*******December 23 to 29, 2019
It was a good growing week. She continues to grow and get wider and taller. However, there have been signs to work on with her. The potassium is a concern and her runoff water at the start of the week was way too high. Focus is to get her medium back under control and looking for a runoff of more around 800ppm with a 5.8pH. She appears to be ready to grow based on appearance and her new growth. New leaves were coming out pointy towards the end of the week. Can just flush the coco to get back in line but given she is an auto I am avoiding that step right now. LST is getting started this week and will tie her down by end of week......just want a little more height out of her.
Dec 23/19
- Given the high runoff today is just CalMag @ 1.5ml/L in RO water. 475ppm with a 5.6pH. 1.5 litres.
Dec 24/19
- Still a little droopy this morning. Wanted to avoid giving her anything today but going to give her just a small amount of base nutes.
- Fed Dual Fuel @ 2ml/L........650ppm with 5.8pH.........looking back at this, I should have left her with plain water this feeding.
Dec 25/19
- Moving along and getting the medium in better shape. runoff water today was 1,000ppm and pH was 6.1.
- Can deal with the pH level but would like to see it just under 6.0. The ppm is coming down.
- Fed her 1.5L again today with a ppm of 600 and pH of 5.8. Gave, VeloKelp @ 2ml/L, Piranha and Voodoo @ 2ml/L, Dual Fuel @ 0.5ml/L.
Dec 26/19
- Noticed today that the new growth has narrow blades. Potassium issue is first impressions. Also makes sense that she has been showing signs of CalMag deficiency but is not true.
- runoff water today was down to 900ppm but the pH is still at 6.1.
- since she is getting bigger, she was given her first good bend over the fourth node to start her LST training. Not ready to tie down yet just getting her used to the change to come. She will straighten out again by morning.
Dec 27/19
- The bend from LST yesterday gave her a little more vigour in appearance this morning. She appears to have grown upwards more and more leaves are pointing up.
- Still too much going on in the medium so only gave her 1L of water with CalMag in it @ 2ml/L at 200ppm with a low 5.4pH.
- Also, noticed the green is starting come out more in her......cut back on the ppm going into her.
Dec 28/19
- She is looking better today. Her top leaves are widening up from what the new growth looked liked yesterday.
- She still has some lower branches where the leaves are not perky but don’t look unhealthy at the same time.
- Her height is doing well and will pull her out today and see if she is tall enough to tie down and get the LST started while stem is still pliable and before she really takes off on new growth.
- LST done and she has formed a nice structure and side branching is thick but still pliable.
- Gave 2L of RO water with 2ml of Green Plant Nutrients Rezin. This does not change the ppm at all. Only 45ppm with 5.4pH going in.
- Runoff water was 1400ppm with 6.2pH. (Tested runoff from yesterdays watering)
- After feeding runoff was 800ppm with 5.8pH - perfect!!
- Folier spray tonight with VeloKelp to calm her down?