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Anna_J 🌱Week 1!🌱 Day 1: For week 1, I have both my Sunblaster 48W LED strip light and my HLG Elite 360 fixture, which contains two QB96 Elite V2 LED boards, mounted at 48". The HLG fixture is set to it's absolute lowest setting. ☀️ - Light schedule: 18/6 ☀️ - Total LUX: 7,900 ☀️ - Total PPFD: 120 - I removed the humidity domes and turned on the humidifer, which will run on low setting whenever the lights are on. - My circulation fan is mounted at about 40" and is set to 20% intensity and is always on. This provides just a very gentle breeze around the seedlings. - My exhaust fan is set to turn on to 20% intensity whenever the temperature reaches 83F or the humidity reaches 84%. - Air intake switches between fresh outside air and room air, depending on the temperatures of each. - Temp: 78F (lights off); 83F (lights on) - RH: 75% (lights off); 84% (lights on) - VPD: 0.68 - 0.82kPa (aiming to be between 0.5 - 0.8) Day 2: - Temp: 77F (lights off); 81F (lights on) - RH: 60% (lights off); 80% (lights on) Day 3: - Temp: 76F (lights off); 79F (lights on) - RH: 60% (lights off); 82% (lights on) 💧- Watered each plant with approximately 50ml of distilled water - Increased circulation fan speed from 20% to 40%. The seedlings are now just barely moving in the breeze, which will hopefully encourage strong stem growth. Day 4: - Temp: 77F (lights off); 81F (lights on) - RH: 60% (lights off); 75% (lights on) - Lowered my Sunblaster 48W 6400K LED strip light by 2-3" to increase light intensity ☀️- Total LUX: 8,600-8,800 ☀️- Total PPFD: 131-133 Day 5: - Temp: 76F (lights off); 81F (lights on) - RH: 61% (lights off); 80% (lights on) 💧- Bottom watered each plant with roughly 150ml of distilled water Day 6: - Increased the circulation fan speed from 40% to 60%, causing a bit more movement of the seedlings. Day 7: - Temp: 76F (lights off); 81F (lights on) - RH: 58% (lights off); 81% (lights on) - Watered each plant with approximately 80-100ml of distilled water More to come... 💚

Anna_J 🌱Week 2!🌱 This is going to be a bit of a shorter update this week. I'm planning on increasing the light intensity throughout the week. Day 8: - Increased the light intensity of my HLG Elite 360 fixture slightly. ☀️- LUX: 9,700 - 9,800 ☀️- PPFD: 146 - 148 - Temp: 74F (lights off); 81F (lights on) - RH: 60% (lights off); 81% (lights on) Day 9: - No changes Day 10: - Increased the light intensity of my HLG Elite 360 fixture again slightly. ☀️- LUX: 9,900 - 10,000 ☀️- PPFD: 149 - 151 - Adjusted my exhaust fan settings to turn on whenever the temperature reaches 82F or the RH reaches 80%. - Temp: 73F (lights off); 81% (lights on) - RH: 62% (lights off); 79% (lights on) Day 11: - No changes Day 12: - Lowered both my my HLG Elite 360 fixture and Sunblaster 48W 6400K strip light to 36" above canopy, increasing the light intensity ☀️- LUX: 11,900 ☀️- PPFD: 178 💧- Watered each plant with approximately 100ml of distilled water - Temp: 74F (lights off); 80-82F (lights on) - RH: 61% (lights off); 73-79% (lights on) - Had to run my portable air conditioner during the hottest part of the day, for about 6 hours to help keep temperatures under 82F inside the tent. Day 13: - No changes - Had to run the air conditioner again during the hottest part of the day, for about 7 hours. Day 14: - Adjusted my exhaust fan settings to turn on when humidity reaches 78%, instead of 80%. - Air conditioner run for most of the day, about 10 hours

Anna_J 🌱Week 3!🌱 This week i'll be continuing to increase the light intensity and will be making some small adjustments to my humidity levels, aiming to lower the humidity slightly and aiming for a VPD range between 0.8 to 1.1 kPa. Basically i'm aiming for mid-70's RH and temperatures of around 79-81F. I'll also be starting to feed with a low dose of Remo Nutrients this week. Day 15: - Lowered both my HLG Elite 360 fixture and my Sunblaster 48W 6400K LED strip light a couple of inches, to approximately 34" above canopy. I also increased the intensity of the HLG fixture slightly, to approximately 20%. ☀️- LUX: 12,900 - 13,500 ☀️- PPFD: 193 - 203 - Adjusted exhaust fan to turn on to 30% speed when the humidity reaches 77%. - Temp: 73F (lights off); 81F (lights on) - RH: 64% (lights off); 70% (lights on) Day 16: - Another increase to the lighting intensity of my HLG Elite 360 fixture ☀️- LUX: 15,300 ☀️- PPFD: 225 💧- Watered each plant with approximately 200-250ml of dechlorinated water with 0.5ml per gallon of Remo Nutrients' "Micro", "Grow", "MagNifiCal" and "Velokelp". This resulted in a nutrient solution of 136ppm which I pH adjusted to 6.36. Solution temperature was roughly 23.5C / 74.5F. Day 17: - The weather outside has been quite warm, so i've had to turn on my portable air conditioner in the afternoon. I just run the air conditioner in the room that the tent is in and passively intake the cooler room air whenever the exhaust fan turns on. - Temp: 73F (lights off); 80F (lights on) - RH: 66% (lights off); 73% (lights on) Day 18: - Today was another warm day so I ran the air conditioner for 6 hours in the afternoon. - Increased intensity of my HLG Elite 360 fixture. ☀️- Total LUX: 19,100 ☀️- Total PPFD: 284 - Temp: 74F (lights off); 81F (lights on) - RH: 64% (lights off); 70% (lights on) Day 19: - I'm noticing a slight magnesium deficiency, more so on the taller plant on the right. It's mild but i'm going to keep an eye on it. - Cooler day today, so no need for the portable air conditioner Day 20: - No changes Day 21: - I decided to do a foliar feeding of the plant showing the magnesium deficiency. I used about 1 tsp of plain Epsom Salt to about 1 gallon of water, which resulted in a mixture measuring 604ppm, which is a bit stronger than i was aiming for but i went ahead and adjusted the pH to 6.15 and did a light misting on the plant. I removed the plant from the tent for this and put it in my bathtub. I would have normally applied the spray right before lights-off but that's going to conflict with my personal schedule so i just left the plant in the tub for a couple of hours, with the bathroom light left on. - The plants could probably use a watering but i will wait one more day. More to come! 💚

Anna_J 🌱Week 4!🌱 This week i'll be topping the plants and continuing to increase the light level. Surprisingly, one of the plants naturally 'topped' itself at the 3rd node and is growing two stems. The other will be getting topped as well. I was also gifted some "BudClips" and i'll start using those soon to see how they work. The magnesium deficiency is looking a little bit better after last week's epsom salt foliar feed. Day 22: - Increased light intensity of HLG Elite 360 fixture ☀️- Total LUX: 18,400-19,500 ☀️- Total PPFD: 283-285 💧- Watered with a 411ppm solution of dechlorinated water mixed with 2ml/gallon of Remo Nutrients’ “Micro”, “Grow” and “VeloKelp” and 1ml/gallon of “MagNifiCal” and Epsom Salt (Magnesium Sulfate), pH adjusted to 6.19 💧- Runoff = 1830ppm, 6.97pH 💧I'm surprised and concerned with my runoff levels. 1830ppm is too high for my comfort and i'm concerned about potential nutrient lock-out issues. I considered flushing with plain water today but decided to wait until the next watering, mainly because i didn't have any more dechlorinated water prepared. - Topped the tall plant and removed the side branches. - Adjusted the settings of my AC Infinity Cloudline T6 exhaust fan, to turn on when the humidity level reaches 73%, instead of 75%. It also still turns on whenever the temperature reaches 82F. - Temp: 73F (lights off); 81F (lights on) - RH: 60% (lights off); 66% (lights on) Day 23: - I'm trying to keep the humidity slightly lower than normal so that the pots can dry up a bit quicker. I need to do a good flush as soon as possible to hopefully get my runoff levels under control and prevent any further nutrient lockout issues. - Temp: 71F (lights off); 81F (lights on) - RH: 62% (lights off); 65% (lights on) Day 24: - Added a 2nd budclip to the shorter of the two plants - Temp: 72F (lights off); 81F (lights on) - RH: 62% (lights off); 66% (lights on) Day 25: - Today i flushed both plants each with about 1 gallon of dechlorinated tap water, pH adjusted to 6.3. The pots were still wetter than i would have preferred but i didn't want to wait any longer on the flush, as i could see Cal-mag issues starting to worsen in the leaves. - To flush, i added water to each pot, about 200ml at a time, then waiting 5 minutes for saturation, then another 200ml... until i'd passed about a gallon of water through each pot. - I put the pots on wire