So, as you can see, nothing has been chopped down yet. I've decided that on day 94 I'll bring down plants 1, 4, 7, and potentially 6. Plants 2, 3, and 5 are still showing a fair amount of clear trichomes and hardly any amber so I'm going to see how they look at the end of week 14.
The only thing going in the pots for the last week was water with a pH of 6.5
I wanted to mention the buds on plants 2 and 6 are practically rock hard, so I'm getting somewhat hopeful that this harvest should have a similar weight to last harvest which is going to make everything a lot less stressful if I start to see problems next grow. This grow has been so stressful because I'm really counting on it to fill up my stash in case my first (real) foray into photo periods doesn't go the way I hope it does. I've got my genetics all set to go for next grow and it's intimidating that I'm going to have to learn to clone to sex plants and all of that jazz so knowing I can screw up and not deplete my stash kind of gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling :P That is assuming that things go like they're supposed to in the drying period. Fingers crossed.
Edit: My night time air temp is 63 for this week but no matter what I do the journal keeps saying it's 50. It's never gotten down below 61 the entire grow.
@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?