Day and Night - Dancehall and K'n'C

The seedlings have finally reached their Vegetative growth spurt. I have removed the garbage bag I was using as a light shield and exposed them to full 30% power in the Spring setting. I am still cautiously watering them to ensure I don't drown them or suffocate the roots.

The ladies grew to their 6th node and it was time to top. They both seemed to respond well to the topping, and they were healthy before the cut. However, Dancehall seemed to express an nutrient issue two days after the top. After some research I determined it was likely Potassium. I asked the Reddit Microgrowery what they thought. One person chimed in that it was a bad Potassium deficiency, likely amplified by being drastically underwatered. Since that comment I have drastically increased my watering and within 2 days it was clear they were correct and the deficiency is not showing on the new leaves.

Dancehall is recovering from an assumed Potassium deficiency. Kush n Cookies handled the deficiency better and never seemed to be affected. Both are growing well now.

This was a rather uneventful week. Dancehall is starting to recover, Kush n Cookies still isn't slowing down. I'm slowly increasing the lights 1% at a time trying not to burn the leaves again.

I finally got my automatic watering system set up. It's watering every 8 hours (3 times per day) 0.25 gal each plant. Kush'n'Cookies had not slowed it growth, and Dancehall has clearly recovered but will always be behind. I think it's almost time to setup the SCROG, KnC will likely end up taking 3/4 of it again. With the watering system set up, I have started adding Silica as well to strengthen the branches.

Both plants are really taking off. I have decided it is time to flip them and let them start flowering. I took my clones and halfway through this week the lights are going to 12/12. I am going to finish documenting this week as Veg, next week will be the first week of Flower for the diary. So far, so good. I have the netting up for the ScrOG set at 3'6" from the light so ideally the buds will be about 3' from the light when they get aligned with the ScrOG grid. Kush n Cookies didn't stretch much last grow, hopefully it doesn't this time either. Dancehall is a little smaller, so hopefully it has enough room to stretch as well. Kush 'n' Cookies: 42 days Seedling, 39 days of Veg Dancehall: 32 days Seedling, 39 days of Veg

First week of Flower! I flipped the light timer at this point so that the plants have room to stretch and fill the netting. Hopefully I'll end up with an even canopy all at trellis level, just colas sticking up. At the end of the week I did some defoliation. But I've been told that the canopy penetration with the FOHSE Aries is pretty incredible so the defoliation was more for airflow vs getting rid of useless vegetative growth.

This was a busy week for me outside of the tent, so I didn't take as many pictures as I usually do. With the auto-watering system set-up, I really only need to fill the reservoir bucket, or so I thought. It turns out the "intake filter" on the bucket side of the timer pump device is just a small air stone. Well, after a few weeks of sucking up nutrients, it was almost completely clogged and my plants were clearly not getting water near the end of the week. So I cut a slot in the tubing just before the air stone (to keep the stone as an anchor) and now we are back in business. The ScrOG is almost full and the buds are forming. All is well.

Things are getting less and less eventful in the best way. I'm down to just strategic fan leaf tucking and maybe the occasional cola trellis square adjustment. I just flipped the light to Summer Spectrum and I am continuing to slowly increase the intensity.

This was a very uneventful week. The plants are doing great, everything is happy. I did have to need with my game a bit, they are now maxed out and just keeping up. I probably need a new carbon filter to reduce the strain on the exhaust fan.

I'm not seeing any more runoff, so I increased my length of drip watering to 5 minutes instead of 4, still every 8 hours. Otherwise I'm still slowly increasing the lights and everything is going well.

Flower Week 6 is starting with leaves starting to yellow. I think this is when the leaves normally start to cannibalize lower leaves as nitrogen starts to run out. So I'm not concerned, just busy picking up/off shriveled up brown leaves that lost their nitrogen. I'm realizing I'm behind on my light intensity too. I think I should be around 900 PPFD, ~85% on the light, I'm only at 700 PPFD, 65%. I'll be ramping the lights up and I'm noticing there's no runoff again. So watering will be increased as well.

The buds are starting to bulk up here in week 7 of Flower. We're getting some red pistils so I'm optimistic this grow might wrap up at the end of week 9, maybe 10. I'm noticing something going on with the leaves. There's some blemishes from a calcium or magnesium issue earlier in the grow, but now I'm seeing colored spots forming on the Dancehall leaves. I'm hoping it's just the beginning of leaves changing color so I'm going to vary the PH a little more this week and see if the leaves continue to change or I have a nutrient issue.

It turns out that my PH pen sensor was off calibration by 0.3 PH, so I've likely been screwing up my PH range and therefore nutrient delivery for a bit now. I've corrected the calibration and the plants are starting to look happy again. The trichomes need some time still, but the buds are really bulking up now! The fans leaves are starting to show some colors too. That confirms the previous spots were definitely from a deficiency.

Kush'n'Cookies has nearly all cloudy trichomes and a few amber starting to show up, so next week/weekend will likely be the harvest window. Dancehall seems to be a little behind. It will likely take another week, but I'll keep checking it daily. Dancehall is not drinking as much as KnC, and the buds are not nearly as big. The breeders said Dancehall is more challenging to grow, I'll agree it's a more sensitive strain than the KnC.

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