Creeping closer and closer to harvest. We appear to be senescing pretty heavy and all new growth has stopped. So I am waiting on amber trichomes, and hoping that the calyxes will swell up a bit before we are ripe and ready to harvest. We shall see!
Consider utilizing Mychorhizae & Balancing PH on your future grows. Your root systems look very lacking, your plants should not be that short and stunted before flower.
@Smoke_Weed_Maintain, Not really, your plants look like they got really stunted early on and weren't able to vegetate properly going into flower, which is unfortunate given that you're growing an Auto, less chances to fix Veg mistakes.
Those leaves looked like they were very deficient of Cal-Mag and Nitrogen. Try using one of the CalMag Brands around the net, it's not very expensive and you can feed it through the plants entire life cycle.
It's best never to trust a "kit" at it's face value. PH meters are cheap, allows you to check the Water pH coming out of your home tap and use that as a baseline to adjust levels throughout the grow. If you can drain your plants into a bucket while feeding them, it allows you to take better Runoff samples. Runoff PH should typically be .5-.8 lower than your incoming Water Ph
Shoot for ~6.5-6.8 during Veg, ~6.0-6.5 during Flower for feed levels.
You could have also been overwatering, as that causes major stress and stunts root development, there's a fine line where plants are perfectly dehydrated and ready for water and overly dehydrated and starving, usually about a 24 hour window between those two phases.
@KommanderKeen, I don't measure PH going into and out of my soil. My understanding is the microbes in Recharge improve the plant's ability to absorb nutes at a wider range of PHs, and between that and "PH Perfect" (I'm following bottle directions / not messing with the ratios) supposedly dialing it in, seems like my problems are probably elsewhere. I'll try lowering the light, thanks. Does the fact that these are autos affect your analysis at all?
@Smoke_Weed_Maintain, okay, but do you actually measure the PH going into and out of your Soil? Either your light is not lowered enough so your plants are overstretching, or the plants are Nutrient locked, causing leggy stretchiness and less bushiness.
@Sweet_Seeds, thanks for checking out the grow! I can't wait to get these ladies flowering; the first few weeks of veg are always so hard to wait for me! No plans on any training or topping here. Later on in flower, I am going to put one plant outside at night (and keep the other in tent) to see if it affects the coloring. But anyway, if you happen to see me screwing something up along the way here - please let me know :) I am very amenable to changing things up when needed. Thank you!!