Start of week 3. Weather outside is raining cats and dogs, Constant. Small dehumidifiers are keeping it to 60 but can't get it lower than that. Climbing higher at night when all sealed up.
Going to get a 20 litre dehumidifier this weekend from Amazon. Hopefully that will help keep the humidity down. These girls look worth the investment and long term think it will pay itself back.
Day 18: large humidifier is keeping the humidity in range. Small humidifiers turned off until the last few weeks I think. Definitely sticking to organic dry amendments until we have it all figured out in future. The liquid feeds will come in handy if a deficiency arises.
All looking good. Defo tippy after the tea but the tea enables the plant to take up phosphorus I think 10 times easier, my thinking is there defo still some heat left in the soil.
Still hedging a water rather than feed when the pots get light.
Smell starting to get a little stronger. Z terps defo be there.
Weather is set to cool after day 17, gives me chance hopefully to run the new dehumidifier without any temp gain.
I want to be able to push really cool temps later on in flower. Never checked the weather as much in my life....
Looking at the pics I'm not sure if it's slight light burn from the pics. I'm gonna go half feed after all I think. Leaf color has changed this week and now less blueish. Going to raise lights in the tents tomorrow and turn down the closet light slightly.
Day 17 had a chat with my friend. We dropped using top feed dry amendments due to lack of nitrogen, however this time we added worm castings. Things look that full of N and well in general we are using dry amendments, added the dry mix feed before watering in with cal mag and the Dr forest organic liquid bloom booster, contains EM1, that is designed to be used with these amendments.
We both want a set back free run on the dry amendments. We had them left from last run. I used a 2-8-4 amendment and in week 5 will add 2-4-8.
Fingers crossed we have no deaths....! Adding the amendments after recieving their last tea doesn't seem a bad idea to us.
Last run we tried not to pH, this run we are sticking to pH 6.3, Every little helps. We need to master the dry amendments before jumping because of a bad run. It now looks like we messed up not the dry amendments. Always learning. Always!
Came right back up, so they were under fed not over. Still learning to read my plants as to what they require.
Light burn at tips is starting to look a little better.
Humidity control now spot on. Watering in-between dry back and being full of water. Last run with the dry amendments I dried fully to dry back. Learnt now that was a mistake.
Had to turn the closet light down to 75 percent, I would love to push it, but one plant showing a little light on the top growth. All others looking good. Has been the tallest since the start, lowered it and the same section is now getting darker. These new LEDs be powerful. I believe strains exist for me to push the full wattage but not this strain.
Tent lights now on hooks not hangers to raise up higher. Stretch has continued day 21 but is looking like it's another inch weeks 4/5.
Going to use the dry amendment cal mag this week as it contains sulphur. My organic bottled cal mag does not. Defo need a mag boost, slight signs of a deficiency on some of the plants. Again some strains like their mag more than others. These seem to love it. Some strains it's every other week, these have been weekly and want more.
A friend of mine says organic weed always tastes like hay. I'm on a mission to show him terp town....
I followed the Dr forest schedule for top dressing. After doing this, on the night of day 21 I read on his website that for my size pot. He recommends half the dose that I have used.
Hoping because they were hungry and I have gone light on the feed up to that point I will be ok. Does have me concerned. May explain some of the tops being lighter in color.
Here is to hoping they like it spicy! I know for next time but it will prob be week 7 they receive a 2-4-8 and that's it. Cal mag every other water. Possibly a boost to see them through to week 7 along the way.
Thought I would show most of the thought process this week. The ramblings of a mad man!
Setback free run may not be this grow...they ain't dead and they ain't crispy, yet!
Having environment spot on this time has helped a lot up to this point.
@Callys_Garden, if you ever switch to dry amendments there's some good tips. You seem to have Coco down. It's whatever works for you. Thanks Cally. Mush love