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01/12 - The ladies continue to impress - and they're already starting to smell wonderful! OG is definitely in pre-flower, it'll probably be a few days before I see that in GG. Increased the EC on both of them today - and their PH is staying quite stable. Everything is happy in the tent! 01/13 - Happy Friday the Thirteenth! (If you believe in that sort of balderdash!) ... Had to do some serious defoliation on OG this morning... she was/is just so bushy, her leaves were quite wet from overlapping each other. Once I got the leaves out of the way, I did a lot more LST on her to keep her buds low and as even as I could... I did the same to GG but not quite as strenuously... she hasn't really started her stretch yet the way OG has so that complicates her care a little bit. Both are showing signs now of being in pre-flower so things are ramping up! 01/14 - GG is unhappy although she's not showing it... her EC remains rock steady, she's drinking nicely - but her pH fell through the floor this morning to 5.2. I haven't done a bucket change on her for a while so I think that's in order and I'm going to lower her EC by 0.2 ... she seems to be the "tender" one here - she doesn't like her pH to go too high and she doesn't seem to like as much nutes as OG does... so we'll feed her a little less and hope she is able to keep up with OG. I think she will - in fact, I KNOW she will! :-D 01/15 - The ladies are looking lovely and man, I LOVE opening the tent - the smell is getting just delicious! I think it's OG that's giving me the smells - whoever it is, it's gorgeous! They're both doing really well, EC is stable, slight fluctuation on the pH which I'm puzzling about right now - but I'll get it figured out. Meanwhile, neither one is complaining which is a super plus! 01/16 - The ladies are both in pre-flower now and telling me they need more food! Since you can't keep good women down, they'll get all the food they require! Hold on, ladies! I'm coming!! 01/17 - So their EC is back up to 0.8 but I think they could actually take a few more nutes so will add some more today... at this point, I want the EC to read closer to 1.0. The problem is always "what nutes to add more of..." - so here's my reasoning: they're growing really strongly, starting their stretch, which means they've got plenty of nitrogen... they're not showing any deficit of calcium or magnesium... so I'm going to add more P & K - which means the bloom nutes at this point (not going to start KoolBloom for another couple of weeks). So there! Decided! Another dose of Bloom added into the buckets - makes a lot of sense, especially since they're racing into flower. I've just ordered another tent because of an upcoming SERIOUS problem... my tent is only 60" high... those 5 gallon buckets take up a lot of space at the bottom and then my lights take up space at the top (and they're just about at their max height) - so I'm HOPING to get my new ACInfinity 2'x4'x6' tent (so I'll have another 12" of height!) BEFORE I need to scrog these ladies... In order to try to stave off the need to scrog, I'll be doing more LST on them. Hope it works... 01/18 - Tried to bump up their EC to 0.8 yesterday and that went pretty badly - drooping and a general dullness about them - very sad looking plants, to be honest!... but one of the things I absolutely love about growing DWC is that problems are seen pretty immediately and solutions are effective pretty immediately. I whacked back the EC just before I went to bed last night and this morning they kind of looked at me and said "Huh? There was a problem?? What problem you talkin' 'bout woman?!" ... I'm going to have to do some defol on OG today. And I've just gotten word my new tent will be here Tuesday ... I don't think there's much point in trying to get the scrog net up right now... they can last without it until the new tent is here... I'll just continue to LST as needed... VERY excited about my new tent! There will be MUCH more head room for these ladies!