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ATF was assigned the color green for this grow.
===== 8/9 Germination Day 0 =====
Put about 1.5cm down into a rapid rooter that had been soaked in distilled water with h202 in it.
Placed on top of a vivosun heating pad.
I am germinating 3 other varieties (all sativa dominant) and have a fifth rooter I've used just to put the vivosun probe into for checking temperature.
===== 8/10 Germination Day 1 =====
Not much to report. Just been tracking metrics and will be spraying the rapid rooters and lid 1-2 times a day to maintain moisture levels.
===== 8/11 Germination Day 2 =====
Put together my cloning machine. It is sold as a kit by PA Hydroponics. The plan is to move the plants here after they have sprouted and grown tall enough to clear the neoprene nicely.
ATF has roots growing through the bottom of the rooter. Hopefully the rest will follow and we'll see them sprout soon.
===== 8/12 Germination Day 3 =====
ATF has sprouted! Haven’t seen signs of life yet from the other 3.
I drained the hydro today. I had been running it to get a feel for what the environment will be like inside the grow tent. I will fill it back up nearer to when I am going to transplant. I have the drain kit installed on my fallponics system. You can see I have an extra inch or so clearance than I need. I might try to get smaller bricks or build support from lumber in the future.
I expelled the water outside into a garden. One pic is when it is working at full capacity and the second shows when it starts to trickle: at this point I shut off the pump. You can see the reservoir and plant bucket levels at this point. Next step was to drain the remaining water with a wetvac.
Evening: I have been spraying the humidity dome but after talking to an experienced grower I added a few drops of water treated with h2o2 to prevent the rapid rooters from drying out.
I am hoping to move ATF to the cloning machine tomorrow.
===== 8/13 Germination Day 4 =====
ATF is about an inch and a half now.
I decided to move all the rooters to the cloning machine since I didn’t want to have to figure out the proper environment for both. For the cloning machine, I added 2ml h2o2 / gal to distilled water. I put 1 ½ gallons of water (and 3ml h2o2) into it. I covered them with humidity domes spritzed with water. The net pots couldn’t fit both the rooters and neoprene nicely so I cut the bottoms out. I tried varying levels of prong length to ensure the rooters didn’t go too deep. Now they fit better. But holey moley, while transferring them to the clipped pots I made a mess with water spraying everywhere. I should have turned the pump off for this part.
I talked to a more experienced grower about how wet the rooters were getting and learned this type of cloner is more for clones and not for seeds since you can’t really drown clones. I pivoted by removing the pump and putting in an airstone from the hydro system. I will adjust the dampness by water level and air pump speed. I gave the rooters a gentle squeeze to remove some of the excess water. I hope the plants forgive me for trying to drown them. 🤣
I also turned on the inline and rotating fans and the tent had its first period of darkness last night since I swapped the lights to 18/6 timing. Big day for the lil ones.
===== 8/14 Germination Day 5 =====
I ended up adding another ¼ gallon of h2o2 water and found a good level for the air bubbles to be at in order to keep the bottom damp but not drenched.
ATF continues in the lead and is showing more roots out of the bottom.
The tent seemed to regulate its temperature way better with the hydro system running. It is a good time to fill it back up and use a method described to me by @Lishrakk to make sure I set the water levels correctly inside the fallponics system:
Use a wooden spoon (or in my case wooden dowel) marked with inches to fill the system to 2 inches below the net pots bottom.
Let the system run for awhile
Remove hydroton until you run into the wet clay.
Measure this level and use it as a base for how high your water should be depending on whether you need your rooters higher or lower.
And more tips from him to dial in the system easier:
Take a gallon or two of tap water
Measure its PH and PPM
PH Down it to 5.85 -ish. Record how many ml it took
Divide this by the number of gallons balanced
Record this ratio and use it for balancing your water in the future
And using a water meter on my hose to accurately track amounts of water added to the system.
I bought a little air pump to power the cloning machine so the fallponics system could have its fourth back. At first I was worried it was too small so I put 4 gallons in there but it was drenching the rooters again so I removed some water. I’ll hone in on the right paramters soon enough.
My meter said 40.6 gallons was added to the fallponics but I’m pretty sure I forgot to reset the 4 I had used in the cloning machine. I’ll make sure to zero it next time 😄 To the water in the cloning machine I added 1mg/gal each of micro, grow and bloom as well as 0.5mg/gal orca to give them a little taster of what’s to come.
