DIY hydro - Runtz auto

Everything "is always fine" at this stage, but the system works as i thought it would. No nutrient needed, adapted enlightment, fresh ph'ed tap water, easy.

One primary objective: Keep it short. Led's were very close, as son as i saw the yellowing disapprobation of the plant, i put the light a little bit higher, that resolved the "problem". No nutrients for now of course

LST, nutrient solution adjustments, everything is under control for now. Clay pellets are now flushed, ph doesn't fluctuate anymore, and plant is both thirsty and hungry. A little up in nutrients (~1.1) since she ate a lot (-0.4ms/cm² in 5 days) and now she's more mature, sansi 36W bulb down on the top to get a correct amount of light

LST always ongoing, in order to fill the space available, plant is doing and reacts well to this technique and i wanted to know more about stressing autoz so i topped the apex and got 2 healthy "double apex" that grew along the side branches and they had enough time to grow to stay at the canopy level. Future stress test will be constant defoliation to keep the moisture away. Already showing pre-flowers...i'd like more time -1 week- of vegetative period but hey...i was warned, that the auto malediction right? 😊

She's flowering. Pistils are growing at every nodes and nutrients are consumed differently. I see tops getting a pale green color, time to change and up the soup's EC in order to give her access to more dessert/crème brûlée/mousse au chocolat if she wants to. And since she seems to respond well ok i'm all in: 1.7 and she's eating My only problem is...cats !! We got 2 and they eat the leaves when the closet is open...literally 30s out of my sight and she gets nibbled... Some have pest, deficiency, burning, etc i got cats.

So here we are now, present time for this micro-grow experiment. Flowers are showing in numbers, it starts to smell. To smell weed and not chlorophyl 😅 End of stretch i think, -edit: it seems i was wrong, she stretchin'...- plant is small so as expected, measured at 40cm. Small but busheeeey. The main stem is now a trunk. Roots are -healthy- of course reaching the bottom of the pot but at the exact location of the round flat air stone. So drip+kratky+DWC seems to work well, but for how long? Now the questions are: is the light suitable to fullfill the plant needs while flowering? Is the 11l -actually filled with 7l of nutrient solution- able to run a plant from seed to harvest with a decent amount of dry product? Will i be able to run this one til the end? Why cats love weed? Time will tell ;)

Really strange as she managed to bring low branches to the canopy level during the strech, there is multiple levels of maturity among the whole colas. Some are swelled and some are style still developing pistils I try not to defoliate too much in order to induce the least possible stress , only shadowmakers on top are removed since i have leds on the sides of the box, which allows to bring light under the canopy. Main concern is airflow, it relies only on an opening on the bottom of the box and a fan blowing on the top of the lights providing airflow by bouncing back and forth on the box panels. For now even if leaves are overlaping, they is no sign of condensation between them. Buds are not fat enough to touch each other and i don't think they will, so mold should stay away, finger crossed Hope it will work as intended until the harvest (2/3 more weeks?) but, so far so good

Fine week. I'm really concern about mold so i defoliated to open the center in order to optimise the airflow between buds. Such tiny place (36x36x80) with one fan needs defoliation. They are fattening up, are fluffy, 21 colas, and expect each one to give 2+g of dry weed. I noticed a deficiency on top leaves...due to a bro's bachelor party: it sucked up all the remaining soup in 2 days, didn't checked the lvl of the solution before leaving... 5/6 buds are more advanced so i think i'll have to harvest in 2 times. It's running and it makes me happy ;)

Colas really fattened up super quickly, running fine. I lowered the nutes before flushing next week, trichomes @~70% milky, i don't want a couch lock batch So 1 and a half more week to go

Flushing week, 90% milky, i'm running it till sunday (5 days left) I'm expecting now +3g dry per cola, so x21. Really excited to see the result