Days 16 - 23 since the girls began flowering. (Counting from 3/11 since I flipped on 3/06 and they began budding on 3/11)
This week began with the install of my auto watering/feeding setup which is about a month too late. The SCROG setup made it difficult to get into the room and was just an overall pain in the ass.
The measured runoff from Cannalope Haze (the easiest to collect from) was 2100ppm and 4.61ph so I prepped 20 gallons of RO water with 1ml/gal Calmag, added Clearex as prescribed, PH to 5.8 and flushed the plants. Then I followed with 10 more gallons with TPS Liquisoil to finish the flush and replenish microbial life. Ended with runoff of ~660 ppm and 5.7 ph.
I did some minor pruning and removed lower bud sites which was another pain in the ass because of the SCROG setup.
DB is slowly getting frosty and still smells black pepper. I think she needs to be pruned again to get some additional light to the smaller colas but I'm still hesitant.
Double Black requires about half of the feed water of the others so I had to make some adjustments on my watering system.
Here's my last feed /water mix :
10 gallons RO water 2.5gr/gal MC Part A, 0.5 ml/gal calmag, 5 grams Epsom salts, 1ml/gal calmag
DB is a trooper, and has been easy growing compared to the others and hasn't shown any deficiencies that I can remember.
However, I've a worsening phosphorus deficiency showing in Pulsar and Cement Shoes along with the weird deficiency in Cannalope Haze so I'm gonna reduce my EC/PPM next week and reduce calmag as well to see if that gets things corrected.
I dropped MC Part B since less nitrogen is needed so I'm not sure if that has anything to do with some of the deficiency I'm seeing. (doubtful)
Why not just go right in to the 3gal pots?
I do and its very nice not to worry about transplant.
I'm even dialing in how much water to give each week pretty nicely
@MrHightimes, I grew 6 autos right before this grow and planted them straight into the 3 gallon buckets. Because they didn't take much water for the first month I ended up with a lot of salt build up that caused issues before I could identify and correct.
I figured, the solo cups would allow me to water to runoff and avoid the build up.
I'm about to try some Megacrop here soon.
My friends are growing some pretty plants with it
my 9 part GH does nice but its ALOT and the ppm is so high!
@MrHightimes, Megacrop is great but keep some extra calcium and Epsom salt on hand if you're using RO water.
If you haven't ordered yet, I would suggest getting the 2 part MC so you can reduce N levels and up PK during the later stages of flower.