Day 25 update: girls are doing pretty great . Have been flooding every 2 days now and they are loving it feed is around 850-900ppm on both beds, the Fire ogs have been exploding and have been requiring some pruning so I pruned them up two days ago and the Purple punches today. Definitely opened them up more. Have been top feeding once a week on both beds (DTW). Laid down my first line of netting for support and will flip a few days after they breach the first layer so I’m hoping in a 1-2 weeks I will be flipping them. Haven’t set my net on the purple punches because one of the trellis support beams won’t fit in the hole because of a bad weld. Figuring out what I can do to get the post in but it isn’t too dire as the PP’s have a bit to go only maybe a few days of growth behind the fires. Few issues I’ve been dealing with and have dealt with below:
I’ve mentioned my previous issue with PM and gnats, none have returned , I treated with the milk to water spray , then got recommended I safe spray at the hydro shop so I sprayed ph water after the milk for a few days to wash it off and used this spray as it was recommended to completely eliminate these , and I believe they did I will spray weekly until I flip to assure no issues carry on into flower.
Now a very dumb mistake I fed about 2 mil / gallon of cal mag too much in my PP bed, it was an accident I mixed up the numbers so I had to dilute the feed down a bit to 725ppm and managed that for a few days, the girls were a little pissed off but fought through the possible toxic level of cal mag. No major markings but they were droopy for a few days .
Also I have installed my Pulse hygrometer I like it but I am having issues getting consistent humidity readings which throw off my vpd so I’m not so stoked I’m going to contact the company after the weekend to see if I can tweak the placement or calibrate the machine better? Idk
Below I’ll show a photo of my only current deficiency on two of my fire ogs. Idk if anyone has any consensus on it it’s some brown spotting on the tip. Only occurs on 2 of 16 plants , im maybe thinking it’s too much cal mag I did use the recommended amount of 5ml from emerald harvest but I have been recommended to use less which I will try on this weekends res change.
And one final comment , I’m liking ebb and flow but my biggest issue has been keeping the bed clean and fully draining after floods , minimal algae builds up sometimes and it doesn’t seem all that cleanly. I have all them hooked up for a drip system I could switch to a DTW , I’m leaning more and more towards it every day haha my only thing to research would be how often to feed and measuring how much to feed
Beds are split with 16 fire ogs on one and then 10 Purple punch on right side of one bed with 7 fire ogs to the left
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