Okay, I messed up pretty bad. I had started mainlining the Rainbow Cake, my prized plant of this grow, and snapped one of it's branches clean off-half the entire plant and it's still bigger than the PSB. I tried to save it but no luck, so I took a cutting off the branch. Now my Rainbow Cake has one branch with 4 bud sites, so it's behind the others but not too bad. I might have to increase the veg period more than I'd like, but hey, that's okay. This was a test grow to get back into the swing of things before I grow out my favorite Serious Seeds strains next time-I love Kali Mist so much, and will also be trying Strawberry AK, and Serious Happiness. My other plants are doing well-I love how the Lemon Bubble and Hawaiian snow is growing. The Purple Strawberry Bliss is SLOW. Since I've started this grow I've ordered more Rainbow Cake seeds though because I think it's a star-such tremendous vigor in the face of poor conditions, I can't wait to see what it does next time, since I've learned so much about coco this round. I've cut the nutes back to 450 as I'm getting some tips curling and the Rainbow Cake seems to have some nitrogen toxicity. I figured not everyone would like the conditions since I've got 4 different strains and heavy sativas vs heavy indicas. Lastly, I've been told not to worry about runoff PH and the new growth looks good so I'm not very worried, but I'm considering switching from citric acid as a PH down to phosphoric acid-which holds ph better. Citric is better for the microflora, but I've noticed my runoff PH is VERY high, like 6.8-7, even though I water to runoff twice per day with 6.0 ph nutrients. My water is pretty alkaline but not too bad at 140 ppm to start, and no, I'm not interested in RO water. For now I've set my nutrients to 5.8 and am watering a little more each time, but I think the phosphoric acid will help. Oh and I've started adding Photosynthesis Plus on a weekly basis, OMG the egg fart smell is strong in this one!! They really tapped into the microbes in Satan's anus.
@Paulb420, Thanks bud! I just got a couple more Rainbow Cake seeds-I ordered them when I thought my clone wouldn't take(but it did), so I think I'm just going to save them and use the clone as a mother plant. Very cool strain!
@Paulb420, She's been a good grower for me, took to training really well, very fast growing seedling. I try to clone everything I sprout until I know if it's a keeper or not. You can really see the Archive genetics coming through on this plant, so I'm thinking this will be the one keeper out of this group of plants for me. Getting excited to see it pack on the weight!
@Smokwiri, Thanks! I'm proud of the comeback they're making after I light burned them, keep checking back, I'll do my best to raise them up as proper young ladies!