Learned a lot this week.
1_Apparently the beautiful colors with mesmerizing shades of yellow, pink, purple and green were caused by light stress...
Upped the lights immediately as a blue cheese is in flower (2wks) too.
2_HESI Nutrients : the did the job well and provided everything the plant needed. Should have trusted them more so I would have ruled out Nitrogen deficiencies immidiately and acted faster to the light stress issue. I recommend their app Dynamic Nutrients with give you a quick calculatiin of nutes dosage in function of different parameters as plant height, flowering time, growspace, EC of water, etc...
Very usefull for a beginner like me. It allows you to fine tune the nutes along the growcurve of your plant.
3_Autopot : working with different strains in a small setup with shared reservoir is not possible with HE'S nutes as it is also impossible with the a+b nutes. They share a reservoir and thus the same nutes.
Next grow will be a single strain 3 plants grow using the auto pot system from veg to harvest. Once COVID measures will be loosened I will need to travel more for work and that was the exact intent of the auto pot system.
Read great reviews of the combination autopot & biotabs. Might try that one out too.
RQS: nothing bad too say at all. 100% germination rate wit direct soil method. Vigourous growth, forgiving. I tortured a green gelato so badly she committed suicide, but this NL (freebie) exceeds my expectations regarding my lack of experience and errors comitted.
The blue cheese and Royal Haze are doing even better. So feel free to follow those diaries as well.
Grow lights :
I was septic at first because they were very cheap. I paid 160 € for 2x 120W true power quantum board with a full spectrum range from 380 to 750nm. 3500K lm301b from Samsung and UV, IR and FR leds from epistar, mounted on a finned blue anodized heatsink, powered by an HLG250W Meanwell dimmeable driver and potentiometer. (Should have used that one more often to avoid the light stress)
Next this week : started flushing with Ph6.00 220ppm dechlorinated water.
Ppm reading of LAST portion of a 100% runoff was 2650....ph 5,1....
Probably chop by end of next week.
Chopped 1 cola with all tris cloudy, some yellowing. Will compare with the rest I hope to harvest at 10-15% amber. I'm a late evening smoker. Like the couch lock.
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