Day Thirty Eight Update
(I had a full update typed up for Day 34 but (as you'll soon see) I've been so busy that I couldn't get it posted in time)
The last few days have been nothing short of a total fucking disaster! A pipe in my house started leaking and I had to get a plumber out to sort it. Knowing he would need into the loft, I had to pack everything away temporarily. This meant having to untangle all four of them from the screen which was nothing short of a
fucking nightmare and stash them all away in a cupboard until he was done. Once I got everything set-up again, trying to re-insert the screen without snapping branches was just impossible! Then once I got everything set back up again, the pissing leak re-appeared so I once again had to call the dickhead plumber out and pack everything away
again! 
I suppose being stashed in a cupboard for a couple of days was a treat for them as it was at least warm. Back up in the loft, the battle against the temps has been a losing one all week. We've had an average of 12 degrees during lights off. This was with a duvet wrapped around the tent, the second tube heater installed and a heater at the intake. The effect of the cold was really starting to show as the growth rate was way off where it should be and the yellowing of the leaves at the bud sites had gotten worse. I've seen this yellowing before and it has to do with the temperature difference between lights off and lights on being too great (in my case a 13 degree difference!). It is probably compounded with a bit of heat/light stress as I have to keep the lamp as close as I can to keep the temps in the mid 20's.
Then things took another turn for the worse...
This was the absolute final straw for me so I went ahead and ordered up a new DS90 which arrived yesterday...
I stuck the tube heaters and a blow heater inside the tent and the temps today were 19.4 during lights off
I have a bit of scope with the blow heater as I'm only running it at 40% so we should be able to cope when it gets even colder around here. Big thanks to everyone who chipped in with ideas on how to solve the temps issues! This is the third loft I've grown in and is by far the coldest! The extra floor space has made all the difference so hopefully that is the temps saga now sorted...
With the screen gone, I've had to resort to some LST and a little super cropping to keep the canopy level in check. The growth rate has been way off where it should be but hopefully now they will start moving in the right direction again. They were fed on Day 34 with 5ml Bloom (BioBizz), 2ml Booster, 1ml Cal-Mag and 1tsp Molasses. They were fed again today with 5ml Bloom, 2ml Booster, 1ml Silicon, 1ml Cal-Mag (1.5ml for #1 to address a mag def) and 1ml Superthrive.
On the subject of nutes, I'm not overly impressed with Plant Magic so far. I know conditions in the tent haven't been ideal whatsoever but from all the research I done I was expecting a little more from it. I've stopped using the Bloom as the PK ratio is utter shite but will see out this grow with the rest of the range. After that, it will be relegated to feeding the strawberry and tomato plants in the greenhouse
I can't even begin to tell you how disappointed I am with how this run has gone so far. We got off to a great start but it's been downhill ever since and the past week has been a major kick in the balls! Although we now have all the issues sorted, the damage has been done in many respects. This is not how I wanted my first AFN grow to go at all but hopefully now the temps are sorted, things should start looking up. I think they'll still be good for 2oz each which all things considered will be a great result.
Drastic action is required!
I am going to start on the 25th of this month,the reason being is that I am on a very tight budget. It took me awhile to save,at first I was going with a smaller version it was a 2x4 tent with a 400w and no leds. I saw the setup I have for another 150.00 and went with that,that 150.00 was to cover nutes,soil,smart pots,ph meter,and seeds so that left me only enough to get three seeds after that it will get filled with the max amount. I get paid once a month so I had to wait until the 25th of this month. Bummer thing is I got my tent and beans on the same day so it made the wait just even harder. That's my long answer
