Beginning 4th week I noticed that old leaves were yellowing pretty hard between the veins and that suggested magnesium deficiency. I went to local gardening stuff shop and got blueberry orientated mix which had everything one can need from the listing of stuff. Plant started to grow much more quickly after the first watering.
On 3rd day I can clearly see that the plant is de-yellowing and it grows pretty well and also responds to the LST very nicely too ~
I have been upping the lights every day too, currently at 25cm or so though I will hit the ceiling soon (couple tens of cm left to go), there were some signs of light burn on topmost leaves. We'll see if light burn really becomes a problem, I can still smoothly dim the lights if I must, joys of DIY approach ~
5th day this week shows that the new fertiliser is working its magic and even the old crunchy leaves are starting to green up again :D Plant has grown fair bit and I have to probably make more ties for enchanced bondage for Heidi lolololol
6th day I added more binds to the plant, there's been significant growth too over the night. I discovered there's some mold on the bamboo sticks I attach the binds to. I'll have to kill that mold and but something around the sticks to prevent moisture from being able to build up there near the surface.
Last day of the week shows just some extra growth. I did get the pot topped out with soil since I bought some for other purposes and had an excess. I'm sure the plant will put it to good use ~
I found small amount of mold on the bamboo sticks I use for LST, I dropped some technical spirit on them and the mold got destroyed. I hope I won't need to do more of it. I have to adjust the training ties a lot, to keep leaves from covering each other. I'm getting good amount of new growths between branch points ~
I'm not sure when I should remove some leaves, it would certainly make my life easier...
@BagseedBurglar, I got the sensor from a friend of mine, no cost is best cost haha. It certainly is unreliable, I can see some exposed silicon in there and that explains the light sensitivity I observe.
I'll keep the BME280 in mind, it certainly looks much more nicer I'll appreciate the SPI over the weird one wire thing of DHT11.
@MindMeower, I see. DHT sensors are a little bit unreliable IMO. You shouldn't have to place the sensor in a weird spot to get accurate readings! The sensor should ideally be placed flush with the canopy or a couple of inches higher, and be exposed to the ambient air (and not to the microclimate between the soil and the leaves)... I would recommend a BHE280, it is vastly superior to DHT11/22. Cheers and have fun!
@BagseedBurglar, The sensor gives false readings when it is put in the light (temperature goes waaay off and with it the RH reading also). Under a leaf seems to work fine, temperature is ok and RH is not significantly different from elsewhere (if light is blocked) except when I just watered the plant. The sensor hooks up to my server (via LPT port) which controls light cycle and other aspects. I could have used something like an Arduino but the server is 24/7 on anyway and one extra task for it is no problem plus I can do easy logging and if I really wanted, remote access too.
Lady looking great. Happy and healthy for sure. Great work. Keep doing what you've been doing and may the ganja garden gods bless you along the rest if your journey growmie.
Hey, you had a look at my Killer Kush grow diary and I came to have a look at how you were doing, seems like your doing great. If I have one tip for you it would be to check your soil's pH, that being said the nutrients you've added seemed to have helped. All in all you're doing great you'll see this baby really kick off just about now 😉👊 Good luck buddy.
@GrowSweetWeed, ohey ! Things are going pretty good indeed, plant grows along and so far there are no problems, that blueberry mix has done wonders and the plant is really liking it ~ I do plan to get one of the pH meters, if anything to see if things haven't got too acidic since that mix does lower pH. I will do week 5 in couple days, more tho show than if I start a week right away since edits don't actually create any notification etc.
Good luck with your new grows ~