Your are welcome, @Lostgirl. It’s what we are here for and what we enjoy doing. We all want you to be successful.
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You may find this helpful. It can take a couple of weeks for trichs to go to amber from clear. If you want much amber, then 1 more light feeding might be in order to sustain her through the ripening process.
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I would definitely like to see 20% Amber before cutting her down. Everybody’s eyes are different and I’m the first one to admit that I can’t distinguish clear from cloudy very well. But to me she looks 80% clear
I have cataracts and can’t see all that well either, but I’m with you on 80% clear.
I’m having cataract surgery in Nov and am excited for it to happen. I need the help.
About what I shoot for too. It will likely take a couple of weeks to get there. Keep posting pics every few days and we’ll help you get there.
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Once again thank you very much. I just got my new glasses 5 months ago. I literally have an appointment for tomorrow to go get yet another pair. Blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other. I wish you successful in your surgery. If it’s the laser surgery you’re referring to I’ve heard nothing but good things.
I actually have another plant that is starting to give me a bit of a fit rather than start a new thread on her I’ll just pop a post on here in a few minutes with some pictures and explain it to you.
I’m doing a lens replacement.
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Thiis is a Do-Si-Dos Autoflower. She popped out of the dirt on the 4th of July. She’s grown and Happy Frog 4 to 1 Coco added for easy root establishment as I feel happy frog can get kind of hard on its own.
Shortly after her stretch I noticed she got the need for a Cal mag shot I’m assuming because she has about 15% coco. After giving her the Coco shot I noticed her stretch put her over 5 ft tall. I had to super crop her just to get her into the tent. All seemed well and she began to Bush extremely bad her butt sights were covered with leaves. I gave her a full defloration. Assuming after the stretch was a good time to do this before she got well into flower. Well I was wrong my friend she stressed out over it continued to turn yellow so I gave her another 150EC shot of Cal mag.
She seems very behind on budding. She has a twin sister they were born within an hour of each other. Her sister’s kind of smaller but not by much they’re both huge. The sister’s buds have grown massive here’s a comparison. The first picture is the girl in question
Below is the sister
I know what receipt is different and because it was born at the same time doesn’t mean it’s going to follow suit. However I just figured I would show you an example.
On the two feeds that I gave to the girl for what look to be a calcium deficiency I gave her base nutrients only with the Cal mag shot. I use advanced nutrients three part base pH perfect. (I love this stuff)
So it seems she’ll clear up for a few days and it’s right back. Last week assuming something was wrong beyond the Cal mag I flushed her with plain RO water gave her yet another shot of 150 EC of Cal mag and base nutrients only. For the record I always double buffer my coco.
Her runoff have been great here’s the one from this morning…
IN
EC 850
PH 6.09
OUT
EC 1050
PH 6.40
In my personal observation I feel she’s lagging behind on butt production. I don’t understand while a simple low dose calmag shot wouldn’t fix her for the next 30 days or so. Her color is very mixed. She’s both lighter and darker throughout the entire plant not just top or bottom. I’m just a little lost. One thing that I didn’t point out is she so tall that I have to bend her main Stark tie it down to a pole in the tent then take the top of the cola and tie it down to the tie down just to make her fit. That’s about all I can think of that you would ask for. Sorry if I went a little overboard
You will want to run pH down to ~5.8 if you are growing on coco.
I wouldn’t say I’m growing in Coco I simply add coco to the fox farm Happy Frog. I use four scoops of Happy Frog and add one scoop of coco. I would say 10 to 12% at best of cocoa is in the soil. Also I do the same thing with every plant that I have and I’ve never had this issue with any other plant and truthfully with the pH perfect system that advanced nutrients supplies I’ve never had a pH issue.
I was always told never adjust the pH unless it goes under 5.0 or over 8.0
Nevertheless, if you think that’s what I have to do what would be the best way to do it I hate using chemicals but I do have pH down.
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Not really a good idea to mix them. Each has differing requirements for watering practices and pH.
I maintain the sweet spot of 6.5 for soil. 7.0 is just too high, let alone 8.0, and 5.0 is just too low. Even 6.0 is pushing your luck on the low end. Above 7.0 locks out manganese and iron. A pH below 6.0 locks out phosphorous, calcium, and magnesium. Not sure where you heard this, but it is not good advice.
Really nice looking plant.
I use my phone and zoom in on video mode (you can put a jewelers loop in front of the camera lense) i film a few minutes, and replay and scroll through frame by frame, and i can further zoom in on a clear image. I find this helps.
I have an outdoor grow so its tricky if theres a wind.
You almost won’t believe this. Advanced nutrients has a technical support line that you can call. I stopped calling him after three phone calls. They were telling me after my fourth feed then I should go full strength on the nutrients. Full strength would have clearly killed my plants. I have never I repeat never had to use anything over 1/4 strength from seed to harvest. I didn’t think telling me to use full strength was very good advice either so I discontinued calling them and I joined this form. What’s the best way to adjust the pH. Am I adjusting the pH on the intake feed or the outtake run off? Forgive me I’ve never had a pH problem
use pH up or pH down to adjust the pH of your feed (after you have added nutrients to the water.) pH should be the last thing you check before you pour it in your pots.
It doesn’t surprise me. Other nute makers do it too. The Fox Farm Trio schedule is far too aggressive, for instance.
Keep in mind that they get paid to sell more nutrients, not less. It is short sighted to make recommendations that are harmful to plants, yet they still do it.
People who aren’t growers just don’t know. We do see here in the forum a lot of examples of “the guy in the hydro shop told me” which lead to problems.
So basically all you’re asking me to do is on this particular girl is to pH her feed once mixed to 5.8 and that should take care of her?
Continual rather than once. pH must be maintained in the proper range. The acceptable soil range is 6.3 to 6.8. Anything outside of that should be corrected. You may not be able to get an improper pH corrected in one watering. It can take a few waterings to get it nailed. You don’t want to shock a plant trying to get it corrected all at once by pouring in an 8.5 pH to get the runoff up. pH is on a logarithmic scale, so for instance a pH of 6 is 10 times as acidic as a pH of 7. It’s important.
Adjust as necessary to maintain a runoff pH of ~6.5 going forward. I suggest 6.5 as your grow media is mostly soil. 5.8 is for pure coco. It’s one of the problems with mixing soil and coco.
Got it thank you. This girl’s a finicky eater. She only eat twice a week. I’ll do about four feeds and post an update. Have a great weekend and thank you sincerely for all your help! 
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Amazing 
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Sorry LostGirl not trying to derail the just wanted MidwestGuy know he is in for a compleat surprise once his Cataracts are fixed, the result is instant once the fog of drugs are gone and you can handle light, had mine done 2 yrs ago one month apart and ya know the sky is blue instead of looking thru a nicotene stained glass, Enjoy your new peepers
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I’m doing the light adjustable permanent lens replacement option. I’ll go in every week for 6 weeks to tune the lens to my vision, so my vision won’t be optimal until after the 6th adjustment 6 weeks later. They use infrared light to tune the lenses. I’ll have to wear those funky sunglasses for 6 weeks whenever I am outside because the IR from the sun will screw up the lens calibration.
My vision sucks and I’m really looking forward to it.
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