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Week 7: 11/05 - 11/11
Day 43 - Continued .75 L watering schedule. I see roots poking through the bottom of these fabric pots! I'm sooo happy to see them penetrating the newly amended coco! I was going to top dress this morning but after seeing this, I think I'm going to hold off for another week or two. Then instead of amending for 1 gal, I'll do the entire pot and amend for 3 gal. Further tied these girls down to define the mainline structure. The four new nodes looks really good. I might top as quick as 2-3 days. I honestly could top tomorrow at this rate but I want to leave a solid knub.
Day 44 - Continued .75 L watering schedule. P2 is still a day or two behind in node growth. Looks like I won't be topping tomorrow if I want to retain a decent knub.
Day 45 - Continued .75 L watering schedule. P2 looks ready but it's too late in the day. I'm topping first thing in the morning! I'm ready to let her veg for a few more weeks before swapping.
Day 46 - Whelp... I got impatient on my last node. I gave each their final topping and while I was bending down the last node... SNAP. :'''''( My wife helped tape her back up but the split happened right under the joint. She's tapped up and there's a piece of floral wire below that's propping her up to take the weight off the split. We'll see in two weeks if that node will recover at all.
Day 47 - Clipped the bum node on P2. The leaves were getting crispy dry. There wasn't any saving her :( - I only watered P1 this morning. P2 had a ton of runoff yesterday after her watering so I skipped her today. I'll resume both watering tomorrow morning. Both girls were showing signs of heat stress. Their fan leaves were starting to cup on the edges so I had my tent open all day. We're getting to the end of a fall heatwave. Should be back to normal in a few days. Ended up raising the light again to accomodate my autos. I have a strain that does not like this heat. The light will most likely lower again once the temps get back to normal.
Day 48 - Only watered P1 as P2 was still saturated somehow. Didn't get any pictures.
Day 49 - After asking around, I want to get an EC reading from a slurry test just to make sure everything is good with both girls. I didn't water either as to make sure the medium is more dry when I gather enough coco for the test. That'll be first thing tomorrow morning I'm guessing. The growth around the new nodes has been really bushy. I have been trying to tuck the fan leaves under but they keep bouncing back up.. So I tried getting them tied down just a bit.. well.. one of the fan leaves snapped but not enough to fall off. I propped it up with some garden wire and I'm hoping it'll just grow a knuckle. At the end of the day, I'm going to be clipping it anyways but I don't want to stress her anymore than I have already. I've noticed the stock around the original topping joint is starting to get some purple hues. I'll have to keep an eye out for that as well as time goes on.
After my first transplant, I saturated the grow medium and did a PH test on the runoff. I'm watering with un-PH'd aerated tap water which is naturally at 6.5. The runoff water is coming in at 5.5. Should I alter the PH I'm watering with so the runoff meets my PH target?
No I wouldn't bother at this stage Tbh. Just keep feeding at the correct PH and the soil will eventually level.out around the same . If you ever find your pH run off massively out later on in veg or flower . Just feed extra volume of water/nutes until you have the correct run off PH .
There's no point oversaturating the soil at this stage as seedlings really don't need much water .
How long should I wait before transplanting both girls to their final 3 gal pots. I just topped and began the steps for mainlining 3 days ago and don't want too much stress on them. How long should I let them recover before transplanting?
Meech, I normally wait at least a week after giving any stress on the plant to stress it again. A week is good because it helps you keep track of the way your plant is reacting to the changes you are giving it.
Tonight I discovered the beginning stages of algae growing at the bottom of the water bucket I kept within the tent. As far as I know, the bucket was clean around a week ago when I filled it up last. With both plants getting this water for a few days, should I be concerned?
If algae is growing inside your bucket/reservoir then it’s being exposed to too much light. If you take it outside of the tent this problem should be eradicated.
It may not hurt the plants but algae can compete for nutrients inside of a container plant. Nothing too crazy to worry about though!
When using dry amendments, does the amendment schedule reset when you transplant with newly amended coco? I transplanted from 1g to 3g and the newly added 2g of coco was amended with the proper ratio of amendments. Do I only amend for the missing 1g from the "old" coco?
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