'Purple Star Killer' by i49

Howdy all and welcome to Week 7, Veg w/ PSK. The Deets: The Good: -Actually some pretty good, good this week. She's not very happy with me and has been under a lot of stress, but her health is getting better, color is coming back and deficiency symptoms are pulling back. With the hell she's gone through, this is perfectly fine with me. Just happy she's alive and growing well. -Transplant and both feedings went well. She did dip out and needed to recover, but her bounce back is impressive to me and I feel she's looking good. -Damaged old growth is being replaced by very nice, healthy and GREEN new laterals and fan sets. The old growth is getting better, but I'm depending on this new growth to help her along The Bad: -I don't know if it's normal, but one lateral did not recover (or at least isn't right now). It's clear as day that she is not eating or growing well....just the one. All other laterals have been doing much better, but the symptoms on this single branch is just getting worse. Is it common for a plant to "cut off a finger to save the hand"? Will it ever come back or shall I just take her off? I'll ask again below, advice would be appreciated! If it has to go, it has to go. I'll train something in the empty space and away we go. The 'Meh': -Still working back to health with her, but is waaaaay better off then the last 1.5 weeks. Feedings of 6.7-6.8pH w/ light run-off seems to be helping with the previous pH imbalance. Magnesium, Nitrogen and the deep red stems (Phosphorous) have pulled back nicely. Again, she's not perfect, but I feel she's coming back in spades. -Under-feeding was the main issue with this girl and the others. The screwing around with heavy run-off, weird feed schedules and total inconsistency led to this. Now that I've STOPPED messing around, the results are getting better. -Stretched pretty bad and I'm thinking on how I can buy some time/height. I know what I need to do, but she may not look too aesthetically pleasing, haha. Oh well. The stretch has been stopped now with a light change, but some very long inter-nodal lengths exists and I'd like to train back down a bit, letting lower end laterals reach the surface. I'm going to be putzing around this week with this, so hopefully next week she will have her final shape for the flip. Notes of the Week: -In my Space Cookies and Dutch Dragon diaries, I go through my mistakes and how I went about rectifying them. Long and short of it is under-fed, but detail as to what I was noticing, where I felt I messed up and how I planned to get them back is all listed in those two diaries "Notes of the Week". These plans have already been executed and we're moving forward. Neato. -Transplants completed in full by May 24th (Space cookies last) from 3 to 5 gallon fabric pots w/ 15mL per gallon of Gaia Green Bone Meal for pH conditioning and slow release P/Cal to carry the girls through bloom. I did this last grow and I was amazed at how well my pH held and how healthy they were throughout flower. -Moving to 1-2 gallon fabrics with a VELCRO side for easier transplants, next grow. Love the fabrics, but they act like Chinese finger traps during the move. -All plants have had their late Veg and Transitions schedule feedings, now. They all took it well and took it all. Color isn't perfect yet, but things are coming back to normalcy. -PSK is still angry at me, and she has every right to be. She has not bounced back as well as her counterparts and I feel it's still a little touch and go with her. Again, not holding any expectations. I have faith she'll make it to end game, but I'm not going to put money on it just yet. -Going back to normalcy took time. I didn't use or do anything new or unknown to me when doing these adjustments. Just did what I know and I feel that's why we're back on track. Trying to much, too fast can be a burden. Please, other new growers, heed my warning. Experimenting is good! but beware of the consequences 😮 -Comparison from Grow #2 shows that this grow is moving faster then the last...what? I made a lot of mistakes here, but for some reason they seem to be 1-1.5 weeks ahead of last grows girls. No complaints. I feel I can attribute some of this to the SF, since I ran my second grow under a small LED strip for the first 2.5 weeks, but this grow they were under the SF by the beginning of week two. Kicked things up a notch (?). -I haven't been to crazy about pictures and my diaries lately. It's not that I don't care, it's just that I've been getting out more, now that travel restrictions are getting a little more lax. I miss human frigging contact!!!!! I'm an introvert, but even I was feeling very isolated. Thanks all for dropping by for another long entry, haha. I hope you all have a good week and things are going decent for you and the little ones🙂 ***HEY! SIDE NOTE. I've been talking to new comers about extraction/intakes/air pressure and how to mitigate RH and temp with them. I added in a really ugly wiring diagram I made on Microsoft Paint, LOL! This picture is of my current set up. It is for people that do NOT run extraction 24/7 but only want it to intermittently cycle to control RH and temp. It's a bit cheaper then going out and buying a humidifier to make up lost RH or a heater to make up for lost heat. It takes some calibrating and depends on your environment, but when you dial it in, man is it a breeze. Just throwing it out there and hoping it may help someone that doesn't want/need that 24/7 pull. Thanks! Drop me a line in PM! Cheers again!***