God Particle

We are just gonna call this week one so that I can get it on the same schedule with the rest. It’s really been less than a week. I have such high hopes for this little frand, I can’t wait to see how it does.

Nothing to see here. I got it put into its permanent pot. I gave it a little bit of mykos and some SuperThrive. No food yet.

Baby get its first feeding this week. It’s already bigger than my last 3 plants at this stage.

Pre flower! Did a little LST.

Some light defoliation and leaf tucking. Installed the Tray2Grow today and I’m excited. It’s looking great. The silica gave it a really beefy center stem. I dig it. I love this plant so much.

: cue the sounds of Endless Love floating on the breeze : Some discoloration. Raised the lamp, as it seems to be light stress. Bottom leaves are nice and green. MF’er has a stem like a gd tree trunk. She is STURDY. Tray2grow is 10/10 I love it so much.

Heavy increase in calmag has pretty much stopped the yellowing. DLI is 50 and VPD is 1. The number of buds is just silly. The smell is getting strong as well.

It’s really starting to look like a grown-up now. I think three more weeks should do it. I’ve been doing some very light defoliation, but other than that, I’m just left it alone. The smell is delicious, very evergreen. I love my Tray2Grow. Adding the calcium and magnesium seems to have lessened the yellowing at the tips, but I still have it. I’m not sure what else it can be, I’m already giving it more than the normal dose of calmag. PH is spot on, vpd is 1.

After two grows, I solved the stupid mystery. Bear with me while I tell the story. Hopefully this post will come to somebody in their time of need. I started out by growing two bag seeds that turned out great. The only problem was I did not wait long enough. No deficiencies, no problems. Using MaxSea 16-16-16 and filtered tap water. I thought to myself, hey this is working out really well. I’m gonna keep doing this. So I got a tent and I got some more seeds and I got some bloom fertilizer. I started using the RO water that I use for my carnivorous plants and just making 10 gallons instead of 5 every week. I kept reading that reverse osmosis water is a great thing to start with because it’s a blank slate. No additives or anything and you know exactly what’s going in your water. This is where things started to go poorly. In light flower, I started to see deficiencies. I tried adding more fertilizer. It got worse. I tried raising the light. It got worse. Only in late flower. Everything leading up to that looked great. What the hell. Someone suggested Cal Mag. I got cal mag. I added the correct amount. It got better, but still there. Maybe I’m under fertilizing. I raise the amount of fertilizer and the cal mag. That was a terrible idea. It gets worse. I can’t figure out what’s going on, the pH is between six and seven. I’m growing in soil. My PPM is a shocking 1300. That’s when I found out that you can get locked out from your EC being wrong. I start rethinking the whole thing again. Obviously I’m over feeding. I’ve added calmag. Idk wtf is wrong. Now I’m deep in the weeds and I can’t figure out how to get out. So I fill up my reservoir with dechlorinated tapwater. And I start reading again. At this point I have considered switching nutrients, which would be a big pain in the ass because my houseplants require MaxSea, it’s the only thing safe for them. Wait why is it safe? I start scouring Reddit again and I find a post that says “why is MaxSea safe for carnivores?” Because it has no calcium. None whatsoever. Fml. And then it all falls into place. This didn’t all start until I started using RO water. Tap water was working great because I’m the Ohio valley our water is like 350 PPM. LOTS of minerals. I was using the same fertilizer mix that I used for my house plants which was less than half of the normal dose. And I was using tapwater. Once I started using the RO water, it stripped out all of the calcium, the fertilizer that I was using, did not have ANY added calcium, so when I hit flower things started to fall apart. I just have to stop using RO water. And feed less. I’m still going to add a little cal mag, maybe a half dose so I know it’s there.

That’s a wrap.