ETHOS Clones (Diary #8)

Bloom Transition Week 2 (Aug 29-Sept 4) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Goals for Week 2: - CHANGE BULBS TO HPS ✅ - INITIATE CO2 ✅ - MAINTAIN LST UNTIL DAY 10 ✅ - GET HUMIDITY TO 60% (55% CURRENTLY)✅ - VPD 0.8-1.2✅ - END OF WEEK FLUSH ❌ - ADD BLOOM NUTES AT 25% (75% VEG) ✅ - FULL BLOOM NUTRIENTS BY WEEK END ❌ - DEFOLIATE AT END OF WEEK ✅ This week I'll continue LST training until Thursday and then let em reach for the sky. Big flush at the end of the week and then full bloom feed the rest of the way. I'll put the Exhale 365 CO2 bag into the room at lights on and remove it at lights off every day (so annoying) until harvest. It's been inoculating for the week in another room. Claims to reach 1500 ppm in about 30-45 days. Will it ever reach 1500? No. Is my room closed loop? No...Does it matter? YES! WILL I DO IT ANYWAY?? EEEEEYESSSSSSS DUDEEE!!! It's gotta be better than the hour a day I'm in there breathing on them 😆 Aug 29 (1L @ 2.0 EC/5.6 ph) All plants took 1L with no runoffs. Big watering on Friday, then I'll let them dry out until the end of the week. They should be bone dry after 3 days without water and ready for a flush. 🌡️: 82.2F ✅ ❄️: 71.8F ⬆️ 🌧️: 64.6% ✅ ☁️: 59.6% ✅ 📈: 1.25 🆗 📉: 0.77 ⬆️ 📊: 1.08 ✅ Big rain and some cold days/nights boosted humidity levels in a good way. Heat wave starts Sunday so I really gotta watch the environment this weekend. Aug 30 (1.5L @ 21c) Mix: 14ml VEG A + 14ml VEG B, 6ml BLM A, 6ml BLM B, 9ml B52, 10ml Compost Tea : 9L water = 1.9 EC / 5.8 pH • Very small amount of runoff (40ml) Same thing tomorrow but with Silica and CaMg. Upping the daily watering amount to 1.5L. 🌡️: 81.1F ✅ ❄️: 70.5F ⬆️(Cold morning (49F), high of 68F) 🌧️: 62.3%✅ ☁️: 56.3%✅ 📈: 1.34⬇️ 📉: 0.75⬆️ 📊: 1.04 ✅ Aug 31 (1.5L @ 21c) Mix 1: 12ml Silica, 20ml CaMg : 8L water = 1.0 EC / 5.6 pH • No runoff Mix 2: 12ml VEG A, 12ml VEG B, 4ml BLM A, 4ml BLM B, 7ml B52, 9ml Compost Tea : 7L water = 2.0 EC "KC1 In: 2.0 EC/5.7 pH (2.5L) Out: 2.3 EC/5.7 pH (22 c) (+0.3 EC) "KC2 In: 2.0 EC/5.7 pH (2L) Out: 2.5 EC/5.7 pH (22c) (+0.5 EC) "GS In: 2.0 EC/5.7 pH (2.5L) Out: 2.6 EC/5.6 pH (22c) (+0.6 EC) "ELB In: 2.0 EC/5.7 pH (3L) Out: 2.8 EC/ 5.6 pH (22c) (+0.8 EC) *MC In: 2.0 EC/5.7 pH (3L) Out: 2.6 EC/5.8 pH (21c) (+0.6 EC) *CG In: 2.0 EC/5.7 pH (1L) Out: 3.6 EC/ 5.6 pH (21 c) (+1.6 EC) 🌡️: 81.1F ✅ ❄️: 72.3 ✅ 🌧️: 60.8 ✅ ☁️: 56.1% ✅ 📈: 1.17 ✅ 📉: 0.92 ✅ 📊: 1.1 ✅ After watching @FrontRowAG_BrianG runoff video, I'm not AS worried as I'd usually be looking at these runoff values. There's no burnt leaf tips anywhere but some of the new leaves are twisting on KC2. 1st runoff showed a pH of 4.0 so it's likely low pH. I'm watering heavy tonight and letting the pots dry out over the weekend in preparation for flushing at the start of week 3. Done with LST now, letting these girls go from now on. Lots of headroom still and the stretch should be over in a week so looking good there. Hot week coming up so I'm not doing any defoliation until day 21. I'm going to need the humidity to balance out the hot environment. Sept 1 🌡️: 79.7F ✅ ❄️: 72%✅ 🌧️: 65.3 ⬇️ ☁️: 60.9%⬇️ 📈: 1.15 ✅ 📉: 0.75⬆️ 📊: 1.04✅ No watering. I actually meant to water but a homie stopped by and we got shit faced so I decided to stay away from the garden. Fungus gnats are still around so once I water again, and dry out, I'm dropping the DE bomb. I'll cover the top layer of perlite with diatomaceous earth and leave it there until I flush on Monday/Tuesday. Hoping it doesn't mess the pH up too badly. Pistils appeared today! Took 10 days to show pistils. This is going to be my official DAY ONE of bloom but I'll still track days from 12/12. Sept 2 PM (2L @ 21c) Mix: 14ml CaMg, 18ml A, 18ml B, 12ml Bloom A, 12ml Bloom B : 4 gallon water = 2.0 EC • 5.7 pH • Little to no runoff 🌡️: 79.7F ✅ ❄️: 71.8F ✅ 🌧️: 65.8%⬇️ ☁️: 55.4%✅ 📈: 1.04 ✅ 📉: 0.99 ✅ 📊: 1.02 ✅ Dry back is happening fairly quickly now. If I water at the start of lights on, by lights off they're pretty light. Will start doing two fertigations a day after the flush on Tuesday. Sept 3 No watering. I sprayed DE all over the tops of the containers to control these gnats. I'll leave it there until they start to come out of the substrate and kill themselves. Sept 4 (6-8L @ 21c) Mix: 15ml CaMg, 15ml PK Spike : 12L water = 1.2 EC (+2L) "KC1 In: 1.0 EC/5.7 pH (8L) Out: 1.9 EC/5.8 pH (23c) (+EC) "ELB In: 1.0 EC/5.7 pH (8L) Out: 1.8 EC/5.8 pH (22c) (+EC) *MC In: 1.0 EC/5.7 pH (6L) Out: 1.8 EC/5.8 pH (24c) (+EC) *CG In: 1.0 EC/5.7 pH (6L) Out: 1.7 EC/5.9 pH (22c) (+EC) Last day of week 2! Didn't get the whole list done this week but that's ok. My hygrometer decided not to log any values for the last two days so I don't have much info on the environment this weekend. It got hot and it was humid so I'm not worried. Got 4/6 flushed tonight. GS and KC2 were not completely dry so I'll do them in a day or two. EC runoffs between 1.7-1.9 and pH 5.8. The room is completely filled in and the budlets seem to get bigger by the hour. 7 weeks to go!