Lesson learned last week, underfeeding is bad. I think I underfed and shifted to flowering nutes too late. All plants seemed to be suffering from P deficiency maybe low calcium too. I am still not too good at reading leaves. PH control is good. I am adjusting feed/water to 6.3-6.5PH, effluent water is 6.2-6.5 so I think any issues due to messed up PH are behind me. I think feeding and then not feeding for one or two waterings may not have been ideal. I believe the same food spread out all the time is better, getting the plants a constant supply of food. Instead of 10ml/gal in one feeding, than none in the next, 5ml/gal continually would seem to make more sense. Sadly due to trimming most of the fan leaves that were damaged from the PH issues weeks ago, when the nutrient deficiency hit the upper leaves suffered, or due to an immobile nutrient deficiency, now way to tell now.
Mon - Fed with nutes per schedule at 6.4-6.5PH.
Wed - Fed with nutes per schedule at 6.5-6.6PH.
Thur- Hard to tell but plants seem to be still suffering from nute issues. I noticed yesterday that the effluent water was low, at about 6.0. Maybe the issue is PH problems with the soil again. Will not feed on next water with just 7.0 PH adjusted water and check effluent again.
Fri - water only, adjusted to 6.9PH, checked runoff PH and PPM. One plant was a bit low at 6.4 which leads me to believe that one could be suffering from PH lockout. The PPMs of runoff were all a bit high (water in at 350ppm). I was 650, 950, 950 and 1250. I think I will flush on next watering to get that down.
Sun - Fed with nutes (10ml/gal Terra Flores, 10ml/gal Cannazym, 10ml/gal Boost) pH'd to 6.0. Talked with my local grow shop guy, I may have been PH'ing my feed water wrong. I was aiming for 6.8 as from what I have read that is the proper PH for soil. However, according to the Canna schedule I should be shooting for 5.8 to 6.2. Seems counter-intuitive, but this is my first grow so lets see how it goes.
When limiting my primary nutrients, (Canna Terra Flora) to prevent overfeeding, should I also limit the secondary nutrients (Rhizotonic, Cannazym, Canna Boost) or feed those per the Canna schedule each time I water? I currently only use them when I feed on every 2nd or 3rd water
I think its safe to remove the rhizo. Definitwlt continue the Flores because it also contained the trace elements needed. Keep the zyme and boost are entirely up to you, perhaps only using them once per weeks would be good. But I think it'll be alright to remove them soon, unless you choose otherwise. Did I see a small amount of yellowed leaves on the back left plant on the very bottom? If so you may want some cal mag in there or it may be that one received a slightly higher dose than the others did, or needs a good flush.
Best of luck the plants look pretty dang good thus far. Congrats on making it into flowering.
This one was a bit rough. I thought the purpling was a bad thing, a symptom of phosphorous deficiency. I count this as a success, I got a big enough yield to make through the next grow. :)
Thanks for the info, I knew about the trichomes but I had no idea the buds fatten up that much at the end. I harvested when they are about 80% cloudy, I wanted the strains to lean a bit to heady side. Maybe another week would have given me more yield with no major change in the trics.
Thanks for the advice, I am battling the rise in temps during the day now that summer is coming. I have been dreading putting an AC in that room, but I might have to.
next time flower at least 9 weeks for most strains, theres a handfull that are 60 days which is still 8 and a half weeks, buds fill out the most the last 2 weeks, up to 33%, and I veg for 5 weeks, but thats up to the grower, just make sure you flower as long as the strain says and.. youll get the full buds remember AMBER trichomes for stones cloudy trichomes for psychedelic.. but at least let them get cloudy.. but a good general rule is go the flowering time the seed bank suggests.. if you dont know the seed bank, do research on the strain and use the average flowering time.. hope you get some Chronic next time,, good luck
Looking good! They'd probably appreciate a few C drop in peak temperatures, especially as the grow goes on. They get all sensitive.
They're really healthy and I think you're going to be quite happy =)