Oct 31st - Week 3! All four plants look well. Not many changes so far. I'm really hoping for some bushier growth midway through the week.
Nov 1st - Snow outside today! I lowered my lights down to 24 inches from 29inches and spread the pots to the edges of the 4ftx4ft allotted space to avoid the high PAR/PPFD value expected to be in the middle(1500+) I'm hoping this should fix my rather slow progression in new growth since installing the new 3000w led light into my grow space. I wanted to start high and go slow with this new light. I only lowered the light as I did notice a significant decrease in the newer plant growth, but this did allow the plants to stretch out a bit.
Nov 3rd - Growth has increased since lowering the lights. No real changes. I bought some organocide as a more organic way of pest prevention. I'll be applying it as a foliar spray as soon as it's in.
Nov 4th - Stank coming through! Light whiffs of pleasant aromas are coming from the girls now! Woo! I do plan to low-stress-train, but I'm going to wait until all the plants are up to par with some of the bigger girls.
Nov 6th - Ending the week well. Started low 'low' stress training the plants with a bit of string to start exposing the lower growth. The pro-mix premium soil I started with is a bit hot. I didn't necessarily see that it has slow-release nutrients composed within it. I'm probably not going to change my feed schedule though at this point as burning is very minimal and plant growth is getting larger its just something I'll need to note for next time. I applied a 3 in 1(actually safer's brand) pest management and the plants didn't suffer any damage which is nice.
(Oct 31st - Nov 6th)
sorry if I am "teaching my granny to suck eggs" as the saying goes lol. just see a lot of potential great harvests go south due to drying too quickly and thinking jarring will bring taste and potency back. The flushing has always been an annoyance and seed sites who also now give "how it's " are also guilty of now perpetuating this myth further. The " industry" is also making a lot of money for flushing products !!!! Same gravy train as nute companies who add water to powdered nutes and charge crazy money for doing it when you can do better using the powdered nutes directly and need no other additional bloom/veg bullshit. It's all in the powdered nutes as the plants need it to be. Have a look into Mega crop. amazing nute and killing it all over the cannabis community . 1 part mix and so cheap. has everything from seedling to harvest and no salts to worry about building up in the medium too.
@Ganjagrandaddy,
Thanks for the comment Ganjagrandaddy! I've been looking into powdered nutrients actually and they look really appealing! I shall check out Mega Crop once I use up the bottled nutrients that I've bought!
looking good so far. have a good research into the myth of flushing . Low and slow drying all the way . Dont starve them when they still need feeding the most. her stores are for emergencies and will be better used during her slow death drying to convert sugars in the dark. 50%rh , nice cool 19°c , air exchanging but not blowing on the plants at all , pitch black to preserve those beautiful smelling terpenes, 10 days ideally before snappable stems and perfect dry. No harsh chlorophyll left in the leaves that ruin harvests, no weeks in a jar trying to rescue over dried weed , nice and clean white ash. Big commercial growers used to flush to save 2 weeks of nutes which saves a lot of money on their huge crops for a very small loss to them in yield. For the size of our grows this saving is minuscule but the loss to yield matters. Please read up on the real info and avoid " bro-science" for the win. The flushed plants displayed all over the site have me cringeing with all the leaves yellowed out and twisted up. madness being driven by bro-science. Dry it correctly and avoid a hay crop .lol