sir_root

Decided that I wanted a little more even light distribution over the canopy, so I went a little bonkers today. Build a frame for the floor and attached garden wire to all the main colas and pulled them over a bit. Two bent, but there does not appear to be any real damage to the outside of the branch, so I am hopeful they will recover. I know this is probably "too late" in flower to put so much stress on them, but I wanted a bit more even light penetration. Hopefully I won't regret it and in the future, I for sure will be better about doing this all along.

Don't water before lights off if you can help it; you want to water in the mornings. Transpiration is a daytime process; unless you incorporate evaporation into your tent by lowering RH% just below 50% at night, the water cannot transpire at night there is no heat/light, all the water the plant spits out at night comes from the air not the pot. Oxygen moves 10,000x slower in soil than air Oxygen moves 320,000 times slower in saturated soil above a point. The main function of a cannabis plant at night is to perform oxidative phosphorylation. "Ox"idative phosphorylation is the final, most efficient stage of cellular respiration (90%) ATP Compared to 10% of photosynthesis. The amount of oxygen in the soil significantly affects the efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation. Create a cycle that waters every morning, run slightly warmer than you normally would, and keep the water flowing, come nighttime the soil is a perfect mix of moisture and oxygen, not too dry, not too wet, that is a big of part of why you're plants are small, ATP is the daddy, daytime is allllll about photosynthesis, that's the carbon capture, nighttime is the processing of that carbon, that requires oxygen, if it runs short for any amount of time, most people run high VPD for daytime which normally incurs high RH%, if you don't bring that down at night it cripples the plant to 10% of its energetic potential in worst cases skew ph from all the acids being released due to anerobic breakdown occurring instead of aerobic. I think of it like locking out oxygen; it moves so slowly. A lot worse if you're doing organics too, because microorganisms scavenge oxygen themselves in competition with plants. Toke on! All the best on your journey of growth. *puff puff pass*

Starting to wonder if my Indica is going to be ready to harvest soon. Buds are so small, pistles are turning brown, but trichomes still appear pretty clear. They are not really fattening up.

So, I am thinking light stress, is causing the tips of many of the leaves to turn yellow at the tips. I know it could also be nutrient burn. I am growing in hot soil and have been supplementing bloom nutrients a bit too. That said, I am not going to be adding nutrients going forward, but I still have about 2 gallons of water in my res to use. Thoughts?