First week of flower. They are stretching like crazy. I put a scrog net up on Day 27 and I'm almost out of room already. On Day 25 I did a very light defoliation/lollipopping and then top dressed 4tbsp Gaia Green 4-4-4 and 4tbsp Gaia Green 2-8-4 for each plant. I will do a complete defoliation of everything below the screen around Day 45 when stretching should be done. Until then I'm just going to keep tucking until I run out of room. I had some potassium(K) lockout this week most likely from giving them too much cal/mag. I believe my calcium levels were too high as the plants were really only starving for magnesium and I kept giving them calmag when I should have just gave them some Epsom Salts. This hopefully seems to be remedied now as there are no signs of further progression.
Pics taken 30 days after sprout.
@Medicrexcellence, Thank you very much for looking and commenting! Best of luck on your grow when you decide to pop these babies, I don't think you'll be disappointed! 🙏 👍
@Legibly1200, Thanks for commenting! The tallest center cola was only 8 inches from the light and was sitting at nearly 1400ppfd with the low corners at 900. I could tell it was definitely light stress as only the colas in the center hotspot were showing symptoms. I raised the light back to 18 inches and reduced the overall par to 800-1200 and they seem to be doing better. Keep in mind I'm running CO2 or these numbers would have completely destroyed my plants. Without CO2 I'd recommend staying between 600-800 ppfd. This is also my first time doing 20/4 hours light schedule which is definitely raising my DLI. When you say you have light burn on tips, that can also be from slightly too much nutrients or even the roots hitting a dry spot in the media. Light burn will encompass the whole leaf edge/margins before completely frying the entire leaf. You might just have some tip burn which isn't usually related to light intensity.
Looking good, saw another dude growing these and it looks like he has the humidity of the Sahara. It
was hard to tell if he had a weed plant or some spinach/raisin hybrid at week 2.