First Grow

Week 7 is already halfway over! This week starts with what might be the last veg topdress. 1tsp uprising grow per 5gal pot, mixed with a 3:1 mix of coco loco soil & earthworm castings. Watered in with calmag water ph to 6.3 This week also started with some IPM in the form of some samples of Dr Zymes Eliminator. Soaked them 2 days in a row before lights out. Some health issues still persisting. The plants had been growing into the light, but I hadn't moved them, plus running the inline fan during the full light meant vpd got a bit high. Low humidity plus high temp meant the plants started clawing and tacoing. Plus I think the PH/watering may still not be quite as dialed as I thought. I have some supplies coming this week to help prepare for flower and further dial in the environment. I've been leaving the heater running all the time and manually turning the inline fan on and off every morning and night, but a few more mechanical timers should help me automate things a bit better. I have a big fan to hang at the top and will be able to move more air inside the tent. The biggest and best part will be the SF3000, very excited to gear up for flowering. Unfortunately this week I also snapped a bit off Permanent Marker while bending stems... I put it in water with myco overnight and planted it in a bit of dirt. I don't have a cloning setup so I made do with what was on hand... it was destined for the trash anyway so why not try to save it. Training has been interesting and seems to be going well, as the tent is filling out nearly wall to wall. Things look on track to flip to flower sometime in the next couple weeks. I did decide to trim the big beautiful leaves off Blueberry Muffin, they were blocking the tops... with those gone I started LST for that runt of the batch. I'll have to retry this strain sometime because I'm definitely not doing it justice this time around. The Permanent Marker accidental clone might survive to be a mom, it hasn't died yet and it's been a couple days, so fingers crossed. My light arrived broken! The replacement part is on the way and I should still be on track to install upgrades this weekend as week 8 begins.