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Week 14 // Dec 4 - Dec 10
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- Dec 10th puts us at day 96 from seed and everything is going smoothly for the most part - but they still need to mature a bit more.
- i'm definitely seeing the difference in the phenos; one plant going yellow and another is going purple.
- Sage #2, the smaller plant, really hasn't shown me any issues and is fading out to purple and still looks great today.
- Still running beneficials and enzymes: Microbial mass every two weeks and Orca twice a week and Z9 once a week.
- Plants are eating and drinking as top off is dropping daily and PPMs dropping as a result.
- I'm still alternating Overdrive (15ml) and AN Coco Bloom (10ml) and shooting for a high target of 750ppm each dose.
- I'm giving a dose at about the 690ppm mark. The dose brings ppm back up to 750ppm. I've been doing this daily with a top-off bucket with plain RO maintaing the water level.
- I'm checking trichomes daily, just getting milky now on the calyxes (bracts). But, I'm still not seeing much amber yet and still lots of clear trichomes on the lower growth.
- Sage #3 leaves are getting pretty brittle. The RH is way too dry for a rust fungus issue and would have spread by now to the other plant (Sage #2) I'd imagine. I don't know if it was salt build-up or calmag deficiency in early flower with a combination of nute burn, but now I'm leaning toward nutrient burn and CMH light burn even though it was the bigger plant of the two. Sage #2 doesnt have any issues. Balancing the needs of two phenos in RDWC can be challenging. - I'll admit I did push the ppms for a bit of tip burn, but it is weird why the bigger plant would burn if that is the case. - Either way, the upper sugar leaves have on Sage #3 are rusty, breaking off, and brittle on the top of the flowers. I need to figure it out so I can correct it next time. Plenty of PK between overdrive and bloom, calmag really isn't needed in late flower so the deficiency shouldn't have progressed if it was a calcium or magnesium issue in the early flower.
- RH is dry enough I'm not too worried about any rot and trying to clean up any dead leaf matter when i see it.
- I'm not rushing anything for the sake of harvest, but I do need these plants need to finish up... I'm worried I may in trim jail on Christmas after a 10 day dry.
- Expecting to harvest any day, but who knows at this point could be another 10 days until mostly milky and I feel the THC content is optimal.
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