from the tent as I can tell some of the leaves are dealing with heat stress and it will only get worse as they grow closer to the LED driver. The plants are all definitely in need of a defoliation. Also noted a bit more deficiencies all of the plants but some of it is windburn, some of it is heat-burn, and there's slight nutrient imbalance, especially when considering micronutrients. I also do need a stronger buffer capacity. Also noticing more red stems. Could be an early sign of Phosphorus or Potassium deficiency or could be due to LED or heat. Will keep watching especially after I remove the driver from the tent. Day 33 notes: Big day for all the plants today. All were HEAVILY defoliated, top-dressed with 1 cup of worm casting each, and watered with 1/8tsp of seaweed extract, 1/4 tsp of recharge, and 1/2 teaspoon of hydro guard. The seaweed extract was a treat for the plants after their defoliation. It should provide necessary vitamins and minerals the plant needs for a good recovery. Recharge was added in order to get the microbial life in the worm castings going extra good. I want those worm castings used up ASAP so the plants remain perfectly healthy until the top-dress next week. The hydro guard was just to reintroduce good bacteria into the soil, after it having been dry. I also did a lot of LST, and I fimmed one of the blue cheeses. I have never fimmed before but I wanted to try so I did it to cut a bit of distance off of one of the plants. I should really decrease the DLI a bit, but I am going to keep it the same and let the plants tough it out. Tomorrow if they are showing ANY signs of stress I will reduce the DLI. I also took clones from all 3 plants today while defoliating. These are practice clones. I have never cloned before so I wanted to try it before trying to actually clone these photos in 3 weeks. I don't know if any of the clones will live because I can only get the environment up to 50%RH. I am guessing the plants will be about double their current size in 3 weeks. Day 34 notes: The training and defoliation yesterday was exactly what the plants needed. The canopies are now even, and they will be grown out this way for the next several weeks until I flip to flower and defoliate again. I also checked on the clones today. They seem to be suffering because the humidity is so low. This is ok as they were test clones. I will be ordering a 2x2 tent for the cloner though to keep the humidity up. Day 35 notes: Perfect end to week 5. Plants are all looking very healthy and vibrant. One thing I am realizing now is I will either need to top the blueberry like tomorrow, or super crop a lot during flower. The Blueberry is supposed to stretch 2x, and currently it is 3 inches taller than both Blue Cheeses. The Blue Cheeses are only supposed to stretch 1.5x. So the Blue Cheese's after stretch will be 6-12 inches shorter than the Blueberry. I did super crop one branch of the Blue cheese today to make the canopy even again. Also the Fim I did on one of the Blue Cheeses was a fail. All good though because it was an experiment. End of week summary: Great week. One of the biggest weeks of these plants lives. Plants were fed worm castings to hold them over a couple of weeks until their first top dress. I also heavily defoliated the plants, and started to do more LST. I took clones while defoliating, and vacuumed and cleaned the grow area. Blue Cheeses both seems like keepers as far as veg growth goes. Misc. comments: Will be putting some Lime, Azomite, and Greensand in my soil blend next time to eliminate any micronutrient deficiencies. Also need kelp for a more sustainable source of Potassium Starting next week I am going to water the plants one day sooner. As they get bigger they are drinking more and more water per week meaning I have to water more and more often Plants have two more defoliations not counting this weeks. Plan to do one the 1st week of transition and then as needed during flower The way the plants responded after the defoliation has made me think they are great plants so far. The blue cheeses have a perfect structure and all the plants have been very easy to grow. I may make the blueberry clones and the blue cheese clones into a mother plant depending on how flower goes. So far, these plants are great in veg stage After removing LED driver from tent on day 33, the temp has dropped to 80F, by day 35 temp has dropped to 78F. Used a heater to boost it back up around 80F