You do a great job my friend 
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I don’t finished to read the previous journal but I will 
Thx for sharing this journey with me and I hope I will be present more often.
Take care !
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Great start on your grow! Looking forward to seeing your progress! Take your time, and let the plants do what they do best, and take lots of pics to document the progress of your grow. I have not been on here too often, but I have been playing with some “different looking” clones that I took off of plants in bloom. And the one that is spreading well, is about 51" tall at the highest stem, but the leaves of the whole plant are atypical, and have only three leaves on the leaf cluster, and there are very small spaces between nodes. Really different, and I want to let it go, and let it spread a good canopy that can be scrogged. (we will see)…Anyway, enjoy your grow, and I will be checking on your progress. Great job!
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Hey @M4ur mate howare you doing mate, it has been a while my friend. I have been really wondering if all was good buddy.I hope you where on an excellent holiday or just had some good well deserved rest at least. I’m delighted that you are going to be around more I could definitely do with some help this time buddy or when you can get a chance mate 
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@SmoknGranny @raustin thank you for your support lady’s I appreciate it big time 
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@Smilin thank you for your support also mate yes I’m going to do this step by step and carefully. And for sure I will post lots of pic’s off everything .
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@Myfriendis410 I just read your post on another thread that if you let your Plant get root bound that it would lower your Ph like it does, thank you for that info mate I hadn’t never heard of that before .
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@Johnzy81: I don’t know if you have run across this, so I will pass this on as “nice to know info,”: Soil pH varies by up to half a point over the year. Soil pH tends to be higher (more alkaline) when the soil is cool, and lower (more acidic) in summer, when increased bacterial activity in warmer weather has an acidifying effect on soil. Factor this in when changing soil pH. The higher the organic matter content of a soil, the more lime it takes to raise the soil pH 1 point, and the more sulfur it takes to lower the soil pH 1 point.
Plants grown in soil with a lot of organic matter have healthier roots. They’re able to extract enough nutrients from the soil even when the pH isn’t optimal. When you increase soil organic matter, you’re not really changing soil pH, you’re increasing your plants’ tolerance for acidic or alkaline conditions. As soil acidity increases, minerals like phosphorous, iron, and zinc become more available. The last nugget is one I believe I have experienced, but did not know it until recently. If you are feeding without excess nutrients, and you can see signs of nutrient burn, it can be the result of your plant being root bound. Smaller buds with stunted growth: If your buds grow smaller, or your plants’ overall growth is slower than usual, can also be the result of being root bound. Anyway, have a good grow…
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Being root bound dropped my ph down under 5.0 on my last 2 plants. it sucks because there really is no way to fix it other than transplant. Or none I found. I was lucky and it happened at the end of my grow. My pots are like solid blocks. And those were 3 gallon fabric pots.
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Note has definitely been taking down I have never ran into any off these problems thankfully tho, @Smilin thank you for all off that excellent info, I check my PH every week without fail and I have the room to go up to 7 gallon pot’s I only grow indoor mate, I really appreciate your effort and sharing, that is great info for everyone to benefit from for sure .
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Good morning my friend!! Happy to see your new grow going so well! I think you will have a fantastic run with your skills! I’ll be watching 
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I’ve had that happen as well. You learn from your mistakes, so it’s been quite a while. Thanks for the info @Smilin
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That’s great thank you I will be coming knocking after all your last grow journal is what gave me the motivation and inspiration to do it, oh yes I almost forgot to say Congratulations on working with the lad if I am correct 
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I’d like to take credit but that tidbit came from someone more experienced while diagnosing a problem with someone else. I filed the information away as valuable. @Not2SureYet was having PH problems and between us it jogged my memory into remembering that little factoid.
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Well whoever. I’m just happy that you passed that on 
and I’ve bookmarked it as well.
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I’m in on this grow too. Looks to good to miss!
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@Thelaughingwolf you’re more than welcome to come along we can all learn together mate, @Myfriendis410 exactly what @Budbrother said mate that info was top notch and so much appreciated also and great example off how we all work together on this forum to make thing’s better for us all , thank you all for your interest and I will definitely love all off help along the way.
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@Not2SureYet the more I think about it, the more it seems this is what has been happening to me. My plants thrive, right up until about a few weeks into flowering. Then they nose dive. Symptoms fit being root bound, but I didn’t think this was possible with cloth pots due to air pruning. I guess there’s only so much room. I’m going to try potting up to a 5 gallon a couple weeks before flipping next go and hopefully my plants can find a happy medium between root bound and too big for my space!
All that said, my pH goes UP rather than down, the more roots there are.
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I’m having the same problem as we speak with a gold leaf in mid flower. My other two plants are fine and thriving. All are in cloth pots. Poor GL’s ph was off by more than a point of the others even though all had received same treatment. Best of luck to you in your own grows!
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For reference; my 5gal pot was about 3/4 rootball by the time I switched to flower lighting schedule. Stretch filled up the rest of the remaining soil in the pot and when I tap the cloth pot now it sounds like hitting an empty plastic trash can; that empty thump noise. I ended up thinking GL had root rot a couple weeks into flower and doses her heavily with slf-100 which seemed to help for about 7-10 days and then symptoms came back strong as ever. I’ve tried everything from testing runoff ph as often as possible to doing multiple slurry tests to try and correct her ph issues. At this point she’s not degrading as heavily as before but she’s still limping through the rest of her flower cycle. The most messed up part is she is by far the frostiest of the bunch…
Maybe it’s a lucky side effect of her stress
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OK so folk’s I have now transplanted my lady into a 1 pot, she has been topped at the 4th node and came through with no ill affect and no sign of any shock either I have lots off questions folk’s to be able to get my scrog going and everything that comes with it so thank you in advance I have to get some feeding done so I will leave so photo’s and when I’m back I will have lots of questions.
so this is the pic of how the topping has worked out for me. I’m really happy with her as far as been top she didn’t even miss a beat thankfully.
This is her root system starting to get well established . And now in her new home for another little while, I will probably go up to a 5 gallon with her this time
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