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Dear diary,
Week 5 completed and after a scare last week with magnesium deficiency, we were able to get it sorted and continue the mainlining.
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⏰ Day 32:
Gave a foliar of calmag water at 3.0ms 6.1ph during light off so it’s more gentle on the leaves followed by a regular feeding at 1.46ms 6.1ph.
Still seeing some deteriorating continuing on lower leaves, so will get epsom salt tomorrow to really target magnesium and increase the calmag with 0.7ml/l in feeds going forward.
⏰ Day 33:
Gave a foliar of epsom salt at 6.6g/liter(3.2EC 6.3ph)as lights went off but as I read more my ratios were off and I diluted the solution with 50% regular water.
Regular feeding at 1.45ms 6.2ph was given at lights on.
When inspecting the girls a few hours later they look a lot healthier already, so clearly magnesium was the issue.
Will give them today to recover and if everything keeps looking good by tomorrow, I will do the next topping.
If so I will have lost 5 days of progress due to the deficiency, but that’s the upside with photos I guess vs autos.
⏰ Day 34:
Another foliar of epsom salt applied and feeding of 1.5l each at 1.56ms 5.8ph.
A few hours later topping nr 2 done making it 4 tops each now and stripped the remaining growth.
I did however leave the fan-leaves attached to the new top node and for W.C #1 I left another set of fan-leaves for an extra boost as she’s a bit behind.
⏰ Day 35:
Did a quick check before lights off and they are praying and looking good considering the topping.
Then I did a regular feeding at 1.56ms 5.5ph when lights went on. Still looking good and no continued signs of the magnesium issue.
Lastly I removed the extra 2 fan-leaves I had left on WC #1 as her new tops are growing nicely and turned up the light slightly.
⏰ Day 36:
Regular feeding at 1.56ms 5.6ph.
Girls are looking healthy and enough has grown out that I can start tying down the 4 new mains.
Will probably top them again in 1-2 days if everything progresses nicely.
⏰ Day 37:
Foliar of epsom given just as lights turned off followed by regular feeding at 1.61ms 5.8ph when lights turned back on.
⏰ Day 38:
Regular feeding at 1.61ms 5.9ph.
Topping nr 3 was also done bringing it to 8 tops each and I will do the 4th and final topping as soon as the nodes have developed a bit more.
Fantastic work! I'm a newbee. One question. Day 139 reads:- WC #3: 95% cloudy, 4% amber, 1% clear. And Day 142:- 99% cloudy - so would that be 1% amber? Thanks and well done.
@Xilpa, thanks man! This was just my 2nd grow as well so I would put myself in the newbee category as well to be fair haha
But yeah so by day 142, they were about 99% cloudy with 1% amber.
I do understand that it can sound a bit weird as I had 4% amber in a previous day, but it’s as the previous days I was just looking at the tops, and for the last check I gave a estimate more looking across the entire plant. So the very tops were probably at 5-10% amber, but at the bottom it was basically 0, so averaged out to about 99% cloudy.
I otherwise just focus on getting rid of almost all the clear, and I have a tolerance for about 10-15% max of amber, so I cut when either:
1. Less than 1% clear or
2. Over 90% cloudly and 10-15% amber.
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