Cream Auto 2 phenotypes

✋Wk13:Lessons 👉The week has be a week of learning... learning that I have a lot to learn. Oh, I study, have a definite game plan and have been getting decent results, but the whole picture hasn’t come into focus for me…yet. The last couple weeks the plants have been showing signs of different nutrient issues. The 1 gallon pot medium is packed hard as a rock and I was aware that this could cause issues as it got to the flower stage. I just wasn’t sure how those issues would manifest themselves. The 3 gallon pot was looking like it was having nitrogen excess. It was suggested to me that perhaps the lights were causing or contributing to the issues. At first I didn’t think it was possible that the lights, even at full power (150weach) would be stressing out the plants. I have kept the lights at 17” minimum distance and they didn’t seem to radiate much heat onto the plants themselves. I’ve only had two different days in different weeks where I have let the temperature in the tent itself get to 81F. Average canopy temperature has been 77. I also had good circulation in the tent and both plants got direct light breeze from non-oscillating fans but it didn’t seem to be causing wind burn. I was addressing a nitrogen excess by slight adjustment to my mix, but unfortunately the issues seemed to start looking like magnesium deficiency, among other things, this week. 👉Well it all came together for me by the end of the week and I may have figured it out (or Im just high). The leaves on both plants kept looking worse and the EC run-off of the 3gallon plant was spiking really fast. I assumed the issues with the one gallon plant were mostly due to the undersized pot. It would take over 5 minutes to apply 1.5ml of solution the media was packed so dense. The 3 gallon seemed to soak up all the solution very quickly, the sides of the pot did feel tight, but I didn’t even try to see how tight. After a lot of searching for the issues I saw on the leaves I started adding in the small pot issue in my queries on the net. I avoid forum type advice and look for articles from both cannabis resources and hobby gardening of any type of plant. I believe my 3 gallon plant is suffering from an undersized pot just as the 1 gallon was. But its not that the size of the pot was the cause of all the issues, it was just part of it and was magnifying it all more than it would have been otherwise. So the light was stressing it out, making it look like nitrogen toxicity, then later cal/mag deficiency after I started making adjustments to lower overall nitrogen supplied, all of that was induced by the roots being too packed into the pot. The density of the media was probably also leaving areas that weren’t getting enough solution to them causing pockets of buildup. I didn’t have a scheduled routine of low EC fertigation’s and only gave low EC when I was seeing a increased runoff EC. 👉The solution may be that I should have had scheduled high volume/low EC fertigation events. I also should have been applying the solution to the 3 gallon plant in a slower more deliberate fashion. By not slowing down the solution was able to channel thru quickly and probably not rinsing the media properly at each fertigation. I have given both plants a couple low EC fertigations and will work on what is the most efficient schedule for them going forward. 👉 I have turned the power on the lights down, I didn’t measure the wattage to do this, I measured the Lux. The lux at 20” was 385kLux at full power (both lights very close to same). I then turned the power down to 300k lux at 20” for both lights. The lights were noticeably dimmer and cooler. The canpoy temp average had dropped about 6 degrees. I had to turn off the intake fan for the ten because it was 70 degrees with it on. It is 74 degrees at the canopy now. I know LUX doesn’t mean shit to the plant. However Lux is a method for measuring the lights output and the meter only cost 30$. I use the Lux meter routinely to get an idea of the footprint of the light and monitor the light performance (possibly know when a driver is failing before it fails). I also removed the mirror from the 3 gallon side since I was trying to lower overall light. I also didn’t want it to get a complex when it sees itself in the mirror and noticed how much I fucked up her good looks. 👉The one gallon is getting close but I don’t think it has even 50% cloudy trichomes yet. The calix’s are large super frosty and all the buds are fox tail-y. The picture on the growers choice site of the plant shows a fox tailed top, but I’m sure the small pot stress has added to it. The main cola is 17” long and very fat, but not very dense. The side colas are almost all about 12” long. There will be minimal ‘larf’ on due to the way I pruned it. The aroma is still amazing and getting stronger by the day. The Ive started a little trichome hunting on the 3 gallon, they are all clear. The calyx’s are small but the buds are all looking chunky and are very dense. I hope I have figured out the issues and haven’t screwed it up enough to cause the buds to become airy. 👉Both plants leaves look horrific right now to me. But the buds are looking great. I’m not gunna stress out about the leaves. They are what they are. At this point I can’t fix the leaves, I just have to make sure I don’t screw up the buds. The cell phone camera I use isn’t great. I have a dslr but it’s more of a hassle, I will be taking more pix with it next week. 👉My trichome pix are with a USB scope that connects to my camera. Its only 2meg resolution and it’s a bitch to get halfway decent pix. I have the scope hacked onto a tripod. Its not the best but it will suffice for now. I turn off all the fans so the plants don’t move. The slightest motion and its nothing but a blurr. Touching the scope to focus also make it blur so it takes a while to focus. It’s an exercise in patience. I am searching all over the buds for the trichome status, but mostly look in shadowed areas, the light makes them all look milky when most are clear. They still all look mostly clear and scant few amber.