First grow

3/31 Plant is still stretching, lower branches took training well. I have done very light defoliation and lots of leaf tucking. Second plant is slowly starting to flower but not stretching much. Roots are just beginning to poke through bottom and sides of the pots. Have been fighting ph issues in these ac infinity water bases but doesn't seem to affect their growth. 4/1 still fighting PH issues in these water bases, based on some things I am reading since my nutrients are mainly organic this is causing the swings. I may go back to traditional watering as they don't seem to take much anyway, or I can try blocking all light going into the base and see if that fixes it, although I suspect the temp will also play a part in this. 4/2 After dealing with ph creeping in the water reservoir I removed plant from the bases and dried them out overnight. Today I did a dunk with the fabric bag in a nutrient solution of 6.2ph and gathered all the runoff which is measuring at 6.4. I water each plants soil with 2 cups of recharge. Since I have turned on the bloom button on my light the ppfd has increased to 600 and DLI of 40. The plants seemed droopy near lights out yesterday as if they were getting too much light so I have decreased to 18hr on and will see what that does. 4/3 The larger plant took the dunk watering fine and was dry by evening, the smaller plant is very wet still and just doesn't uptake much water, prob about 1/2 of what the other plant does. I did this because the top soil was dry for several days and I didn't want the soil to become hydrophobic. I covered the holes on the water trays with black plastic to see if nutrients will remain more stable without light hitting them. 4/4 smaller plant is not taking up much water, larger plant is taking 2-3x the other. Did some slight defoliation and some pretty extensive leaf tucking. 4/5 raised my light from 12" above canopy to 26" and increased power from 60% to 80%. My ppfd readings went from 630 to 715 and DLI from 40 to 43. The larger plant went into flower at 5-6" and has grown to 19. The other plant is just screwing around and not up taking water. I pulled it off water tray and raised it 6" higher to light to match the other plant, going to dry this plant out before watering again.