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30 days old, topped at 2 weeks. The reservoir flushed once per week. 3 weeks since topping, roots look yellow/brown recently. White-ish film building up on air hoses & sides/bottoms of tanks.
Looks like the root/nute issue from last week is better, plant looks healthier, more white roots growing. Using an even mix of all 4 nutes.
PH has been up around 6.4 this week
Temp dipped on 10/31, added heater set to 72. Added Humidifier 11/1 numbers were in the 30's
Full flush again this week, tanks and roots look pretty clean. Using even balance of nutes for now. Clipping small lower hanging fan leaves, 1 or 2 every few days.
PPM dropped at end of the week, added some CalMag - two leaves didn't react well. Roots look solid.
New flush for week 6 (day 64). Running only hydroguard/water for a few hours, will add nutrients later today. Might start to lower the light schedule down to 12-12 by the start of next week for Flowering (maybe I'll wait another week).
Day 65 - fresh nutrients in last night. Ph hovering near 6.5, added a small dose of Ph down to the reservoir. Clipped two more unhealthy fan leaves.
Ph has been closer to 7, have been adding small doses of Ph down. Everything looking fine this week, getting closer to flowering.
Ph & nutrients look good, turned the heater off for the hot week but this weekend got cold and I turned it on right in time, just set it and forget it doh.
Full flush, rinse... running water & hydro for a few hours before adding nutes again.
11/15: Day 70 of Veg. Flushed both tanks with a good solid rinse too. Ran water, hydro, and added 80-80-80-30 nutrients to start. Lights are nearly ontop of the canopy now. The heater is set to 68 and the fans are running four times per day (due to the outdoor temp being low). The Water temp is 64. Might need to look into some netting this week. Notes: Topped it once, LST'd it pretty well. With more patience, I could definitely top it more and LST it better for a bigger yield next time. (baby steps)
11/16: Day 1 of Flowering. Turned both veg & bloom lights on. Hour or so later... Turned both Veg lights off, going two Bloom lights: the leaves thought all lights were too bright. Trimmed most of the fan leaves
11/18: Day 3, nutes seem balanced out now. Color really changed from Day 70 to day 73, it's more brown and crisp looking.
11/21: Day 7, still looks about the same. Branches turning up a bit. Water level down 1/2 inch for first time, that’s about a gallon for the week. Ph 6.33 - ppm is down also which is great, still 640, and 1372 down from 1859.
11/22: last day for first flowering week, left the humidity on too high. Flushed out and full nutrients; 80-80-80-40 again
11/23: Flowering Week 2 Day 1, plant looks great, air/light/temp schedules all set. Added recommended dose of Kool Bloom into reservoir, should mix in nicely.
11/26: Looking good still, added custom light holder to balance both lights and custom scrOG when the time comes
11/28: Nutrients spiked a little. I’ve clipped most of the smaller, dead weight. Some dead spots I got before started growing bud sites too
11/29: New Flush tmr, checked my research again and the temp should’ve been higher last week, slight adjustment to the heat
12/1: Day One Thousand. Ph spiked up the last two days before flushing it his week. Added another 100-100-100-50 ratio with Kool Bloom added (plus hydro guard)
12/5: Day 90 (End of Flower Week 3). Spiked PPM too much with Kool Bloom, flushed & cleaned the tanks one last time.
12/7: cleaned & flushed the water tanks, added nutrients last Friday should be good thru the week. Decided to defoliate one last time while it’s still early, all the bud sites are easily visible now, tons of light now, hopefully it works out
12/10: root rot
Flushed it immediately and nursed the roots back with cold, super aerated water with hydroguard. Leaves never changed and I cut off brown roots. Plant looks great now. One more week of last week’s nutrients since we got a week delayed now.
12/15: Plant is looking real good, the roots are soaking with water and air, increased to the normal nutrient schedule, and have been adding ph down every day to keep it under 6.5. I also just lowered the light about a few inches, the taller bud sites were about 20 inches, I wanted to lower ones to get more light... the leaves haven't had any effect, the other bud sites seem to be thrivingg now.
12/17: water level down about 1/4 inch. Everything looks ok.
12/20: different nutrients this week, 20-10-30-10 (G-M-B-C). Added MOAB in place of the Kool Bloom, 1 tea
12/22: dropped the light from 18-20" down to 10-12" - mixed 1 gal of hydro guard & Moab
12/23: noticed some browning on the white tips, moved the lights a few inches away. Did some research, guess that’s normal for this stage, moved the lights back down to 10-12” distance, added 500ml of the Moab water (2x), nutrients increased nicely
12/27: Day 112 - new flush, increased nutrients this week. The higher concentration seems fine for the first 24+ hours. The temps have been steady. Might leave it alone for a few days.
12/30: Higher nutes didn’t work out, pH spiked to 7+. Flushed and replaced nutes the following day. Defoliated a few big fan leaves and some lower ones.
1/5: Day 121 Flower 51 = new flush and nute mix, the leaves look great, roots discolored from the nutes probably. Took out 1 airstone, was running 5 now only 4 (still plenty). Raised the lights from 9-11 inches to around 12-15
1/9: F&CK
Echo Base Emergency. I've really pushed the limits this time... back on 12/10, first signs of root rot. Too much defoliation on my first grow, some leaves fell into the root bucket without noticing and started the month-long root rot cycle, I've been putting band-aids on the fire by changing the water but the decaying matter has created Fungus Gnat Algea, just chewing on all the new roots. The leaves have looked great until now, some have curled most likely due to more high temp issues - added height to the lights & adjusted the insulation & heater in the Base.
Slowing the growth down insanely. Roots have never been lower than an inch from the bottom of the bucket. 100+ days in the roots are like baby toes lol. I sprayed the roots with KEEN (twice), checked the roots later, and flies buzzing around, inside. Had to take extreme measures, for research!
1/10: It's been a difficult week, to say the least. I've removed the smaller net pot and rinsed the root ball clean with KEEN spray (twice) and water (twice). Soaked in hydro-water & air for 24+ hours.
pH insane 7+ overnight from the cold water. Flushed & "shocked" with pH down, lowered to 6.75, down to 6.52 after settling. We're WEEKS away from harvest... PLEASE survive lol
UPDATE: Ended a 5-day T-Break last night after - after a week like this... I pushed the limits and put a top 3 "highest I've ever been" moment. LFG
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