***** Week 5 December 20 to 26, 2020 - Days 29 to 35 from germination *****
Going into the first full week of flower/transition. She was definitely going through the start of transition last week but I left it as a veg week and will call this the first flower week. She is not 100% and will not be but she has all of the signs of being a nice girl. She grew hard to start and she can take the nutrients levels, leaf colour is very good and she has grown evenly, nothing odd with growth. You just can't make up veg time with autos as they don't stop😞 For the first four weeks I end up staying so focused on making sure the autos are happy everyday and for the full day if at all possible..........as opposed to the first four weeks of a photo and I am a lot more relaxed and feel there is time to correct anything......its all good😂😂
This girl has obviously not been happy about everything in life over the first four weeks. She was put on a riser this week to help get her closer to the light. I still don't know exactly what I have done but suspect it was a combination of things in veg to slow her down. I feel she likely wants a quite dry media so the roots can breath more........I was not "soaking" the coco with the volumes of moisture but it was wet. Possibly could have cut watering volumes in half to see. Been battling pH drift though so I have it in my thick skull to give a good runoff amount........which can lead to a "soaked" media and that my have been part of it??? I also took four large fan leaves up higher on her, early on right after the first LST and think that pissed her off as well........I knew when I did it and thought I would "roll the dice" and take them but maybe should have left them.......cant go back but at least aware of it😀
Pulled her out this week and looked closer at her to see the bottom better. Her branches are soft so silica is increasing now that we are in flower. Colour was good below and not spotting or deformities. When tying down the branches, she pulled her self right up around the ties again easily enough by the next day. At this point I just want to get all the extra leaves out of there and let the air flow so I removed a number of fan leaves on her lower half, not too crazy but enough that she felt it I am sure.......she is already stunted so screw it and help give her a chance to get more light and grow taller was my thought😁👊
Little more detail.....
Dec 20/20, Day 29
- Dry out day after heavier feed yesterday.
Dec 21/20, Day 30
- need to add some moisture
- 1.5L watering with Magnificat @ 2ml = 200ppm and 5.7pH
- more of a watering today with some CalMag added because RO water being used.
Dec 22/20, Day 31
- dry out day today.
- going to let her go and feed in the morning tomorrow.
Dec 23/20, Day 32
- Feeding day today. Continuing with first weeks flower feed of 2ml/L.
- 2L feed with Micro, Bloom, Magnifical, AstroFlower, VeloKelp, Natures Candy @ 2ml = 800ppm and 5.8pH.
Dec 24/20, Day 33
- dry out day again. Still fair bit of weight in the pot compared to the other autos.
- pull out tomorrow and clean up lower growth and check runoff numbers.
Dec 25/20, Day 34
- 2L full feed again with the same 2ml/L feed as earlier in the week for all the autos. Added AN Rhinoskin as well for silica.
- 1150ppm and 5.9pH going in.........pots were really dry and perfect pretty well.
- Runoff was 1075ppm and 6.0pH.........I can live with that at week 2 flower😁😁
Dec 26/20, Day 35
- 1L full feed again. Had mixed up 12L yesterday.
- Added 2ml/L of Microbial Mass and Piranha = 1200ppm and 5.9pH.
- She needed her microbe allotment as we are at the start of flower.
- Bacteria added to help keep some of the nutrients in the media as she finishes.
- next watering is more of plain water and add Terpinator.
Nice girl Sweet Seeds.......I have messed her up but learning from her.......we will get one to smile about😬😬