ETHOS Clones (Diary #8)

VEGETATION WEEK 6 (Aug 8-14) --------------------------------------------------- Aug 8 All containers are on the light side but I'm going to wait until the top 2" are dry until I water next. Plus I want to see what, if any, pest activity surfaces. The new sticky traps I put out yesterday are clean, so that's good. Still not positive if I have fungus gnats or root aphids, but the treatment is the same so I'll do another H202 event near the end of the week. As long as I stay ahead of the incubation period (10-14 days) these assholes won't be a problem. Once I snuff out them out, there shouldn't be any reason not to start blooming. I took cuttings from KC/ELB/MC from the bottoms of the plants last night and into water. I'll cut from GS soon and CG when she starts bushing out. That bitch is keeping it close to the chest. Cuts took up to 22 days to show roots so that would leave plenty of time to veg them out and get a stagger going. This is the last week of veg before I go to 12/12 with the 5 gallon bags. All new growth looks good, no cupping. I'll have to move the CG and MC into another room until they catch up to the rest when I change the light schedule. Aug 9 AM Took 2 cuttings from GS this morning, the lowest two branches. I also clipped the fan leaves from branches with 5 nodes. One trap (KC2) had one fly on it, I found one on the floor and one on a wall. Comparing the two on Google it looks like a fungus gnat to me (long legs and mosquito type body). Easily the better of the two pests. Unless I have both. Going to wait and see how light the bags are tonight before watering again. May wait another day if I can. I don't want to fertilize yet because I don't want to feed any pests in the root zone. I also don't want to do two H202 waterings in a row... Aug 9 PM "KC1 In: 1.0 EC/5.8 pH (4L) Out: 1.2 EC/6.1 pH (20c) (+0.2 EC) "KC2 In: 1.0 EC/5.8 pH Out: 1.2 EC/6.1 pH (20c) (+0.2 EC) "GS In: 1.0 EC/5.8 pH Out: 1.2 EC/6.1 pH (21c) (+0.2 EC) "ELB In: 1.0 EC/5.8 pH (4L) Out: 1.3 EC/6.2 pH (19c) (+0.3 EC) Apparently these are on the high side of acceptable runoff values. Another watering will get it closer and bring the pH down. Aug 10 AM *MC In: 0.8 EC/5.7 pH Out: 0.7 EC/6.3 pH (21c) (-0.1 EC) *CG In: 0.8 EC/5.8 pH Out: 0.8 EC/6.3 pH (20c) (=EC=) • Need to lower pH from 6.3 to 5.8 Usually don't see a drop in EC from runoff so it APPEARS MC fed heavily this event. pH is all wack (+0.5) so that needs to come down to 5.8-6.0. I'm going back to daily watering to keep the EC in check. I'll start with 1L daily and see how much runoff I get. The cupping leaves had me thinking I was overwatering but now I don't think that's the case at all. Still finding random fungus gnats, but the traps are clean. End of the week I will apply another H202 treatment. Started a foliar feeding regiment using MgS04. 1/2 tsp per litre pH'd to 5.8. I'm spraying them right after lights off and an hour before lights on. Hoping this clears up the purple streaks on the stalks and leaf stems. Topped the Grandpa's Stash so that's all of them but the Cherry. It looks like it will stay compact so I'm leaving it alone. Aug 10 PM "KC1 In: 1.0 EC/5.8 pH (4L) Out: 1.1 EC/6.0 pH (21c) (+EC) "KC2 In: 1.0 EC/5.8 pH (1L) Out: 1.3 EC/pH (c) (+EC) not done "GS In: 1.0 EC/5.8 pH (1L) Out: 1.3 EC/pH (c) (+EC) not done "ELB In: 1.0 EC/5.8 pH (4L) Out: 1.1 EC/6.1 pH (20c) (+EC) • pH reader off calibration. Ended watering There's never a good time to have your ph reader go off. I watered all plants with 1L @ 1.0 EC/5.8 pH. 250-300ml runoff put out some rather disturbing numbers. Runoffs