Current grow cycle 09/10/22 photos

~Week 15/ 99-105 days from sprout ~Overall: ~VPD: OFF. Pretty high above 1.6 on average. At night it drops down significantly ~DLI: Will measure next watering ~Feeding: Done feeding for the rest of the grow cycle ~Watering: Every 2-3 days as needed Day 99 notes: Same routine as usual. Stripped off all dead or dying leaves, and then watered. This tent is about 26-36 days from harvest at this point. Flowers looking pretty good. Both Blue Cheeses are showing the same issues, and the Blueberry is the healthiest of all. The Blue Cheeses smell way better than the Blueberry though. Day 100 notes: Did not check the tent today. I will be checking tomorrow and taking pictures as well. 25-35 days left until harvest. Day 101 notes: Well. I am really not liking the look of things. A lot of people are saying the plants are going through their "natural fade" but both of these finish after between 56-63 days of flower. That means at the EARLIEST I will be harvesting in 15 days. At the latest, it'll be harvesting in 29 days. So either way the "fade" would have started a week early. Which leads to my analysis of what is going on with these plants. Brown tips, yellowing leaves, purpling sugar leaves, what is going on? The purple is easy to explain. The past week I have had a 22 degree difference between my day and night temps. Day temps have been around 85-87, while night temps have been around 61-65. The 20+ degree drop in temperature within 15 minutes is what has caused the purpling. As for the Nitrogen and Potassium, you should have a 1:1 ratio of these two during veg, and a 1:2.25 ratio during flower. I had neither of these. My plants started with Potassium deficiencies because my amendments have very little potassium in them and potassium leaches from soil very quickly. Then, because the ratio of Potassium to Nitrogen was WAY off, this caused the plant to not be able to uptake Nitrogen as well. A major hole with this theory though is that the leaves are not yellowing like a Nitrogen deficiency, Nitrogen is a mobile nutrient so the plant would take the Nitrogen from the bottommost leaves and work its way up. However, random leaves seem to be yellowing and then dying. This could be fade, but one major problem with the fade theory is that I have never seen a healthy plant have curled brown tips while fading. This, however, can actually be seen as the answer when you look at all the factors. I ALREADY had the Potassium deficiency to start with. This means that if the plant was fading, it would have brown tips too as I had them before the fade started. Anyways, only time will tell whether it is fade or lockout. If the plants fade well over the next 3 weeks and are ready for harvest then its fade. If the plants still have 4 weeks to go and will barely have any leaves left at harvest then I would say it is lockout. Day 102 notes: This is going to be a nice harvest. Defoliated and watered today. Plants are looking and smelling great. The buds on the Blueberry are the most dense flowers I have ever seen on any cannabis plant period. I am really hoping I can save some of the clones I took from that plant and replant them. While you are not supposed to guess yields, I imagine this tent will yield at least 700 grams if not more. That would put me at one gram/ one watt. Day 103 notes: Not checked today. Day 104 notes: Plants seem to be pretty hard into fade right now, or going hard into the fade. They could also be a bit deficient, but they are at the right time to start fading, though they should not be fading this hard. I am really just hoping there will be enough nutrients for these plants to finish bulking before they run out of nutrients. I should have about 2 weeks of stacking a week of ripening before harvest. Will defoliate and water again tomorrow. VPD has also been very off, like 85F/35%RH. So that could also be contributing to my "fade" Day 105 notes: Looks and smells great today. I will be giving these plants another few weeks before harvest. The branches are leaning over and many of them cannot support themselves any longer. I will be giving these plants around 15-25 days before harvesting. Then a 5-10 day dry should do them well. I am pretty excited for this harvest, and I hope to run some clones of these plants for my next run. End of week summary: Great week overall. Not the best start IMO but the plants are looking and smelling better as every day goes on. The nutrient issues are also worrying me less and less as these flowers develop properly and we draw near harvest time. Misc. comments: Would like to find a way to setup a blumat system for my next grow. I am not sure if I have space in my grow area though.