I remade my PH solutions and opened a second ph meter because my vivosun one was giving erratic results. I’m still not sure everything is OK as it only took 1ml/gal PH Down to achieve 5.86 PH. I’ll keep testing in the days to come. I will check the hydroton for how high it dampens tomorrow.
===== 8/15 Germination Day 6 =====
She be growing.
===== 8/16 Germination Day 7 =====
Following advice from HWG I will be only having the cloning machine on for a brief period of time every couple days.
One of my cats entered the tent and did some parkour but everything was mostly unharmed–I had a small hole to patch in the tent. For now I am blocking the ventilation hole with my scrog net (it has a hard frame). She can probably still get in if she is determined but it should deter. I will probably make a chicken wire box around it so she cannot get in. I’ll also be more vigilant about clipping her nails in case she tries to scale the outside so there is less risk of holes.
===== 8/17 Germination Day 8 =====
I put an aquarium heater in the cloning machine. I kept it at 72 for now will maybe turn it up later.
===== 8/18 Germination Day 9 =====
Aquarium heater up to 77. The tent temp is rising just a bit and hopefully this will help the seedlings take off. I also swapped out the cloning water. I used tap treated with h2o2 and ph’d to 5.8. I’m not going to use the bubbler or sprayer and rather just drip fed 8-10 drops of h2o2 distilled water onto atf.
===== 8/19 Germination Day 10 =====
I think we are back on track. I will just be running a small amount of nutes in it for pre-veg.
===== 8/20 Germination Day 11 =====
ATF transported into the hydroponics system! I put 40 ml FloraMicro, DynaGro, and FloraBloom into the system as well as 20 ml Orca.
===== 8/21 Germination Day 12 =====
ATF looks just slightly droopy to me but otherwise hale. I turned on the humidifier to try and get the humidity up in the tent (it has been ~50%) and put the humidity domes on (I probably should have had them on since transferring, oops!).
===== 8/22 Germination Day 13 =====
ATF continues to droop and has some brown spotting. I’ll top feed water in a circle an inch out from the stem today and in a couple days ad nauseum until her roots grow out.
Update: after a discussion with Lishrackk I took the plants out and replaced them into the hydroton. I dug again, this time past where it got damp and down to where the stones were wet. I then used that as my new basis for the bottom of the rooters. They are about an inch and a half lower now. On the bright side both plants roots showed continued growth so I think they will bounce back. 🤞
===== 8/23 Germination Day 14 =====
ATF looks a bit more punchy today.
===== 8/24 Germination Day 15 =====
ATF is looking good! Still no roots poking out the bottom, but I’m happy with how she’s looking today.
===== 8/25 Germination Day 16 =====
I top fed ATF.
I turned down the humidity and turned off the heat setting on the humidifier since it was approaching 75 degrees F and was at 74% humidity. It has been hot and humid here and I think our AC is struggling to keep up now.
===== 8/26 Germination Day 17 =====
Top fed. It appears to me that ATF has some new spotting (I really need to figure out how to take less exposed pictures). Maybe I will have to feed closer to the stem? I keep checking the roots but no dice yet.
===== 8/27 Germination Day 18 =====
I top fed twice today, roughly 12 hours apart and the last feeding with several hours before lights out.
ATF is growing but has some pretty dark brown spots today.
I am doing an alternate feed chart that I got from Lishrakk and has worked for him in this system which you only have to feed every 1-2 weeks (depending on where you’re at in the cycle). I might do week 1 veg nute reservoir swap (which will have some calmag in it) in the next few days.
===== 8/28 Germination Day 19 =====
Morning: Top fed.
Evening: ATF’s roots were long enough they should be doing just fine now.
===== 8/29 Veg Day 1 (day 20 overall) =====
ATF roots have exploded and at least one is fully down to the water now!
Rez swapped to week 1 nutes:
36 gallons water
18 ml CALiMAGic
108 ml GH Micro
72 ml DynaGro
72 ml GH Bloom
18 ml Orca
===== 8/30 Veg Day 2 (21) =====
PH from yesterday’s rez swap is slightly lower than targeted. It is reading 5.72. It may still drift upwards as the system settles.
===== 8/31 Veg Day 3 (22) =====
Added 2ml PH up to res and will track how it adjusts from its current 5.76; I’m doing small increments so I don’t overcompensate and have to chase the dragon.
