Hello everyone! Just like Glookies and Aya Purple, this entry will cover Days 31-41 (Weeks 5 and 6). Tough couple weeks but we're in week 7 now and things are starting to come up Millhouse. Here we will go you will see all my mistakes and just how badly I pushed these little ones. It was neglect, straight up, but I really wasn't doing well and am hoping they'll forgive me in time. More info about the happenings can be found in the Master "Glookies" Diary, but here is pretty much a copy/paste of Aya's entry because both these girls were very similar in their symptoms and I treated the both of them in tandem, on the same schedule. The Deets:
Good and 'Meh':
-Alive but peeved off. They were NOT happy in these 10-11 days until I started to recovery procedure.
Problem in Short Form:
-Wild pH imbalance and very low. Soil turned or was hot for awhile clocking in at 4.5-5.0pH. This caused a nutrient take up issue, starving the plants while simultaneously stunting them.
-Leaves became dark, droopy and shiny with P/Cal/Mag defs. starting to occur on bottom. Top is still relatively spot free except for discoloring.
-Weak root system and poor uptake left plants water logged, further starving and now asphyxiating them.
-Handcuffed for feeding with no way to adjust soil pH or nutrient levels until water dissipates.
Quick Run-Down Plan:
-Expedite dry time and flush when ready. Give adequate feeding at 6.7 to raise pH and stop starvation, carrying them to next feed/flush. Do this at least once and observe. If symptoms do not regress or plants do not rebound, repeat and/or adjust process for second procedure and plant run-down.
-Take dead plant life, gently train out and aerate center/lower canopy. Increase extraction to 24/7 operation with higher fan circulation within tent, on pots and top soil. Gently punch aeration holes and till top 1 inch of top soil to help aeration and quicken dry time.
Current Status:
-Far, far better and moving to three times the size as early week 5. Still symptomatic w/ clear P/Cal/Mag and now K deficiencies.
-PH moved 1.2 points upward and almost out of the danger zone.
-Plant will need second procedure with a higher ec feeding (w/ root stimulator) @ 6.5pH. Expect this to be adequate food to carry her through dry time while buffering the remaining hot soil to 6.0-6.2pH. This will be applied in mid/late week 7.
That's her! Tough to watch but things are coming back together as I type. Will update week 7 tonight or tomorrow to show you I'm not lying, hahaha😂. She's still got a ways to go, but we'll get there. I appreciates you all for stopping by and I absolutely guarantee I'll catch up with your projects in very good time, here. Just catching up with life atm. Cheers for now! Catch you later👋
this are a lot of news,,,,, and inbirds products are very good.iam only using the humidity controller, and its such a release, to know the little plant gent enough humidity, without drowning my setup
@Mrs_Larimar, I'm already in love with the inkbird stuff. Just got it all set up and everything holds so nicely😊. Has already showed me where I can improve👍. Girls are super happy.
@Mrs_Larimar, Hahahaha, right? Don't worry! I'll be super long winded again, in no time😅😅.
Thanks for the well wishes Mrs_Larimar. This one feels good!
and from grow to grow you are growing too... its this time a " quantum_ jump------ I hope everything works out well with your new Project,, aaaaaaand iam very courious to your comparison grow with EVA and your Spiderfarmer Quantumboard