Had a moment of temperature spike due to me programming the AC incorrectly. I didn't catch it until the temperature got all the way up to 87F. The dehumidifier was still doing it's job, so VPD was all the way up to 1.99 as well. Hopefully this didn't ruin things, but I'm seeing signs of nutrient deficiency. I tested soil PH and it was right around 6. Water PH was between 5.8-6.3 for the week. My only change was following the FF soil schedule, it said to stop cal-mag, which I had been including in one feeding or watering each week. So I stopped it initially this week.
Of note: Getting from Saturday to Tuesday without watering has been problematic, so I probably won't do this anymore. On Monday of that week, I had to water 1/2 gallon and I gave half the cal-mag for the week there and the other half during either the Saturday feeding or Thursday watering and thought nothing of it at the time.
This week the schedule was no more grow big, so I followed that and didn't add cal-mag on the Tuesday feeding. During the Tuesday feeding, or I should say after, I noticed new discoloration on some leaves that hadn't had them before and further changes on some of the older leaves that had tip burn from a few weeks back. (I added pictures of this at the end of the week.) Initially I thought this was a PH or over feeding issue on my end, so I tested the soil PH and it was fine, water I check each time I feed or water, so that was also fine. So I thought overfeeding and since I just fed, was in a bit of a panic but wait and see mode, since it was already done. On Thursday it seemed about the same and doing some further research on nutrient lockout, everything pointed back to how I applied cal-mag to me. Hoping that is right, so I didn't feed Saturday and just applied water and cal-mag to use up the rest of the nutrients. I'm hoping to see good things in the next day or two. Fingers crossed for now. Could this also be she is ready or almost ready?
All good things come to an end! This next week will be the final one for this girl. It's been fun, can't wait to do it again! But ready for harvest until then.
So it was pointed out to me that while my phone has a macro lense, I was using it wrong, so now I have better pictures of trichomes for the this week once it is over.
It's a waiting game of is she ready now I guess? I'm hoping the temperature issue didn't cause anything major. It was about an hour before I noticed. The leaf colors are kinda of concern for me, but the rest of the plants looks okay otherwise. Trichomes are mostly cloudy I think 🤔. It's honestly hard for me to tell.
Slight discoloration in the leaves, which I'm attributing to overfeeding Open Sesame and Beastie Blooms. No other issues observed so far. Some lower leaves have fallen off here and there, not no major issues that I've seen.
Intake fan and filter were added, have AC exhausting outside rather than into another room. Next week I will be exhausting the tent outside the room as well. VPD is now dialed in to the range I set and never gets outside of it. The AC automation isn't working properly and I have a request in to that company, but in the meantime, I have alerts tell me when the temperature gets too high, then I manually turn on the AC and automations work for a day afterwards.
She's growing out more than up. Going to install an intake fan and get it going with the exhaust fan, as well as exhausting outside instead of in the room the grow tent is in. I will probably move the dehumidifier to this room when that is done since I'll (in theory) be able to use that room better to regulate grow tent conditions.
Humidity has been going up during lights out, humidifier is on the way. It only gets down to about 65 at the lowest at night, but the 5-10 degree or so drop is enough to make the humidity shoot up, which in turn throws the VPD off. Hopefully the dehumidifier resolves it. Will update at the end of this week.