She's starting to begin stacking, although bud sites haven't fully connected. She's slow growing, and clearly stunted. At the beginning of the week, after a feed, I noticed yellowing spots on some of the top leaves so I immediately flushed her thinking I had given too many nutes. Upon reflection and research, I realized she had a calcium deficiency so I fed her additional Calmag and she's seemed to stabilize. At the beginning of this grow I had read that if your growing an auto in soil, give them 50% of the recommended dose. I cut my soil 50% with Coco/Perlite, so I'm increasing the nute addition to 75% next week. I took a slurry sample to check Ph and PPM. They came back 6.58 and 257 respectively. I have the Dirty Dozen Fox Farm additive pack coming tomorrow, so well see what effect that has going forward and into the next grow. Learning a lot, but "the more you know, the less you know!" On to week nine....at this rate, I'll set a new record for length of grow for autos.
Don't rush them mate! They look like they're going to buff up some more still. Maybe two weeks more, I have two (fast flowering apparently) plants that are taking forever! If they're still pushing out white hairs, they don't want to be chopped!