5/17 Week 8 ... and the state of the grow is unsettled
This grow has fought us since germ and it is showing no signs of giving in. Just cannot seem to find their "happy place" environmentally or nuet wise.
They doing ok-ish this is not a big yielding strain no matter the ad copy but havent had this much issue with it indoors before.
Starting at baseline with the lighting HID 300w 16 inches above Baba LED moved towards front of tent.
Both lights tilted very slightly towards each other hopefully giving better dispersal.
Still showing nitrogen sensitivity so reducing Bloom to 8ml/gal while increasing PK to 6 so PK does not suffer, will watch for deficiencies
Looking at going considerably over on these now, nothing coming up behind them so zero space issues, see what happens.
Continue to leaf pluck when one needs to go
Evening feed 5/17:
They look better and some experimenting with the lights showed me the angle tilt needed increasing and HID increased to 450w giving a total of 600w in the tent.
Should not cause too much heat issue. Still have 150w in reserve
5/18 PM
Pic of lights - Seems to be working out managing to cover base of tent with both lights giving a 5000k and 3000k spectrum. Buds building faster now in particular on Baba,
Hadnt gotten sick we would have thought of this weeks ago, aint that inspired. Man this Cov-19 stuff will cloud your thinking.
Keeping HID at 450w
Pics of plants - doing better
Nuets - Running low on Soul Peak so gradually working in the KoolBloom to make it last. Seriously think the Soul Peak is better.
5/18
TAHTA TA TAHHHH! Baba found her happy place and is bulking very fast.
See how long it continues
Re-did the lights
Had to drop wattage on HID due to heat even after a redesign of the extraction to eliminate drag on air movement.
For 14 hours they will run at 450 watts but for 6 hours a day will drop to 300 watts. This should keep any problems from occurring.
Just hard to run that Metal Halide at more than 300 watts in warm weather without AC which aint happening.
HID to 300/450 watts, 13 inches above Baba at a 20 degree tilt to disperse light.
LED at full 17 inches above Athena with a 20 degree tilt.
Coincidentally that puts them at the same height.
Added a 30 watt 2700K LED on Baba and Athena give them some more red. See how it works.
Nuets as is
5/20
Pics
After viewing tricones beginning to walk down the EC to flush in a couple days. Plan 10 day flush.
That puts them finishing about the middle of week 11.
Not perfect but nothing so far with this grow has been lol
Adding the 30 watt 2700K LED in the bottom seems to be helping, lot of increased lower growth WHICH I WILL TAKE ... 😬
Seriously every bud counts lol
5/21
Buds continuing to build at a decent rate finally.
Had to re-arrange the tent my wife's plant is getting big
Holding nuets where they are till flush, plan to begin flush during week 9.
Working on a tactic to harvest Sally ahead of Jane without hurting either
After a talk with her and looking seriously at what we have here I am going to break up the feeds.
Athena will need to go into flush first she is furthest along. So start it on week 9.
Sally ... we are going to do something unusual for her and Jane.
Since flushing Sally per normal would be just no good for the twin Jane we are going to flush but then put the plants on organic bloom.
So big initial flush with agent to clean out the salts then shifting her to light organics to continue feeding the twin without having to revisit the flushing issue.
No idea how long the twin may go
Baba will just play by ear on her, continue the light Bloom feeding keeping her PK up until we see the go signal from her. Hoping she goes a week longer than the others.
5/22
Lights to full weather is cool today and time is short
Holding nuets here till new week then begin flush on Athena
Buds still building nicely on Baba
Almost forgot the twin:
Here is the plan we flush the pot same time as Athena but on the next feeding we introduce organic bloom nuets for Jane instead of a flush as normal.
We dont smoke so not overly concerned with harshness just want the pot clean. The organics will belay any further need of flushing. Best we can do
5/23
Need to start flush now so Athena and Sally on water only till I introduce organics to Sally.
No agents
Baba staying on feed