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@mulch, you got a PN

@mulch, i've been there with the light schedule my friend, i know why you think it's a last resort but your ladies will thank you for it, and you can always up it during flush again. Up to you my friend, let me know !

@CRiSPrGrow, Thanks, I have been adding a little less than half a teaspoon of Epsom to the nutes for the mag, RQS says 1 -2 teaspoon per gallon should fix the sulfur issue. I will try 1 next feeding and if that doesn't help, 2 the following. they still are growing and drinking and have tons of green leaves (but each plant is getting like 2-4 leaves a day turning) and I am about to have to flip to every day feeding, so I am going to try that next feeding, although the Epsom drives my EC through the roof, they are barely showing signs of burn, even with Liquid Koolbloom. (most nutes still at half strength) I had a fear it was root aphids or fungal gnats so I put a bunch of yellow stickies on the floor and hung a few and they are thus far clean, so that makes me feel slightly better (SM-90 from day 1, methinks, plus root excellerator and photosynthesis plus) Thanks for your input. Dropping the light schedule is a last resort. I got all the way through with 20 last time, and I have seen others do the same with 24/0. Still want that killer yield. Have a great one!

@mulch,dear mulch i really dont want to hit you... its great to hear that you know what to do with your stuff.its good to know that you got a plan. i just wanted to say that i dont know where fore are all those bottles are and that iam worried. its good to know that you have the knowledge and maybe i can ask you some things, i am always open to learn

@Mrs_Larimar, i hear you. seems like too much, but i am pretty dialed in on exactly WHY each one is there, and how to ration them, especially after the success of my first grow. if this one fails, i know my inattention and perhaps hubris caused it, but thus far, so far so good except, imho, char is garbage coco at the same price point as canna, which to me, is the top of the heap, for coco all that being said, for the most part, each bottle and each dollar i spent for each bottle, came with research behind it. i wanted specific results, and researching those who got those results, my "formula" basically wrote itself obviously, i cant test it scientifically, and worse, my current emotional situation diverts attention to my productive hobby that being said, i learned round 1 to just listen to the plants because they will tell you what they want and need if you are paying attention as far as so many bottles, i use most at 1/2 strength, and adjust based on what the plants are telling me my first grow, with an auto, got me 11 ounces OF BUD (yes some popcorn, but NOT trim) for a single autoflower using so many bottles. 11 zips of nug from an auto is basically unheard of, but check my first diary. im no expert, but i think i got the basics and am working, via science, on how those extra bottles make things better i think why it worked FOR ME is by understanding WHY i had each bottle, and how to make it work correctly, based on how the plant communicated with me. increasing, decreasing ratios at certain times based on certain reactions. i am still learning, but if i pay attention she tells me whats up i would love to hear more advice from you, as you obviously know your basics. i would also like to assure you that there are reasons WHY, that i have done research on, that i have so many bottles. its not "too much money" because i have gone without to get certain things (look up the price of roots excellerator if you want to feel pain, but i would NEVER not use it again, everything else unchanged; it is THAT worth it for results) its not "throw everything at it," because, like i said, i can tell you WHY each bottle is there, and therefore how to adjust ratios based on what the plants tell me i do appreciate the advice. we are all learning, and autos and coco are an entirely new frontier, with amazing potential. keep in touch <3

@mulch, makes sense i suppose, could be any number of things, but sometimes symptoms hide not so obvious linkages... hard to say !

@CRiSPrGrow, my best guess as to what was happening and why, despite pumping in 4 ml/gal of cal/mag every feeding, is that the cations were latching on to the all or most of the cal/mag as there wasn't enough potassium to fill the sites so the it latched onto cal/mg instead. because my potassium was low strength, the plants gobbled that and weren't able to access it as additional cations that would be reserved for potassium that were instead grabbed the cal and mag. or vice versa Adding a large amount of potassium and cal/magreleased some cations, replenished it with the excess potassium, and probably stabilized them, which is why there is no evidence of new nute burn at 3.2 ec I don't know for a fact, but that was my guess as to why and the results "seem" to support that conclusion

@mulch, yeah man you got it. cal mag in foliar spray works faster ;-) just keep your buds dry

