Another interesting week for my ladies, noticing that my tips were yellowing and also browning but in spots. Leads me to believe that I had some salt build-up in prior weeks, however the growth that I have seen in the last two weeks is unbelieveable, so it's hard to believe that I may have burned my plants, unless they're just that resilliant but also thought it could be a deficincy . It's also showing way more on the Strawberry Cheesecake opposed to the Northern Lights.
As far as the super cropping goes, it was 100% accidental. This week I went back and forth in my head from "letting them just go and grow" to "I'm gonna LST so I can even out the canopy"
Strawberry Cheesecake was up first, and I had my doubts with how strong the stem was but still seemed a bit pliable at the top. As I was getting ready to adjust my tie down I hear it...... *SNAP*.... "FUCK! Welp, guess it's super cropped now" and thus we are here. Considered letting Northern Lights go, but couldn't resist, so I worked that stem and bam, she went nice and easy. I did create a "bandage" for both plants, N.L.'s stem cracked a bit, the bandage actually seems to help support the branch as well. Within a couple of hours, both tops were hailing the light as well as some of the fan leaves.
Another great week with some Super Ladies!
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 βproblemsβ your plants are displaying arenβt even problems. Iβm psyched to see your first harvest πͺ
@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. ππ»π
@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. π±ππ»
@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!