More like HST instead of LST.
This week was all about low stress training or lst. But as it was for the very first time I would say it was more of a high stress trainig (for me of course).
First ties I started already the previous week but this week was hard tie downs on pretty much every branch.
Since I messed up the first week and put my lights on almost max power the plants didnt strech out for light and are pretty low and bushy. Thats why the space is really tight and lst is just the thing to do.
I used a metal string since I think its better because I can adjust it more and all tension is not on the string.
For the past 2 weeks or so I noticed some weird spots on one leaf. This week it went on 3 more leafs and on one more plant.
After some research I found out thats a serious
Calcium defficiency. Since I’m not from US I didn’t have the same things as in videos I watched. So I didnt get the regular cal mag. But instead some from local store and I must say it was bad choice.
Way too less calcium. Ordered a proper one and hopefully it will come in the next fee days.
Another interesting thing happened.
At the beginning I was cinsidering toping. But after researching more decided no to go with it on the first grow.
As the lack of calcium appeared I went full blast with feeding. And it appears thats I was underfeeding, since I thought that my coco was too wet.
Guess what happened when I went from once in 3days to twice per day.
Thats right. The growth was massive ! One of the metal strings somehow got stuck in the plant and when this acceleration happened it simply snaped itself of 😳
I must say I was a bit sad at the moment, but then I figured it’s some form of self-toping. Not that I wanted it to happen on my strongest plant. But will see what will happen out of it.
Alltogether this was a nice week full of wide strech and a lot of new knowledge!