'Do Si Dos' by i49

Hello there and welcome to Do-si-dos' third week of bloom. If you all actually read these things, I've decided to add a short "What I learned this Week" section at the bottom. This will be a short blurb on new techniques, methods or general cannabis knowledge that has helped me. Most importantly, it will include the information I've gathered from other members that have helped me see past false information and notions about cannabis growing that I had believed... Anyways! The deets: The Good: -DSD had a great week and even though she's small she has a great shape. Much different then the other girls in almost every way, but a very healthy and happy little girl, for sure. -Building nice flowers and picking up speed. With some minor defo this week I was able to open her up a bit and allow new flowers to catch some of that sweet, sweet light. Over time I will be taking more and more. She's still thick and there's more to go, but I'm going to be moving slow on this and just taking 5-6 fans per feed. By the end of week 14 I feel she will be completely cleaned up and will finish out flower. -I'm actually quite happy she's smaller. If she was the size of the other girls I would have some serious space restriction issues. Her being small allows the big girls to fit in a little better. -I have zero complaints or worries with her, at the moment and I'm just watching her go. The Bad: -No bad this week! I ran another flush through with a half dose of micro (Nitrogen), Sturdy Stalk, Bloom and Cal/Mag. Still working on knocking down the minor toxicity I created 1.5-2 weeks ago. But she's totally fine👍 The 'Meh': -Another small wave of fungal gnats have shown up but are under control. Sticky traps at the ready and catching/killing them quickly. If it gets out of hand, I do have my neem oil, non scented, organic soap and distilled water to create a foliar spray and knock them out completely. For now, it's a non-issue and the traps are doing their job. Just going to keep watching and counting their numbers. -I can see her yield won't be as big as the others, but that does not matter. I feel she will push out some quality, potent buds and that's all I ever wanted😊 Notes of the week: -After a suggestion by another member I have changed my lighting set up...again. SF-2000 is now over the largest two girls and are placed in the front, now. The blurple will be taking care of the two smallest ladies from here on out (NL #1 and DSD) and will be rotated, but stay in the back for the remainder of the grow. I didn't think this through too well and the advice I received made total sense. More intense light over the big girls to slow stretch and less intense blurple over the little ones to encourage a little upwards movement, evening them out a little better with the rest of the canopy. -Stretch is essentially over, thankfully. All girls have seemed to tap out and have maintained the same height (maybe an inch here or there). It stopped at the perfect time...or I would have had to do some jury rigging to pull these lights as high as humanely possible. Very good news. -Increased intake and out take airflow/fan speed and have put vent line under the canopy. Previously it was blowing above to reduce wind burn, but the girls are tall and have cleaned up bottoms. This air flow doesn't hurt them anymore and I really need to keep that circulation under there since they're so bushy. -Defoliation of every plant is going very well. Taking a bit at a time and I can now see light penetration to the soil on all girls. Not much, but open enough to allow light to pass through. A few more sessions and it will be all said and done👌 -I see some shoots I could have taken, but I feel it's too late. Even if it's not, I would prefer to leave them be and it is what it is. I will simply have to adjust for my next grow and defo/pruning will still be another learning curve of mine. This is waaaaay better then the first and already less LARFy, but it could be better and I know that. Next time's the charm👍 -I have been a little complacent with my update photos! All photos posted are end week 12 with no progression pics throughout the week. Need to up my pictures and details. -Lastly, I have a new friend that's into photography on the macro level. She loves taking shots of plant life, most of all, and also loves her cannabis. I offered to have her come over to take pictures of the girls and she agreed. Hopefully at end of week 13 or 14, there should be some much better pictures, on the macro level, showing her beauty far better then my phone can... I'm really excited about it, actually. I want to see what they look like up close, too😊👍 New Things I Learned This Week: -Two weeks ago, when humidity was very low, my plants started to pray and I immediately took this as a bad sign. Then I found an article to justify my concern. Though the article was right about a few things and that praying can be bad, they do NOT explain that praying is also good, pending on parameters. If your plants are praying, it's a sign of vigorous health and happiness, not a symptom of light stress/intensity. If the praying is accompanied by burning, bleaching or there's furling of leaf tips and leaflets, then yah! that's not good and is a sign that the light needs to be backed off or turned down. -Took a suggestion and have been doing a trial run with new feeding methods. It is working very well... I am no longer allowing my plants to go into complete drought. Between feedings I have started to add about 800ml to 1 liter of balanced tap (or distilled at 6.0). I may also throw the smallest amount of one or two of my supplements in, pending on what I feel her greatest needs are. It's not much but it carries her through to the next feed and with re-moistening the media, it re-activates the uptake of nutrients already in the soil. I'm finding it's helping the girl take up the essential nutrients that may be left over from the last feed that wasn't needed at the time or dried out before it could be used. When I go to do my actual feed a day or two later, the soil is very receptive to liquid and takes the feeds very well. They have stopped drooping out completely when I feed, now. This is very important to me. I didn't like the recovery time it took when the plants were subjected to 2 gallons of liquid after a few days of drought. It was almost like shocking them and I didn't like doing this... With this new method I'm testing out there hasn't been a shock to their system and they hardly droop at all, even after an additional 2 gallons thrown in. Has NOT effected RO numbers or caused any problems. I'm really liking this. Thank you all for stopping by and reading up on DSD and the week she had. I wish you all the best this week with your projects and good health for both you and your girls. Cheers folks, and happy trails.