Ages below (from sprout):
BT1 - Day 23 as of 8/27/17
BT2 - Day 24 as of 8/27/17
BT3 - Day 24 as of 8/27/17
Updates and Observations:
Heights:
BT1 - 6"
BT2 - 6"
BT3 - 9"
Temps:
- 64F Lows at night, 75F Highs in the day.
Growth/Training:
- All plants are showing sex (f) as of 8/24 but I believe they started showing a few days before I noticed the pre-flower pistils at the bud sites.
- I have been tucking and removing certain leaves for airflow and light penetration purposes but I max out at one to two leaves per day. I have not noticed any real shock or slow growth. They are just super bushy!
- BT3 has definitely taken a decisive lead as the alpha and looks very healthy. She has almost perfect internodal spacing and I wish the others would stretch a bit more like her!
- Backed the lights off about 6" (about 3' away from tops) to hopefully encourage some stretching.
Watering:
- They got 3 waterings this week. I am following a sort of "feed, feed, water" rhythm about ever 2-4 days depending on when the pots are dry. Hopefully this will prevent any heavy salt build up which can cause lockout.
- Noticed a slight nitrogen toxicity starting to build so I will be using plain RO water for the next few waterings or maybe dropping the B-52 down a bit.
- I am actually using the nutrient concentration seen above in 1.5 gallons of water and then giving each plant .5 gallons of water. This seems to be perfect for runoff.
Miscellaneous:
- I cleaned my entire garage from top to bottom because it is about to get very cold where I live. I reorganized everything, using my shop vac to vacuum out all the corners and edges then I push broomed the whole floor and it is clean enough to eat off of! Just the way it should be in my opinion! A tip I picked up from Rasta Jeff on the Grow From Your Heart Podcast was to do all your sweeping and cleaning right before your plants go into flower and get sticky because you do not wanting to be stirring up dust that will land on them and create issues if you can avoid it. Thanks Jeff!
Thanks for the support out there folks. Big shout out to @TheFairyBudMother for a little pick-me-up on a day when I needed it!
@CaciqueCayacoa,
My bad dude. Hard to tell tone on these things. I should have given you the benefit of the doubt. I just hated the idea of leaving it open haha. Something about it. Happy growing to you good luck man.
@Grimbol, Probably a closing without harvest is needed but adding a harvest with no actual harvest is pretty deceiving, specially on the rating, that affects the strain and the breeder overall rankings.
My bad if I sounded bitter but rather than rating it, you should have left it as it is. Instead of being aggressive I was being ironic on the action itself because you rated it just to say you cannot rate it. happy growing!
@CaciqueCayacoa,
Grow diaries does not allow you to close a diary without a harvest and rating. I explained it very thoroughly in my notes and did not give it bad ratings and gave it the third highest marks so that it wouldn't influence much on the site. I explained what I was able to observe and left it at that.
Do you have a better idea how to handle the situation or just passive aggressive comments?
I've seen things like this before personally.
The yellowing of the inside portion of the leaves looks like iron deficiency could have been from lockout.
The leaves wilting like that looks like under watering the way the leaves look like they are drying out looks identical to the plant I had issues with, I drenched the pot watered it so there was loads on run off then sprayed with a CalMag solution the whole plant. It bounced back and was fine after.
If I could link pics I would.
With those air pots I think the best thing to do is soak the medium leave it for a few days before you plant any seedling in it. If you don't water properly you can get canals of wet patches and dry patches where the roots will die because they aren't getting any water. I could be totally wrong of course but looks suspiciously like the issues I had once. Good luck on next grow, peace ๐๐ผ
@PharmaZ,
Thanks man. Much appreciated. Yeah I have heard only good things about Mephisto and I am pretty set on switching over to autos so they seemed to be a great option. So I haven't told anyone on here yet but I germinated 4 seeds about 3 days ago. I popped 2 Gold Glue and 2 Northern Cheese Haze x Sour Hound. That journal should come out this coming weekend. Cheers man.
@Grimbol, No problem at all pal, I would've liked to see you turn it around :( Interested in Mephisto strains so I hope to see you grow another, if you do pm me to let me know when you start and I will follow you gladly, peace dude๐๐ผ
@PharmaZ,
Thanks for the detailed advice man much appreciated. PH has been pretty stable though around 6-6.5 and the speed of the onset made me think it was the sprayer. I actually chucked them all already unfortunately. I know I was only in veg but if there was even a chance of that toxic stuff being in the plant or flowers I won't risk it. Just not worth it to me. Thank you for the helpful advice man. I will remember it. Happy growing.