1st grow - Grandmommy Purple - *Now DWC*

1/15 - 1/21 Week 4 flower; Day (19*7)-1 1/17 - I am having a hard time remembering what I did the past few days with the plants because I am heavily focused on a weird looking flower I found. You'll see it, cause I took a lot of photos of it. So I had been seeing flowers with more reddening pistils than what I would call normal based on what all the other flowers in the tent look like. But I wasn't too concerned because of how high ppm I was using. I figured maybe I stressed them and this is the result. But I did research it and it seems like the conclusion to most of these questions was some kind of pollination or hermie event. My concern rose when I found a flower on day 28 that looked crazy with retracted pistils, almost all hairs red, and is a little lighter green in the leaves on the branch than everything else in the tent. So... what the heck is causing that? I am actively trying to find out. I may have to ask a grow question here. Otherwise, everything is looking awesome and even better than I could have thought plants would look when I imagined growing. On top of that, they keep improving and I feel like it's directly related to me not burning them with high ppm. A lot of problems are resolving now that I am keeping the ppms down and driving them down further. I think I will aim for an end goal of between 700-900. Something like that. It seems to be working very well to reduce foaming in the reservoirs and there's no foam at all anymore in Sawtooth's res; the worst offender. I even have started to have to use pH up for the first time ever. I was waiting for that to happen in flower because I read about it. But with everything needing so much pH down I didn't know what was going on. So I feel like I'm on the right track. It's almost over though and then I can debrief and regroup to move into a new evolved phase for the sequel. Because I have learned so much to put into use for next time... Oh... I haven't changed the reservoirs yet... I kinda stalled out on getting a larger tote. But I grabbed one last night and its dechlorinating water now. I will change the reservoirs later tonight and update the nutrient amounts the next time I add information here. But I plan on trying to hit my numbers so we will see how that goes. It's a much larger mixing reservoir now currently holding 30.5 gallons so I can use at least 28 of them between the girls. So I will have to look back on the previous numbers to do nutrient math which, by the way, want-to-be-hydro-growers, is SO MUCH FUN 😙😊 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-===-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= UPDATE: 1/18 - Ok, so I took an extra day to change the reservoirs. It's just that it takes so long to mix nutes and do a lot this stuff. I actually ran out of time on yesterday and had to wait until lights on today to do it. It was fine though. Everyone was doing good except one. Sawtooth seems to like to spike the pH way down. I caught it at 4.9, Like wtf is that? I just made it 6.0 last night. Weird. Hopefully with this new reservoir change it will be all good. Otherwise, the ppms in all the reservoirs are just where I want them. Or at least where I think I want them? I am not entirely sure. Lol. But I mixed up this new feeding to be 795ppm. So It should be good. I will start putting in less pH down when I change the reservoirs now because all the tanks are lowering the pH instead of raising it. This is awesome for me cause I have been using soo much pH down and no pH up. So it's nice to get use out of something I bought to use, lol. As far as that goes, not much going on. I learned to chill out about the flowers. I should probably be find and the whole tent isn't going to get knocked up and seed. ... Probably. Come on 4 more weeks. Almost there. Oh I noticed a smell in the tent for the first time. It's light but it's something it's not super weedy yet, but it's competing with the smell of the reservoirs. I have to say... this weed looks amazing. It's crazy I'm growing what looks like something this quality and it's my first time. But that's what proper research and investment does I guess. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-===-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= UPDATE: 1/20 - It has to be something in the nutes that is causing the swings and foam. The water was great, ph going down instead of up, no foam, and not much adjustment needed. After res change it's like all hell breaks loose. Spikes in ph to 6.4-6.6 if I don't catch it probably higher. All reservoirs spiking like that and need pH down. Minor amounts of foam developing in all reservoirs. PPMs are trending the way they should and are 800-900. This will only get lower as we go. I am not sure how to tell if I should dilute or concentrate the reservoirs. I want to see how low it will go., Do people try and put in just barely enough and watch ppms dip far down by res change? I'll keep winging it cause that's kind of working. Like this bud is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo frosty and it seems like it's very early for that to have developed. Grandmommy Purple, visually, seems to be living up to the marketed ~30% thc. Cause it still needs to really start dumping energy into thc production over the next few weeks, right? I am going to try my very best to push this plant into giving me everything it has. Then, I will do my best to get an official lab test. How could I not when it looks like this. Time is just tickin down. Almost there. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-===-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= UPDATE: 1/21 - I didn't think I was going to update again this week. Usually nothing is that important to mention. I feel like I'm seeing really slight signs of maybe a deficiency starting? I don't know. I've been seeing random light spots on leaves, or like one rust spot here or there. The tips seem to still be burning and it looks like it might be happening on new growth? So I don't know, it can't be a deficiency with too hot feedings. Unless there's lockout... I found a branch that has a few discoloring leaves. I am not sure what to do about it. Hopefully lowering the ppms, further helps. Anyways, Plant D and Plant B have something going on in the reservoirs. The water is cloudy and these 2 reservoirs take the most amount of pH adjustment fluid to change the numbers. Last reservoir change Plant B's reservoir smelled strongly of eggs when cleaning out. The smell went away after the change, but as the week progressed it returned. Also, it is kind of starting in Plant D's reservoir. I didn't really like the look of Plant D's water and then Plant B looks like there is a dark patch forming in the roots where the water line was. I cannot abide. So I took some actions. I had 4 extra gallons of fresh mixed nutes off to the side. So I decided to siphon out 4 gallons of reservoir water from Plant D's tank. I replaced it with 2.5 fresh nutrient mixed gallons and 1.5 gallon of just tap water. Plant D's ppm ended up in the high 600s. AHHHH I DONT KNOW WHAT PPM TO KEEP IT AT! lolol Then I went to Plant B and I took out 4 gallons of reservoir water from that tank and replaced with the remaining 1 gallon of fresh mixed nutes. But I only added 2 gallons back to lower the water level. So I removed a full gallon of liquid volume from Plant B. Additionally, I mixed in 1/4 teaspoon Great White Mycorrhizae with one of that gallons I poured in to plant B. Yesterday, I had also mixed up 1/4 of Great White Mycorrhizae and distributed that between the 4 plant's reservoirs. Just today, plant B got more. Looking forward to some easier weeks ahead...