Bananacane - DWC

I didn't take many photos this week because I was uncertain about making a diary; as time goes on, that will change. Growth has been fine; PPFD was sitting at 280 this week on a 24-hour schedule, which was creating a high DLI for seedlings/early veg (Around 25). I thought I could push this bc of how high the CO2 is, and I even tried to create a high Humid & Temp (78±1℉ : 68±5%) environment while maintaining the proper VPD of 1 (I measured VPD from foliage temperature using thermal images) Will show this in later weeks :)

7/18/23 Once Again, one photo. Please forgive me. As you can see, calcium issues. This is a deficiency not because there isn't enough calcium in my water or because of PH fluxes/balances. It's simply from stressing the plant with too much light. (DLI of 25). Please refer to my previous week that explains why this happened. If you are interested :)

Ok.... a super bad diary, obviously... I will do better for flowers. Weeks passed, and growth was as expected, I moved, so that's why the plant is showing signs of stress, but it recovered really well. I didn't want to veg the plant this long, and I didn't train it nearly as much as I wanted because I knew I was going to be moving. Anyways, It is now in a 26-gal tote. and in a 4x4. I have added 740nm spectrum which is around 20% of the overall spectrum (Checked with a spectrometer), to make it reach more and easier to add trellis netting. my Co2 levels have dropped in the new place (From 1200 -> 500) which is definitely not ideal, but fine.

IGHTYYYY Week 1 of flower Contrary to popular belief (Unless the community has updated) I do a light defol a couple of days before flower, then flip into 12/12. After 4-5 days, I check under the canopy for spots I believe would lever develop and then prune. Arguments could be made that this could stress the plant, but with far-red and near-perfect environments, this should not matter and benefit the grower due to not "Predicting" the bad spots before a flip. Game plane : Add .4 EC of CALMAG for two weeks, then reduce usage Keep EC around 3.5-4.5 for 4 Weeks. @ week 7 Raise EC to 7-8. @ Week 9 Start water chiller, chill water to low 60's do this until it is ready :)

Day 14 of Flower, I did a very large destick / prune. Throughout the week I was seeing great growth, but with such LOW co2 I decided to take anything off that was mid/underdeveloped below my first canopy line. (Roughly half the plant hight at the time of work) Plant health is amazing, no herming that I can find. It's drinking well, haven't needed to adjust anything.

Day 16 : trichomes are starting to really show on newer leaves Day 18 : starting to smell really good & stretch is continuing. Cultivar might stretch more then average. Day 20 : Still stretching, nodal spacing is ok.

Bad genetic : she hermed. Have been taking out the pollen sacks, few where almost full maturity in the back on the tent. IHG has been having rlly bad herm problems and this herm wasn't terrible. They all developed on lower sites. I'd say 15-20% of thr plant had to be removed. Good news, She is definitely pushing some serious fruity terps. And she is still stretching near end of week 4.

I Pruned all the lower herming sections and lowered the far red % as well. Lots of trichomes, which is always awesome. Smell is amazing