1PoundClub - GLOOKIES - 1st grow

Day 21 - Decided to run a high PPM for tolerance and watch plants, second day of 2200 PPM, refilled reservoir and now at 1900 PPM. Plants look okay. One leaf tip showing actual nute burn but it’s very small and I think that was from the beginning of last week with 3400 PPM mishap... I think so far, so good, at 2200 max. Thats full strength nutes and additives. Since I have stopped defoliation, the transpiration of all the extra overgrown leaves are adding to humidity levels, sometimes 60%. I may defoliate one plant heavily if humidity becomes more of an issue in the weeks to come. I may do it anyway just to do a side-by-side with/without. Day 22 - Had another close look at plants, I think they getting worse (added pictures, they were over-exposed so I ran them through a filter to highlight what I’m seeing). I added water to rez and now sitting at 1550 PPM. I think I’m getting a calcium deficiency which is weird with such a high ppm of it... I don’t know what else causes kind of a blotchiness like that. Whole leave too... Day 23 - I noticed a genetic deformity on the greener, healthier left plant, all the 9 pointer leaves are actually missing a leaf and are 8 pointers!!! (4 Photos added at end) Right plant is still looking like something bad happening to leaves, it’s just not pure green, it’s getting rusty patches through the whole leaf evenly... no help on “questions”, they see no deficiency yet, but it’s there... will wait longer to see what develops. Day 24 - No issues with nute burn, been steady and holding at around 1550 PPM, they are drinking and eating at the same rate. Added 5 pictures to show difference in leaves between left and right plant. Same nutes, same strain, same age, from seed. Increased lights on from 12.5 to 13 today, I’m little late to my own schedule. I forgot to do it at beginning of week. Will hold at 13 till start of week 7 which will then become 12.5, week 8 will be 12. Week 9 if not ready is 11 hours light till 48 hours dark, then harvest. I did a heavy defoliation of 1/8 of right plant... I’m too scared to defoliate this late in flower without knowing how the plants will respond. So small test section, top to bottom thinning out. Will watch for bud growth, or lack of... Day 25 - got some information from general question area; it’s suggested, there’s a possibility of phosphorus deficiency. As they are definitely different pheno’s, due to growth type, health with same nutrients/light etc. The right plant demands more energy and is hungry for more phosphorus as shown by the leaf deficiency, it looks like calcium, maybe magnesium, possibly phosphorus... I’m going with phosphorus at this point, with the information I have as to what I have done... To attempt the correction, I have added 43 grams of monopotassium phosphate in dry powder and tossed 12 grams of a bloom booster I had kicking around from old grow. New PPM of 1800. Let’s wait and see what comes to fruition. 🤞 Day 27 - Not feeling comfortable about the nutes in reservoir. I did a full drain and RO with flush. Drained again, filled reservoir with new nutes to 1600 PPM. Grow tent is in basement of a 4-storey split...there is condensation forming on top level windows. It doesn’t feel humid but I guess I need to fix extra humidity in house. New purchases include; 1) a water meter to measure exact water dispensed from RO tank into reservoir. I now will fill to 100 liters exactly and use that as the point of reference for everything. 2) A 35 pint Dehumidifier and stuck it in tent, running continuously it drops the humidity from the 55-60% RH to the 42-45% range. The dehumidifier drains into a; 3) Condensate pump, which moves it back into the reservoir. As great as all that sounds, the tent temperature increase due to lower humidity is not great, not to mention the humidifier itself is pushing out a little compressor heat. Unfortunately, the night time temp is now 71, even when it’s like 63F cold in the room. I’m not happy about the dehumidifier inside tent and may move it outside the tent. The new daytime tent temps.... 85F! That’s with increased vent fan speed. I had 92F when I lowered the exhaust fan speed so now it’s running 50% as well. The electrical bill gonna lick balls... I cant run my water cooled lights yet because 55gal drum is filling back up with RO water. Tomorrow I’ll see what happens when it’s running water... I got around 650 PPM eXhale bag CO2 and I hear 85F is where you want to be for LED grows anyway, since LED doesn’t produce radiant heat. They say, in a 1000 watt HPS room, the temperature on leaf surface is about 85f in a 78f cooled room. For LED’s, an 85F room gives you the same 85F leaf temperature. I’m happier running it cooler if I can. A couple days ago I noticed some leaves on the left plant were just starting to show the same calcium/magnesium deficiency as the right plant, now I really got to fix the problem! I will defeat the hydroponic feeding learning curve.... 💪 Day 28 - They drank 13 liters of water, PPM of system remained the same. I’ve decided to change the way I do things, from the wrong lazy way to the right way... I used to fill res, then just add water to top up every few days, sometimes adding nutes to correct the problem I created... I figured it was good since there is still nutes in water, they’ll be fine... I thought you added nutes in the correct ratios for even feeding of all nutrients and weekly change outs are good. BUT NO! This doesn’t work for me. The hungry bitches are taking in more calcium and magnesium and probably phosphorus than anything else and accounts for majority of nutrient loss. My new tactic, which everyone probably already does but for some reason evaded me, is fill a bucket with RO to replace reservoir water AND extra nutrients to make up the PPM loss on a DAILY basis. So, I filled a 5 gallon bucket to 13L and added 13 grams of Calcium Nitrate, stir, 7 grams of magnesium sulphate, stir, and 13g of Jack’s Hydroponic. The PPM of bucket was 2250. I am shooting for 1800 PPM so I’ll decrease jacks for tomorrow’s fill up. I am anticipating I’ll probably need to increase calcium so let’s try 18g calcium, 9g magnesium, and Jacks to get to 18-1900. Once added to the main reservoir, the PPM of system is now at 1759. I’m happy with it. This new method of not being lazy should eliminate any deficiencies I may have.