'Purple Star Killer' by i49

Howdy folks and welcome to Week 4, Veg w/ PSK. The Deets: The Good: -Great week, growth, color, movement and texture on all new sets. -Taking to training better then any of the other girls. Strongest root system, it seems, and she's shoring up very quick. -Adjusted feed schedule with higher P/Cal and lower N/K (lightly tapered off, for now) has worked well to help her define her root system in order to support this strong top-side growth. The Bad: -No bad w/ her, just 'Mehs' The 'Meh': -Slight over fertilization that has already been rectified by slowly leeching excess nutrients with 200 mL of 6.0 distilled, everyday. I'll follow this up with a flush through (w/ P/Cal) and 10-15% run-off to pull any excess out from my initial feeds and start her fresh w/ a new nutrient schedule to help push Veg into an even higher gear. -Slight twisted of the leaves near night time is common with her, it seems. Not sure if this is due to the over-fert or if this is a sign of heat stress....even though I've dropped my temps consistently for the week in order to help them with these issues. Come on! Dial in!😄 Notes of the Week: -Was having a good chat with Med_in_Tropic and we were talking about why Dutch Dragon dips out every night, when all parameters have been checked off and she shouldn't be doing this. Genes? Temp? I don't know. We came to a consensus that the root system may still be behind (after 1.5 weeks in hot soil and frying them). This was limiting all the girls ability to take up adequate moisture and nutrients from the soil for the entirety of the day. This was leading to drought-ed leaves w/ the lateral branching also showing signs of water deprivation. SO! it was decided it would probably be a good idea to work on the root system for a bit and semi-ignore the top-side growth. This is the new feed I applied. I leveled off N/K and picked up my P/Cal dosing to help repair and push the girls root system to support her top-side movement. I feel this will take a week or two, so there hasn't been any real noticeable difference as of yet. Yesterday, however, DD didn't dip out until 7:30pm instead of her usual 7:00pm... Good sign? Haha, again, I don't know. We shall see. -No preliminary training on Space Cookies. Decided to let her move like I did Norther Lights #1. I will start her training after her topping this week. All girls will be topped this week at some point and this will open up SC to some light and air, giving me some laterals to train out. -After the root system is up to snuff, I will be going back to a tad more of an aggressive schedule, over the one I used in grow #2. I was doing a little egg shell walking last grow, again, and I know I can quicken the process if I'm careful. It's a learning curve I'm going to need to learn and what amounts or additives is too much/going to far. There will most likely be consequences, but I'm prepared for that and I'm hoping the end game result will be me, having a better handle on what/how/how much every micro/macro nutrient and additive is doing. Word up all. Thanks for dropping by and checking out the little one. She's doing really well in my opinion and I look forward to her progression over the coming weeks. Going to keep my nose clean, go slow and keep up on my end of things. I'm positive all will be well and I'm happy to be here, in this position, with all the girls after that terrible, terrible start. Thanks all and keep you and your's safe and sound. Much love and take care, all.✊😊 **Just a side note I feel I should throw this in. This is coming from the electrician in me. Please, everyone, make sure your equipment is rated properly. I've seen a few un-settling things recently that mostly deal with inline timers, specifically the difference b/t analog and digital. If you're using a digital timer for an HPS/MH set-up, I can almost guarantee it's not rated to do this. I highly suggest ONLY using analog timers for HPS/MH systems, as the analogs are more rigidly built and can handle the massive in-rush current that comes along with these lamps. Digital timers usually can't take that inrush current and are more suited for LED/COB (They do not have this in-rush). Using a digital with HPS/MH may work for a bit, but the inner mechanisms and integral wiring will burn/break apart in good time. The contacts may either burn out and the light won't turn on at all, or the contacts will be fused shut from high heat melting the two metals together, making it unable for you to turn it off! Just two cents my friends. Please read the specs and the fine print before possibly buying something that could, at the very least, burn up and cost you cash. Worst case scenario, you burn it up, trip the breaker and damage your lamps drivers/ballasts. Cheers!😀**