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3/3 - This is second time doing Trainwreck and I will be following the same protocols as my last grow since it turned out well. Will be using the ABLE Grow Chamber again and am looking to see how little I have to fiddle with it. Wish me luck.
3/7 - Starting adding nutrients (1tsp per 2qts/ floragrow & floramicro). Also gave her a dark cycle of five hours (7pm to 12am).
3.9 Growth continues. Started leaning Martha to begin LST and will try to do a professional job. Temp in the chamber is good for now and hopefully the new fan setup will keep doing a good job. Will raise the light up by 6 inches tomorrow and try to get some linear growth.
3.11 cut one big leaf that was blocking the bent stem.
3-16 part 1. Very robust growth. I had to tuck the fan leaves under the growing lower stems so they could get some light and stretch. Leaf and stem growth has a good color to it and I will up the nutes by half a teaspoon and rotate Martha so she can get light everywhere possible.
3-16 part 2. After I came home from work What did I see but the top of Martha had been sliced off! it seems the metal tie-down stake was too tight against the resistance of growth and she snapped at the top. Its a clean cut and at the right spot. I raised the light to 24" in hopes she will stretch out abit faster.
3-21 VEG GROWTH ACCELERATING UP.
I have a 1200W Veg/Bloom LED which is currently 20" above Martha. I am also LSTing her and am getting good solid growth from the lowest branches which are working to reach up. I am wondering if raising the light 4-6" and try to stimulate some vertical growth. Is this a good idea?
Yeah depending on your grow area, the deflection angle (vendors do mak'em diff) of your LED lamps, a light that size should be up further at least 30".
3-23. Vegatative growth is doing great. Thick branches are forming w a nice green luster. TRying to LST the big branches as they grow vertically. Will add more nutes to solution this week.
3-25. Defoliated some leaves which were covering small branches and laid down bigger branches with LST. Today can see much better branch growth and the spacing is less crowded. Humidity is high in 70"s so i turned the exhaust fan on higher.
3-30 Growth continues a week before I start the flowering cycle. Did Defoiliation of some excess leaves. Hopefully I cut the right ones. Martha gets a week to recover then time for 12-12. I feed her solution every three days and just water on the off days.
4-1 Recovering from defoil. Added more nutes to solution and feed 2 qts everyday.
4-4 Excellent growth and color continue. Martha is now ready to go to 12/12.
I grow one plant in a five-gallon grow bag filled with coco coir. I water her everyday and on every third day I feed her with my nutrient solution. Everything so far has been good - growth, color. The pH and PPM of solution is 6.5/ @1500. What do you do when growing in coco?
Your plant looks great. The only thing I would suggest is to bring your pH to around 6. And also when growing in coco it is best to give feed with every watering since it is basically hydroponics. Good luck with the rest of your grow!
Using Coco coir as medium. Slowly adding more nutes to solution and my PPM is now @2200. Is that too high? The plant seem to like it but on my last grow things were fine until the third week of flowering then it got bad nute burn. How high can I go with the PPM?
If you look at the Flora feeding chart the max ppm they recommend is 900 ppm. I suspect your ppm meter may not be working correctly because your doses don't seem that high. I would check the feeding chart on their website. You should never have to exceed those doses. Good luck!
4/5 First day of 12/12 light cycle. Updated solution and looking forward to the stretch. Smell is noticable and branches are getting thicker.
4/7 Had to trim some of the bigger leaves which were blocking lower branches. Switched the Bloom spectrum LEDs on and will keep the White LEDs from veg on for now.
4/9 Heat inside chamber has risen 5 degrees since I turned the bloom LEDs on.
4-19 Growth continues. Seeing more pistils and branches are still expanding. Haven't had to defoliate and am keeping door open during the day to keep temps down.
4-20 Defoliated more lower branches which were not going to get big.
4-21 Defoliated big upper leaves which were blocking lower bud sites.
4-24 Flushed her out for first time yesterday. Installed a large container to contain the run-off.
Growing in 5 gal container of coco and am now feeding 2 quarts of solution a day with no run off. How often do you test the run off and how much solution do you pour in to get run off . I basically look at the plant to see if she is handling the solution. My pH going in is @ 6.
Personally, I water to achieve a 10-20% run off (I use soil, however, but same principle). Taking your reads from your run off is pretty important... What we put in is not necessarily what comes out. That 6.0 may be 5.0 in the run-off if there's a pH maladjustment or many other factors, like poor microbacterial health, pathogens developing and so on. It's extremely important (in mine and many others opinions) to test your run-off constantly to ensure everything is Kosher. If putting in 6.0 yeilds a 5.0 result, lets say, it's your indicator that something's wrong and needs an adjustment. Left unchecked, problems will start to occur.
Just my two cents. Good luck this week👍
My first reading (after pouring 6 quarts of water thru the coco medium) was over 4900 PPM. After another 6 qts it read 1995 and after a third round it read 908 PPM. This is my first time doing a run-off test, should the PPM be lower?
Are you flushing with water or nuets?
If water there is something in those pots you have to keep at IF these reading are correct.
Runoff should be within a few hundred PPM in to out. Tap Water would be oh 100ppm-ish so your run off will be very low flushing with water.
THe coco itself will give you 100ppm, so a water only flush would finish when the ppm hit about 200-ish.
If you are using nuets to flush, actually that is a better way to do it unless there are problems, 900ppm going in having 1300 out would not be out of line.
But 4900 is yeah thats really dangerous IF the reading is correct, they do get a little odd at high readings still it was high.
900 in 900 out is pretty much flushed. You should be ok BUT
How did it get so high?
Do you go to runoff each time?
4-26 Continuing to grow well. Have started watering with run-off because my PPM was really high last week. Watering twice a day and buds are looking nice.
4-27 Defoliated more bottom mini branches and got a few upper leaves blocking bud growth.
5-3 Bud growth continues and buds are starting to form together to make bigger colas. Also starting to see more trichs and the smell is getting stronger and sticky.
Hey bro :-) I would not remove any leaves :-) the plant looks great 👍 just a little dark from probably too much feed. But still great 👌. At the next pour I would only pour with pH corrected water and Ec to 0.4 with Cal / Mag, and the following times with a quarter Ec dose :-) then watch and enjoy 🙏🏻🌱😎
5-10. Growth continues. Started cutting back on nutrients in solution. Still doing run off tests and the smell is wonderful. Buds seem a little slow in fattening up. Will defoliate one last time.
Pistils are changing color but buds are not fattening up as much as I hope. Don't know what else to do so I will keep feeding and slowly bringing nutes down.
5-24 LAST WEEK OF FLOWERING. Blah blah Blah blah Blah blah Blah blah Blah blah Blah blah Blah blah Blah blah Blah blah Blah blah Blah blah Blah blah Blah blah.
5-26 Flushed with water and took final photos before I cut her down tomorrow.
Not as dense as I liked and I blame myself for flushing with plain water during flowering and maybe giving too much solution. I will re assess my watering pattern and will try another way.
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