1st grow - Grandmommy Purple - *Now DWC*

12/11 - 12/17 Week 14 (week 6 after cloning) 12/17 - I know I have taken longer than usual to update this diary, but I really just didn't want to. I think I was embarrassed for some reason to update because this week I noticed deficiencies across all the plants that I caused. It was a mix of things that caused it. Serious family stuff distracted me for several days is the main excuse I will use. But there is also laziness in there and an issue with a lost item I was getting delivered. One last thing that maybe helped the issue along was that I had, just before this happened, cut a lot of the under leaves off... like I cleaned up the branches, like a pseudo lollipop just to open it up for air flow. I pruned a lot to open plants up for airflow and went against my better judgement cutting off bigger leaves than I normally would. It sucks cause maybe it wouldn't have been what it was if I didn't cut off as much. **** I'll try and boil this down... really what happened was the plants ate their reservoirs faster than ever and I was only replacing with ph'd dechlorinated tap water. This, in addition to multiple other factors, in and out of the tent, caused multiple deficiencies. I am pretty sure I stopped the deficiencies from getting worse and are on the way to being corrected with the res change and then supplementing Cal-Mag. The ordered item that was lost in transit was supposed to help with the res change and I was counting on it. So I waited an extra day past when I wanted to change the res. I wasn't paying much attention to the plants leading up to this cause of the family stuff. But when the item didn't come, I couldn't delay any longer. So I noticed the deficiencies the night before I changed the res. I noticed on 12/12, the res was changed on 12/13. I read up on it and it looks like it was a mix of many deficiencies beginning because there were no nutes for 3 - 4 days, or at least tap water nutes and very diluted maybe left over res nutes. I was thinking P and or K deficiency in all the plants for sure. Then I think I read when this happen it also causes issues with other nute intake and caused a Calcium deficiency and even Magnesium in some places as well. It looks like Cal deficiency in the lower leaves on Plant D for sure. There are multiple lower large fan leaves that have the calcium deficiency rust spots. At least I think so. Then the top leaves are thinning, light green, have burning margins and blotchy dying spots, margins are getting highlighter green outlines. There's a lot going on. So not much I can do about this really but just feed 'em and feed 'em right and consistently. The issue causing distraction has been dealt with, so I will no longer be distracted by that. I also learned a lesson about plants this big and feeding with only water. Now I will change how I do things moving forward when it comes to replenishing the reservoirs because replenishing with just tap water no longer works on these sized plants. I will now mix up a half volume batch to be ready for use by the middle of the week. That way I can replenish with nutes until full res change and hopefully avoid any deficiencies moving forward. I also used Cal-Mag xtra in place of Part A in the half volume batch for this week. So the plants will all be getting Cal-Mag Xtra with the supplemental feedings until res change. At which point I will add in Cal-Mag Xtra to the main res change along with the other nutes, part A included. This was very unfortunate to have happened this week. But it was all my fault really. So whatever. It's funny, though, because I was going to flip to 12/12 lighting but I changed my mind after I saw the issues. So I decided that I would flip lights on 12/19 with the scheduled res change. So something to look forward to. Otherwise, the branch that I kind of split a little on Sawtooth has healed fine. I am no longer LSTing the plants down as they are, for the most part, as formed as I can get them with my limited experience. I think I need to put up a trellis net now to start a support system... I could probably form Plant C more since it's behind, but I'm good where the plants are. The roots are getting out of control and on some of the buckets are hard to even pull out because they get caught on the ring that floods the buckets. The roots are forming a harder ball/root mass and it even holds water! Like I was inspecting the roots and tilted it and so much water came out but when held upright no water would leak. out. The roots built themselves little root pockets. I have half a mind to get a marker or something and poke into the roots so that the cavities in the root masses have a drain. At this point, I am starting to think making it to the end is going to be a miracle. I may have to change to DWC halfway through flowering. I don't know. So far though I have managed the roots very well for what it is, I'd say. Since the buckets aren't overflowing and there isn't a critical complete drain blockage yet. I mean you should really see these things... I wish I could get a photo easy... I did reduce flood time on the pumps down to 1m30s but it still floods every 1h30m. I was going to increase this back to 2h because the roots are holding water, like little water thieves, but didn't because of the deficiency issues. At this point in the grow, the plants are now too big for me to get in the tent at all. The plants are too short and everything is too low to the ground. The plants are so bushy they are each touching each other and I cant get in there. This causes some issues, but at res change I will spin Sawtooth and Plant D so that the place where the res opens is facing the door. I can access Plant B and Plant C from the window in the tent and if I spin Sawtooth and Plant D I will be able to access and test all the reservoirs in the tent from outside the tent. I typed the breakdown below because it doesn't come through in the above nutrient breakdown above. For the reservoir composition: Epsom - 10tsp Silica - 60ml Part A - 100ml Part B - 100ml B-52 - 60ml Then the supplemental reservoir composition was 1/2 and I exchanged part A for Cal-Mag Xtra: Epsom - 5tsp Silica - 30ml Cal-Mag Xtra - 50ml Part B - 50ml B-52 - 40ml