1/16 (Day 29) - 5th week starts. Looks like they might be starting to get thirsty, so I'm likely to water tomorrow vs going 5 days this time.
1/17 (Day 30) - Watered today, 1.5L given to each plant. The Smoothie plants definitely seem to exhibit the post water droop a lot more than the Zkittlez. Not a fan of how droopy they get, but they recover, so I just have to go with it. Both Zkittlez plants are showing actual pistils, though the Smoothies are somewhat behind the showing stage, but definitely flowering.
1/18 (Day 31)- Plants look 'normal' again today.
1/20 (Day 33) - The plants are starting to become incredibly frustrating to me. It has been 3 days since they were watered, so shouldn't be overly thirsty, yet both Smoothie plants look droopy and thirsty. Zkittlez 1 is showing some droop from the upper leaves, and Zkittlez 2 is the only plant that 'looks' happy. I can be pretty sure in saying that I will likely only stick with photo plants going forward. Can't say I'm overly thrilled with the autos thus far. Nothing to do with production, just that they start to flower so quickly, and not a ton you can do to manipulate that.
1/21 (Day 34) - Plants watered today. They were given 1.5L each. I also have been doing some thinking about the watering, and lighting. Since the plants are in full flower now, I am cutting them back to 18/6 lighting, starting today. I think that may possibly help a couple things, mainly, the additional lighting could potentially have been a cause of the seemingly early drooping, and also possibly the curling of the leaves. I feel that both of those issues could the additional light, and since there is going to be less growth now, cutting back to 18/6 shouldn't have much of a negative impact.
1/22 (Day 35) - End of week 5. The Smoothie plants are completely baffling to me. When I came home from work, and took the pictures, they looksed absolutely limp, but they were just watered the day before. When I woke up 5 hours later, they were alert and standing, so I don't know if it had to do with it being close to lights out (sleeping), or something else, but they have been incredibly frustrating thus far lol. (Just as a side note, since I am posting this a day later, it appears they are going droopy near lights out, thus almost 'sleeping').
Looks like it's doing really well , Flowers are really showing and taking shape - I'm currently doing a Fastbuds Zkittlez and I have super cropped it. It's taken very well too it and is showing no signs of stress. Check out my diaries if you get a chance! Happy growing
@WitheredEye, Thanks for the kind words. At the very least I try to get 1 photo of each per day, and note anything that might stand out, or plans I expect to make. I figure it allows me to go back and look at them, and could also be learning experiences for others.
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