AvadaKedavra Ahoi and welcome, This run started out great! I didn't realize I had to use nutritional seedlings nests in my top layer, so the first set of plants came out with major Ca deficiencies. I have never seen white true leaves, and I knew I had to restart instantly.
This is why Headbanger (+/- 0 days), Sour Jealousy (-1 day) and Mango (-2 days) have different starting dates right off the bat, With HB probably finishing first and Mango coming in last, this already creates some nutritional swings. Of course, Mango is described as nutrient sensitive too, haha. But I can't find the time to dilute her drinks as well, so she will have to suffer a bit more.
Day 1 in this run is Germination Day, I soak the seeds in pH 6.0 water at ~26°C for 16 hours. Tap root or not, they then go straight into the soil.
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Glass Of Water
Germination Method
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Week 2. Vegetation
2h ago
1/4
27 °C
Day Air Temp
65 %
Air Humidity
38 liters
Pot Size
0.5 liters
Watering Volume
75 cm
Lamp Distance
AvadaKedavra Tough week. There is nothing to do on the plants directly. But water distribution in medium, Far Red ratio and climate have been off.
Headbanger is already fighting with limited water, while I suspected over-watering on Mango (was PPFD stress mostly). I am glad the plants didn't refuse anything else right off the bat, so I am content to keep going.
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Week 3. Vegetation
1h ago
1/5
28 °C
Day Air Temp
68 %
Air Humidity
38 liters
Pot Size
0.5 liters
Watering Volume
75 cm
Lamp Distance
AvadaKedavra Week 3: Plants are doing pretty good, but I definitely stunted Headbanger. Still suspecting watering issues, I gave her a small dose of water. To my surprise, she started drooping almost immediately. I concluded over-watering and was dead-wrong. It took me days to force myself to flood her, expecting a disaster - but this time she picked back up right away. I must have given her too little while testing, the droop resulting from higher uptake than what was being fed.
Mango showed a sign I never wanted to see again, after having had a terrible phosphor deficiency in an earlier run. Her petioles (violets) are asking for P, and P she got. Her leaf colors are a bit optimistic in these shots, she has that lockout-aura all the time still.
I couldn't keep up with managing humidity very well, so Leaf-VPD was often at ~0.8. That alone will cost the plants some serious growing time.
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Week 4. Vegetation
32m ago
1/5
6 hrs
Light Schedule
28 °C
Day Air Temp
50 %
Air Humidity
38 liters
Pot Size
0.5 liters
Watering Volume
90 cm
Lamp Distance
AvadaKedavra While I am fighting VPD and lung room climate in the background and juggling values in their feeding chart, the plants are taking off.
I have never seen such healthy plants in this stage myself, so I was facing a major problem. The leaves that I should have tucked the entire time got 100% uptime instead. Nodes actually started growing underneath the petiole from their roof fan leaves, and I didn't want to disturb the plants.
I paniced to find the right time to start LST, and researched like a maniac. The result? Attempted 90° bend on all top colas.
SJ snapped on the inside, but that was to be expected and the rupture turned out minor.
Mango got her stem bent over way too far, just like Headbanger.
All colas would have required me to tie them back down 2 times a day, but loud stress signals from SJ and Mango made me stop training and let her recover.
In hindsight, leaf tucking would have solved these issues much better and I had to replace LST with HST to catch up. A day later, the scrog came down to help me sort the mess I made.
