1st grow - Grandmommy Purple - *Now DWC*

10/16 - 10/22 Week 6 I am starting to notice the extreme dark green in the leaves fading and they look less marbley and less wrinkly plump like they were bursting at the seams. The tips still seem burnt on new growth. But only some of it. I think it is a mix of too hot feeding like too much nutes and or too high ph. I always catch the ph at 6.2-6.5 before I lower it. Also, this is the most nutes I've ever given... Maybe it was too much. Not sure. It was around 750ec or 1500ppm.... lol I swear my goal is to lower the amount of nutrients... I get better with this I promise. I'm working on getting a feeding schedule and learned more about what I need to do with this type of system I built. So I have adjusted the feedings to be once every 1 and a half hours with lights on and once during lights off. It worked out to 16 feedings but I squished another in for before dark time. I mainly did this because I didn't want the hydroton (clay balls) to dry out. So my system fully floods in 2 mins, tops. it will drain in 1-2 mins. So I am only running the pump for 2 minutes enough to completely flood and soak then it drains away. I was having too long of a dry period between feedings initially. So I upped that and the plant responded very well to this. I plan on moving to 1 feeding an hour when we really get going. At this point, though, the plant is starting to consume a gallon of water every 2-3 days if not less. I am also starting to keep an eye on how big the branches are because I want clones. The whole point of this plant is to be a clone donor. I just need 4 as I am going to grow 4 plants in this 4x4. But I wont have the space or resources to continue its life as a mother plant so it will be chopped when the time comes. For now, though, I know for sure I am taking that special branch with the 3 leaves. ALSO IT HAS NOW STARTED PUTTING OUT 4 LEAVES! Is this normal? WTF is going on with that. First 3 leaf growth now 4 leaf growth? Lastly, I am starting to get a lot more liberal with leaf removal. I have been cutting leaves off here and there for opening the plant up and for necessity. This, however, caused a hilarious issue for me as I accidentally cut off all the new growth from one branch. It was the branch I FIMMED. I forgot that I fimmed it. I actually wasn't even trying to FIM it, I was trying to just remove the whole shoot with my fingers but .... missed AHAHAHAHA. So when I was pruning I cut the last of the new growth shoots off and the plant like... forced a new shoot out. I read this could happen and I didn't have the heart to cut it off for good, also cause I messed up and didn't want a totally useless branch. So I let it ride.