So talk about your soul leaving your body!!!
Nice day today, pretty warm (For this region at this part of the year...sunny and about 18C)...made the grow room a bit balmier than normal...and then Ordiget Digital timer!!! F**K this thing!!! Bought from the Baldy Billionaire!!! Checked everything this morning before I went to work, all was great. By the time I get in, lights were out so couldn't see anything (I like them in full darkness, even in veg). Built the young lads bike I got him for his b'day, had him cut the lawn while I built it...had my cold jugs of water in the grow area warming up for tonight's feed change and then I open the tent....carnage!!! Everything wilted apart from the 1 root in plant (Using a Wilma but last week I drilled out some holes for roots to drop into the res)!!! Look at the timer and it had fully reset...2nd time this thing has done that!!! after a week, it seems to wipe the clock and the timers!!! About to raise hell on Amazon.
Luckily I'm running 6/2 so at least dark periods not too long so caught this relatively quickly. Threw the pump on and got 15 mins of juice into them...then done a full res dump and change (Took a good hour and a half as I like trying to rinse out any auld shite from it and pump it out a few times). Water was still a bit cool (14-15C) but was finished bang on time for their feeding so thought I better get these some fresh stuff in! Thank Little baby Jesus, 8lb 6oz they started stiffening up their stems from the 1st and 2nd blast of juice. Hit them with a Nitrozyme foliar and they started sucking that up and getting perky. So, got the SCROG net on them...another disappointment. Thought it was a 64 space net but turns out to be only 32 (Checked the website again where I got it from and says defs 64 spaces) so a bit hot about that.
So, finally, was going to defoliate a bit too but after the drying out they got, don't think the stress is worth it tonight so will probs strip them back a bit tomorrow night but at least their drinking so at least I have a crop still!!! Back to the mechanical timer and lesson learned! Also need to see what I can do about getting a 64 space net for next week as have a few growth nodes and dont think 32 will be enough!
Anyway, rant over...happy growing all!!! :)
** Update ** - trying a flush. Not pure tap water but close. Added 60ml pure blend tea, 50ml active boost, 50ml fulvic and 50ml Sensizym to a 50L tank. Probs add 5ml ATA Clean just to start to cleaning process too. Last days now!!! :)
@Ferenc, It was very good for the veg stage, I have to say. The Wedding Cake that went into it native has been as strong as an ox. No issues, not even a stretch with massive leaves...the Pink Kush and Strawberry Lemonade did go 18/6 for a week or 2 before I went 6/2 for heat management (I will do all grows going forward 6/2 btw) and they were stretchy on the flip.
@@hillman, Dude, no joke...pre-planned it 3 months in advance before I had even bought the nutes. I was pretty spot on with the numbers (give or take maybe 1-2 ml for ease. This week should have been Base 80, Grow 32 and Bloom 64 but the round down and up on the grow/bloom just a bit easier hitting the number in the grad cylinders!!!) and hitting the EC's i expected. Have an excel calc made up for the kind range now myself! :) and happy to see they are growing well and are showing no signs of burn or deficiency from the plan!
Tank change tonight...they drinking at least 5L a day now the 4 of them so this is the highest EC they receive this week (unless I go against what I was thinking of doing and adding a PK9/18 booster in on week 4 which will spike them up some more).
@GMSgrows, Using a Torus Hydro in the tank...I set it to 6 and it auto swings the pH between 5.8 to 6.2 so as the plant can get what it needs as it needs it. Dont know if I should go with the very light feed plan this coming thursday (Still have this weeks stuff to upload, about to do it now) or go with the Shogun Dragon Force. 2-3 of the plants flowers hairs have all contracted and looking like on the last stage of ripening while the Strawberry Lemonade still got some white hairy flowers!
Looking good and progressing very nicely !! Good luck with the grow !
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Edit - Added PK Warrior in the end, but very little compared to recommended...added at 0.2ml/L as opposed to the 0.5-1ml/L (1ml/L usually used the 1st week [week 4] and then 0.5 for the following 3 weeks).