racks, for better drainage and increased airflow around the bottom of the pots. - My runoff PPM's came down quite a bit, where the first 200ml of runoff was testing at the same 1800ppm but when i discarded all the runoff and then collected the last 200ml, it had dropped to approximately 850ppm. - Unfortunately, my pH is still higher than i'd like, at about 6.8. Day 26: - No changes - Temp: 70F (lights off); 81F (lights on) - RH: 64% (lights off); 73% (lights on) Day 27: - The plants look a little better better after the flush, although the signs of Calcium & Magnesium deficiency are still coming out in the lower leaves. - Temp: 73F (lights off); 81F (lights on) - RH: 65% (lights off); 70% (lights on) - I added 2 Budclips to the taller of the two plants. Day 28: - I did a slurry test of some of the leftover Promix Organic Herb & Vegetable mix that i had. I mixed some with a little bit of distilled water and the tested the pH, which was quite high, at about 7.3. I was intending to repot the plants into 5 gallon fabric pots around week 6 but i think i'm going to do that next week instead. I'll probably switch back to Promix HP, since I think it has a slightly lower natural pH due to be treated with a bit less lime than the Organic Herb & Vegetable Mix. - Today i did a little bit of leaf tucking to help keep the branching sites exposed.

Anna_J 🌱Week 5🌱 This week i'm hoping to continue the correction of the high pH and PPM levels of my runoff. The flush i did last week has been helpful and hopefully this week's transplant will continue to help the plants improve. I'm aiming to increase the light intensity some more this week and I'll be aiming for a VPD range somewhere between 0.9-1.2 kPa. The nights are getting a bit cooler outside and i may have to consider switching my light cycle so that i'm running the lights throughout the whole night, otherwise i'll have to make some adjustments to my fresh-air intake to limit too much of a temperature swing between 'lights-on' and 'lights-off'. Day 29: - I transplanted both plants into 5 gallon fabric pots. - For medium, i switched from "Promix Organic Herb and Vegetable" to Promix "HP". I'm hoping this medium will have a slightly lower natural pH, since it's apparently treated with less lime and buffering agents than the "Organic Herb and Vegetable" mix. 💧- I watered both plants with plain, dechlorinated tap water. pH was adjusted to 5.95. Each plant received approximately 0.5 gallons of water. ☀️- Increased light intensity of HLG Elite 360. ☀️- LUX: approx. 25,000 ☀️- PPFD: approx 375 - Temp: 70F (lights off); 81F (lights on) - RH: 68% (lights off); 72% (lights on) - VPD: 1.01 kPa - Light defoliation and some minor LST, adjusting bud clips. Day 30: - no major changes - minor leaf tucking Day 31: ☀️- Today i switched the light cycle so that the lights are off between 12pm-6pm, instead of 12am-6am. This was mainly because the night air is getting cooler and was causing the temperature inside the tent to drop a bit lower, causing the humidity to be a bit higher than i'd like. I'm trying my best not to use the portable air conditioner if i don't have to yet, as i know i'll be using it lots more once flowering gets underway. - As a result of switching the light cycle around, the plants ended up receiving around 30hrs of light. Day 32: - The deficiencies are still showing in the leaves. 💧- Watered each plant with about 1 gallon of dechlorinated water, mixed with about 2ml/gallon of Remo Nutrients' "Micro" and Grow" and about 1ml/gallon of "MagNifiCal" and "VeloKelp", resulting in a 355ppm solution that i pH adjusted to 6.2. Day 33: - I removed all the "BudClips" from the plants and replaced them with traditional tie-down's. I don't see myself using BudClips much aside from maybe just during the first few weeks. A nice idea and a fun little gift to have received but i think i'll stick with traditional tie-down wires. - I topped one of the plants for the 2nd time and removed a couple of side branches. I'm aiming for 8 main tops on each of these plants. - I raised the HLG Elite 360 light fixture by just an inch or so and increased the intensity slightly in order to maintain the 25,000-26,000 LUX levels across the canopy. - Temp: 73F (lights off); 80F (lights on) - RH: 70% (lights off); 72% (lights on)