2nd Grow in DIY perpetual cupboard

Finally able to put neglected clone from veg into the flower chamber. Had been growing despite the nute deficiencies. Have upgraded the lighting to a 130w QB with cfls and leds supplementing around the side, for 335w total draw from the wall. Will be trying out a scrog to try and control that stretch. I had so many burnt buds last time. But thanks to the QB I have a lot more clearance this time. And I will be trying out an automatic watering system from a reservoir, will get that set up this week. Will also upgrade to final pot. Lets see how this QB works out compared to cfls :)

Increased the N to try and fix the N deficiency. New growth is starting to look more green. Also took off the damaged leaves, this pheno grows so many leaves she was looking much better. Love scrogging! So easy to train, and perfect canopy. Potted to final 5 gal fabric pot and installed the drip feed system! It's a battery operated pump, and it works, well. But I need to read the instruction manual again cos the pump doesn't seem to be turning off, have to do it manually. But love the ease of watering. That's a 20 gal reservoir with an airstone in, added some H202 to keep bacteria from growing. At the moment the run off collects in the pan below the grill and I let it evaporate to add a bit more humidity, or hand pump it out. Will prob have to diy a waste system at some point. I've been reading coco for cannabis and will give their coco nute schedule a go.

Started on the new nute schedule with a bit more floragro to get N back in balance. Still need to get some diamond necter but I'm guessing I will be able to go without until pay day! And I'm having difficulty finding some H202 for res so I am using household bleach instead at 8 drops a gallon. With the florashield it's probably overkill in the winter, but will probably need it in the summer. Humidity is so low, I guess cos we are going through a cold snap and the heating is drying the air out, so going to need a humidifier or some other solution. Temps running hot at 29C>! I have started feeding silica so it should help her deal with that, and even make use of it with a C02 exhale bag. Plant doesn't look stressed anyway, and is loving the daily waterings to waste. The HST on the 2 main branches is producing a bit of a nice knuckle!

Plant is looking great this week, nice green abundance of leaves. Have added diamond nector to this weeks nutes so I'm interested to see if there's any response. The coco for cannabis nute schedule calls for quite a high dose so my nute costs are going up with frequent fertigation. But if it gets me some bang results I don't mind using it. Only thing is my ppm is low of the target range, so does that mean I need to add more nutes to the same volume of water? This weeks reading. Phed a bit lower since the res tends to drift up so I can get a nice ph range for nutrient absorption. Done some HST this week, have developed some decent knuckles on the braches, side branches have caught up creating a kind of manifold from a clone so neat. Retuck every few days, looking pretty full. So maybe even time to start thinking of flipping in a week or so when she has recovered from the HST.

First week with diamond nectar and she is loving it. As I see the scrog overfill I regret not starting transition earlier! I can tell that the supplements are supercharging her compared to last time. PPM is still low but it doesn't seem to be slowing her down. The pump well the mini pump wasn't really delivering enough volume of water for 5 gal pot (will reuse it for chamber), had to resort to hand watering I put together a wifi plug, submersible pump, various size tubes and connectors. Use app to turn on pump (set to low flow) for 2 mins to feed nute solution to the drippers. So that should should be all set and leave now until it's weekly res clean. Took cloans, but I will do an aggressive prune so might as well put them in a glass of water to see if they root. Folliage is looking really good, stems are thick and strong. Got some knuckles on her, broke a few times over the weeks to help side branches fill out. But honestly no idea what the stem network is looking like in there because SO MANY LEAFS.😎

No pistols yet :( Hoping this week. I don't know if it's the Armor Si but the stems are so tough now, and so much t h i c c foliage I don't know how I'm gonna manage the defoliation and pruning coming up she needs some serious tidying up. We have automation fully running! Wifi plug hooked up to a submersible pump in the reservoir. Set up schedule via app. Currently watering 3x a day for 5 mins. But I think she can do more! With the res hooked up it's just a quick check of the PH every day with the occasional ph down. Found I have a light leak though! Now I know where all those seeds came from on my first grow, some light getting in from the partition. I've duct/aluminum taped it all up.

Starting to throw out pistols so we are officially in flower! So I defoliated and lollipopped. It felt drastic, but I just remembered all the larfy bud that these over of abundance of green shoots and leaves filling the scrogg. The scraggilly shoots from below was what was filling up the scrogg so she looked so bare. After I finished I was wondering if I had ruined the plant. lol But she has perked up nicely as you can see in the pics, those leaves spreading out taking in that QB. Hoping to get some bigger buds this time. Def next time I should prune periodically through veg cos some of the branches are bit twisted, this pheno has tooo many branches. She has moved onto early bloom nutes! Am fertigating 5 min 4x a day. Will bump it up once stretch is finished My clone rate on the other hand, considering my clone rate from last time was 100%, I have gone to 0%. God mold growing in the cup. Just thinking of getting a cloner just so I can set and forget it more the 0% due to my neglect.

Flowering along. 20 liter res lasts me about 10 days at the moment. Things seem to be going well so not sure to mess with fertigation frequency. Was looking through my last diary and recon I got 6 weeks left to flower! And my one rescued clone hangs on...recon I can save just it's going to take forever to root.

Late update. Everything was going ok. >_> Lots of hairs and pistols. But I'm getting some green in my drip lines so I guess I should get some florakleen to flush them out.

Well pump malfunction...due to human error. After I cleaned the res out I forgot to put the pump plug back in......and I was kinda busy for a few days, was expecting the pump to be taking care of stuff so no big deal. I am kicking myself. Yes that poor girl...lower leaves are crispy, the leaves limp as 6 day old lettuce. Watered as soon as I saw what had happened but 1 day and the leaves not recovering... This has been a very painful lesson. The good news is the clone I salvaged has sprouted a root!