S3 Sour Stomper & Super Uzi Auto

**************************************** **   Week Nine Update  Days 57-63 ** **************************************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ Note: All environmental, soil, seed and nutrient information can be found in Week One. ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SUPPLEMENT KEY Base Solution: Tap water - plus - PT = Pro-TeKt (1.5 ml/Gal.)  CP = Coconut Water Powder (0.75 tsp/Gal.), pH ~6.5 Weekly:               MP = Mammoth P (0.16ml/L)    BB = BuildABloom (1 tsp/Gal.) Bi-Weekly (Even weeks)MK = Mikrobs (0.50 TBS/L)       Every Other Watering: FS = Fish Sh!t (1.5 ml/L)    AV = Ale Vera (1/8 tsp/2L) Every 4th Watering:   MO = Molasses (0.5 TBS/L) FERTIGATION THIS WEEK (Per Plant) D57 - MP, FS, AV, and BuildABloom (2-10-5) D59 - Base Solution only. 2 liters per-plant. D61 - FS, AV, 2 liters per-plant D63 - MO 2L ENVIRONMENT THIS WEEK Temperature - ~68F-~84F Relative Humidity - ~48%-~72% Comment - The VPD runs between 1.2 to 1.6, this is good for the mid-to-late flowering stage. OVERVIEW OF WEEK • My BuildABloom from BuildASoil arrived. I decided to treat the plants to a new mix of nutrients. BB is derived from soy meal, rock phosphate, fulvic acid, water-soluble gypsum, and horizontal Epson. It has 10% available calcium. It dissolves well, but not completely, in water. I do have to stir it frequently to ensure that no sediment is left behind. • Removed the largest fan leaves blocking bud sites. Removed the worst of the affected leaves to make it easier to gauge the progress of the plants. • While they are far from perfect, the plants seem to have recovered from the earlier problems. I'm looking forward to my next season to see if I can continue to improve. • The accidental topping of Super Uzi #2 on Day 34 seems to be paying off. I now have two nice tops where there once was one. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't top autos. I just did it accidentally and am happy that I did. Next time I hope to manifold an auto just to see what happens. • I ordered most of the supplies I need for the next season from BuildASoil. I purchased worm castings, gypsum, charged bio-char, BAS Soil Re-amend Nutrient Kit, and rice hulls. Picked up some peat moss and compost locally. • My new jeweler's loupe arrived. 30x and 60x with an LED light. Far superior to my earlier 10x model. Easy to see the trichomes! Note: Don't bother with the "microscopes." While they work fine, the magnification is more than needed for a trichome check and the shallow depth of field makes it difficult to use to look at the plant. • I took the photo Super Uzi out of the pot today. I was pleased to see that the roots extended to all parts of the SpringPot. The air pruning near the edges was fascinating. It does seem that my nutrient mix and watering process is good for root development. COMING UP  • Will the Sour Stomper finish this week? LESSONS LEARNED (push down list)  • Day 57 - When you let the dirt get too dry it contracts around the roots and they can't work properly. You want to keep the media constantly moist. Not saturated and certainly not sitting in water, but moist. I think of it as water moving down through the media. you want it to get to the bottom, but the top should be reasonably dry before you water again.  • Day 57 - An interesting note, cannabis is close enough to tomatoes that you can bury the stem below ground level and it will simply develop more roots, like a tomato. If I need more soil in the pot or the plant stretches too much, I can just add dirt.  • Day 50 - Consider using rice hulls rather than perlite when I build my new soil.  • Day 50 - Another tip from a podcast, saturate the pots until you have a small amount of runoff two days before planting the seeds. You can plant directly into the container and you don't need to think about watering for 10 days or two weeks.  • Day 50 - It was also suggested on Reddit that I should have added my flowering tea a little earlier in the life cycle.  • Day 50 - You can reset an organic grow that is already is in flower. Of course, I should have noticed and treated it earlier. And, I won't recover those leaves that have been damage. But I am certain that the reset is allowing me to get all I can out of the remaining days of the grow.  • Day 50 - I think it is interesting that both nutrient burn and the lack of other nutrients. • Day 49 - You can always see problems about a week before there is a real problem. Need to take better health notes and reference my earlier pictures more frequently looking for early signs of problems. • Day 49 - Now I'm wondering if it is a shortage of something. Could be phosphorus, but I use Mammoth P according to directions. Calcium? Hard to tell. • Day 46 - How can you "fertilizer burn" an organic grow? Might coconut water be the source? I read today that it is important to check your EC (ppm) when using coconut water. It is nutrient-rich, is that the source of too much of something?       => Possible Cause #1: Coconut water.       => Possible Cause #2: NLS tea. I need to check my pictures to see if there is a relationship.