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I struggled getting these three seeds to germ and grow. 1 seed never germed, 1 sprouted Cotyledons but no true leafs. This 3rd attempt is a success. I also struggled to germ more of the Big Bud Auto from MSNL. I may have to reach out because I have great conditions to germ but nothing happened.
It took about 3 days for a good size tap root to developed. I had a slow start on my big bud seedling, so learning not to trust the provider to buffer medium, I did a Cal Mag wash in a solo cup half filled with coco, in preparation for the seeds. Not enough coco cause it grew beautifully, but had trouble transplanting due to lack of medium. It kinda fell apart when transplanting. It recovered well and had top dressed my 3 gal pot with Mykos.
The transplant was a success, and she is liking the increased nutes. She seems to be thriving and I'm hoping that I'm seeing lighter colors due to genetics, I hope someone growing this strain can guide me in the right direction.
Day 16 started veg feeding. She seems to like the regimen I have her on.
Thinking of experimenting with FIM. But I have had trouble getting this strain going and may just do a single top. Comment what you would do, or if you have preference to either method, or both
Day 17 diluting current mix to lower ppm fed ⅝ gal runoff tested PH 2.6 and ppm 1970 will start flushing and finding new recipes.
Day 18 flushed with natural water PH 6.1 about 1 L runoff testing PH 5.75 ppm 1200 still too high. Decided to try FIM since it couldn't really hurt it considering the other problems. increased watering to 2x daily to lower ppm/EC started new recipes. 2.5 mL CalMag, Micro, Grow, and 1.25 mL of Bloom/gallon of DISTILLED water
Day 19 new mix is testing PH 5.8 ppm 381 fed ¼ gal runoff testing PH 5.75 - 5.8 ppm 1120 62.7F
2nd feed, same mix PH 5.95 runoff testing PH 5.95 ppm 895
Day 20 flushed w/ plain DISTILLED water 1L PH 5.85 runoff testing PH 6.0 ppm 800 and 63.5F
2nd watering fed with mix, ½ gal runoff testing PH 6.1 ppm 640
So I mixed a ½ gal solution but adjusted it by adding water to ⅔ gal to bring down the initial EC/ppm testing at around 1400/700. I ph to 5.8 and fed, the runoff was shy of 20% testing at PH 2.65 EC 3940 ppm 1970 Why and how to fix?
Overfeeding. Flush with regular, ph'd water until the runoff is where you want it. With your pH so low, I would run 7-7.5pH until its back where you want.
When you overfeed, the plant takes up water and leaves the nutrients. Most nutrients are acidic so your runoff becomes low pH and high EC.
I have been battling low EC and high PH now after flushing to reduce high EC. I've switched recipes and found target ppms, I will update next week. I feel like I may be still over feeding even though I'm hitting target ppm of my solution. My runoff is testing almost half my solution ppm.I will be doing a rinse with low PH distilled water every couple of days to combat the high PH and more concentrated solutions. She seems to be healthy otherwise. I will stick to ¼ gal a day watering. I've trimmed off the leafs that were affected by the FIMing, and had a light defoliation.
I have been battling higher than recommended PH I keep feeding and flushing with lower PH but it keeps steadily raising back up.
Im finally updating! Things got better but it was hell these next 2 weeks... high Ph with low ppm
Battled high ph and finally raised ppm. Ph is still a lil high rounding around 6.25 aiming for 5.8 throughout grow. Also started fortifying my distilled water with natural water to stabilize the ph a lil bit longer. She seems happy
Ph becoming more stable and staying below 6.2. Ppm is looking good and she is blowing up. I attempted to clone her as I was defoliating. I pulled the bottom two branches from each of my plants.
FYI half of them survived and they are still flowering as of 2/15
Got myself a lil cocky and was regularly feeding at 6.1 it seemed very happy. And this week went smoothly.
After thought I should've stayed regular at 5.8 ph...
Transitioning nutrients to flower feeding. Feeding around 6.15 and runoff staying around that so I was feeling confident. She seemed happy and growing beautifully.
After thought I should've stayed at 5.8...
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