Morning day 14:
Stretching finally stopped wish a few lower branches got a bit longer but they are still getting light down low and flower growth seems consistent down there. Another week and she will be more central under the light which I gradually moved down a few inches per day this week to 18 inches. Her nutrients were switched from stretch to bloom and she is dramatically increasing in watering amounts every 24 hours and flowering has begun nicely. And took a small clipping from very bottom to see how she forms up monster cropping her.
Found a few spider mites trying to invade her from the 2 being removed from the room over next week or so, hopefully I can keep these fuc@s off of her long enough spraying with 9 parts water 1 part alcohol and manually killing a few here and there.
Heat rose to 78-80 up from 73-74 while dealing with humidity. I purchased a 750ml per day dehumidifier for the tent which was $100 and it worked and looked nice didn’t raise temp so much however I had to return it because it had to be manually powered on and that won’t work with Inkbird environment controls. I returned it and purchased the smaller $50 vivo sun dehumidifier which is rated 400ml per day so half the workload. The vivo sun works at nearly the exact same performance taking water out of the air and can be disconnected from power and auto turn on so bonus only downfall was the 6f raise in temperature meaning we need to rearrange the room and bring the temperature controls into the tent instead of heating around it and not just humidity inside will have it under control in no time. Hopefully have time to do it over next few days.
Need a small dehumidifier the vivo sun actually works decent for a 3x4x7 space go for it.
Water schedule:
She now fully switched to drain to waste feeding nutrients every 48 hours with 20% run off at 6.1ph
Every watering seems to increase 100-150ml
Ghe bloom 5ml
Ghe veg.
1ml
Ghe micro. 4ml
CaMg+.
4ml
Now up to 1.6L per 48 hr
coco is a forgiving medium mate. make an error and it can be instantly flushed away if needs be. I love it as a quick grow throw together too. As long as you keep the ph around 5.8 going in all will be good. It leeches calmag from the plant and nutes so have some handy as your going to hit the most needy bit next. The gnats area pain in the ass but if you cover the surface with decent sand , the larvae get stuck and the adults cant get down to lay eggs. you can also try a 20%milk/80 water in a spray bottle to wet the coco surface and mist the plant with it too. it wont smell or do any damage at all but will kill any soft bodied insects as they breath through a membrane on their backs often and suffocate from the milk deposit. It will go straight through the coco too so no horrible stinky residue
@Ganjagrandaddy, thanks for the advice, yea I’m liking the coco compared to soil I just got the watering down I was still watering like soil up to a few weeks ago. Just waiting on some mesh pots coming today I’m going to try with my clones either way much better with coco.
Yes I been feeding CaMg+ which is organic base for soil but the bottle is almost done I feed usually 4ml per gallon throughout the grow. And will get some CalImagic once this bottle is done.
Adult Gnats I got under control they can’t fly far either to the floor to get squished or on the sticky pads it’s the young ones. I’m going to try the milk idea I recently used 9 parts water to 1 part alcohol and it literally destroyed spider mite population was only a few stragglers left and on another plus side it didn’t kill all my pistils on my flowering plant like insecticidal soap that killed barely any mites just pistils lol. So I totally believe and will try the milk lol thank you.
@Grnhead, thanks bud it’s a fun process found out some cool things along the way. So weird best weed I’ve ever smoked was on vacation in Jamaica called Columbian Gold (some really Skunk bud) and it turns out was one of the parent plants to Skunk No1 small world no wonder I like this particular skunk so much. Can’t wait to see what the lemon adds to it was a smelly one to