Gracias amigos!
I have no clue what day we're on, have to check my notes... This will be a quick photo update just to log things.
This grow is entirely different in all senses. First, I'm not timing it by days but going for max performance, and I am happy to see my idea work. An "oversized" pot with a very root-friendly medium will promote a massive plant. Well, it looks like it anyways. I can now clearly see that it is possible to extend veg time with auto's. On my other tent using biobizz nutes, they are well well well into flowering, stretch is almost done and bud fattening is a-happening - as a reference point this is... (wait for excel to open...) - day 46 !! - The biobizz have around 3 or 4 weeks left I'd say, these 20L coco plants I have no clue, budsites are still forming everywhere - its scary!! - better pics soon!
The beans are all sisters, the latitude is exactly the same, GPS coordinates vary about 5m, temperature are +3ºC in the biobizz tent... so all in all its everything except the environment and the genetics that is dictating the difference.
I was out for the weekend and had my girl water them, and my jaw dropped when I returned. I thought they were stretching, but now they are exploding. I actually feared I had too little plants for my 1.2x 1.2 x 2m tent, but boy am I in for a ride! They sure are filling up the space. My little goji plant in the corner will soon notice for sure.
I usually have white flies f*cking about, hate them buggers. Brought in some heavy artillery. Unluckily for her I managed to completely irradicate the nuisance before her arrival...
On another note, I am not happy with my auto irrigation system. I changed the drippers 'cos I felt it was not even enough - but even with a makeover... the damn hailea pump fails to pump most of the time. It sits there rattling like crazy. I have to switch off and on a couple of times for it to kick into suction, sometimes even disconnect the filter and shake the pump a little - no obvious cause/effect from it though... This is a Hailea HX 4500, I thought it to be reliable... Any input of this very welcome!- looking for an mj1000 to replace
Anyways, transitioning into bloom, I've up'ed the pH to around pH 6.0 - Feeding is exactly the same except I've up'ed the silicon which also rises the EC.
In order of apearance
Tap water - ph 7.5, EC 0.3 - sits for minimum 24 hours in a rez
Then I prep the soup.
0.5 ml/L Cal Mag Bloom (thinking of lowering, plants are starting to look too dark green - think this is a good idea entering bloom phase?)
0.75 ml/L Silicon, and pretty soon up'ing to 1ml
This puts EC to around 0.6 - 0-7
2.0ml/L Canna A&B (EC goes to 1.7 - 1.8)
1.0 ml/L Rhizo
2.0 ml/L Sensizym
0.25 ml/L Carboload
So in essence, I'm actually feeding EC 1.1 to 1.2 ... obviously cal mag is also feed, but most of it goes to buffer the coco's CEC potential.
The plan is to keep final EC around the same mark, increase silicon in this explosive growth phase, decrease cal mag supplement very gradually while inversely increasing the carbs. I may "spike" the soup with a little pk nudge flowering a little but not decided yet...
... in fact doing this time lapse was what reassured me they were not stunted as I watered the minimum possible. They really took off slow, but the roots also spread out lots more. My biobizz tent is budding hard and fast while these have just sexed. So could this be a cool little trick to extend veg time with auto's? And will the yield correspond to such predicament?
