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Planted seed directly in substrate on 12/30/2020. No nutrients were used from 12/30/2020 thru 1/3/2021. No measurements taken. All water was rested to let chlorine evaporate. Used spray bottle to spritz the coco until top was moist. Watered 4-6 times a day, ~6 sprays per watering.
1/3/21 - Added humidifier to the room. It's on the lowest setting. Maintains ~68% humidity in the tent. Turned on the exhaust fan to keep moisture from building up. Will turn on the circulating fan once the plants have stronger main stem.
1/4/21 - Added a small amount of nutrients. I am using a 16 oz spray bottle, so I divided the manufacturer recommendations by 8 and added that to the spray bottle (.625ml Kelp and Cal-Mag, 1.875 ml of big bloom).
1/5/21 - Increased humidifier output due to humidity being around 45% in the morning (tent was closed for ~7hrs). Plants grew about half inch each in 15 hrs. Added a small circulating fan to the tent, lowest setting.
1/6/21 - Added in General Organics BioThrive Grow to the feed water. Kmintz is measuring at 1.75 inches. Kmintz hasn’t grown much. Main branch is sturdy for both.
1/8/21 - Growth is still good and steady. Not much has changed otherwise.
1/11/21 - Still not much change. New growth is more visible today than last two. Hopefully I see some action this week and move this into veg.
Lessons Learned/Things to avoid next time:
1A - Don’t transplant too early. Shocked the seedling too much and stalled growth for 1.5 weeks. Let roots get more established next time.
1B - Plant seed directly in substrate in 7 gallon grow bag or move from solo cup to slightly larger container (maybe 1 gallon), then transplant again. Multiple transplants may add a week into veg overall if transplant timing is right.
1/20 - Finally recovered from the transplant. Took both plants almost 2 weeks to recover. They’ve had steady growth for the past 4 days. Still spritzing to water these even in the 7 gallon grow pots. Watering every other day, and giving nutes every other watering.
1/26 - The Kmintz has some white stuff on a few leaves. I used tap water for the humidifier and the tap water is very hard. I assumed it was build up from the vapor. I'm starting to wonder if it's actually white powdery mildew cause from the vapors. Grow question below.
Update: Cut off the first set of leaves (after cotyledons) on the Kmintz as they were dried out and a hole appeared on one of them.
1/27 - Growth is ok. Not what I'd expect based on other grows of same genetics. Considering feeding nutes with every watering as the plants are only getting a small amount to begin with.
1/29 - Growth is noticable again. Tiny growth coming in at the first node, even on the Kmints where i chopped off the leaves only two days ago.
2/2 - Growth is awesome. Did some reading on watering and nutrient regimens specifically for coco. Changing up my watering method starting week 3 of veg.
I need help diagnosing what this was. I already cut off two of the affected leaves on the Kmintz, but other leaves have small amount of the same substance on both plants. The brown spot in the first pic ended up turning into a hole because it was so dry. Is this powdery mildew?
Definitely looks like pm on some of those leaves! Treating the plant for pm is probably your best bet! There are plenty of simple options like the milk weezy suggested. You can also use hydrogen peroxide. Or there are plenty essential oil options. And lastly the most extreme measure a full blown fungicide. Treating this plant now shouldn't be too hard. But make sure to bleach clean yet entire grow space sk no spore is left to re plague ur garden. Also this leads me to believe u dont have enough air movement in your grow. Think about adding oscillating fans to circulate some more air. You need to improve your environment or else this could be a repeat kinda issue. Definitely gets worse when into bloom. You want to get control of ur grow room before flowering thays for sure. Happy growing and stay lit fam.
2/9/21 - Decided that I'll main-line this baby. Pruned 2nd node branches as they weren't getting any light. Also pruned internodal growth on nodes 1 and 2 for same reason. 6th and 7th nodes are growing in - will top after 6th node to begin main-lining.
Growth is extremely slow. Topped at the 4th node to get the lateral growth going. Had to do it at the 4th node cause the 3rd node fan leaves were weak and I'll end up chopping them off once the new growth is autonomous. I'll hopefully start LST on the lateral growth next week IF there is enough spacing between nodes. If not, i may have to let them reach 3rd node then prune lower branches and LST. Will be a mission if that's the case.
The iron deficiency caused all growth to stop for a week and a half (last week into this week). Bought some pH down and Recharge beneficial microbes. Growth started back up again within 24 hours of assing the recharge. It's a life saver.
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