Cinderella 99

👉99 is looking healthy. Nice wide fan leaves from the 2nd and 3rd nodes. It hasnt grown as fast vertically as i expected ...but thats not a bad thing. during the week I kept the 3rd week nutrient mixture going because it looked like it was a little behind the average as far as overall development. Today its still not got much spacing between nodes, but I believe its the 5th node. 👉My plan was to top it a couple of days ago, but I procrastinated until today. I felt that topping would remove too much growth, so I FIM'd instead. I top herbs and flowers in the garden all the time, but havent topped any cannabis plants in a long time. Ive never fim'd either, and if i did it wrong then f I missed either way. 👉During the week I also transitioned the plant into the center of the tent with both lights directed at it. The lights are angled to put the plant in the center of both lights foot print. This will provide angled lighting from two directions. I will also be rotating the plant at least daily. I rotate for balancing out the plants overall light access, and for inspecting and attending to the plant as needed. 👉When I changed the light set-up, I also increased the feeding volume from 1liter 2x to 1.5liter. This grow I am monitoring the pH at every feeding. In my previous 4 plants i was just measuring my pH when I mixed it. During the Hindu I discovered that there was pH drifting daily. So I use the pH/EC meter at each feeding and adjust the pH as needed. So far the pH has gone up each day a little bit. I use a dropper to add Ph down to keep the pH at 5.8 or 5.9. I keep the batch aerated with a couple of air stones and a small aquarium air pump. 👉I have done to low EC rinses when the EC was +.25 EC above the inflow EC. So for the week it was 1.7 in and the outflow didn't get above 1.95ec. The outflow volume has been way above 30%, but until the plant starts drinking more, the volume is important to keep the media buffered. I will probably keep it at 3 liters total per day till the plant starts drinking more during the last 3rd of the life cycle. 👉When I open the tent the aroma of the Marigolds is nice. Its noticeable but not intense. The Marigold has really been going crazy with flowers. I am going to have to start another one soon because this one will soon be too big and present a pest and mildew factory risk because I wont be able to keep it clean of dead plant matter. I may try to clone it. That would be way faster of a turn around because the marigold had bunches of flowering nodes and new growth. And if your still reading this and haven't read the first week, I keep the Marigold as a pest barrier. I have an older house full of spiders and did a pepper plant test run of the tent that ended in a massive aphid and spider mite invasion. So before i grew I researched organic barrier prevention methods and Marigolds were at the top. During my Hindu grow I proved to myself that they work when I had to take out the overgrow marigold bush i started at the beginning and its replacement plant hadn't bloomed yet, a few days window of no blooms and fungus gnats appeared. I remediated the media with insectcidal soap and manual removal, and then the marigold opened 3 blooms and I haven't seen another bug since. 👉But the Marigolds arent the only way I prevent unwanted pests. Before I set up the tent I treated the room for pests with normal household pest barrier. Along the windows and floor boards I applied a an aerosol spider killing spray. Basically I fumigated the room I was using. When I had the test grow disaster I reaplied the treatments to the room. To the interior of the tent I wiped all the surfaces with insecticidal soap. I then wiped down the entire interior of the tent with an H2O2 solution. Then I sprayed the exterior of the tent with a Neem oil solution. I applied extra to every opening. I occasionally turn off the fans inside the tent, and give a light Neem oil spray application to the exterior of the tent. I turn the fans back on after 20 minutes. I havent seen any signs of pests in the room the tent is in, nor in the tent itself. With fall coming I will need to re-treat the room itself with insect barrier chemicals. Hopefully I can wait till 99 has been harvested so I can do it between plants.