30.03.2024 Day 15 Flower watered with 6L, 6ph, 1673 ec. Very little runoff, i think like 200ml max...and the substrate looks quite dry, lots of dry coco bits on top layer. I think i will have to switch to every day watering, damn! The plants seem to be drinking a lot more
left: 200ml, 2450 ec
right: 200ml, 2340 ec
back: 200ml, 3000 EC!!
Theres a big mineral build up. I will be flushing the plants with 30% strength solution until the runoff EC is min 1.9
From today onwards, I will be watering every day, 1.6L per plant (5L total), instead of 2L every two days....I guess watering every two days in flower is a pipe dream, cuz they seem to be drinking way more now! I also noticed very very beginning of tip burn on some leaves, which further points to mineral buildup causing issues. Leaves are nice and dark green, so they are defiinitely getting the upper bounds of nutrients, and would prefer less.
mixed 9L of 30% strength solution 0.75 EC, flushing in 1L steps per plant, each value duo is the measurement of 1L flush
left: 800ml 2043ec, 1L 1720ec
right: 800ml 2036ec, 1L 1673ec
back: 800ml 2210ec, 1L 1840ec
31.03.2024 Day 16 Flower mixed 10L of 100% strength solution, 1640 ec, watered with 5L, 1.6L per plant. A little too much runoff for daily watering, ill try 1.3L tomorrow.
left: 750ml, 1620ec
right: 750ml, 1720ec
back: 650ml, 1800ec
01.04.2024 Day 17 Flower watered with the rest 5L, same good PH. Noticed some weird leaf marks, and i have some sort of insect crawling and eating the lower leaves, removed a bunch of the affected ones, took macro photos. also plants have grown even higher, had to move the exhaust fan + filter outside of the tent. Lights are at 20cm distance, 100%. Humidity is around 63% at daytime, 59% at night, window open all the time, cant really lower it any other way. Most likely the same shit i had in the very beginning, the clones came with that pest
back: 350ml , 1740ec
left: 400ml, 1620ec
right: 400ml, 1870ec
02.04.2024 Day 18 Flower mixed 10L of 100% strength solution, 1670ec, good ph,watered . Growth spurt still going on, they grow about 3cm per day or so, had to put the lights up again to get around 20cm distance. Plant is looking good, dark green leaves, no new insect damage. I sprayed the lower half of the plant with the insecticide against the spider mites or whatever i got, did it yesterday when lights went off. I will try to dilute the nutrient solution tomorrow, so the EC shows 1.5!
left: 450ml, 1715ec
right: 350, 1880ec
back: 300ml, 1760ec, 7ph
03.04.2024 Day 19 Flower diluted the water to 1.5ec and watered 1.3L per plant (added about 600ml of RO water to dilute). Plant is looking good, no noticable vertical growth since yesterday. Leaves are looking very dark green towards the bottom, and slightly more yellowish-green towards the top of the plant. Buds are forming nicely. Spotted one singular leaf, where one side of one petal had this weird texture, took a photo of it, other than that all leaves look fine and healthy. Since the runoff EC is still rising, tomorrow i will mix 8L of 90% strength solution and water 1.4-5 L per plant, to get a little more runoff
back: 300ml, 2090ec
left: 400ml, 1833ec
right: 400ml, 1900ec
04.04.2024 Day 20 Flower mixed 8L at 90% strength, 5L RO water, 3L tapwater, 0,3ec without nutrients, 1603ec with nutrients. Plants look great, they grew a few centimeters again, adjusted lamp height back to 20cm. Leaves look great, both old and new. Watering 1.4L per plant. Suprisingly slow runoff after watering, waiting 5 mins more before removing it. Going to increase watering volume to fight against rising EC. Also released beneficial mites onto plants.
back: 250ml, 2450ec
left: 300ml, 2050ec
right: 250ml, 2060ec
05.04.2024 Day 21 Flower mixed 9L at 80%, 5.8 PH, 1360ec. Watering 1.6L per plant
back: 500ml, 2245ec
left: 550ml, 1940ec
right: 500ml, 1850ec
Weird how fast the EC keeps rising... Watering 1 more Liter per plant! Gonna water 1.8L per plant at 75% strength..
back: 1L, 1940ec
left: 1L, 1686ec
right: 1L, 1670ec
06.04.2024 Day 22 Flower Gonna water twice today! at 11:30 and in evening. mixed 6L at 65% strength, 1222ec, Did lollipopping!! removed almost everything in the lower half of the plant, plants are about 1m tall
back: 300ml, 1941ec
left: 380ml, 1724ec
right: 350ml, 1695ec
second watering:
back: 550ml, 1760ec
left: 650ml, 1710ec
right: 350ml, 1660ec