So this was an eventful week. I finally got around to getting drip trays for the pots and also a greenhouse heater to deal with the cold temperatures. This has worked really well and brought the average day temperature up from 60 - 65 to now 70 - 75. I did make a big mistake though. I decided to top the plants (I plan on main lining them) but I stupidly cut the tops off at the third node and stripped everything below that, even though the growth sites at the third node were pretty much non existent. After I’d already trimmed everything back, I read it is a good idea to leave the fan leaves below the third node and just remove all the growth sites instead as this will help the plant recover quicker. Well, unfortunately my eagerness and stupidity meant I hadn’t done that and I was concerned I might have inadvertently killed both my plants. I decided to give them 1 week to show signs of recovery before I abandon the grow. After 3 days, the remaining fan leaves have doubled in size and there appears to finally be new growth sites emerging at the 3rd node! I’m hoping by the end of next week these would have developed more and my mistake might not prove to be fatal! I am continuing to water every few days at a PH of 6.2 and have now got the nutrients up to the recommended amount of 4ml per litre of Canna A + B and I’m adding 1ml per litre of CalMag. I have been giving 1 litre of nutrient solution to each plant, each watering. I think this is too much though as I have seen the early signs of algae appearing on some of the perlite so I’m going to reduce this to 500ml per plant, per watering until they look like they need more
@EZgrower, thanks so much. Just checked out your diary, it’s really impressive what you managed to do on such a budget! Guess it goes to show you don’t need to pump huge amounts of money into it to get awesome results