Indoor Blueberry Skunk Auto

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Blueberry Skunk D24:
Today was a big day - I turned on the autopot system and so far so good - no leaks, no major issues. I made the mistake of turning on the system before putting the fabric pot in it, so it filled up to a higher level and when I put in the pot, it kinda started spilling over, so I immediately took out the pot and put the water back in the reservoir - so glad that I had a tap/valve to turn it off.

Autopot

Runtz D10:
She seems to be settling in well, but it's a bit scary to see so many roots at the bottom of the solo cup (hoping that she won't get too much of a shock when I transplant her to her final pot)

 

[MrAutoGrower]

Don’t top her.

Only top plants who have shown vigorous growth and healthy from the start bro. Otherwise there’s a high chance of stunting her again and having her flower early on ya.

Bend her over, start with some light LST

 

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Don’t top her.

Only top plants who have shown vigorous growth and healthy from the start bro. Otherwise there’s a high chance of stunting her again and having her flower early on ya.

Bend her over, start with some light LST

I see.. ok.. first time doing LST, so this will get interesting.

 

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Blueberry Skunk D25:

She seems to be doing quite well on Autopot bottom feeding - she seems like a hungry girl and has consumed quite a bit of water/nutes so far (I wonder if I was underfeeding her all these days). I have decided to top - will do it after the 5th node tomorrow, so that I can have 10 colas going and not have to do too much in terms of LST, etc. Wish me luck!

Runtz D11:
Too many roots at the base of the solo cup to the point that some of them were extending out of the cup, so decided to transplant it to the larger pot and was a bit apprehensive, but it was the easiest transplant so far - I had cut the base and made 2 vertical slits across the cup. The cup was held together with tapes, so I removed the tapes holding the base and one of the vertical splits and out came the plant just like that! I am going to be using this method for all my future grows. Her 3rd set of true leaves have just sprouted - hoping for minimal transplant shock.

 

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Blueberry Skunk D26:

Yes, it happened today - she got topped after the 5th node. I don't see any signs of flowering yet, so hoping this doesn't cause too much of stress. Ever since I have been bottom feeding her via the reservoir, I have been observing a large shift in the pH daily, so I have been using down pH everyday. I tested the autopot tray pH and that was high too, so brought them all down to around 6 pH. I will start using RO water going forward (hopefully that will keep the pH more stable)

Here is the topped part:

Runtz D12:

Looks like she hasn't skipped a beat after being transplanted. She seems to be coming along fine.

 

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Blueberry Skunk D27:
I sense a bit of a stall in her growth, but I suspect the pH drift to 7+ is causing issues. I have switched over to RO water and increased nutes PPM to 400. I will be refilling the reservoir tomorrow with new nutes and closely monitor pH drift too.

Runtz D13:
Fed her 2.2 liters of 250 PPM nutes pH'd to 6 (20% runoff). I think she was short of nutes, so upping the nutes PPM should help

 

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Blueberry Skunk D28:
She completes 4 weeks today and I still don't see any signs of flowering. She seems to coming along fine. I realized that my pH down is completely useless - pH drifted back to the original value within 24 hours (0.7 upward drift)! My nutes brought down the pH of the RO water to 6.4. Until I get my new batch of pH down, I will have to lower pH every day.

Runtz D14:

 

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Blueberry Skunk D29:
She has had a big spurt in growth I feel (canopy grew by an inch or 2 within a day). I also switched out her nutes to RO based water with 400 PPM of nutes. pH is going up by 0.1 every hour until it gets to the baseline pH of 6.4, which is insane! I can't wait for the new pH down solution to get here.

Runtz D15:
She is already on her 4th node (can barely see the 4th set of leaves). By far this is the fastest amongst all the plants I have grown (grand total of 3 ). I genuinely believe using the solo cup has made all the difference.

 

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Blueberry Skunk D30:

She's already a month old and I still don't see any signs of flowering! She has put on a lot of growth in the past 24 hours. She is now on 400PPM of nutes and strangely enough, the pH seems to be holding right now (not sure if it's due to it being in an enclosed reservoir). I am planning to do a bit of training to get more light to the lower bud areas (currently being blocked by the large fan leaves)

Runtz D16:
Fed her 2 liters of 250 PPM nutes at 5.8pH - she seemed quite hungry. Looks like I am still about 10 days away from turning on bottom feeding for her.

 

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Blueberry Skunk D31:
No pictures today. pH of nutes has held at 6 today around 10:30AM. Also, moved up the lights to create a 12 to 13” inch difference between the lights and the canopy. Increased the light intensity to 55% to give a PPFD in the range of 750 to 850 at the canopy. DLI is around 56, so should be good for now. She has grown quite a bit today with all the branches coming through now.


Runtz D17:
After increasing the height of lights and intensity, PPFD is around 725. 4th node separation isn't visible yet, but I am already seeing side branches from the lower nodes coming through.