Things are looking just OK at this point. I let things get a little over watered not realizing the cups would suck up any run off in the tray. I'm not too worried at this point because I know the roots are growing strong and healthy after seeing them with my own eyes. As long as the roots are doing what they need to do the plants will eventually bounce back.
In the cups I had the plants in Happy Frog soil and in their 3-gallon pots they're now in Ocean Forest. The humidity in the tent is high enough now that I have to run an exhaust fan but I set it up to only dump the air in the tent every couple of hours and right after the light goes off. The air in my basement is cold enough this time of year that with the exhaust fan running 24/7 it keeps the tent way too cold. When the light is at full power it won't be an issue but right now I'm keeping the plants at about 350-400 PPFD and that doesn't use enough power to keep things as warm as I'd like at this point.
It's almost to the point where things are going to start to get fun again :)
@MisterPandaBear, Light used was an HLG 550 3000k V2. Tent was a 4x4 Gorilla Grow Tent. Exhaust Fan/Can was a 6-inch Vivosun package on Amazon. Main air circulating fan in the tent was a Honeywell Quiet Set. That's all of the equipment I can really think of that matters.
Some lovely colors on that lady. Fantastic work. Beautiful purple color starting to come in nicely. Keep doing what your doing and best of luck the rest of the way growmie
Just wanted to add that I got the opinions of some growers I respect and they have diagnosed the problem as too much calcium. Lesson learned for next grow. I'm not going to supplement calcium in any form until I see an actual deficiency that isn't caused by lockout, which I may or may not be able to recognize, but I'm willing to try ;)
I'm posting this on day 43. I watered a few plants tonight and did the same nutes for all of them, but used 10 drops of pH down in one gallon, and no pH down or up in the others. All gallons used had the same pH (6.5) when I measured them with a digital meter. I then went and tried the pH test kit that's done with drops of test solution that came with my pH down/up kit. That also shows the water is at 6.5.
I tested run off for pH. The gallon that got the 10 drops of pH down produced 5.9 run off. Liquid test confirmed it was very close 6.0. The other gallons produced 6.1 run off and liquid test was a tiny bit greener meaning the pH was slightly higher.
I think I'm going to flush with some straight up plain old water that hasn't been pHed and see if I can get the soil to be less acidic. I think I finally understand what's happening with the multiple deficiencies and I'm hoping that things haven't reached the point of no return yet.
Is it normal for tap water pH to fluctuate?