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Planted in a solo cup temporarily using Fox Farms Happy Frog and lime (2 tbsp lime per gallon soil) with. Watered with plain water pH'd to 6.5 on 5/16/19,
Watered on 5/19/19 with water pH'd to 6.5. Using a spray bottle several times a day to spritz plant and keep soil moist. Plant is showing some issues in its leaves. Unsure if it is pH or nute deficiency. Temporarily added some worm castings via a top feed. Transplanted to 3 gallon fabric bag and watered with Fox Farms Grow Big and Big Bloom diluted down to 1/4 recommended dosage pH'd to 6.5. Also followed the feeding with an additional watering of plain water pH'd to 6.5 for dilution (1/4 gallon with nutes, 1/4 gallon without). Runoff was around 6.7,
When you compare this plant to the other strains started at the same time, it appears as thought it has been stunted. There were some original pH fluctuations that caused the initial foliage to die off. This is clearly stunting the plant overall. When you compare the last grow of this strain to this one on week 5 you can see that it is not simply how the plant grows. Fed with 4 tbsp Big Bloom and 3 tsp Grow big per 1 gallon of water on 6/5/19. Runoff was around 7.0 pH.
Watered with 3/4 gallon pH'd to 6/3. Runoff was between 6.8 and 6.9. I thought this guy was stunted but he is just defective genetics. The new growth just continues to stack one node on top of another. I included stem images so that you can see it continues to add nodes but in a defective way. I am just going to let it continue to grow and see what happens now that we are in flower. I have tried getting it to stretch to no avail.
I am giving this plant one last ditch effort before culling. I suspect a possible boron deficiency . The plants were watered with nothing but reverse osmosis which makes it more susceptible to a boron deficiency. The symptoms sound similar and so the plant was flushed with 5 gallons of drinking water on 6/19/19 pH'd to 6.3 due to the previous runoff readings were around 7. Runoff was around 6.5. I then followed up with about 1/4 gallon of drinking water with 2.8 ppm of borax (1/8 tsp per 5 gallons). Guides say if it is a boron deficiency this should provide overnight improvement. I will report back next week on the results. Either I treated it or killed it lol.
Update 6/20/19 - The weight of the pot post flushing caused it to topple over during the night. This uprooted the plant and while trying to get it settled back into the pot, the plant completely snapped. The stems did indeed have a hollowness to them so I believe the diagnosis was possibly correct however, we will never know as this plant is officially dead. RIP!
Jayann
