In House Genetics

This is the last week of veg for these ladies. I'll be flipping them to flower tomorrow. To prep for that I did a heavy defoliation/lollipoping 6 days ago and i also added the flower based top amendments(Gaia Green 2-8-4 at 20mL/gal) to the pots 3 days ago. When dealing with dry top amendments with respect to organic growing you'll want to be adding them before the plants are in need of them. With organics you're not feeding your plants. You're feeding the ecosystem you've built in your pot. The ecosystem(beneficial microbes/fungi/bacteria) in turn produce the necessary food your plant requires at any given stage of your grow. So it can take a week to a week and half for all the beneficial microbes/fungi/bacteria in your pots to make that food available to your plants. As a result I'll top amendment every couple weeks to make sure my plants dont go deficient. I'll post pics of my feeding schedule and feed rates for flower in next weeks update. The grow went really well this last week. As you can see from the pics I posted above my humidity jumped into that 50%-53% range as the plants are much larger and require more water on a daily basis. This is of no concern at the moment. I have a dehumidifier that I will run outside of the grow tent once I'm about 3 weeks into flower to keep the humidity in check(45%-50%). The only issue I ran into this week was some very minor bleaching of a few fan leaves on a couple of the girls on the upper canopy. This was grower error as I didnt adjust the lights accordingly as the plants were growing. I'm running new LEDS and as such I am still in the process of figuring out ideal heights for the lights without causing damage to the plants. I've ordered a PAR meter so I can maintain optimal PAR/PPFD numbers for all stages of growth. You're paying to run your lights regardless so you might as well make use of them in the most efficient way possible.