'Do Si Dos' by i49

Welcome to Week 10 and week 1 of flower w/ Do-Si-Dos. The Good: -Definitely been a tough week with DSD, but her recent growth and recovery has been very positive all round. After the slight stunting, early week, she is now visibly growing and gaining .5-1 inch per day with off-set internode points occurring every 1-2 days. -Excess salts have been successfully removed and RO came back at more optimal numbers. To achieve this, I changed the schedule and performed a flush through. Further notes on actions performed will be found in "Notes of the Week". Long story short, though, it worked very well and we're back on track. The Bad: -I'm pretty preachy about documentation and I take very thorough notes....but I effed up and did not review my previous feedings correctly (Was looking at BC's schedule and didn't realize)😟 I had a clear Nitrogen toxicity issue starting up and she wasn't growing but couldn't figure out why...? When I reviewed my notes I realized I had been looking at the wrong schedule and that DSD hasn't gotten a flush through in 6 FEEDINGS! No wonder she was upset. Roughly 4 weeks of straight nutrient feeds can do that... I screwed up, but thank God I had my notes to fall back on, or I would just be guessing what happened. -Bad, bad weather. This will be covered further below and the things I had to do in order to keep my temperature and RH in check. Long and short of it is, they are not happy and I really hope me and my Canadian fellows (and our plants!) get a break here. Going on to 13 days of -35 to -45 degrees Celsius. I'm not too sure there are many organisms or creatures in this world that can handle these temperatures.... and it's just not good for anybody or anything. The Meh: -As mentioned, I hit a slight Nitrogen toxicity with her, but that has been rectified. Leaves are back to normal green hue and she is growing again (After 4-5 days of visible stunting going on) -Weather is brutal, but I'm learning new techniques to combat winter. Doing this with very cheap or free solutions instead of buying a solution. Silver lining to this whole debacle are these lessons👍 Weather Conditions and simple remedies: As stated, the weather is bad; very bad. The cold isn't that bad to mitigate and it was relatively easily to do with a small ceramic heater or using my lights as my primary heat source. The issue lies with the relative humidity. The world is pure static and my home is seeing about 20% RH (25%) if I'm lucky. I noticed all plant leaf edges burning, top to bottom and didn't know low humidity could cause faster eating, or that our leaves will siphon whatever they can from the soil when in this state. So, even though I didn't have a Nitrogen issue, all plants burned slightly as they were taking too much from the soil, too quickly. After this research I knew that RH had to be adjusted...or else. Symptoms of low RH: -Fast eating, fast drying. -Leaves lose majority of moisture and they become very papery to the touch. -Plants start taking up too much Nitrogen (or anything it can) from the soil which resulted in a top to bottom leaf tip burn (If left alone, it would persist) Remedies (Cheap and/or free): -I don't like to have standing water in my tent (especially after my gnat issue) but I had to add a pan of water, placed on top of my 32 watt heat mat. This gave me about 7-10% additional RH but wasn't enough. -Hung large tea towel close to, but not touching the light. Clip on fan is cascading air over this tea towel and I can achieve 40-45% total with these two methods -There is always the tea towel, bowl of water and hanger method too, that I may implement if RH continues to fluctuate so wildly. Notes of the week: -Flushed through 2.5 gallons of water with 3/4 to full dose P/Cal/Mag to rinse out the old without starving her of phosphorous. This went very well and I'm pleased to see her come back to full health -Not many early week photos as I was focused on fixing the Nitrogen tox and working out the humidity problem. All picture's, except one, are Day 67 -Current dimensions of DSD sitting at 19.5 inches in height (50cm) and 24x26" in diameter (60-65cm) -ALL training wires have been removed and only bracing wires remain (Held with clips off 2 foot and 3 foot bamboo sticks) -Bracing and forming is going well and I have pulled her in slightly (along with the others) for that better form, but more for functionality. Don't want the plants getting hung up on one another or splaying into each other from the flower weight she will be stacking on. -Blurple LED is ready to go but still not in use. I am going to throw it under the same Titan timer program and it will run with the SF-2000 at the end of this week for the remainder of grow (I had it out of commission again as the symptoms of cupping and praying were occurring. I now know this was less of a light stress issue and more of an out of whack RH issue, so she will be going back on now). I think that's it and thank you for reading this weeks addition of DSD! Any comments or advice is welcome below or in PM. A huge thanks to all of you and happy grows my grow freinds✊👊