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Week 5
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Samson420 Samson420
5 years ago
So I mentioned in Week 1 that after reading the Grow Weed Easy e-book I got the idea for CO2, and an automated watering system. <Cue the world's smallest violin> I'm away from home 12-14 hrs a day during the week. I don't have a lot of time during the week to split between my family and my green girls. Time is limited so mixing nutes daily, which is what I have been doing for about 1 year now, is time consuming. I've tried various things to make larger batches. My most recent thing was a 5 gallon mop bucket and mixing the 3 gallons of nutes and then filling up my 1 gallon watering can for each plant. Still time consuming but at least I was out of mixing nutes in 1 gallon water containers and having to ph 3 times. It's decided! Automatic watering system is the way to go. I find everything described in the book. Everything comes separately over the course of 2 weeks and I'm ready to roll as soon as the lights turn on for Sunday, Day 41. The first day of Week 5. I hook it all up. I'm like a man on a mission. I gotta get this done man. My girls gotta eat. I had mixed up 30 gallons of water with my nutrients in a 55 gallon drum before the lights came on and they were staying all mixed up with the separate pump for that, and I got the feeding pump and the hose laid out and I'm ready to test this baby. I turn it on for a few seconds and I'm not getting the coverage that I want to I get down closer to look and WHOOSH! All the stakes with the water hoses come out of all 3 pots. There is water flying everywhere. I'm getting blasted in the face and I'm soaked now. The tent walls are all wet. The girls are all wet. I somehow manage to unplug the pump without getting electrocuted and proceed to clean myself, the tent, but first add most importantly, the girls. As I'm cleaning up the mess I just made I come to a realization. I DON"T need an automated feeding system. (I told you all I was dim upstairs.) But what I can salvage from this bad experiment is the reservoir. I will continue to make larger batches of nutrients. Keep it "churning" with it's own pump. Give it a little extra stir everyday. Check the ph daily. This will save me A LOT of time...or at least distribute my time differently. I'm now going to mix up on the weekend and make enough to get me through 2 weeks for the 3 plants. I also added a touch of Potash to the nutes for this batch. On Friday, Day 46 I decide to FIM all 3 plants again. IMO the outer branches aren't growing fast enough to become tops by the time it comes to change to flower. I'm gonna wind up with 3 dwarf sized Christmas trees again like the Triple Cheese from last grow. No thank you I think you can see the evidence of the "Big Trim" in the under neath angle pictures this week. I now realize that I must have been talking about clearing lower nodes, branches and leaves.
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Highclass
Highclasscommentedweek 145 years ago
Nice work there omg, looking awesome, that frosty 🤤 Why ph 5.8?? Cheers 🍀
Highclass
Highclasscommented5 years ago
@Samson420, hey! I didnt see you were growing in coco! I've seen little higher ph for flowering tho, thats why i asked 😋. Ive done that u mention, flushing with regular water and finish with 1 liter of correct PH, I also add "atazyme" or similar in that liter! All seems fantastic so good luck finishing'em up!! I keep an eye on your grow 🙏
Samson420
Samson420commented5 years ago
@Highclass, Thanks Dude. Much appreciated. It's something that I read in the Grow Pot Cheaply book and I've seen it mentioned recently in a few videos that I have watched The way that I understood the information...because I was feeding the entire grow to ph 5.8 I want to flush with 5.8 as well because I don't want to change the ph of of my substrate and wind up shocking the girls' system. What I read and heard was actually: Flush out your plants with 3 times the amount of water as the size of your pot. 5 gal pot = flush with 15 gallons of water (at one time). Non-PHed water is fine, tap water is fine...as long as the last gallon of water is PH correctly so it stays in your "soil" and keeps the PH that you had throughout your grow. ...but I had screwed that up anyway when I shorted myself on nutrients for the week and had to change up my game. My last 2 grows I flushed with regular distilled water that has a normal PH of 7.1, and I think the girls finished up well and everyone agreed that they tasted great...so I'll see if flushing to 5.8 produced any noticeable results and let you know.
GaiaGreenGiant
GaiaGreenGiantcommentedweek 145 years ago
Those are looking pretty good! Cheers 🍻
DoDrugs420
DoDrugs420commentedweek 153 years ago
Damn, that's lit af