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vaginacircus All for the best, I lowered the LED a bit to generate more PPFD, I must be at 40cm, I'm carefully observing the reaction of the young plant so it doesn't turn yellow.

vaginacircus Everything is going well for now!

vaginacircus First LST, I did it in two stages. First, I cut a big leaf on the second-to-last level that was covering 5 branches, then I did a light first LST. The stem was too rigid, I was afraid of breaking it, so I waited until the next day when the plant was really thirsty to emphasize the bend I wanted to give to the main stem. Now, the light hits as many branches as possible.

vaginacircus New LST + defoliation I feel like I went a bit overboard with the nitrogen, the leaves are huge xD

vaginacircus Back from vacation, I noticed some deficiencies and a lack of water, so I took the opportunity to sort that out with watering and also did some LST and light defoliation (3-4 leaves).

vaginacircus I check on and take care of my plant every day, I regularly adjust the LST and I trim at least one leaf every 2 or 3 days. I continue with the calmag to prevent the calcium deficiency that the plant had last week. I'm waiting for the leaves to perk up with watering before doing another defoliation; the goal is to highlight 20 buds.

vaginacircus This week was marked by significant heat stress: temperatures up to 30 °C in the tent, despite full extraction and the passive openings being open. Some pistils have browned prematurely. To remedy this, I raised the height of the lamp to 40–45 cm. I also placed frozen water bottles to cool the air a bit and I'm putting ice cubes in my humidifier. The plants have responded well, the leaves remain nice and green, and the buds continue to form. We're keeping an eye on it!

vaginacircus Stress is apparent, it looks like a nutrient lockout (thanks to the growers who answered my question), I measured the pH of my soil, and indeed, it was at 7.2, I did a corrective watering at 5.6 to unlock the nutrients.

vaginacircus I'm starting the flushing with water at 6.3 pH.

vaginacircus Still rinsing. A few brown trichomes on a mature bud, but on the lower buds, we still have clear trichomes. I think we'll be ready by next week!