Afternoon: after about 8 hours, ph is now reading 5.88
ATF about ready to ditch the dome.
===== 9/1 Veg Day 4 (23) =====
ATF is living life dome free now, she was hitting the sides in each direction so it was time for it to go.
===== 9/3 Veg Day 6 (25) =====
PH a little up to 6.08 over the last few days (I assume from the adjustment 8/31). I administered 1.5ml PH down.
I think the light is a bit far from my plants. I measured 37” from the top of ATF. I lowered it 6” to 31” above and adjusted it to keep the same PPFD - 250.
ATF has been growing well. I topped her above the 4th serrated leaves. My plan is to “4-way LST” and to top her again once she’s grown out a bit more in preparation to go under a scrog net.
===== 9/4 Veg Week 2 Day 1 (26) =====
PH back down to a good value at 5.91
===== 9/5 Veg Week 2 Day 2 (27) =====
ATF roots looking goooooood.
PH floating back up a bit. I put a gallon of tap PH’d down to keep the water levels up and bring the PH down just a smidge. I upped the PPFD to 315, partially in an attempt to raise the tent temperature which is sitting around 68 F.
===== 9/6 Veg Week 2 Day 3 (28) =====
ATF has the beginnings of a root ball forming down in the water.
===== 9/7 Veg Week 2 Day 4 (29) =====
With ATF I started rolling and bending her stems between my fingers to help strengthen her. ATF starting to beefen up, especially the two top branches are getting thick.
===== 9/8 Veg Week 2 Day 5 (30) =====
ATF roots continue to grow. MW about as tall as ATF now, if not quite as bushy.
===== 9/9 Veg Week 2 Day 6 (31) =====
MW has presented with gnarly rust spots on her bottom leaves that have started to appear on her top ones. ATF has smaller spotting. After talking with HWG and rewatching the chloramine video, as well as researching and finding more anecdotal evidence online– I believe this is from chloramine in my water supply. While I have the dechlorinator I forgot to add in for this rez swap.
I will be doing two things to mitigate:
1. I will be doing a rez swap tonight using the dechlorinator.
2. I have ordered an RO system to be installed once it arrives
===== 9/10 Veg Week 3 Day 1 (32) =====
Last evening I did a rez swap with the following:
36 gallons water
18 ml dechlorinator
18 ml tps silica
27 ml CALiMAGic
151 ml FloraMicro
137 ml DynaGro Grow
108 ml FloraBloom
18 ml Orca
This morning I moved the lights down. They are 12.5” from ATF. Set to 320 PPFD.
===== 9/11 Veg Week 3 Day 2 (33) =====
The reservoir read 6.11 this morning so I administered 3ml PH down.
ATF is growing well and looking good!
===== 9/12 Veg Week 3 Day 3 (34) =====
Today I began LSTing the growths by gently bending and twisting them to build strength but also get them ready to get pinned once they are long enough.
===== 9/13 Veg Week 3 Day 4 (35) =====
ATF slightly droopy today. I raised the light 6” and measured the PPFD at 328.
===== 9/14 Veg Week 3 Day 5 (36) =====
ATF continues to be the biggest and fastest growing.
===== 9/15 Veg Week 3 Day 6 (37) =====
I tied down ATF with small wire in order to start flattening it out. It was a bit nerve wracking and I definitely need to work on having a lighter touch. I know I punctured at least one leaf.
I also need to work on a better way to fasten the wires as it was a bit annoying getting them to grab onto the net pot.
===== 9/17 Veg Week 4 Day 1 (39) =====
Tucked some fan leaves on ATF to expose nodes. The plan right now is to let each of her 4 “main” nodes grow 2-3 nodes and then top her and try to clone them and then flip one for pollen.
===== 9/18 Veg Week 4 Day 2 (40) =====
Tucked ATF.
===== 9/19 Veg Week 4 Day 3 (41) =====
There is some foam in my hydroponics system. I’m debating a couple options: adding more orca, sterilizing with root drip or h2o2, or rez swapping.
ATF was also flattened a bit and tucked. She has real big fan leaves.
