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Nov 11/18 First entry on this site
Friday Nov 2/18 - All 4 seedlings poke out of the dirt
Nov 7 - 2nd node starting on all
Nov 9 - Into the tent, Overwatered by accident at 10pm
Nov 11 - Added Mykos and dry soil to help dry up soil as still saturated.
Mixed a 2l of water ready to go when needed
Im really F'n it up....Big lesson for the week...Get a good PH tester and do not depend on litmus...just thought of this but the strips I have are also a couple of years old. Also damaged leaves from whatever issue do not repair (correct??)
The bottom leaves had curled and twisted a bit due to (I think) the water log situation
In the meantime I had been researching PH and made a soil slurry to check its PH.
It read about 5 PH on litmus which I should have known couldn't have been correct because everything was going pretty well otherwise....anyway I took a crack at balancing it out when the plants were ready for water on the eve of Nov 12
Nov 12 - Flushed all plants (no nutes) with Reverse Osmosis water PH adjusted to 7.2 (litmus)
3.0 PPM. Bottom Water read 5.5 PH
The actual PH (after I bought a digital PH tester) was 8.5!!!!
Nov 14 - Did the same with the same water and the same result on the Bottom Water
Nov 15 - I kinda figured Im not helping things here and bought a tester but had to soak it for 24hrs then calibrate it so not wanting to kill the plants any further I tried a flush just with the RO water not adjusted at all (no nutes yet either)
Nov 16 - Made a soil slurry - 5.8 PH, 461 PPM with digital testers
Non adjusted RO water - 6.5 PH, 3.0 PPM
So.....I figured maybe the best way to give them a fighting chance is to transplant. Its a bit early as the roots could have been thicker but need to get exposed to some good soil.
Transplanted to the 3 gal pots today with some AZOS and MYKOS root promoter and an organic fertilizer @ 425 PPM 1-0.5-1...and 6.5 PH
Also showing signs of Phosphorous deficiency....need a second opinion on that
Here's hoping they bounce back
Nov 17 - Plants have perked up nicely...Whew!!
They are doing well
Im trying to maximize stems by topping and pruning for stem growth
Had some compost based liquid fert that I was mixing to 900ppm and watering with. Ran out of this stuff tho.
Using Organic fertilizers and going to experiment with making a Tea with the nutes and watering that way a couple of times to see if there is a noticeable difference
Not much spacing between the nodes
Having a hard time getting the humidity much above 30% but they seem to not mind
Was gone most of Week 4. Had my wife just maintain watering with untreated RO water while I was gone....Results in pics...
Every week is an adventure doing this :)
Ive been pretty much out to lunch on the organic nutes Ive been doing on this thing so I went out on a limb and fed them a 2/3 recommended mixture of synthetic nutes on Dec 9 when I got home. Hopefully going with that feeding program will give them a bump and get rid of the multiple deficiency looking symptoms they have.
They seemed to enjoy their dinner today Dec 10 so I trimmed their legs and tried to get a few more tops going one last time before flower. Prob Fimmed more than cut tops.
This is my thoughts on what I have gleaned on the vertical learning curve I've been on... :)
I will have 100ish squares on the scrog net (3.5" squares) in this 3x3 tent when I put it up
So to fill up the net with Colas in flower, I need to have 25 tops per plant
Three weeks till flower....I might pull it of with how they are looking
Also it really seems like I have 2 different strains going as 2 look like indica ish and 2 have skinnyer leaves like a sativa (Im no expert but its been like this since they were small) The 2 with the symptoms are the sativa looking ones. The other two look healthy but have red stems...no other issues.
Flipped lights to 12/12 Jan 4 and fed week 1 nutes for flower.
Trying the defoliation
They are filling back in already.
Plan is to defoliate again in about three weeks then drop the scrog net down on em
Lets see how it works
Hey @StinkyPinky Thanks...Seems I def need some luck so far. The plants soaked in tap water for about 10 minutes after I asked my wife to put water in the trays to try and increase the humidity which was about 25%....I was at work....not thinking about work....It took about that long before I realized I should have mentioned to put something under them to keep them out of the water...oops.
I did some reading about PH and measuring the bottom water and comparing the top water in PH to determine roughly what the root zone PH is. I have been using Litmus strips and the bottom water was between 5-5.5 PH...bottom leaves were all curled (prob cause of the soak). I have watered with a 7 PH flush since they have dried out and they are not happy at all
Learning curve is steep
Prob put under the Blackdog Phytomax 2 600W a little early
Need to learn more about soil PH effects and adjusting...or whether soil adjusting is required at all...I am using a high quality mix that was recommended at the plant store for Cannabis
I bought a good PH tester yesterday
Good luck to you to fellow Canuck. Ill be watching
PapaCli
