Strawberry Cough 4x4 Indoor, 480w LED

At this point, I was feeding about once a week or less because the plant won't drink up that often. The vegging stage will actually go without any issues for a couple of month for these 2 clones, I did a couple of toppings and 2 defoliations while in vegging, it was also the heavy raining season I preferred to veg for longer and get more clones out of these 2.

At week 8 of Veg, I had topped twice and I took about 10 clones out of the tops and bottom branches*. Then I put these 2 outside to strengthen up with the wind and a bit of partial sunlight and get used to 12-12. They spent 2 weeks outside, which was not such a good idea cause they caught spidermites & powderly mildew. My ppm/ph meter broke and I had to order a couple cheaper ones and and spares, when it arrived, the runoff was at 2400 ppms! -- flushed with lots and lots of 700ppms water and used the runoff on a lemon tree. I started to notice a P deficiency, it was hard to diagnose because I started out reading and everywhere they say it is most probably the strain, but in fact it didn't show this in the last crop, so I added up PK just 1.5ml. It didn't seem to fix the issue.

not much going on, Plant A was slowly going into flower and plant B is about 1-2 weeks behind. No smell

Again, the plant was showing od leaf colors and signs of imbalance, the PPM reader was draining batteries over night and I spent about a week waiting for a new one and using drops to measure PH and a different ppm meter. The smell was practically ZERO, I turned off the extractor to see if it was me, and ask my girlfriend to smell, no smell at all, I was also starting to realize there had to be a problem in the medium and this was a recycled medium from the last crop. * it stopped smelling due to me fucking up the medium with excess CA. They also seemed to be delaying flowering. input PPMs where 700 using tap water and output was way above. I started irrigating like crazy to clean up the excess salts and I started using water from the AC runoff instead of tapwater and compensating with a lot more AB, the runoff started to go down, in plant A ( the one in the white pot, as low as 250ppms, even if I fed 700, the plant number 2 never went below 300, and I was feeding them 6L each one at day, every hour or so ( 2L every couple of hours ), and the water kept coming out very low for about 1 week. Then it started to go up again and stabilized in the 900s. I have been keeping it like that since then. except it started reuiren less and less frquent watering. The PH of the runoff was also very high, 6.8 and I had some leaf clorosis. Both stimulants are local alternatives I found in the agricultural store. Algae, Free aminos, Chelated NPK, etc. Fulvic + Humic + liquid worm tea. I read somewhere it could be a zinc def, and I had been adding PK in low dosis, so I added a bit of a 3rd party flowering P rich nute as foliar along with Neem oil for the spidermites and a little bit mollases + worm tea to make it more acidic, 2 days after, they started smelling like something, not weed bt something else than grass.

I defoliated 3 times total during flowering, I was afraid on the last one at week 5 but they were too dense again and the lower buds and leaves were showing light green coloring and no resin. This was the last defoliation and they have stopped growing new leaves, still plenty of them. At the beginning of the week I switched to Canna Coco AB ( my starter line years ago ), because I remembered the smell was very strong with it. At the end of week five, they started producing resing and smelling very strong and sweet. Yet, they were still showing red stems, so I added up more PK to the mix and voila, the smell exploded. and I relized at this point, how I had fucked up in the last grow. 1000-1100 ppms in, about 600 going out after the switch in nutes.

Smell is still very sweet and resing is very abundant, as expected with LEDs. I also learned that when light is not enough when I was using 2x mars 300 blurps in a 4x4, the buds were also sticky and strong, but the size was not nearly as big as with these new LEDS. I realized I overdid the N ratio when adding the extra flowering liquid, it had 5% N or so and the leaves were very dark, for the entire week I have been watering first with a lot of PK, because again, some leafs started showing signs of deficiency, and because I really didnt want to add more A ( N + Ca ) cause they were starting to show signs of excess. I have no signs of deficiency so far, or no advance at least, and the only thing I just noticed today is that plant B seems to have started maturing at the same time as plant A, despite the fact it started 1.5 weeks later than plant A and I think it is because I applied the same feeding schedule to both, lowering the PPMs on plant B and that made it start to mature with smaller buds one week earlier. -- I also just noticed when I turned off the bluro pink LED that the green is not actually too dark and that they seem have some chlorosis in the top leaves. From my mistake with the last outdoor crop I learned they mature the pistils when lacking something, so today I added up a bit of AB to plant B while I am practically flushing plant A with mostly K and a bit of K at 600ppms to lower the green tone. I will use one more feeding of half AB without PK on both, at around 800-900, to balance out any deficiency in micronutrients I may have caused when lowering the AB to reduce the excess of N. I think I will harvest Plant A in the shorter side, in 1.5-2 weeks from now, and let plant B go until fully rippen to see how this strain fully mature and behaves. Side note: out of the 10 clones, I gave 3 to friends, discarded 2 and kept 5, one of them was sprayed with coloidal silver and I polinated another clone yesterday with the polen of that malelinized female to be able to store these genetics without having to keep a mother perpetually. That is going on outdoors. I am also not using mainlining but lolipopping. There were so many wrong things (countless) in this grow, mistakes I inherited from my last grow. 1- I should have never accepted to buy and use Canna Terra on pure coco last year when they were out of Coco. 2- Mills maybe pays the bills, but I am under the impression that Canna also pays them and that it lasts more than mills, being cheaper by the liter. I also never had a P deficiency with Canna Coco before. 3- I added a lot of Epsom salts and CaCO + Vinegar paste to the coco and flushed because I ran out of canna coco and I mistakenly thought I had a calcium deficiency in the last crop when it actually was a potasium deficiency. 4- I was using a 3rd party Bloom estulant not intended for cannabis, rich in Algae/kelp extract, phospurum and free L/aminos, but also having Nitrogen in it. Not specialized in Cannabis. I had to correct by using tap water + 100ppms of silica + 200ppms calmag + 1/4 strenght AB 400ppms + 2x PK 400ppms, then I removed calmag to lower down the ppms to 900

Not much except that the runoff PH is going out at 6.5-6.8 and I don't know why, maybe I overdid the K while I was waiting for the PH meter replacement, OR, I think it is my tap water that has 250ppms of Ca and MG. I was researching for its contents today and it is almost 80% CaCO, 10% Mg, and 10% Na. I am now considering getting a water filter to lower that down a bit. It is also REALLY alkaline, meaning you need to add a lot of PH down. I also noticed that the lower I put the input solution, like 5.5, the higher the runoff so I think it ends up precipitating and making the runoff more alkaline. Plant A has been flushed for 2 days with just some PH water at 5.8 and a bit of K from an unknown fert maker, but it contains mostly soluble K + free aminos and no P, cause I don't want to have it there. I am also thinking they are root bound. I should not have flowered in those pots. Plant B is still under fill feeding schedule with Canna AB + extra K and yesterday I watered a LOT ( 8L) with PH water at 5.8 to get it down to 6.2.