Blueberry

Day 23 - Moved to 24 hours light schedule - read that it was a good idea - I made the change 3 days ago and the Things are responding very well. Day 21 the leaves were looking pretty pale. I reduced the PH in the nutirents to 5.8 from 7 and along with the extra light they have responded very well. Can't believe it is week 4 already. Observation: Thing 2 is now looking more robust than Thing 1. I don't know if this is due to different ppm or ph or light placement or genetics, but Thing 1 had a big lead and is now slightly lagging. Day 24 - Temperature in grow room was high today. I can' t be exactly sure but about 85 degrees at 6 pm, may have been higher around 2 pm. The leaves are curling on the plants. I have made moves to reduce the temperature in the room - I will look later tonight and tomorrow to see if it worsens. Day 25 - 7:30 am - before leaving for work I checked plants to see if leaves stopped curling to find out if they were better. To my dismay they are worse! I didn’t have time to look at leaves in white light to see if they are discoloured but they do look somewhat pale. They are trying to speak to me but I don’t speak plant fluently. I took a bit of water in the buckets out for fear the levels are too high but I don’t think that is the problem. Levels in buckets aren’t overwhelming the grow pots. I will document later. I took quick pictures with my phone. I will take plants off of 24 hour light schedule to see if they improve. 8:15 am - went back to grow room to adjust light timer and found that my cat had followed me in at 7:30 and I had locked her in there. Would have been the biggest mistake in my two grows to have left her in there all day! So glad I went down there once more! Day 26 11:00 pm - I changed the water in the buckets yesterday. PPM 600 PH 6.3 - I looked back today and the plants have perked up, still a bit of curl for T2 though he does look better. I added a tsp of Epsom salts to the 17 Liter bucket. Brought the PPM up to 800. I have also worked on reducing the heat and humidity in the room. Back to 72 degrees and 45% humidity. if I'm comfortable I figure the plants will be too. One difference with the buckets is the T2 bucket - after the water change - is brown and the other clear. some peat from the growing medium - I'm using promix - has mixed in with the water... I am now officially doing different things with the plants. It will be interesting to see if one does better than the other. I wish they were grown from clone and not seeds. I will do that experiment on my next batch but in the meantime, it will be great to see which plant does better. I will use some products on one and not the other etc. See how much using products help.