Big Bloom

Loaded from the Veg Room. Out of the 25 plants only about 8 of them are on the smaller size. Wasn’t sure where to add that I used great white in my nute reservoir. Day 2 I trimmed(clean up) up about 6 inches from the bottom. Will cut off more on day 21.

During week one we trimmed up a bit and staked. Plants are doing well but are not drying out(drinking a lot of water, even the larger ones). We also hand feed for a whole week as to avoid early overwatering with the auto system. I just came back from adding nutrients to the reservoir. There is a small thrip problem, we have sprayed two days in a row with something the grow store gave us for free, and decided to give it a shot, it never hurts to change up the pesticide schedule I have seen very little fungus nat activity thus far. I also reduced the automated watering to 50% using the valves since we can’t choose anything under a minute for feeding. Current auto feed schedule is once for a minute 15 min after lights on and once for a minute four hours later. Plant health is overall good. Only concern I have at the moment are that all of the harambe plants new growth are extremely light green in color in comparison to the other plants But they are also slightly bigger by 4-6 inches and closer to the light. My only guess at the moment is transplant shock from LED(veg) to HID(bloom) or they are slightly too close to the light I super cropped 2-3 harambe plants that were stretching a bit. Hopefully if proves useful in the long run. Day 12 update: Plants are drinking water at a very uneven rate creating over watering issues. I’ll have to look into flow adjusters per plant in the future. Reduced automated watering to once a day and I’ll just check in daily. Also noticed heavy foliage growth on most plants. I spent about an hour pulling large fan leaves that were covering tons of potential budding sites. Some of the Colin OG are already starting to pistol up, always a nice sign.

Week 3 was over before I knew it was over. Between work and the garden time has been flying by. On day 16 I did some defoliating to expose bud sites on all plants. On day 21 my brother and I spent the afternoon in the garden removing any “sucker” shoots. I always do this on the cautious side, meaning I’d rather leave too much on the plant rather than trim it more naked. I try to trim up at least a foot into the canopy. Feeding is still uneven

Lots of budding sites. A few yellowing leaves towards the top of the canopy for a few harambe and Colin OG. The mountain have slight signs of over watering in their leaves. Today(Day 23) I went ahead and spent an hour defoliating the room to expose some more budding sites. It seems as canopy management via leaf defoliation really dictates budding sites.

De fanned all plants to help light penetration for onset of flowers. I’ve either got a fungus knats or root aphid issue. I’m usually on a daily watering system but have had to manually feed plants due to some under root development, which is probably due to bugs. Noticed some yellowing but plants seem to be doing fine.

Flowering is really starting to take off after de fanning. Slight yellowing on some leaves Water uptake is very different per plant, I’ve had to hand water on and off.