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Week 5! Today we swapped our 6400K Sunblaster lights for 2700K. We left 1 6400K in the center of the tent but it will be phased out by the end of the week. We removed the humidifier and lowered our "Elite 360" light fixture by 2 inches. We also increased the light intensity to approximately 60%. Day 29 - Very minor LST adjustments to all 3 plants. We're going to try and minimize any training this week, to allow these girls to focus their energy on transitioning to flower. Day 30 - minor defoliation of a few small branches on Plant #2 & Plant #3 - removed 6400K Sunblaster - Increased intensity of "Elite 360" fixture from 60% to 65% Day 31 - watered with dechlorinated tap water with 1ml/gal of CALiMAGic (115 ppm), pH adjusted to 6.3 - watered to 10-20% runoff. Runoff levels MUCH higher than anticipated and correspond to the relative size of the plants... Smallest plant had highest levels, whereas the largest had the lowest, which makes sense but as you'll see, the levels were still VERY high: Plant #1 = 2650ppm Plant #2 (smallest) = 3000ppm Plant #3 (largest) = 1580ppm - we flushed Plant #1 & #2 each with the remaining dechlorinated cal-mag water that we had prepared, which was about 1.5 gallons each. - we had hoped to start a low dose flowering feed schedule this week but I think we need to get our ppm's a lot lower before we start adding bloom nutes. - we'll plan to do another good flush for their next watering. Hopefully that doesn't set them back, as i can imagine these girls are going to be looking for their Phosphorus. - we also had a power outage that caused the dark period to be extended from the usual 4 hrs, to 10hrs. Oddly, the plants looked really good when the lights came back on. They were very perky and just looked very healthy. It makes us wonder if we should allow for a slightly longer dark period than 4hrs. Our previous grows had us switching from a 20/4 light cycle during veg, to an 18/6 cycle during flowering, which seemed to work well for us. Day 32 - minor LST adjustments on Plant #3 - noted light stress on Plant #1 (leaf curl/canoeing), moved "Elite 360" fixture up by 2-3 inches. - raised Plant #2 with foam spacers under pot to maintain light intensity. - Temp: 73F - 80F - RH: 50-60% Day 33 - no change - started first 5hrs of lights-on period with "Elite 360" light fixture intensity slightly lower, at 60%, before increasing back to 65%. Day 34 - LST on Plant #1, bending main top over. - Plants appeared very droopy after dark period but perked up after an hour of light. Pots are still fairly heavy so they still have plenty of water. Day 35 - flushed Plant #1 and #2 with dechlorinated water, pH adjusted to 6.4 - We were shocked when we tested the runoff and found that it had increased! 😳 We hadn't added any new nutes so i can only assume that the soil is still releasing nutrients. Coco is looking more and more appealing... Runoff ppm: Plant #1 - 3200ppm Plant #2 - 2750ppm Plant #3 - 1500 - after flushing Plant #1 and #2, we finished off by watering each of those 2 plants with a 475ppm nutrient solution of bloom nutes. - Plant #3 got a slightly different treatment, since it's runoff levels were much lower. We top dressed with 1 tbsp of Gaia Green 2-8-4 Power Bloom dry amendment fertilizer, watered in with the same 475ppm nutrient solution but with an extra 3ml/gal of "CALiMAGic" cal-mag supplement. - we had wanted to top dress all 3 with the Gaia bloom fertilizer but those runoff levels have really thrown us off our plans. We just hope that we don't start running into lockout issues. - we're also concerned that while we're trying to get our ppm's down, that we're missing an important window where the plants should be reducing their veg nutes and increasing bloom nutes. - definitely ending week 5 with a few feelings of frustration.