Dinafem Blue Widow - 1st Grow

Welcome to week 2 of flower. Day 78 The plants are getting thirstier and stretching nicely. I'm up to 5 gallons each feeding now with very little run off. Noticed some root penetration through the bottom of one of the 7 gal fabric pots last week so I put all the plants in 17" plant saucers filled with perlite. I'll just over water them a bit and let them suck up the excess as needed from the perlite. Need to get some H2O2 in case I get algae growth on the perlite. The plants remain "vertically challenged", but they are getting incredibly full. I put them back into LST 2 days ago and they are spreading and putting up new tops like crazy. It looks like the 5 of them will completely fill the 5x5 space if I keep forcing them to spread. I'm still up in the air about using a scrog as originally planned ... the LST is working extremely well, but it's a pain redoing it every morning. I also lowered the lights a bit to compensate for the greater distance due to the LST. Plant #5 still has me puzzled. It was the most obvious odd man out as a pheno, and while the 4 other plants have maintained good health, #5, with the same nutrient schedule and environment has continued to show what looks like a significant nitrogen deficiency. It's still growing well and putting up new growth as it stretched, but its color a off and there are dead leaves at the base. I've tried a number of things to try to improve it's appearance, but so far nothing has really worked. I suppose as long as it continues to put out reasonably healthy new growth I'll just take what I get. Pre-flower development has started accelerating with flower sites starting to show all over the place. Very exciting.