Black Gum 2019 (I)

Day 93 from seed for Black Gum. One week of flowering complete, seven weeks to go. Buckle in, this is going to be a lengthy update. So, overall I’ve been dealing with temperatures, particularly night time swings. I imagine the root zone of my big plants are too cold and slowing things down behind the scenes, but not fatal. My young plants have been struggling and dying. This has forced me to make a multitude of changes. Most recently, I had to shut off my output ventilation. This has risen flowering temperature and humidity. The first night I did not think and didn’t block the output vent, the temperature differential sucked all the heat out and it was 10 degrees at lights on. I have blocked it, but this has raised temps and humidity again especially with waterings. In my flower tent, I’ve realized I’ve overnuted plants. My nitrogen fade has been much too slow, and with temperatures effecting plant growth, and perhaps some persisting amendment, it accumulated and devastated one plant. I realize now across the board I realistically need far less nitrogen and have been just getting away with it with the temps. I am realizing as I am typing this that Black Gum still has alot of hope. To be honest I thought this was the second week of flower, but it is the first. This means I can change course. I still do want to provide some extra nitrogen for stretch, but now I know there is more remaining in the soil, and who knows what to expect with all the environment changes. I will quickly skip the schedule and cut nitrogen already after the feeding I gave today. Today was 2-7-7 Shultz Cactus food with a popsicle stick dip of blackstrap molasses. This is usually a mid fade, now it just becomes a touch of nitrogen in the first two weeks and thats it! I also used and am trying Plant Prod MJ Spike (CalMag) and Earth Alive Big Blue Wave. Lastly, if someone did read this far, I should mention the lighting as this is the first week of flower. In my flower tent I have two of the same blue big boy full spectrum LEDs I use in veg. in my flower tent, spaces out. Alternating I have sets of smaller yellow spectrum LEDs that total 96watts of yellow. This came about after my buddy and I examined the spectrum of our light and noticed a gap compared to HPS in the 500-800nm range. This supplement was incredibly cheap and when my environment and bad skills aren’t crushing me, made a noticeable difference in bud density.