Evening: HWG helped me diagnose MW as most likely having a phosphorus deficiency. That combined with the foam led to a rez swap. Since my RO reservoir hasn’t been set up and filled yet, I used tap water treated with dechlorinator again. I plan to have RO ready for the next swap on Sunday. I did the same nutrient composition as the last swap but raised the rez to right under the net pots:
43 gallons water
22 ml dechlorinator
22 ml tps silica
32 ml CALiMAGic
181 ml FloraMicro
163 ml DynaGro Grow
129 ml FloraBloom
22 ml Orca
43 ml PH down
===== 9/20 Veg Week 4 Day 4 (42) =====
LST on ATF.
===== 9/21 Veg Week 4 Day 5 (43) =====
No training today.
I installed a float valve supplied by a line from my RO so I don’t have to replace the water manually in the humidifier anymore. I plan to drop a few ml of h2o2 into the humidifier every couple of days.
===== 9/22 Veg Week 4 Day 6 (44) =====
I topped ATF today.
I’m attempting to clone the ATF cuttings. I realized when I opened my container of CloneX that I bought the solution instead of gel, but we will see how it works out. After clipping the cuttings off, I cut them at a 45deg angle with a razor blade and dipped them in the solution then put them into my cloning machine. I put 40/ml of the solution into the approximately 2-2.5 gallons of RO water that was in the machine. I set them in my second tent with 150 ppfd lighting.
===== 9/23 Veg Week 4 Day 7 (45) =====
Only light training today: moving stems away from budsites.
The plants continue to show many different signs of deficiencies. I’ve checked and rechecked the ph levels, so I’m lead to believe the issue is either overwatering or too many nutrients. I have lowered the water 2 inches like it was before to prevent the rooters from becoming soaked, and plan to cut the nutrients in half at tomorrow’s regularly scheduled feeding (except calmag which I will keep the same since I’m switching to RO water).
===== 9/24 Veg Week 5 Day 1 (46) =====
I swapped the reservoir last night, cutting my chart in half to combat the nutrient issues. I’m planning to convert to the HWG feed chart starting in Week 6. The only modification will be adding Orca instead of H2O2.
35 gal water
18 ml TPS silica
35 ml CALiMAGic
84 ml FloraMicro
70 ml DynaGro Grow
67 ml FloraBloom
18 ml Orca
3.5 ml PH Up
===== 9/25 Veg Week 5 Day 2 (47) =====
LST today: bending, tucking fan leaves, and tying down to keep them squat.
I think ATF is ready for the screen, I plan to put it in this afternoon or tomorrow morning. I checked the clones but no signs of roots yet. I’ll let them be and check again in a couple days.
PH settled a bit lower than my target so I added another 1ml PH Up. I will keep micro adjusting until it arrives where I’d like it.
===== 9/26 Veg Week 5 Day 3 (48) =====
Just tucking big fan leaves today to try and expose node sites.
===== 9/27 Veg Week 5 Day 4 (49) =====
Installed scrog net today. Lights are 14” from the net and are currently just over 400 PPFD. I ended up raising the net a bit after the pics as I was worried I wouldn’t have any room for trimming the undergrowth. The tent and hydro temperatures are rising a bit and if they continue to go up I will have to add a swamp cooler or iced bottles to the rez. I started filling the barrel for swap on Sunday. I would wait until Saturday but I will be out of town and don’t want our house sitter to have to mess with the grow stuff.
===== 9/28 Veg Week 6 Day 5 (50) =====
For ATF just moving nodes to free squares. I will be out of town until Sunday so I triple checked everything.
===== 10/1 Veg Week 6 Day 1 (53) =====
Had a bit of wrangling to do after being out of town for a few days. I might have flipped to bloom if all three plants in the tent were the size of ATF, but as it is I think I will go another week. I plan to do my first big defoliation session tomorrow, then let them recover before flipping next week.
For today’s rez swap I switched to using HWG feed chart with the only difference being that I added 0.5ml/gal orca instead of the h2o2. My water stopped part way thru the rez swap for a bit so my meter didn’t get the count. I just used 40 gal as my estimate but in hindsight I probably should have used 35 or 36. Oops.
I calculated the amounts of each nutrient I needed to add by making 1 gallon of veg juice, which measured 3550 PPM. I made an assumption that it would mix linearly and calculated I would need ~282% of the gallon for 40 gallons of water to reach the target 258 (which includes +8 from the water). I’m not entirely sure it will mix linearly but it made sense to me since it is parts-per-million. I will track the PPM reading of the next couple days to see how close I was.
