OG Kush ~ Growers Choice ~ DWC ~ 1

If you noticed, week 2 & 3 base nutrients did not change. I did this so as to not overload the gals - I could see signs that something was wrong and I did not want to push them more before fixing the issue. (I would have been locked out anyway*) -TOO MUCH Recharge!!! -Broken BlueLab PH Pen (Apparently we've been living at 7.7-8.7ish this entire time!!!) I have since replaced the broken pen with one locally from an official BlueLab retailer. PH Is now back on track (crazy it took 4 weeks to show any signs of lockout! Luck? Great genetics? I hope so) The 35ml/gl of Humic Acid I added did a great job of breaking up the gunk and to get the girls some oxygen and nutrients. We saw immediate improvements in two hours, and night and day differences overnight in every plant in the garden except for one. The Humic just wasn't enough for her (even with a little extra, and some light pruning). Since the one girl isn't doing so well even after the Humic Acid, I decided to swap nutes a couple days early in hopes that it will bounce her back + another bath - she looked better, just super small :( Now that I've corrected the PH, and will be using 1/3 the amount of recharge, we should be fine to get nutrients back on track and recover, explode - and flip. Fingers crossed! (If all goes well, we will be topping after a little stretch) ------------------ The mystery seeds in the back were somehow unaffected by the recharge situation. (Perhaps because they are halfway up the net cup, the dry roots are protected from the recharge in the reservoir?) Took the opportunity to practice some manifolding 😃 The roots did gunk up like the other 3, but the Humic Acid did its thing and helped a lot. No visible signs of lockout like the others.../shrug. ------------------ Next Day: The unhappy gal got worse over night. Roots are still completely covered - Humic and nute swap didn't seem to help at all. I gave her a BIG root prune - at this point those roots are holding her back, we now need her to focus on growing fresh new ones, not try and build on what's covered. Hoping there are some dry roots above the net cup / inside the rockwool, that will bounce her back. We saw stretch in the other two overnight!!!!! YUSS! -------------------- 03/26/21 The unhappy gal did not improve, the yellowing made its way to the center stalk so I pulled her. Recharge had covered the bottom of the rockwool, and was consequently sopping wet. Not a single root to be found, and a little bit of root rot had started to form in the rockwool. Broken PH pen / too much recharge, & sadly the humic didn't seem to help her. All in all, this could have been so much worse, all 5 plants potentially. Lessons learned! The other OG & Mystery seeds are growing again and doing better! Though it is very unfortunate that I chose to place the OG at the bottom of the net cup - I had no idea just how bushy the pheno is - they would have been SO much happier halfway up like the 2 mystery seeds. I topped them and gave them a light defoliation to help get some sun in and encourage branching.