This week started well and although I would also describe the growth of the plant as good, not everything went optimally this week. Growth this week has clearly concentrated on the buds. I haven't taken down the low branches yet, although it's getting very cramped in my small tent. I continued the light defoliation slowly in the first half of the week to improve airflow at the bottom of the plant.
In the second half of the week, I noticed that the plant had slowly started to droop its leaf tips.
On Friday evening I noticed that many of the leaf tips had burnt during the day, so I decided to water again straight away. I can imagine that this was caused by an incorrect pH value or too many nutrients. The last time I watered before, I adjusted the pH value again to approx. 6.5. I have only been doing this irregularly for about 3 weeks as BioTabs advertises that the pH value of the water does not need to be adjusted and I have now read several times that it is not necessary to adjust the pH value when growing organically (dont take that as a fact from me, but it seems like with my conditions the plant likes normal/unadjusted tap water a little better).
The plant has responded well to watering/light flush and the clawing signs are gone, but I'm not sure yet how to interpret the slight yellow tones on the sugar leaves on the top bud.
Nice healty looking Plant, personaly I don't take off the lower buds/branches, they get pretty frosty and make really good dry sift Keif.
Keif is terpene heaven.
useing AI to write lol
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@Buddo, thanks for you input. I chose not to take off the branches to not stress out the plant any further, but i am a little scared about bud rot in the later stages of flowering. What do you do to make sure you don't have problems with that? I am growing in a very small tent (40cm x 40cm, or about 16 inches by 16 inches)
The leaf tips & leaves in general change color when the plant is starting to bud. Happens with every one of my plants. It not necessarily related to PH or nutrients. If the leaves look bad, I remove them. Once the buds start the plant won’t grow much taller maybe a couple of inches, she looks good.