Blueberry Auto Outdoor

This has been a weird week. Plants only grew about an inch; the buds are starting to swell up; I assume we've got three or four more weeks to go. No trichomes yet, but I'm assuming they're coming. No purpling either. Right now, this is just...weed. Twiggy is actually the stinkiest girl by far - she smells pretty strongly of under-ripe citrus; think the smell of cutting into a baby lime too soon. The others all smell much milder, and have more of a slight berry hint. Twiggy also has a strange speckling pattern developing - it looks a lot like insect damage, at first...but I've been washing these girls in spinosad for several weeks now, and neem oil before that. Further, the way the pattern is developing is weird - it starts as speckling at the tips of the leaves, and then spreads inwards. They're like little yellow and red specks, and I'm starting to see them on the other girls, with the same pattern. Visually, it just looks like bug damage, but the way it spreads seems more like a fungus maybe? I have an open question, and all the answers so far point to bug damage...maybe I'm overthinking it. But the undersides of the leaves on all four plants look pristine :/ The other thing I'm wondering if it might be is molybdenum deficiency. I checked the Ph of my soil on Thursday, and it had shot up to 7.1; I suspect that could cause some nute lock-out? So when I watered them I added 1 cup of apple cider vinegar per gallon of water. I only had to water them once this week due to rain. The pigweed companion plants are pretty awesome - their flower structure is similar to cannabis. My wife dries out the flowers and makes a grain out of it that she adds to oatmeal and smoothies. You want to avoid the leaves, as they store a ton of nitrogen, and can cause nitrogen toxicity. They make great companion plants for flowering cannabis because they pull any excess nitrogen out of the soil. The leafy ground cover companion plants are purslane; all of this plant is edible. My wife picked a handful of leaves and tossed it in a salad last night - they have a lemon-peppery flavor. Not bad at all. In the mornings they have tiny little yellow flowers that open up, and close again after a few hours. The entire purslane plant sort of folds up at night, and then opens back up in the morning. I don't know exactly how, but purslane helps lower soil temperature; maybe just the shade? I don't know. I didn't intend any of these plants as companions - they just ended up there, probably through my compost. Clean, confusing country living.