Malawi

JimboNorman Dropped germinated seed into solo cup with Purple Cow Organic Seed Starter mix. Think I added perlite and DynoMyco...can't remember

JimboNorman Moved from Solo cup to 5 Gal fabric pot and bigger tent with less humidity... 60% Fox Farms Ocean Forest 20% Perlite 20% EWC DynoMyco

JimboNorman Growth slowing down for some reason...could be the drop in humidity (hard to increase in the bigger tent) or the change in light schedule...but I'm also getting this weird leaf curling issue that I had with previous plants. I assumed it was a ph issue with the last plants but my ph is 6.5 here. 0.5 tbsp per gallon of 444 nutes 1 tbsp per gal of Organic Black Strap Molasses in water

JimboNorman Found some photos of wind burn online that looked eerily similar to my leaf curling issue, so I pulled back the small fan that was blowing directly on the Malawi and what do you know - my leaf curling issue resolved! 0.5 tbsp per gal of 444 1 tbsp of elemental for the Cal/Mag 1 tbsp per gal of Organic Black Strap Molasses in water

JimboNorman Welcome to the jungle! Malawi starting to pick up speed so I topped her and began some LST. 0.5 tbsp per gal of 444 1 tbsp of elemental for the Cal/Mag 1 tbsp per gal of Organic Black Strap Molasses in water

JimboNorman Growing like a beast this week! Will need to flip her to flower next week so I don't run out of room in the tent... 0.5 tbsp per gal of 444 1 tbsp of elemental for the Cal/Mag 1 tbsp per gal of Organic Black Strap Molasses in water

JimboNorman Flipped to 12/12 this week. Desperately trying to contain her before the stretch. Might need to set up SCROG soon... 0.5 tbsp per gal of 444 1 tbsp of elemental for the Cal/Mag 1 tbsp per gal of Organic Black Strap Molasses in water

JimboNorman Still bushing out and making sure the canopy is even. Think I'm starting to see flowering begin...it's been two weeks since I flipped the lights so should be any day now... 2.5 tbsp of 484 2 tbsp of elemental for the Cal/Mag 1 tbsp per gal of Organic Black Strap Molasses in water

JimboNorman Starting to see some clawing...thinking this is too much nitrogen. Ace seeds does say to provide less nitrogen to the Malawi and my flower nutes don't really dial the nitrogen down from the veg nutes so this feels like a culprit more than other options. Will skip nutrients for the Malawi this week see what happens...

JimboNorman Seems like she's not liking the 4-8-4...too much nitrogen by the looks of it. So added just Seabird Guano and Langbeinite for P and K - I can't do the stupid math on the charts above but basically matched the P and K to what I was giving her with the 2.5 Tbsp of 4-8-4 in order to continue feeding while removing N for a week. We'll see if she bounces back

JimboNorman Noticed a bit of improvement having skipped the nitrogen for a week - the claw is definitely reducing. However, more Phosphorous deficiency symptoms have cropped up...probably a delayed onset - I'm guessing the Nitrogen toxicity locked out some Phosphorous...we're also in flower and this girl is hungry so that might have something to do with it. Needless to say, I've corrected too much N but now I have to correct too little P. I added back in the 4-8-4 for at least a little Nitrogen but keeping up the additional Seabird Guano and Langbeinite for the P-K boost...hoping I can dial this in appropriately so we'll have to wait and see. Update - it's likely this one is experiencing predominantly Phosphorous deficiencies due to excess Calcium and Magnesium. I've determined that I've been giving all 4 plants in this run too much Cal/Mag and it's expressing itself in different ways with each plant. Too much Cal/Mag locks out P and K, among other micro nutrients, but the P deficiency is becoming the most obvious symptom in the Malawi. It's also pretty stunted and the leaf curling maybe was due to excess N but I'm not sure...could have been an expression of stress? It was literally the first sign something was wrong but I kept over feeding it and now a bunch of the older leaves are looking sad with major P deficiencies. I've flushed and the PPM was 2800...which is rather insane but it's a testament to the overdose I've unwittingly committed. I have faith in being able to right the ship, but I doubt I'll have the yield I expected 😞

JimboNorman She's responding well to the flushing and finally started taking off toward the end of the week. such a beast. I only worry about how the abuse will affect her terpene profile at the end - who knows and I'm no connoisseur so I'll prob never know the difference anyway. PPM is looking stable today so I'll prob reintroduce 4-8-4 and molasses next feeding and hopefully get back on track.

JimboNorman Not much to report. Reintroduced 4-8-4 now that PPM have stabilized.

JimboNorman Just water this week

JimboNorman Had to go away on vacation this week so not much to report. Set her up with some watering spikes and they seemed to do alright...sort of

JimboNorman lots of defoliation this week - seems like she did not like the water spikes...maybe because I couldn't PH the water. Oh well, she's a jungle so a little bit of natural defoliation is prob a good thing...

JimboNorman Lots of natural defoliation happening this week as the calcium deficiency (I think) makes its way through middle leaves. I think this was a reaction to flushing followed by a week of vacation and inconsistent watering (and water ph) but I think we're basically through it. Organic Molasses should be helping bring Calcium levels back to normal, I hope. Regardless, the Malawi continues to barrel forward despite my mistakes.