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She’s a bit tired looking but growing fast at the end of day 21.
Will increase distance between the solution and root exposure. Next week will be all telling in where she goes.
Day 4 of week 5. Moving along, all good! Lowered PPM this week as tips were starting to burn.
Good week, nothing negative to report.
Still no pre-flowers?
It’s the beginning of the week and the canopy lays flat. Not much of a stretch going on yet but finally some pre-flowers. Not so sure the 3.5 gallon bucket was the proper size for this Gro box, but too late at this stage. PH fluctuations becoming a real hassle given reservoir volume size/root mass but I can adjust them with my phone:)
I wouldn't worry too much about where the light hits. The plant distributes resources from phloem based on apical dominance and not where the light hits the plant. It is far more important to ensure full absorption of what light you provide than to get light to hit budsites where chlorophyl levels are 1/100th of the leaf surface, i.e. far less photosynthesis taking place per sq inch and add to that fact how quickly light spreads out over an incremental distance from the light (inverse square law applies), and it's not even a hypothesis worth testing given existing knowledge.
Avoid disease vectors. There's really not much other reason to remove leaves.
CO2 is your limiting factor. Removing leaves reduces CO2 intake. Just one more reason why that bro-science is easily de-bunked. they also store nutrients and build necessary building blocks for growth. Leaves are paramount and not to be discarded whimsically or due to bro-science.
Even if intense light is not directly hitting lower leaves, they are value-added to the plant. Plants 'want' to have a certain amount of leave relative to their health/environment. they know better than use when to shed leaves in most contexts... a re-vege warrants our input but regular growth does not.
Rough week with a failed Airpump while out of town for three days. She smelled like broccoli when I entered my grow space and I thought she was a goner for sure.
I removed all training wire and cracked the bucket and hosed off the rootball and bucket and drained several times.
Fresh water and a 4ml/g hydro guard for 24 hrs, then added light dose of nutrients for two days and brought it up to 450ppm after the 4 day CPR routine.
Enriched grow space to 1200PPM CO2 for the next week in hopes to give a boost in growth that was lost. Will risk a hot reservoir for a bit but good ole HydroGuard has yet to fail me!
She looks ok now, but she was light in color, and a number of leaves yellowing. Likely will affect the end game, but at least I won’t burn 8 weeks of a single plant grow!
Root mass in 3.5 gallon is starting to swing the PH like two flamingos outside a campsite RV! I do like 3.5 gallon bucket as less 0ppm water filters, nutrients, space etc.
Looking good in comparison to week 6 fiasco with air pump death while out of town. She is not a hungry plant, and I had leaf tip burn with the smallest nutrient regimen.
This lady seems to be a short even for an indica dominant variety but she continues to grow upward bit by bit. I topped at node five, and wish I had stuck with a 4-node topping. A bit too bushy for decent light penetration but too late to do anything drastic at this stage. Finger cross she continues to grow upward for some canna bondage by the beginning of next week for the bulking period!
Got lazy on branch training and may regret it in the end as I also have taken the minimal leaf removal approach on this grow. The plant will be jam-packed over the next three weeks. Tempted to snip some smaller shoots to open it up, but won’t.
She’s short plant at 16” and if she makes it through will be a stealth plant with decent yield for 1.75 sq/ft.
Bulking up this week, but the usual PH swings using a DWC bucket. This plant was a light eater. 350-400 ppm max at peak consumption in my hindsight observation. Small autoflower plant for lab environment grow. A lot of leaf growth, and choked on a DLI of 45. 35 may have been sufficient?
I slacked on training this run, and branches are crowded as fuck with a 5-node grow. I removed the ties around week 6 needing to get inside the bucket for an emergency, and never tied it again in fear of a need to get inside the bucket again.
I hope she’s ready in 21 days or less as I leaving town. Fingers crossed!
Running low PPM for the next 4 days, and finish with 2-3 day flush. Should be a reasonable harvest in the end. Can’t wait to use new electric scissors!
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