Okay guys,
so here the deal. A few things happened over the last week. First, I was using the Connoisseur line of Advanced Nutrients and something felt not right (not stating that it's the nutrients fault). Second, it turned out that my air stones in the hydro setup gave up on me and made my plants drown over the whole period. I didn't know what was up with them, but the moment I bought and placed new quality air stones into the reservoirs, all the deficiencies went away in a matter of 24h which was ridiculous because I've never seen this kind of jump in vigor. I was using the BoomBoom spray from Bio Tabs over the whole period multiple times a day and i strongly believe that this made my plants survive. I'm also using my trusted Co2 bags because they made some huuuuuge leaves before.
I topped all plants in hydro and we're off to a new chapter in their life. I'm going to wait a week or two with the idea of topping them several times because I love to top plants, regulars or automatic ones, I don't care and it never was problem for the folks out there that don't top their automatic plants :)
Everything is working great! I've exchanged the whole reservoir with the whole Xpert Nutrients line of products because they just came in. So thanks again Xpert Nutrients for this whooping package of bad ass products! I'll use them wisely ;)
Now, let's cross our fingers for a quick recovery (which normally lasts 24-48h in hydro instead of a week) so I can top'em again.
See ya!
PS: I don't know what I'm about to do with the Wedding Cheesecake that just sprouted because it's so small and it supposed to go into the hydro setup as soon as I transplant the regulars into the flowering room in a week, but then again, the only automatic plant, namely the Purple Lemonade which is also fricking vigorous in the hydro setup is so big already, I'll need to change nutrients to bloom, but damn, I'd love to use the hydro space for at least one more plant... well, let's see what happens.
@Qutro, aaaah, okay, you see, I've contacted GD but they never replied and other growers told me that it's working again so I can add other diaries that are still on the list for this season :D
@Qutro, I'm already in full swing and enjoying this season. Everything is going great (I'm in week 3-4 of veg). I just couldn't update these few weeks because of some GD problems that didn't let me save my progress, but I'll update everything in time!
So great photographs are coming sooner than later :D
@rickle, hi there. I made them by taking literally hundreds if photographs with a macro lens and shifted focus by a millimeter and stacked the focused parts together to make a sharp image from front to back. It takes around 30 photographs at this magnification to produce one photograph. Hope it helps :)