@CRiSPrGrow, i am trying. if i may explain why my posts have been anemic, while i thank you for paying attention and contributing to any success i might have, you are invited to read this wall of text (although not required cuz it certainly is tl;dr worthy and really won't help anyone improve specifically on anyone else's grow as it so both specific to you and i and general as a whole, including you and i) otherwise, discard the rest and pretend it is a part of my personal "diary" you accidentally found the diary in a drawer and ignore it; i understand completely because this is the internet and it is an unsolicited rant, so by no means do i fault you for skipping it. it may be more for than for you, but it certainly includes you. either way, here it goes my 1st diary was more like a bible or encyclopedia of what i did. this one has been like the cliff notes of a 3 page, ambiguous unfinished story, i hope this update changes that i loved doing my first diary of my first grow here. aside from odd memory issues on stable current chrome, for a year, this is THE place for this sort of thing anyway, my first diary had (as well as the plants, themselves) most of my full attention at almost all times, sometimes obsessing to get it right because i couldn't afford to fail considering how much $$ i invested on a first time grow. I was repeatedly and often opening the tent to look at them and make sure nothing was wrong every 15 minutes or so when i didn't actually need to, while also, most importantly, with no pain or distractions of any significance to make me not hear them when they were talking to me. i was a n00b and inexperienced, hoever i was present and available at almost all feasible times, and while i made some major mistakes i hopefully corrected this time (while learning new mistakes that i will correct next time) and was pretty successful partially because of it, this site encouraged me by helping me document measurable progress, helpful peer support, and experienced advice, among many other things. i was WAY happy with my results, even though i made a ton of mistakes that only experience can provide; one can't google one's individual circumstances after all or pre google potential "issues" that pop up, so one must seek the root of the problem which was how i approached my first grow, to almost a laser focus... and i reported my results thoroughly on grow diaries and it was all good, from sprout to smoke, both documenting for sharing and experiencing while growing for myself. it absolutely fulfilled a need for me, that while curious about, didn't actually know that i needed i apologize to this amazing community, that i haven't exactly been the same as i was last grow and holding up my end of the bargain as far as detailing my experiences so that others can learn from my mistakes or success, and contributing my facts, speculation, and actual measurements/documentation as far as in communication with the plants, and to grow diaries, (which aside from some frustrating UI quirks that I wish they could address, such as memory/lag issues on current google chrome), i apologize as i am quite distracted and have been for weeks by sudden convergent external pressure that has to be dealt with immediately (i obsessed over the captions first diary, this grow, maybe 3 or 4 captions total so far, instead of 100% captioning) i absolutely adore (of course because of the rest of you who have embraced this platform for sharing and communicating and helping each other) grow diaries both in concept and execution, as well as being one of the most amazing internet communities i have ever been a part of (for reference, i got my first aol disk mid to lat 90s, so a community like this is nearly impossible to come by even back then.) whether via sharing a breadth of knowledge/experience and desire to see others succeed instead of needless drama, this place is SUPER high on the list of of communities I have seen since basically the dawn of the internet) and you, @CRiSPrGrow, are exactly one of the reasons why so here is the deal and why this weeks update, and your simple comment mean so much to me, personally. i have been under some consistent, persistent emotional & financial strain and loss from a variety of mostly benign sources that all, unfortunately for me, have converged on me at once over a short period just as i started watering the beans early august, so i haven't really been "present" this grow almost as soon as they sprouted so getting back involved mentally via communication with the plants and members of this community, such as you, this is a good thing for me in more ways than i can articulate to be blunt, your simple comment snapped me right out of my funk, and got me doing what i do best, thinking and executing. thanks for noticing the difference. this catharsis is as important as taking my girls to a proper and sustained cure. i will add a bonus pic of my new "additive" to my curing jars soon. hopefully i will caption it too :D things are likely to get worse for me emotionally (at least in the short term, only, God willing), but getting back to the "normal" me despite emotional fear/pain/instability is amazing progress so far. my attention to the girls and updates to this diary is proof this post from you, and our and others interaction last week helping me diagnose wtf was happening to my healthy plants, was invaluable the funny/sad thing is, i cant smoke or eat weed right now (i haven't tried my tincture yet since these events started), because even with my known and self imported genetics in mostly retail packaging, that i grew from those retail seeds myself, (indica heavy, high cbd ruderalis/auto heavy strains, that should CURE anxiety),it STILL enhances my anxiety and emotional pain (just like it enhances the good and fun things in your life. weed makes good things better, no question about that. but it also makes bad things worse, at least for some people, like me, right now) so i cant really smoke or eat weed right now even though i desire its ability to heal me however, the magical herb that it is, my garden is giving me structure and strength right now. and getting back to my old self, via this grow diary and structured attention to my girls, is very therapeutic. the irony is that i can't smoke it to medicate myself, but growing it it is healing me. go figure that even NOT using her directly can help people (like me, right now) what a wonderful plant. thank you, @CRiSPrGrow, for inspiring this realization that this update is a sign post that i can read, of me coming back to "normal" ("normal" for ME, at least). that this too, shall pass whether you realized or meant to or not, this simple comment connected some dots that i probably wouldn't have realized without you (such as being more active with my plants and this diary is more of me being me because i am me than i have been for how many documented weeks now, and that means i am healing and getting back to "normal"). thanks brother, i appreciate you just being you, when you knew you should be you and just were you, because you have truly helped a stranger to soldier on during some rough times. keep being who you are, because you are absolutely killing it at being you. thank you again namaste