ETHOS & GHSC - (Diary #9)

VEGETATION WEEK 8 (Nov 19-28) ----------------------------------------------------- ____________ Nov 19 (2L) Mix: 24ml CaMg, 26ml A, 26ml B, 16ml B52, 20ml PB Tea: 5 gallons water = 2.3 EC / 5.8 pH • No runoff 🌡️- 79.2F ✅ ❄️ - 64F ❌⬆️ 🌧️ - 63% ✅ ☁️ - 54.4% ✅ 📈 - 1.41 kPa ⬇️ 📉 - 0.83 kPa ✅ 📊 - 75.6F / 54.8% ⬆️ / 1.39 kPa❌ ______________ Nov 20 (1L) • Used up yesterday's mix • Calibrated pH and EC readers Runoffs were high again on average with most of them north of 4.0 EC. Mixed up the Silica/Calmag feeding early to sort of flush them again. _______________ Nov 21 (2-4L) Mix: 24ml Silica, 24ml CaMg, 16ml B52, 20ml PB Tea : 4 gallons water = 1.4 EC/5.8 pH • OGS swapped pH reader • Runoffs over 3.5 EC __________ Nov 22 • No water • Calibrated new pH reader __________________ Nov 23 (1L in AM, 2L PM) Mix: 24ml CaMg, 18ml A, 18ml B, 16ml B52, 20ml PB Tea : 5 gallons water = 1.9 EC/5.8 pH There's 6 days left until the flip to bloom. Today I did a pretty heavy defoliation and tied the branches down again. I'm stepping the nutrients back a bit while they recover. _______________________ Nov 24 (1.75-2L in AM) • Used up yesterday's mix (1.9 EC) __________________ Nov 25 (Flush) • 8L water @ 5.9 pH 10P6 IN: 0.3 EC/5.9 pH (23c) OUT: 1.9 EC/5.9 pH (210c) 10P7 IN: 0.3 EC/5.9 pH (23c) OUT: 1.5 EC/6.0 pH (22c) BD4 IN: 0.3 EC/5.9 pH (23c) OUT: 2.0 EC/5.7 pH (22c) BD5 IN: 0.3 EC/5.9 pH (23c) OUT: 1.7 EC/5.8 pH (22c) KT4 IN: 0.3 EC/5.9 pH (23c) OUT: 1.5 EC/5.7 pH (22c) KT5 IN: 0.3 EC/5.9 pH (23c) OUT: 1.6 EC/5.8 pH (22c) End of the week checkup. I was starting to see evidence of nute burn on a few leaf tips. Checked the runoffs and they were over 3. Dumped a few gallons into them this morning and I like the values a lot better now. Next fertigation will be tonight @ 1.8 EC (mostly CaMg to satisfy the cations). _________ Nov 26 No watering today. Also spotted and killed two fungus gnats. It's been at least a week since I've seen anything, so that's frustrating. I'm finding them upstairs around the houseplants so I'm blaming the wife for her bad watering practices. I'll have to grab some sticky traps, put out a bowl of vinegar and dish soap, drop the mosquito dunks into all my pails, mix up some h202...really wish these things would die already. _________ Nov 27 If anyone's wondering why this week is 9 days long, it's because that's when day 60 hits. The final day of VEG. Didn't want to make a full week post on a 3 day week. So the biggest yields I've had from these 10th Planets were off a 60 day veg (245 gr). The last time I grew Banana Daddy, the plants were probably half this size when I flipped to bloom. When I grew King's Tart last winter I didn't do mainlines either. I'm a bit all over the place, but there's zero harm in a longer veg period. If anything, they'll be stronger and more capable of supporting big buds. We're flipping to 12/12 on Wednesday night. This time no MH bulbs. HPS from day 1. I should still have room for the appropriate lamp to canopy distance if the plants double up. All defoliating and pruning was done over 5 days ago now. On Day 60 I'll tie all the branches down to spread them out as wide as possible and to level the canopy. I'll allow them to stretch until the end of week one, then tie down again. After that I'll just let them go (unless I run into height issues). I might skip the day 21 defoliation this time in favor of a completely stress free bloom period. It should also help keep the humidity up, which I'm sure I'll be battling all winter. • Changed lights to 16/8 • No water _____________________ Nov 28 (end of veg) Mix: 15ml CaMg, 15ml A, 15ml B, 15ml PB Tea: 2.5 gallons water = 2.3 EC +3L = 1.8 EC / 5.8 pH • 4L for 3/6 (AM) (others not fully dry) • 4L for other 3 (PM)