Stretch Armstrong!
Swapped the 26W grow light for another 26W bloom
Taken a large amount of fan leaves off - some from bottom that were in shade and some from top blocking budsites
Got pH up to 6.4 up from 5.6 last week by watering with 6.9 and then 6.7.
Removed about 50 fan leaves this week!
Raised the lights to 10 inches above canopy and moved some of the tops with the screen wires so the top of canopy isn't stretching above the rest and moved the circular light to one side so it doesn't make the middle stretch up.
pH of runoff tested as 6.0 (24.12.17)
Any comments / tips welcome
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lollipop, lollipop, I would suggest a lollipop. Everything lower than the trellis has no light. A portion above of it has a useless low light condition as well. An expert prune and defoliate there might also do some good.
@goarilla, thanks for the advice goarilla - removed a lot more leaves including larger fan leaves near the top, fan leaves below the screen and lots of bottom growth including popcorn budsites.
I've kept some of the large fan leaves around the sides near the bottom since they're still getting light.
- Added another 22W TLED to try to improve light penetration through the canopy (that 12W round LED seemed pretty useless).
Look forward to updating with progress next week! ๐ฝ
good to see your harvest was fat, enjoy the medicine -- let me know if it has any particular medical effects especially muscle spasm or pain or anti-depressant effects
Seems to be a bit stretched too much. Is the light strong enough for this surface? Im sure it will be top notch smoke, but I remember my CBD Critical Mass from CBD Crew and it was much more compact with shorter space between nodes, but damn.. it was the tastiest strain Ive ever smoked and with very calm, chilled high! Good luck my friend!
Mostly cloudy, I'd recommend checking multiple spots on each plant daily. You're really close. It's a hassle, but worth it.
It's not so bad if you let them get a bit more amber on accident, especially the CBD strains. I let them get more amber as they are supposed to really finish cbd production like 1-3 days after a THC plant would be ready
SO pretty, I bet you're impatient as all get out. Really good pictures as well. Please post a lot of these pics for your harvest update =)
Thanks B4RNS!
I was initially growing in biobizz lightmix in a 1 gal smartpot and transplanted to 7 gal smartpot with biobizz allmix.
The lights are pretty low wattage compared to most - 26W grow TLED, 26W bloom TLED and a 12W grow light (9 red, 3 blue LEDs) - looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
Currently using the 12W light to target areas of the screen to try to bring it all up to a single level.
I tested the pH of run-off at start of week 10 and found it was 5.6 (slightly below the ideal 6.5?) - I think its because I was shaking up the water / nutrient mix prior to watering which I've read lowers the pH of the mixture! Rookie error! Last watering (start of week 11) was at pH 7.0.
She seems happy enough for now though, looking forward to sharing progress next week! ๐ฝ