01/21 - Happy 3rd Birthday! Gave her a bucket and nute change today... ramped up the nutes to 5.25g of Dakine 420 Base and 5.25g of Dakine 420 Grow. Added in some H2O2 to help clean out the roots of the sediment left over from the old bucket... top watering seedlings brings down a lot of sediment into the bucket so this is the time I really want to give a complete change of "scenery" to the plant. Over the past week, I had increased her EC bringing it up to 0.8 which, really, is unheard of for an autoflower this age - but she kept telling me she was VERY hungry... I give credit to this nute line, I think it's the best one I've ever tried so far. I switched to it in mid-grow of a soil grow I did and the results were spectacular... Now that I've figured out how to adjust for a DWC grow with them, I'm really excited... and to see the plant tolerating such a high EC ... well... I've got great hopes!
01/22 - well, the little lady did NOT like the extra nutes.. at all!!! And the pH had swung WAY up this morning ... things were so bad, I'm not going to publish the pic I took of her this morning until she's recovered so as not to stress you out! I'm not worried about her - but you probably would be if you could see what she looked like... poor thing... adjustments have been made and she's already starting to come back ... will update again tomorrow, of COURSE! :-D
01/23 - She's not pulling out of it as fast as I'd hoped but then she REALLY took a hit. Poor little thing! She IS improving and she WILL be ok... I'm just going to have to stop thinking of her as SuperWoman... I doubt these leaves will ever look very good again - thankfully, they're early leaves and they'll soon be eclipsed by new, bigger and better leaves and at some point, I can just lop them off! :-D Eating some humble pie right about now! I rolled her EC back to 0.7 but she's acting just a little bit hungry this morning so I think I'll try to bring it back up to 0.8 - that's going to be an interesting exercise given that these nutes are dry and pretty potent .. going to try to put .75g of the base and the grow in to see how that does... we'll see... sigh....
Update: I gave a lot of thought about what I should do here and ended up doing a bucket change. Along with her general dismal appearance, she was showing signs of a nitrogen toxicity so what I decided was that I needed to change up the composition of what the EC was while I was adjusting it - and that's impossible to do with a bucket that's already got stuff in it. What she's got in her bucket now is 1.5tsp of RapidStart (hoping to boost those roots to help her out), 5g of the Base (NPK 3-13-26), 2g of the Grow (NPK 15-0-15) which may STILL be too much but... and 1/2 tsp of Calimagic. EC now sits at 0.8 which is what I wanted and the pH is 6.0.
Just as I was finishing up the bucket change, her lights went out so this is good... I'll check on her again when she "wakes up" ... I won't SEE any change, I'm sure, but I'm hoping the EC and pH don't change... going to do a LOT of checking on her today!
She's up from her nap and things are actually looking very good! I think I made exactly the right decision as far as her nutes are concerned.... Her leaves still look a bit like leather (very strange) and are still a little dryish but they're picking themselves up and going for the light which they weren't doing before and the clawing is starting to go away. Now feeling pretty confident in my abilities to diagnose her and make the right decisions... I'll check again just before I go to bed... and will be very anxious to take a look at her in the morning.
01/25 - She's still struggling a little bit but the growth has been at least SORT of satisfactory... I decided this morning that she still is having a tough time with as many nutes in her bucket but instead of a bucket change, simply replaced 1/2 gallon of her bucket with plain water - this brought her EC down to 0.7 - and I adjusted her pH which had been slowly rising AGAIN... so now it's sitting at 6.1. I also trimmed off the lowest leaves which were just sad to look at and were being swallowed up by the pebbles I'm adding to the netpot - so they were of no use anyway.
Seguire este diario muy de serca. Usted me a respondido a un problema en mi diario hidroponico. Si esta semana mejora sera gracias a su experiencia. Muy buena suerte en su crecimiento
@GrowingGrannie, no elegi su respuesta por que usted es una clara ganadora del concurso productor del mes. Pero se nota de muy lejos que tiene mucha experiencia. No necesita una insignia. Muchas gracias
@CULTIVATORFROG, thank you so much for stopping by - and I'm glad I was able to help you with your grow! Although you didn't choose my answer, I just want to tell you that if you use the chart I suggested, do so "with a grain of salt" - in other words, it's a good GUIDE, but it's not what I consider a "bible." You have to try to "read" your plants, too... as I know you do. Good luck with your grow!
@Raizen, thank you my friend! Happy New Year to you as well... with good harvest, good friends, and all the peace and joy you find in everyday things...
@GrowingGrannie, I highly doubt that. She is looking good so far, and you will get to experience your harvest far sooner, as mine are photos that had some first week seedling issues that they are still recovering from, so not in a rush to flower :)
Day 31 VPD issues! Yes, VPD came into my vocabulary earlier this year. I monitor it now like an obsession. I started some DWC grows, and I was concerned that my growth was off. Using your diary, I'm able to follow along, and I'm not behind at all. Glad to see some LST here, excited to keep looking,.
Great job on your diaries, I can see why you have won multiple awards. Thanks for all the work you put into these and all the questions you respond to.
Peace and may all your buds be StinkyBudz!