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Week 2 came to a close yesterday. Today being day 15 of Flower. As per the feeding schedule I posted last week I top amended the 7 gallon pots with the Gaia Green Power Bloom 2-8-4 organic dry amendment mix at 20mL/gallon of soil. They also received their first feeding of Flower 2 which is an organic water soluble potassium/phosphorous fertilizer that's is added at 2 grams/liter of water. Like any other P/K based fertilizer fed during flower it will promote bud growth and bud density. I prepared a compost tea and have it bubbling for tomorrows watering. The girls also received an organic mung bean tea. You can use a multitude of sprouting seeds for SSTs such as popcorn, mung beans, alphalpha, malted barley, anything with quick germination times. Just make sure they are organic sprouting seeds. I take 1 cup of Mung beans, spread them out evenly in the seed sprouter, and run unchlorinated water though the seed sprouter. I give the beans a good rinse in a jar with unchlorinated water before I put them in the sprouter. I will run water through the sprouter once a day to continue rinsing the beans until they start to sprout. When the sprouts from the seeds are a quarter inch long the enzymatic activity is at its peak and this is when you want to use them. Simply throw them in the blender with unchlorinated water, turn the blender on for a couple seconds, strain the mixture into your 5 gallon pale, PH adjust and feed. The week went well for the most part. I did a good pruning on the ladies day 11 of flower both for air flow and light penetration. I forgot to adjust my fans after the pruning and as a result the plants suffered some minor wind burn on some of the lower leaves. To correct this I shut down the box fan at the top of the tent and adjusted all my floor fans to push air around the outside of the pots and right down the middle of the room between the pots. This was obviously grower error as I was too focused on the task at hand and wasnt thinking ahead to the next step which would've been to make all the necessary adjustments with my fans. No big deal I just need to be a little more dialed in next run during early flower. 7 weeks to go then these ladies should be ripe and ready to harvest. I also lowered the second layer of trellis netting and continued to train the plants until about day 12 to try and maintain an even canopy.