40 gal water 🤷🏻
62 ml silica
113 ml micro
34 ml grow
45 ml bloom
56 ml diamond nectar
20 ml orca
I’m not entirely sure I put diamond nectar in but I am not gonna worry about it since it is optional. I’ll try to be less exhausted next rez swap 🙂
Of the 4 clones I cut last week, 3 are starting to grow roots. I tossed the one who wasn’t. I did a swap of the nutrients in the cloning machine. I will try to remember to take pics of the roots tomorrow.
===== 10/2 Veg Week 6 Day 2 (54) =====
Lollipopped/defoliated ATF.
One of the clones is growing nice roots. The other two still just have nubs. I’ll let ‘em keep on keepin’ on for now but I have a feeling I’ll just be planting the one.
===== 10/3 Veg Week 6 Day 3 (55) =====
Daily scrog maintenance: try to move tops to their own square. Tuck down fan leaves.
===== 10/4 Veg Week 6 Day 4 (56) =====
Some stretching and tucking. Added 1g epsom salt to a gallon of RO water and then added it to the system. The PH was drifting downwards so I added some PH UP.
===== 10/5 Veg Week 6 Day 5 (57) =====
Scrog maintenance and light defol removing the largest most annoying fan leaves so they don’t block nodes.
===== 10/6 Veg Week 6 Day 6 (58) =====
Scrog maintenance. Continued defoliation attempts, removing ugly leaves and anything that is blocking light to nodes.
The two laggard clones were culled, leaving us just the one. I think I’m just going to try to grow her in the cloning machine and flip her there. Will see how it works out.
===== 10/7 Veg Week 6 Day 7 (59) =====
Scrog maintenance.
===== 10/8 Bloom Week 1 Day 1 (60) =====
Rez swapped and fed with 80% veg juice / 20% bloom juice. I switched the clone to the same feed.
38 gallons water in
57 ml TPS silica
6 ml CALiMAGic
98 ml FloraMicro
39 ml Dyna-Gro Grow
55 ml FloraBloom
12 ml TPS Signal
60 ml Diamond Nectar
20 ml Orca
Interestingly enough, the 2 gallons I mixed for the cloning machine ph’d at 5.94 which is right where I want it.
Performed scrog maintenance and switched my lights to 12/12.
===== 10/9 Bloom Week 1 Day 2 (61) =====
Didn’t do too much maintenance today. I think that I have been moving the tops a little too soon and a couple got pinned and didn’t erect themselves correctly. I took the picture before, but really I only moved the tallest couple. I will see if it makes tomorrow a bear.
===== 10/10 Bloom Week 1 Day 3 (62) =====
Scrog maintenance.
I sprayed the ATF clone with her first dose of STS. Looking back at the guide it was supposed to be done a week before the flip. If it doesn’t work out to pollinate this run I’ll try to save the pollen for another time. I’m mostly doing it for the experience and not necessarily that I need to preserve this ATF genetics.
===== 10/11 Bloom Week 1 Day 4 (63) =====
Scrog maintenance. I took the photos before today to show you what they look like before training.
To maintain water level and bring the PH up a bit, I mixed 1 ml orca and 8ml PH Up into 1 gallon RO water and fed it into the system.
The clone’s water was a bit high so I PH’d it down and also moved the sprayers so less would escape out the cord’s hole.
===== 10/12 Bloom Week 1 Day 5 (64) =====
Added 1 gal water with 1 ml orca and 3 ml UP.
Turned the lights down a bit to 512 PPFD.
===== 10/13 Bloom Week 1 Day 6 (65) =====
Raised lights to 18”. Lights measuring at 509 PPFD at the scrog net.
Continued scrog maintenance.
===== 10/14 Bloom Week 1 Day 7 (66) =====
I lollipopped the plants. I’m a bit nervous that I went too far. I left ATF the bushiest. Hopefully I'll get a feel for what is correct.
We will see how the canopy fills in over the next couple weeks.
The clone was getting really crowded in its 2 liter bottle so I've freed it. I might put my second humidifier in there.
===== 10/15 Bloom Week 2 Day 1 (67) =====
Rez swapped then performed scrog maintenance. I super-cropped a couple branches to try to get the tops back into shape. I should have taken some before pics too since they aren’t very pretty after scrog work.
