Amnesia Haze Auto 05/2020 (Grow 1)

06/07: The plants have grown a lot since last week. At about midweek I started watering the them twice a day, but the algae is getting a bit worse, so I am going back to watering once a day in the morning. 06/09: As soon as I switched to one watering a day the EC levels shot up. It seems like they were preferring the two waterings per day. I'm going to have to switch back again. Luckily the plants have gotten big enough to keep light from reaching the algae, so it's beginning to die off. 06/10: Alexis’s EC levels are not dropping, so I flushed the coco with about 900mL of nutrient water at 900μS. The levels dropped from the previous days levels of about 2300μS to about 1600μS, which is still too high, but it’s getting better. 06/11: Alexis’s runoff levels are now at around 1350μS. I need to make sure I get them back to normal before she gets any nutrient burns. On a side note, I believe Annie is going to start flowering soon. Her smell is getting stronger. 06/12: After watering Alexis in the morning I noticed two small worms in the runoff. By the afternoon I found a gnat in the tent. Luckily I noticed it on the first plant, so I held off on watering the other two. I’m gonna pull back on the watering. The EC levels are definitely going up, but I can’t let the infestation worsen. 06/13: The hot temperatures are causing the coco to dry up pretty fast, so I decided to water again. I wanted to take care of the pest problem before it gets out of hand. I read on the Med-Tek Nutrients site that a wash of a spinosad is good for killing the larvae in coco and has very low toxicity to plants and humans. I initially wanted to avoid using any pesticides in my grow, but I wanted to take care of the problem as quick and easy as possible and since they’re still not producing any buds, I’m not too worried. They recommended Monterey Garden Insect Spray. Unfortunately I was unable to find some at my local hardware store, so I went with Bonide’s Insecticidal Soap which has a similar spinosad percentage, and as a plus, is supposed to be organic. I used a solution of 15mL to the gallon of water with a pH of 5.81 and with no nutrients. The soap also contains potassium as an active ingredient, but I’m not worried about an overload since it’s been some time since the last watering compared to what they’re used to. I skipped two watering for the 5-gallon pots and one for the 3-gallon, which was the last plant I watered and where I noticed the pests. 1500mL for Annie, 1800mL for Aaliyah (she’s closer to the fan, therefore dries up faster) and 900mL for Alexis (3-gallon). I found a few more larvae in the runoff of each plant, but it was only a total of about six or seven, so I think I may have caught the problem early. I’m sure there will be more in the next watering, but hopefully only dead ones. I found one dead fly in the tent, but no living ones. All I did was the wash, but I’ve decided to put up some yellowing sticky paper in the tent to help me keep an eye on things. I removed all ties used for bending to keep the plants as stress free as possible, increased the air flow in the tent, and tuned off the lights. Hopefully this will end the problem. End of Week: It’s the end of week six and I’m still struggling with watering. The main problem is that as the ladies are having a lot of growth, so as I try to adjust intake amount, they start taking in more making it difficult to pinpoint the exact amount they need. I noticed some pest problems on the 12th. I gave a wash with insecticidal soap containing spinosad. I caught the problem pretty early on, so hopefully this is the end of it. Plants are probably going to enter flowering this upcoming week.