This week I learned that my light intensity, which was at 25%, was well below what it should have been. On 2/01 the Cannalope Haze got leggy and fell over which caused me to reexamine a few things.
I read some emails about vegging with the ES 300 from Dan at The Green Sunshine Company and realized I should have had my lights set at 50% and 36" from the start. I bumped my lights to 40% on 2/01, then to 50% on 2/03 and have increased them to 60% since then.
My girls were also a little lime colored so I bumped their feed water to 555 TDS @ 5.8 ph. The little ladies responded with a surge of growth thanks to the increased TDS coupled with increased light intensity.
It was a decent week for the girls and a great week of learning for me.
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.