Violeta

Friday - Day 43 12 July - Not starting the week off on a good note - she’s not dropping but some leaves are showing rust spots and top leaves are a lighter shade of green. - Give it a few more days, she was fed last watering a few days ago. Saturday - Day 44 13 July Feeding day mixing 1/3 strength of week 2 flower on the lotus chart. - 4 litres dechlorinated tap water - 59 PPM - add 0.6 grams of calmag - 135 PPM - add 1.7 grams of bloom - 326 PPM - add 1.2 grams of boost - 515 PPM Final 4 litres at 6.22 PH at 521 PPM - Sprinkled 1 tsp of Dynomyco as a top dressing before watering. Run off - 1.5 litres at 6.46 PH at 1180 PPM. - Removed three leaves. Tuesday - Day 47 16 July Feeding day, half strength nutrients week 1 flowering Lotus chart as I feel she may be lacking nitrogen. 4 litres of dechlorinated tap water - Base water - 59.1 PPM - Add 0.9 grams of grow - 149 PPM - Add 2.2 grams of bloom - 581 PPM Final - 4 litres at 6.22 PH at 588 PPM Runoff - 1.2 litres at 6.37 PH at 1230 PPM - I feel like she’s going sideways on me and going to be looking horrible in the next few days. - I’m definitely not jiving with these nutrients and my medium. - Gonna try and treat this Peat moss/coco/perlite mix as if it was like coco and feed at every watering. - Just have to dial it back a bit as she’s starting to require more frequent irrigations as she’s getting thirsty. - I’m not liking these Lotus nutrients. Wednesday - Day 48 17 July - As suspected she went sideways very quickly after the feed yesterday. - Flushed with 20 litres of balanced PH’d water - Last one and a half litres came out at 7.4 PH at 140 PPM Now prepare a balanced feed and we’ll let her be. We’ll see how she responds. 4 litres of dechlorinated tap water - Base water - 60 PPM - Add 0.9 grams of calmag - 179 PPM - Add 3.0 grams of Bloom - 510 PPM - Add 1.7 grams of Boost - 730 PPM Final 4 litres at 6.13 PH at 735 PPM Runoff 3.7 litres at 7.21 PH at 220 PPM. - Removed the worst affected leaves. - I’m definitely disappointed in how things are going. Every plant has run into issues in early flower with Lotus nutrients. Anyway, what’s done is done. She looks like shit right now. Just have to accept it and roll with the punches. Is it a bad batch of nutrients? User error? I don’t know. Understanding nutrition and irrigation regimen is my biggest weakness when it comes to growing. I’m done with Lotus and peat moss/coco/perlite mix.