Organic Living Soil (Coots Mix) - Grow 1

This week I started adjusting the PH of my water via the use of molasses (down), citric acid (down), and potassium bicarbonate (up) to be around 6.6 or 6.7 PH. Despite doing "organic living soil" I have obviously had some issues and though I would prefer to assume it was based on something I was doing wrong, the first step to figuring out what exactly is going on would be to eliminate easy to fix possibilities. I use the citric acid for when I want just plain water, and molasses when I want to try to feed the microbes some junk food. Sometimes I go a bit far so I use the potassium bicarbonate to adjust it back up a smidge, barely a pinch works in either situation keeping the PPM's down. So far the plants seem ok. There are some various oddities from a leaf here or there, but nothing to note or track down for now. I top dressed with 1 cup of the same amendments I used to make the soil in an attempt to add some more PH balancing and potentially add back some minerals or other nutrition that may have been inadequate. I came upon a "clackamas coots" watering type schedule which isn't using compost teas or any such thing. More a switch up between aloe/coconut water and some silica, and maybe some kelp meal teas? Either way I am going to plod ahead with this grow as I have and see what I can get away with, and then try to adjust my methods next time. I just hope that the plants can make it through flower without anything too insane going on deficiency or pest wise... Monday the 19th Oct 2020: I tired down all the main branches to some stakes, Looking back I realize I tied them possibly a bit too close to the top and as a result really made them quite horizontal which made/makes watering a pain in the ass, and also made choosing a good place to prune out bottom growth confusing as I am unsure just how much the branches will raise or grow vertically later for pruning. We will just have to see... All the pics this week are crappy and I didn't make much effort to use my daylight CFL's as a kind of highlight, so I just used photoshop to take out some of the pink of the blurple lights. I noticed 1/3rd of the lights on one of the units are burned out so that kind of sucks, but they are old lights on loan from a friend so I cannot complain. My next major purchase will be good Quantum Board LED's that use very little energy and produce little to no heat. They also will allow for proper photos... maybe I will get them by mid flower and switch over. Will have to watch my finances to see if they will allow new lights before this grow is over. Not that it matters entirely as this whole thing is just for me to try to document my own progress. I intended to keep a day by day or weekly detailed log but life has gotten the better of me this time, and I have not been sticking to much of an official schedule... Once again.... maybe next time? Tues 10/20/2020: Already feeling better by the looks of it after the tie down. May flip to flower in a few days.