'Dutch Dragon' by Paradise

Howdy all and welcome to another week with Dutchy. It was a good week and I'll make this 'shorter' then usual. The Deets: The Good: -Really good week with Dutchy. Fast growing girl, holy crap. She's pushing nodes and new sets, left-right and center -Training went pretty well with her and so did the first feed with run-off. She dipped out but came back pretty damn well. No shock or delay, new mains are already pushing away. -Leaf health has been getting somewhat better and the texture/color is coming back well. I feel her full recovery is close. The Bad: -I covered this in Space Cookies Week 4, so I won't rant in here. Essentially trying to find a reason why my plants dip out 3 hours before bed. Got into nastic movements and some articles that taught me a lot....but not what I needed to know. Still no answer, only theories. I will link the short article/blog blog below running through these theories. Spoiler alert: No one knows, lol. They're all theories going back as far as Darwin's observation of leaf nyctinasty and nastic movements this mechanism causes. It's a short read if you're interested. If you have more information/articles or sources that can help me with this learning, please don't hesitate to through it in below. Thanks! -Running a pretty low pH on my first run-off and really high ppm's. Don't care about the ppm's, it's new soil and has tonnes of excess from my initial feeds. The pH... I need to up that and this does explain some of the symptoms I'm seeing on my foliage. Doesn't explain the dip out, but I'm happy to know it's low and I can move forward to raise it👍 The 'Meh': -Just foliar symptoms and the dip out. I accept the dip out but will raise the pH. Will run 6.5 w/ 30-40% run-off (w/ nutrients) to reduce and wash out those ppm's, balance and raise the pH (a bit more anyway). Notes of the Week: -Released some training ties on DD and decided to train her a bit different. Going straight up and will control with LST and more topping if need be. -Did the first feed with run-off with GDPB and PSK. I didn't feel like I ran enough through them to drop my ppm's and raise my pH enough. I adjusted the feed and watering volume with SC and DD and their numbers came back a little better then their counterparts. I will have to do at least two more flush through's w/ nutes, in order to drop one and raise the other, while replacing the nutes I'm washing out. I feel things may be back to normal in a week or two(?). No expectations on the time frame, but I will get them back to happier reads. -Since nothing I did changed the 7pm droop, I've put back everything the way I know and the way I know works. Plants are much happier and I won't be screwing with their environment (much) anymore. Want them to acclimate after such a long screw around. I have a feeling they don't know what the hell is going on and why things keep changing, hahaha. This'll stop now. -Instead of upping my 'Grow' formula, I added in some Rapid Start from GHE and that'll be my soluble potash boost I'm looking for. Going to abide by the schedule a bit more and stop screwing around with that too. Again, I want to go back to what I know, for a little bit, just to get them back in good form BEFORE I start to play "scientist". -All plants have now been topped b/t the 5th and 6th. All, expect PSK took it really well. PSK dipped out and was giving some serious attitude afterwards and took twice as long for her to come back from the stress I inflicted. -LST is picking up as laterals are punching through all-round. I'm starting to see what I can do with them and even what I feel they should look like by end game. By next weeks update, I'm pretty certain all the girls are going to be twice as big and look like little bubbles (that's the goal, anyway). -Random note about my soil: Water retention of 3 gallons is 2.75L before run-off. Thought it was a decent number and the loamy mix I threw together seems to be holding and dispersing water very well. Thanks for reading folks. Wasn't as long as my usual tangents, lol. I hope you have a great week and take care. Much love and enjoy your projects! Cheers, all.😀👍