🌿 Karen Kush Auto

Very light top-dressing, watered in with a 1/2 cup of aerated watered down fertilizer tea (using same nutes). 0.03125 gal = 1/2 cup She's coming along. The weak tea maybe could have been even weaker 😕, but I they'll get over it. They were all due for a drink so they got a decent flush to help wash out whatever I did.

with el-cheapo pH/EC/PPM meter in hand, our steadfast hero prepares to enter the dragon's den to save the fair maiden... Lighting=20 on 4 off, blue veg lights on

Just water this week

1Tbsp Dr. Earth 4-6-3 top-dressed, massaged in, and watered down with 1 quart of pH 5.8 de-chlorinated, carbon filtered water. I added a cheap Vick's warm air humidifier in front of my oscillating fan, halfway through the week. Temp/RH much better now... not perfect but as winter approaches, the basement temperature will drop by about 10 degrees (typically) which should improve the VPD in the Basement Grow Zone (BGZ). I've brought BGZ VPD down from 1.7-ish to 1.1 or so. The four sensors are: 1: BGZ @ eye level 2: BGZ @ canopy 3: BGZ @ knee level IN: Main Floor Living Space @ waist level VPD Calculator and Reference: https://www.omnicalculator.com/biology/vapor-pressure-deficit

Coming along nicely. A bit of a slow start due to my own newb-liness. My overall plan this grow cycle is to let grow naturally with limited manhandling, so I can get a decent baseline which can inform my future grows for this cultivar. There is no point in mucking about with unknowns until you know em, ya know?! With the new humidifier comes better data collection! Side note, Karen is starting to get busy. Thinking of some LST to expose all them nodes to the light. Then again, maybe I won't. except I did! Bwahahaha! Just some gentle LST around her waistline. Bent those lower branches down light and moved some of the bigger fans leaves out of the way. Spread her open real wide. 😛 Created a pivot table in my Google spreadsheet to better organize and present the data I'm collecting.

A little bit of LST to open her up. My brand new Vevor humidifier took a crap, so... yeah, this will be interesting. Anyway, also updated some data-geek stuff. Don't get weirded about by the weird growth charts, it's a data collection issue (consistency - leaves up, down, new growth at top, etc.). Now that I have the data presentation bit more or less usable, my data collection methods will see improvement. In theory. Minor mishap while groping, err... training, her. Broke a branch, though not a big one.😬 Santa bringing new humidifier and lights before Thanksgiving.

The new grow lights won't arrive in time to do this lady much good. It will be interesting to compare under-powered vs properly lit grows. Update: New lights are here!! 4ea SZHLUX PT-1800 online, and I've got 4 more waiting for another circuit to be run. The older weaker lights will be used for cloning and seedlings around the grow space.

After playing with the new lights, I've set them to 14" above the canopy which provides: PPFD: 700-ish Lighting: 20/4 DLI: 40 or so... maybe a bit over.

starting to get thicc

Might do a little defoliation and pruning this week, and some very light LST to get her buds more exposed. Updated data pic with latest dashboard layout. It's not perfect, but I think it is better. I'm seeing lots of cloudy and some amber in the closeups on my phone - gonna need to figure out image stabilization on that infernal thing. Anyway, probably gonna give her the axe in the morning.

...Chop...Chop...Chop... I removed more stems from the buds this time so wet weight is a little lower, but still acceptable, IMHO. 83grams of bud plus 110grams of "leaf & larf" to run through my bubble-bags - might get just enough bubble-hash to liven up a blunt. 😋 (edit: I got just over 2.5 grams of nice bubble hash, after it dried out and cured a bit. Now, time to get this haul on the rack and this diary into the December Diary of the Month contest.