It has been a somewhat stressful week. I believe that I've been battling some wind burn, which initially I thought was due to adjusting my light intensity too fast. I currently seem to have worked it out for now. I've been somewhat working the plants daily, trying to ensure that I expose as many bud sites as I can.
I trimmed up some of the stuff on the bottom and decided to leave the fan leaves and just start tucking them or "cuffing" them to each other or the stem, been working out fairly decent. Also going to slowly just up my nutes from veg to flower, the Strawberry Cheesecake just started budding a bit today(6/4/2023) so it's next feed I'll kick it up into flower levels. The Northern Lights is slightly behind and starting to get some really nice pre-flower pistils going. I don't know if it's cultivar specific or just this pheno, but it is a fairly thick with foliage.
These ladies are looking more and more beautiful each day and I am having so much fun.
Lookin juicy. Keep it up, almost there. Good call on ignoring that dude. I did some of the things he mentioned (not per his advice) and saw nothing but problems. Any “problems” your plants are displaying aren’t even problems. I’m psyched to see your first harvest 💪
@WatercanWampa, Thanks! I've been having some issues lately that seem to be turning around with my 1st feeding. I am definetly dedicated to these ladies.
Plants look great for a first grow. Good job. Enjoy the flowers from your labor. Only thing I seen you might wanna watch for in future grows. When your leaf tips turned brown, and curled up and in. This is nutrition burn. In you case I think it was probably not enough irrigation when you fed them. The substrate likely had some build up from old nutrition, which caused the burning. I have done the same thing myself before. A good way to monitor it is to test the ph of your run off. Anyway, just hopefully a helpful observation. Again, awesome 1st grow. 👍🏻😜
@Roberts, My media also contains dolomite lime, so I'm thinking that's countering the pH drop while still seeing a high TDS? I'm clearly no expert but sounds like it makes sense. I also ran a feed/feed/flush schedule, which in my next run I think I prefer the feed/flush. I appreciate the feedback and agree.
@B_Content,just trying to help your next grow be that much better is all. Good luck. Usually the high tds sends the ph down a lot is why I say what I did. 🌱👍🏻
@Roberts, Thanks growmie. I actually agree with you 100% I believe it started in week 3. I actually had to pay more attention to my runoff TDS compared to my runoff pH. Not sure if it was the meter or what, but my pH never deviated more than .5 wound up calibrating a completed different TDS and pH pens and pH was still in range, while TDS on the otherhand was ridiculously high. Finally got a watering amount and frequency down. Thanks for stopping by!