'Purple Star Killer' by i49

Howdy all and welcome to Week 6, Veg w/ Purple Star Killer. Super 50/50 week! The Deets: The Good: -Thing's aren't perfect right now and that's cool/was expected. But... she's holding in very well and I know she's looking forward to Tuesday's 'reset' feeding of late Veg. -She's still growing strong, pushing new nodes and 7 blade fans. The health IS there, but she's a little starved out right now. The Bad: -Just 'Meh's'. Nothing done this week was unexpected and all the meh's were. The 'Meh' (Copy/pasted from GDPB. Same thing(s)): -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😄). ^^**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! **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 : -5.5pH and 2420ppm Second Application (May 10th, after flush of Tap): -3 Liters of Micro-Grow-Bloom-Diamond Nectar (3-3-1-2.5) Second Run-off: -5.7pH and 1050ppm Third Flush Application (May 15th): -3 Gallons, Tap @ 6.5pH and 245ppm (Tap ppm's) Third Run-off: -6.0pH and 600ppm (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: -In the fifth and sixth picture above you'll see the 7pm dip-out I've been speaking of. This shot was at 7:30pm when she was starting to droop before here 10pm night schedule. Before lights on, these symptoms stop and they move back upwards even without light to track. Again, it is what it is, but wanted to show you what I've been seeing EVERY bloody day at 7pm for 3 weeks. Cool, ya?? Haha -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. That's it! Hoping next week's update will show the girl in full swing again but will reserve my expectations until this feed on Tuesday. By Thursday I should know how everything has gone with them and will move on to the aforementioned transition feedings and transplants by next weekend. Hope you're all well, for real. Take care of you and yours and I hope you all have a decent week. Much love and take care all! Cheers✊