...One change I made in the tent this week was to change over my seedlings fluorescent light and replaced it with a 100w full spectrum COB. DAY 17 she has made a turn around and leaves are praying now. Only watering now when the soil feels dry. My main aim is to keep the soil moist to keep the microbial life happy. This week she will have an alfalfa seed sorted tea mixed with some aloes.
DAY18 .. Saw some fungus gnats, about 3 or 5 adults when i rubbed the surface of the soil. I put some peppermint oil around the rim of the pot and some got on a leaf which cause a brown burn spot.
Day 19... Added some yellow stickies to catch the gnats.
Day 20.. Watered with reverse osmosis water to a pH of 6.5
DAY 21... Not impressed by what I am seeing here. There is some sort of deficiency occurring. The lower leaves are turning yellow which could mean low nitrogen but there are brown spots on the leaves the tips... I will do a transplant now as it has been 21 days and the minerals in the soil may be depleted.
@MRTHC, I'm growing organic, too. I use coco coir, perlite, worm castings, crab meal and kelp meal, mycorrhizae and trychoderma, and I haven't had a grow where I can forget about pH yet; maybe that's the case for super soil though. For this strain I'm between 5.8-6.4, never above 6.4 and the plant is doing great. If you're using soil maybe don't go so low, but do try to keep it between 6.2-6.5 and see how it responds. N shouldn't be an issue even at 7, so maybe it's just the plant genetics with the color; mine also looks a lighter green, but it's growing super strong and fast and lower growth is also the same color, so it's evidently not defficient in anything.
Check it out here: https://imgur.com/ePfSOqX
@yugen, thanks for that. She definitely looks like she's going through some kinda deficiency in N. Looks really lime green. I usually water between 6.4 and 6.8 so I'll keep an eye on that
very uneventful week with this lady.. Pistils were not showing and its day 15. She was given a compost tea on day 15 with some seed sprouted tea. Heavy defoliation taking place as she is very bushy lady. Her stems appear to be very thin and fragile. They were still picked and bent over to maintain the canopy.
