Week Ending 07/30. Some of the lower, older growth had some yellowing to it in the beginning of this week, which I attributed to the lack of nutes. It has corrected itself by end of week; I trimmed off the discolored growth. The last few days of this week, the plans have begun to switch over to flower. All of the curled growth has since ceased, but hasn't contributed to any slow/delayed growth. All 4 plants were moved to their own 4x4, under an HLG 550 v2 3500k with the 660 nm. Lowered the light to about 25". At the end of the week, I did some minor branch bending/LST, and added some straw to the top of the soil bags to help reduce how quickly the lights were drying up the soil. Plants are starting to drink more, monitoring daily.
Great looking ladies you've got there. Quick question - I'm about to kick off some auto's on my next grow, can I still LST/Defoliate them without stressing? They're fem'd, but I'm a rookie and still worry about f'ing up my $60 seeds.... haha
@PurpsInMyCloset, It depends what the true wattage is of your lights. So I run a total of 5 Quantum boards LED, and give a total of about 250 watts of lighting to every 2 plants. If you have a reddit account, I would check out R/microgrowery. I try to post there frequently, and there is a ton of information about QBs. I've had some impressive yields, heat mitigation is easy, and you can source them from Alibaba. But, for your current light, see what the actual wattage is, and the foot print and base it off that!
@Cloyy perfect! I really don't like the idea of defoliating any seeds that i'm paying for, haha, but i'm willing to try anything to get some solid colas. One last question.... I got 8 seeds, thinking of doing 4 and 4. I only have a 600w "YGrow" (Amazon...) LED. Do you think that's enough for 4 plants at a time? Curious what you're running!
@PurpsInMyCloset, Thank you! LST and LIGHT defoliation are my go to. Save the defoliation until they shift to flower, and only enough to clear covered bud sites. You can top them too, but only if you have good growth by week 2/3. If it's your first time with autos then I would stick to LST, and light defoliation during flower. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions on your grow!