I wasn't sure whether or not to mark this week as a week of flowering or veg because half the plants flowered for most of the week and the others were in veg still.
Anyways, I noticed last night that plant 6 was developing a calcium deficiency and I was planning on watering it today and adding some cal/mag. I opened the tent and what was a couple of tiny patches turned into a full blown calcium deficiency over night. I watered in some cal/mag today and I hope the damage will stop spreading. Plant 7 is also showing what looks like the first sign of a calcium deficiency so even though I watered it yesterday, I'm going to give it and all of the odd numbered plants a small feeding with just straight up cal/mag tonight and I'll keep the pH around 6.7 to 6.9 to make sure the roots suck it up. On top of that plant 7 is showing a nitrogen excess which doesn't make any sense to me. Plant 1 is showing a magnesium deficiency so I'm sure they all need some cal/mag at this stage. I'm going to use less Micro when I use cal/mag going forward because last time around everything looked like it was showing nitrogen excess at some point and the cal/mag I use is 2-0-0.
I also turned the light up to full power last night and the heat now requires that the exhaust fan runs as long as the light is on. I raised the light pretty high so they've got some room to stretch and they're still getting around 500 PPFD or higher at the canopy level right now. Heights are pretty even except for plants 1 and 3. Plant 1 looks like it's just the runt of the litter but I'm interested to see what it produces. Plant 3 is the shortest and it looks like it might produce some super dense buds like one of the plants did last grow.
Overall I'm thinking that things look better at this stage that than did my first time around so I'm optimistic and excited to see what happens.
@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?