02 Purple Gelato and Mango Smile Autos

May 8, 2024. Day 61 for Purple Gelato, Day 42 for Mango Smile. They're practically at the same point of flower - hilarious!! At least Purple Gelato seems to be finally kicking into flower. I did not end up changing the lighting. She seems to be slowing stretch but not stopped completely. I wish she'd switch to stacking nugs already. I am supercropping any branch that touches the light, as I have rigged it as high in my tent as it will go. So her main branches are now horizontal along the trellis, but that doesn't seem to be stopping her because the side branches keep on reaching up for the light, and more branches fill in and grow upwards. I really don't know if she's going to fit. The stretch needs to stop! She's got to be well over 6 feet tall now. Her main few branches have at least 1 foot bent horizontally. Mango Smile progressed into flower as expected on a normal timeline. I bought a second Spider Farmer light (the SF1000) and put it directly over Mango Smile, since the side bar lights weren't strong enough (though I did leave those on). Gelato is encroaching into Mango's head space but hopefully Mango won't get much taller and I can keep her below the trellis. There's so much plant material in the tent and it has been raining all week so I'm having humidity issues - like 65-70% levels of issues. The exhaust fan is now at 100% and I turned on the external fan that blows from the lung room into the tent. The humidity is supposed to drop in the next couple of days so I'm hoping that will be the end of that problem for a bit so I can dry everything out, and then next time it gets humid I'll turn the lung room humidifier on since the nugs will be starting to be nugs at that point. I push off turning it on because all of this is in my bedroom and it's noisy AF to sleep with. I also found that my duct that leads out the window had a few holes in it and was blowing some humid air into my lung room. I taped them up but why TF does duct tape not stick to those duct tubes? So annoying. The auto pots are going well. These green planet nutes that are supposedly designed for auto pots seem to leave quite a bit of residue so I'm guessing the lines will be gross AF when I'm done with this grow. That's unfortunate. But so far knock on wood I don't seem to have any nutrient deficiencies or issues there, and it is very easy to mix them up. I'm a little nervous that I'm going to run out of nutes before the grow is done - I suspect one package might have only been enough for 1 plant's full growth (in which case, they're some crazy expensive nutes, because I only used about half of my general hydroponics nutes for 2 grow cycles of 4 plants). I might have to order more green planet. I'll probably do some googling and see if the general hydroponics can work in the auto pots. Hydroponics is in the name, right? I'm putting 10 gal into the reservoir every 4 or 5 days now. 6.3pH, moved into the full green planet line this week. I'm calling it week 1 of flower.