The clone got her second treatment of STS and rez swap to the same ratios as the hydro system.
My formula for the HWG chart hasn’t been nailing the target exactly, but it has been working out since the PPM starts high and ends under the target. For example, in week 1 of bloom the target was 280. The feed ended up reading around 360 but yesterday’s reading was 220.
40 gallons water in
56 ml TPS silica
13 ml CALiMAGic
92 ml FloraMicro
50 ml DynaGro-Grow
71 ml FloraBloom
26 ml TPS Signal
65 ml Diamond Nectar
20 ml Orca
12 ml ph UP
===== 10/16 Bloom Week 2 Day 2 (68) =====
My guestimate was high and the PH is too high at 6.3; I’ll be administering PH Down in small increments measured twice a day until I get back to 5.9-6 range.
Just some scrog maintenance today.
I might have to defol ATF sooner rather than later. She is also a lot stouter and thicker in limb so it's harder to scrog train her to separate some of the top nodes.
===== 10/17 Bloom Week 2 Day 3 (69) =====
Just living the scrog life. Plan to thin out ATF tomorrow. pH settled fine after just the one down adjustment yesterday morning.
===== 10/18 Bloom Week 2 Day 4 (70) =====
Light defol & scrog.
===== 10/19 Bloom Week 2 Day 5 (71) =====
Sprayed STS today. The clone water’s pH was into the 4s. Oops. She is getting big, it knocks over in its net cup very easily. I’m contemplating chopping her so I can start another round of seeds with that tent and light anyway. I'm still excited with rooting my first clone :)
I’ll be away for a couple days so I’m going to babysit the pH throughout today and get the system slightly higher than my normal target so it can drop a bit and still stay in the sweet spot.
===== 10/22 Bloom Week 3 Day 1 (74) =====
Defoliated. I tried to leave at least 3 nodes, and remove most large fans. I hope this is the last big defoliation I’ll have to do.
Scrogged. They were a bit high above the net after a couple days away so it took some doing to get them back in line. Gardening wire was clutch.
Chopped the clone so I could use that tent for some new plants.
Rez swap:
41 gal water
52 ml TPS Silica
21 ml CALiMAGic
77 ml Micro
59 ml Grow
86 ml Bloom
42 ml TPS Signal
70 ml Diamond Nectar
20 ml Orca
===== 10/23 Bloom Week 3 Day 2 (75) =====
Went easy on them today. Just tucked fan leaves that were blocking node sites.
===== 10/24 Bloom Week 3 Day 3 (76) =====
Scrogged. Mostly bending and tying with wires since they are getting stiff and hard to move under the net without damaging the limbs. I will definitely have to do one last big defol session with ATF. She is the bushiest plant. I feel like when I remove a fan leaf that 3 grow back in its place 🤣
===== 10/25 Bloom Week 3 Day 4 (77) =====
Just tucked fan leaves today.
===== 10/26 Bloom Week 3 Day 5 (78) =====
Some defol and scrog.
===== 10/27 Bloom Week 3 Day 6 (79) =====
Defol + scrog. Trying to fill in gaps and keep ‘em even. Will work on it again tomorrow. My understanding is after Week 3 you stop moving them so much during scrog?
===== 10/28 Bloom Week 3 Day 7 (80) =====
Light defol and scrog. I think they are in about their final positions now.
They are starting to chug water and the pH dropping. I put 20 ml pH UP in yesterday and it still dropped to 5.45 by this morning.
===== 10/29 Bloom Week 4 Day 1 (81) =====
Defoliated. Removed most fan leaves, just leaving the sugar ones.
Rez swap:
41.5 Gallons Water
46 ml TPS Silica
30 ml CALiMAGic
60 ml FloraMicro
69 ml FloraGrow
102 ml FloraBloom
60 ml TPS Signal
75 ml Diamond Nectar
21 ml Orca
===== 10/30 Bloom Week 4 Day 2 (82) =====
Letting the plants recover.
===== 11/1 Bloom Week 4 Day 4 (84) =====
Just letting ‘em grow the last few days.
===== 11/2 Bloom Week 4 Day 5 (85) =====
I just moved leaves to expose node sites better. I think I will do some LTS tomorrow to try separate ATF nodes a bit better.
===== 11/3 Bloom Week 4 Day 6 (86) =====
ATF was hard to separate. I will try tackling it again tomorrow. Maybe some light defol as well?
