'GDP x Bruce' by i49

Howdy all and welcome to Week 6, Veg w/ Grand-Daddy Bruce. Super 50/50 week! The Deets: The Good: -So...everything is pretty decent with GDPB. Despite the moves I've made this week to get back to normalcy, she seems to be the least affected by the stress. Her color, fan leaf growth and internode dev. is in full swing, even with the slight starvation. -Pre-flower occurred this week when I noticed she was pushing offset node points. On Friday I got my first inter-nodal pistils and this girl is ready to flip when I'm ready to go! Always to happy to see the sex even though these are feminized seeds. Never know, man. -She has stopped drooping out at 7pm. I don't really know why. She is one of two to stop this nightly, nastic movement, but her counterpart, on the same schedule, still dropping out at 7pm (3hrs before lights off). Happy to see GDPB bucking up though! The Bad: -I don't consider what I'm doing bad. I feel it's all "Meh's" and I knew that these things would be happening if I went through with this. The 'Meh': -I kept talking about hitting the reset button last week, and this week that's exactly what I did. There was a clear pH imbalance causing deficiencies/toxicities. In notes of the week, I will go into what I believe the issue was (This is what I see but don't know if it's correct). I knew going in that the girls would NOT be happy with me, but I NEED NORMALCY and so do they. I have not fed a normal feeding schedule once... I've been screwing around and tailoring my own doses trying to figure things out. Well, that was a slog and I went through with the feeds/flushes @ 6.5pH to rectify both my issues before "starting anew". These two flush/ feed results are below. -There are deficiencies, but I knew they were coming. Can't heavily flush your plant and expect there not too be😅. The tentative plan moving forward will also be listed below, in short form. There's a lot going on but trying to keep this short (ya right, right😄). **Run-Off Results Over Two Feeds/Flushes @ 30-35% (Three procedures)** First Application (May 10th): -1.5 Gallons, Tap @ 6.5pH and 245ppm (Tap ppm's). First Run-off : -5.6pH and 2000ppm Second Application (May 10th, after flush of Tap): -3 Liters of Micro-Grow-Bloom-Diamond Nectar (3-3-1-2.5) Second Run-off: -5.8pH and 1054ppm Third Flush Application (May 15th): -3 Gallons, Tap @ 6.5pH and 245ppm (Tap ppm's) Third Run-off: -6.0pH and 560ppm (Hit the numbers I wanted w/ this last run) **Moving Forward. Tentative Plans (pending on feeding's)** Tuesday, May 19th: Full Feed of GDPB and DD w/ 4-4-2.5-5-1 (Micro-Grow-Bloom-Diamond Nectar-Flora-licious plus) Wednesday, May 20th: Full feed, same schedule as Tuesday, for Space Cookies and PSK Saturday, May 24: Transplant of GDPB and PSK from 3-5 gallon fabric pots and their final resting place. Sunday, May 24th: Transplant of Space Cookies and DD from 3-5 gallon fabric pots and their final resting place. **If the full feeding goes well, deficiencies pull back, color comes back and excess nutrients are at bay, I will be moving to my 'Transitions" schedule by end of Week 7 and plan to flip early or mid-week 8)** Notes of the Week: -This week was obviously a massive catch 22, but it was decided (and after talking to other's) that losing a little bit of time means nothing in the grand scheme of things (Yay! for photos!). I feel I've gotten the numbers back to a decent and nutrient receptive level and I look forward to 'starting again'... I do have faith that the ends will justify the means, here, but only time will tell if my intuition is correct... I'm prepared for it to not be, lol!😅 -My personal diagnoses when going through my plant symptoms was this: PH imbalance, along with an Potassium excess was causing an iron deficiency (chlorosis on top leaves) by blocking it's uptake and the low pH was inhibiting my Magnesium uptake. It's weird, I know, and I may not be right, but the signs of potassium toxicity were there and so was mag/iron deficiency. After doing a poop tonne of reading and research into my dis-coloring's, this is all I could come up with...and it would make sense. In trying to bring health back to my root zone, I used oodles of soluble potash additives or supplements with it as an addition (was using Grow, Rapid Start (High potash concentrate) and potassium silicate). I got my roots back! but here we are with the Catch 22. Everything I have been doing is/was an attempt to knock down this excess, balance my pH and re-start with a fresh feed in relatively nute-free soil. That was my thinking... so let's see how she goes now. It's all up in the air as far as I'm concerned, lol. ^^**EDIT** THIS EDIT WILL ALSO BE IN WEEK 7!!^^: Wrong about most everything. Yes, there are deficiencies and a pH imbalance, but no, it's not Potassium and I was waaaay off. 24 hours after this update, I saw the symptom progression and my diagnoses was wrong. New diagnoses: Underfed. Simple as that. Signs of heavy nitrogen and magnesium deficiency w/ Phosphorus also lacking. Never had a P issue before and didn't' know what I was looking at. I threw in a quick "Phosphorous deficiency" chart above, just for poops and giggles. You can literally match my symptoms with the deficiency end of the chart (Mostly on PSK). Thin blades, twisting leaves, red stems, etc... It's all there. The Nitrogen and Magnesium deficiencies are clear as day too, and I was looking at the Mag def. as chlorosis... There may be chlorosis, but Mag/P and possibly Cal are what she's mainly lacking atm. Will update the remainder, new schedules and plant conditions in Sunday's entry, but wanted to throw this update in, quickly. I admit I was waaaay wrong. Please ignore the original writings. Thanks! This wasn't short...I'm a liar😂. There's more, but let's not get into it, hahaha. I'm hoping by next week things will be on the up and up, and by Thursday when I do my SC and DD updates, I should have an idea on how everything went and where to go from here. Thanks for all the advice and thanks to @Rusticbuds for listening to my rambling and helping my sort out what step I should take here. Cheers man! Thanks! And thanks all for stopping by. Much love and I'll talk at you by Thursday! Cheers✊😊