Thursday Sep 26, 3024. Day 25. Topped above 5th node. Planning to move to final pots in one week.
Sunday Sep 29, 2024. Day 28. Looking good. I’m using a reptile heat bulb on a timer and allowing a big day/night swing in temp and RH. Day 81 degrees and 53%. Night 72 degrees and 68%.
Thursday Oct. 3, 2024. Day 32. Transplanted GDP2 and GDP3 from 1 gallon to final 5 gallon pots. Root balls look good. Set up watering halos. GDP1 is the spare, thru no fault of her own.
@patrick1960
Sunday Oct. 6, 2024. Day 35 (5 weeks above ground). Temps and humidity 82 degrees 56% day, 71 degrees 68% night. PH/EC/PPM In 5.9/1100/550. Out too high at EC/PPM left 2336/1167, right 2446/1223. Reservoir 4 gallons rainwater, 3.0g CalMag, 6.0g Jack’s part A, 2.0g Epsom, 4.0g B, about 1ml PH Down. EC with just Calmag 168. No silica for now. Watering just once daily for now. Lotsa runoff. Some yellowing and brown spots on lower leaves.
Wed Oct 9, 2024. Day 38. Both plants have reached net 14 inches above soil level. No additional topping planned. I just plan to use the net to spread out the tops. Input PH/EC/PPM 5.9/1250/625. Runoff EC/PPM trending down: left 1600/800, right 1720/860. Raised light a bit. DLI at net 40. Some leaves on both plants have brown spots. Both are lighter green than I like.
I still haven’t culled the spare.
Sunday Oct 13, 2024. Day 42. Cleaned up bottom 6 inches. Set up a second fan so now there’s one oscillating fan above the canopy and one fan down low.
Thursday Oct 17, 2024. Day 46. Both plants look good. Brown spots on leaves did not spread. Reduced Calmag to 0.5g/gal. Input PH/EC/PPM 6.2/1390/695. Timer set to fertigate twice daily. Runoff checked once daily: EC/PPM pretty stable left 1874/937, right 1776/888. I supercropped two branches today and added green garden wire to five branches to even out canopy. I plan to flip light to 12/12 very soon.
Friday Oct 18, 2024 Day 47. Almost 7 weeks from sprout. Removed more fan leaves. Flipped light timer to 12/12 so I’ll call today the last day of veg and tomorrow the first day of flower.
They are looking great.
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024 Day 52. Day 5 since flip. Runoff EC/PPM over past week was as high as 2230/1115, but I have gradually pulled it down. Today: Input 1200/600. Runoff left 1672/836. Runoff right 1814/907. Hope to maintain. Stretching. I wish I had trained more like @patrick1960, because his canopy is beautifully even. I laid on the second net this morning.
Sunday Oct 27, 2024 Day 56, Flowering day 9. Right hand plant stretched 6 inches above net. Tied down 5 branches. Branches are very pliable, I guess because I’m not adding any silica yet. DLI 30. Both plants look great.
Wednesday Oct 30, 2024 Day 59. Day 12 from 12/12 flip. Ideal leaf color everywhere. More stretch. Now starting silica (Pro-Tekt) at 5ml for 4 gallon batch. It’s been dry in Northern Virginia so my rain barrel is almost empty. I may be switching to our “moderately hard” tap water soon.
Yep super dry in DMV, had to water some of my outdoor plants. But the temp and humidity I am loving. I have been leaving both tents open all day, conditions are near perfect.
Sunday Nov 3, 2024 Day 63 Flower 16. Stretch continues. Plants are 38” and 41” above media. I decided to change my light timer and fertigation timers to Eastern Standard Time. So they got the full 12 hours of darkness last night but will get just 11 hours of light today. Now that Im adding silicate to the reservoir, my PH is weird. But plants look great, so I’m trying to not overreact.