Day 57 - The Beginning of week nine! The girls have gotten a carpet bombing of treatments for a heretofore mild fungus gnat issue. I have ONE soil plant in the grow, and that seemed to have been the instigator of the issue. Mosquito Bits once a week and Neem Oil in their feed will hopefully knock them out fairly hard. The plants haven't shown any sort of signs of impaired growth so I'm pretty sure I've headed it off before any sort of real issue can evolve.
Day 59 - Gadzooks! A major ball dropping has occurred. This girl hasn't started flowering yet! She's at the back of a SCROG, of course, so I can't flip her to 12/12 to see of she'll start flowering until the rest of the grow is done, so I may , in a week or so, just have to go ahead and prune her back and wait until she recovers.
@CrookedyNook, It must be a weirdo mutant freak pheno thing. I mean it's growing fine, but man... Cupped wrinkly leaves that early on made me think I was constantly over watering her, which, in coco wasn't really possible.
@CRiSPrGrow, It's the most boringest answer ever :-D.
Lots of light, Maxigro, Maxibloom, Mammoth P near the end (Home brewed). PH usually at around 5.9.
Just trust your nutes, don't get fancy, (Maxi series is a pretty cheap and simple powder) and, in the case of coco, water with feed once a day, every day. This grow has had a water feed ONCE, at day 75. Nutes every time. See a minor deficiency or burn on the tips? Watch it, but don't do anything unless it gets worse over several days.
A decent amount of airflow. (But not blowing everything around.
Nutes are mixed in a 15 gallon barrel with a wood wine mixing paddle. 9-10tsp of nutes for 15 gallons water. So a 2/3 mix rather than a full dose.
Train 'em, (I do actual LST, no topping) do slow defoliation, (Mostly at the bottom, but also to make room between colas once pompoms come on strong.) Defoliation should be aggressive at the bottom of the plant, but not all at once. By the end of the grow, they are *Almost* lolipopped, but not really.
Keep pests out.
That is literally all I do, apart from keeping the room clean every day.
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