===== 11/4 Bloom Week 4 Day 7 (87) =====
Just letting ‘em chill. Took some close-ups.
===== 11/5 Bloom Week 5 Day 1 (88) =====
Rez swap:
41.5 gal water
38 ml TPS Silica
38 ml CALiMAGic
38 ml FloraMicro
76 ml Dyna-Gro Grow
114 ml FloraBloom
76 ml TPS Signal
76 ml Diamond Nectar
21 ml Orca
===== 11/6 Bloom Week 5 Day 2 (89) =====
Adjusted pH for after yesterday’s swap.
===== 11/7 Bloom Week 5 Day 3 (90) =====
They be drinkin’. I got the lights at 16” 678 PPFD. Should I turn them up more now?
===== 11/8 Bloom Week 5 Day 4 (91) =====
Did some defol on ATF. Will keep on working on it.
===== 11/9 Bloom Week 5 Day 5 (92) =====
Just moved some fan leaves from blocking nodes below them today.
===== 11/10 Bloom Week 5 Day 6 (93) =====
Man are they starting to smell fantastic. Didn’t do much.
===== 11/11 Bloom Week 5 Day 7 (94) =====
Some defol on ATF. The cut stems smell so piney and fantastic.
===== 11/13 Bloom Week 6 Day 2 (96) =====
I forgot to prep the water reservoir for swap yesterday, so I started to fill it during the day. Was out and didn’t make it home before lights out so swapped today.
Rez swap:
41.5 gal water
38 ml TPS Silica
38 ml CALiMAGic
38 ml FloraMicro
76 ml Dyna-Gro Grow
114 ml FloraBloom
76 ml TPS Signal
76 ml Diamond Nectar
21 ml Orca
===== 11/14 Bloom Week 6 Day 3 (97) =====
Just checked in on ‘em.
===== 11/15 Bloom Week 6 Day 4 (98) =====
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===== 11/16 Bloom Week 6 Day 5 (99) =====
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===== 11/17 Bloom Week 6 Day 6 (100) =====
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===== 11/18 Bloom Week 6 Day 7 (101) =====
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===== 11/19 Bloom Week 7 Day 1 (102) =====
I increased the CALiMAGic 50% this swap, and will try to check pH twice a day instead of just once.
Rez swap:
41.5 gal water
38 ml TPS Silica
57 ml CALiMAGic
38 ml FloraMicro
76 ml Dyna-Gro Grow
114 ml FloraBloom
76 ml TPS Signal
76 ml Diamond Nectar
21 ml Orca
===== 11/20 Bloom Week 7 Day 2 (103) =====
Trying to check pH twice per day. Checked during the morning routine and again mid afternoon.
===== 11/21 Bloom Week 7 Day 3 (104) =====
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===== 11/22 Bloom Week 7 Day 4 (105) =====
I discovered today that something slimey was growing in my 55 gallon drum reservoir. I put some orca in there to hopefully occupy the bacteria niche and prevent bad shit from growing. I’m debating pulling it outside and draining it then bleaching it. It is freezing outside so I’d have to wait until next week when we are supposed to get back up in the 40s for a bit.
I have ordered a UV sterilization pump which I will install and run for a few days straight then turn on a couple hours each day afterwards.
===== 11/23 Bloom Week 7 Day 5 (106) =====
Checked and balanced ph.
===== 11/24 Bloom Week 7 Day 6 (107) =====
Checked and balanced ph.
===== 11/25 Bloom Week 7 Day 7 (108) =====
I’ve gotten the ph levels back into a safe range consistently for the last few days. I’ll keep on checking it multiple times a day until harvest.
===== 11/26 Bloom Week 8 Day 1 (109) =====
I mixed new ph solutions to ensure accuracy of my equipment.
Rez swap:
41.5 gal water
38 ml TPS Silica
38 ml CALiMAGic
38 ml FloraMicro
76 ml FloraMicro Grow
114 ml FloraBloom
76 ml TPS Signal
76 ml Diamond Nectar
21 ml Orca
===== 11/27 Bloom Week 8 Day 2 (110) =====
Checked and balanced ph.
===== 12/2 Bloom Week 8 Day 7 (115) =====
The pH has been pretty stable so I think whatever the issue was has been resolved. I will keep checking often to make sure it stays that way.
zakku