were between 1.3 and 1.7 with a pH north of 6.1. So that's not good. I had put an extra 3L into two of them and runoff EC was 1.1. pH still a touch high (+ 0.3) but acceptable. This is where I lost the pH ✅ on the reader. It's nice that Bluelab pens have that because otherwise, how tf would you know?? Just blindly calibrate a meter using up buffers? Whatever, anyway, that's when I stopped because I didn't have any ph buffers. I'll pick that up when the shop opens and finish that event at lights on. Some flies on the surface of the pots, buzzing around when I started watering. Not liking that. I topped all the pots with straight perlite...idk maybe it does something, maybe it doesn't...I have a bunch of it. Probably end up mixing it in to the previous top layer of pure coco. I used the same ratio as I did with 3 gallon containers so there probably isn't enough perlite in there to begin with. Again, maybe that's part of the leaf cupping issue (yeah it's still kinda there). I wanted to flip to bloom next week but it looks like I've got a bit of work to do before they're ready for that. Aug 11 PM • Calibrated pH meter *MC In: 0.8 EC/5.8 pH Out: 0.8 EC/5.9 pH (19c) (+EC) *CG In: 0.8 EC/5.8 pH Out: 0.8 EC/5.8 pH (19c) "KC2 In: 1.1 EC/5.8 pH Out: 1.1 EC/5.9 pH (19c) (+EC) "GS In: 1.1 EC/5.8 pH (3L) Out: 1.1 EC/5.7 pH (20c) (+EC) Yeah now we're back on it. pH meter was - 0.5 from base. Back to growing after a calibration. pH must've been off for a few days but after tomorrow everything should be ok. Low pH...wow. A ton of fkn around for no reason. Back to basics brother. Keep it simple DUDE. Aug 12 PM (1.5-2.5L) "KC1 In: 1.1 EC/5.8 pH Out: 1.2 EC/5.9 pH (19c) (+0.1 EC)🆗 "KC2 In: 1.1 EC/5.8 pH Out: 1.1 EC/5.8 pH (19c) (--EC--)✅ "GS In: 1.1 EC/5.8 pH Out: 1.1 EC/5.7 pH (19c) (--EC--)✅ "ELB In: 1.1 EC/5.8 pH Out: 1.2 EC/5.8 pH (20c) (+0.1 EC)🆗 *MC In: 0.9 EC/5.8 pH Out: 0.9 EC/6.0 pH (19c) (--EC--)✅ 🌡️: 25.6c✅ ❄️: 21.9c✅ 🌧️: 65.5%✅ ☁️: 59.6%✅ • Back lamp to 100% (at lights ON) Aug 14 AM (3L @ 22c) Mix: 4ml CaMg, 4ml A, 4ml B : 6L = 1.1 EC "KC1 In: 1.1 EC/5.9 pH Out: 1.1 EC/5.9 pH (21c) (--EC--)✅ "KC2 In: 1.1 EC/5.9 pH Out: 1.1 EC/5.8 pH (21c) (--EC--)✅ "GS In: 1.1 EC/5.9 pH Out: 1.1 EC/5.8 pH (22c) (--EC--)✅ "ELB In: 1.1 EC/5.9 pH Out: 1.2 EC/5.8 pH (21c) (+0.1 EC)🆗 *MC In: 0.9 EC/5.9 pH Out: 0.9 EC/6.1 pH (21c) (--EC--) 🆗 *CG In: 0.9 EC/5.9 pH Out: 0.9 EC/6.0 pH (21c) (--EC--) 🆗 Added High/Low Temp/Humidity to daily notes Added solution temperature IN to daily notes H202 treatment on KC1/2 and CG at lights ON After watering this morning, the two KC's both had flies come out of the perlite layer. I got a few of them with the sticky trap but they're still hanging around. Last day of the week so another dose of H202 is incoming. Runoffs look good after skipping a day so I may be able to get away with watering every other day. I've got the lights ON humidity close to 60% @ 25c and hasn't gone below 55%. Lights off starts around 55% and climbs to nearly 65% before the lights come on. So VPD is inching closer to ideal. Aug 14 PM (3/4L H202 {1:4} on KCs/CG) • Turned lamp up to 100% at 7 pm Mix: 6ml CaMg, 6ml A, 6ml B, 6ml B-52: 4.5L = 1.7 EC "KC1 In: 1.3 EC/5.8 pH Out: 1.1 EC/6.0 pH (21c) (-0.2 EC)✅ "KC2 In: 1.3 EC/5.8 pH Out: 1.1 EC/5.9 pH (21c) (-0.2 EC)✅ "GS In: 1.3 EC/5.8 pH Out: 1.2 EC/5.8 pH (21c) (-0.1 EC)✅ "ELB In: 1.3 EC/5.8 pH Out: 1.3 EC/5.8 pH (21c) (--EC--)✅ *MC In: 1.0 EC/5.7 pH Out: 0.9 EC/6.2 pH (20c) (-0.1 EC)✅ *CG In: 1.0 EC/5.7 pH Out: 0.9 EC/6.2 pH (20c) (-0.1 EC)✅ 🌡️: 25c ✅ ❄️: 21.3c✅ 🌧️: 62.3%✅ ☁️: 56.2%✅ Stepped up the EC by 0.2, added B52 to the mix