For this week, since its second week of bloom, will give it a P boost to the 1st gen mother to make sure she knows it's time to switch gears and flower. So taking out Flora Bloom and added dry Koolbloom which is 1-42-22 450PPM and also added 100 PPM of Flora Grow and 100 of CaMg for my main macro/supplement. Will be doing silica every other week and Hydro guard every week (since I found brown slime) Will resume with Flora Bloom next week.
Been only doing Hydro for cloning and vegging so its my first time encountering brown Slime. Anyone know how I can get rid of it?
What I know...
- Need to lower PH to closer to 5-5.5 from 6.0
- Added Hydro Guard to fight slim
- Minimize Air Stone duration - Been having it on pretty long because I have one large pump and I use it to brew Compost tea for my organic grow.
- Need to minimize light penetration to resi - I have a perforated plastic cover laying around the house and I have been using that to cover the resi and sometime I even forget to put it on.
Anything else? I run totally chemical nutes from GH Flora Series. And I have been sharing the PH and PPM meter with my organic nuets which I brew for 36 hours before use. Maybe some of that got contaminated thru that? Cause I have been using the same bucket system (without res) to raise my mothers for almost 7 months already and never encounter any slim before.
I think I finally understand what tops are LOL:
So please correct me if I am wrong...
What I understand:
- All tops large or small will "stretch" at the first weeks of flowering
- Most of the "stretch" only occurs at the tops
- The "stretch" will determine the length of that bud
- The "stretch" should be as high as possible BUT with short distances between the NEW internodes that develop during that period. for a large and dense bud.
- Don't get confused with stretch that cannabis experience under low light.
Happy Grower Brothers and Sisters
BM
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