Indoor kfigerm tries his best

[kfigerm]

So it's monday and a hard days sundown is coming
so now comes the lush part
There is not much talk. after the runtz showed some defs too I ramped up EC to 2.0 on all. Feeding twice a day.
Still same feed schedule, hope stretch is through soon.
The runtz is a good new reference, she grows as expected..the others outperform my expectations.

some underwear pics - the big fans are still on - picked some feafs off here and there above - but as long as i can i keep those to use them as indicators

ond some root stuff and pyramid...looks like a snowy mountain.

so theres no homework to do...love it ...boring grow to do the fun things.

Cheers!

 

[kfigerm]

Hi guys and gals,

I was away for some (4) days, but I know for just some days the pyramids take good care and my autofeeding works, as long as I don't mess it up.
...y'all know what they say, "autoflowers grow small, are hard to grow" and all that sh....shallow waters they wade in.

No magic was done on them and you know I like it boring with just nutes and no fuzzing around, they just grow..... and I am in a "mess" now.
If I knew they would grow like this over the last days I would have hit them harder to somehow stunt them.Though I had some clues in the fanleaves, which outgrew the Ultimates fanleaves.
And they are advertised to grow up to 1.4m...well.. If I wouldn't know better i would think they stretched for light, but they are hit with the FC-3000s' full blast (100%) for some weeks now.

Before I left I set up all with in with 14-5-15-7 (NPK8-11-16) at EC 1800. I couldn't adjust PH so I guess it was somewhere around 6.5-7..just took a probe and it was 7.0.

The next days I will have busy times getting the "mess" proper again . I think there will be some supercropping and bending. But where to, which direction? the box is fully stacked.

Happy may day...or should I cry out loude "MAYDAY MAYDAY!!!!"


Ready forthe show.?.Here it comes:

runtz: 80 cm
ssc: 88 cm
ws: 100 cm

the next grow I will have to do some thing shorter, theres just 20 cm left to the lights.
I will take them some of their leaves, to steal them some power.

Sorry, I am surprised myself..i really tried to keep it "boring" and calm.
Cheers!

 

[Sawney_bean]

Looking good mate.

 

[kfigerm]

thanks.

 

[kfigerm]

I had to be brutal with them.
First some nice pics

and now to the harm I have done to the watermelon skittlez...stems all twisted to soften them and them bend down a bit just above a branch that is approx at canopy height.

Still have no evidence cos all was running and nothing was wrong/futsched when I was away, but I still think there must have been a light outage for several hours at least, perhaps a day.This stretch is abnormal to me, but i havent grown those strains before.

Well, it is what it is, so I try to somehow bring it to a good end.

Cheers!

 

[kfigerm]

ha, got it on the record - there was an outage, nearly a whole day..wtf???
I found some leaves dropping off today and some were like they were too dry for some time, so i looked deeper into all my systems and found

the day out was sat to sun, nearly 24h. I also checked the clock on the timer and it was 4 hours off - so i can near it down to a lights-out of ~20h. This is very interesting, cos nothing else happened and all is/was up and running. ...the closest explanation is as usual a software bug *G* -but nothing in the logs.

not everything you can't explain is a miracle, could be aliens too ;-)

Cheers!

 

[kfigerm]

Another monday after a workful week.
There was a lot to do to get back something you can call a canopy.
The stretch was insane on the watermelon skittles while the strawberry cheesecake profited - looks nice
the runts is somewhere inbetween, lets see how the buds develop. At least theres a lot of space for nice nuggets.
So first some overall shots

and some bud closeups

the last pic is the ssc ans she will be fed on her own now with bloom nutes EC 2...because

she started eating her lower leaves. This is not a problem, it is my indicator for "hey guy, look the upper is green, we want more p and k" to switch to bloom (0-0-20-10 NPK ~ 8-15-13 slowly cutting N during flowering).

I took off most leaves from upper to the lower "skirt" from all.
the other two will be feed on 8-11-16 for a week. they still need it.
The EC was swinging between 1600 and 1900.
In the last pic you see some runoff in the tray, that's the second from a flush this grow - just 4L "waste" yet for the garden.

Everything is now heading to an uncircumventable end.

This time a special salute for all the brits...

Cheers! Cheers! Cheers!

 

[Sawney_bean]

Another monday after a workful week.
There was a lot to do to get back something you can call a canopy.
The stretch was insane on the watermelon skittles while the strawberry cheesecake profited - looks nice
the runts is somewhere inbetween, lets see how the buds develop. At least theres a lot of space for nice nuggets.
So first some overall shots

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and some bud closeups

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the last pic is the ssc ans she will be fed on her own now with bloom nutes EC 2...because

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she started eating her lower leaves. This is not a problem, it is my indicator for "hey guy, look the upper is green, we want more p and k" to switch to bloom (0-0-20-10 NPK ~ 8-15-13 slowly cutting N during flowering).

I took off most leaves from upper to the lower "skirt" from all.
the other two will be feed on 8-11-16 for a week. they still need it.
The EC was swinging between 1600 and 1900.
In the last pic you see some runoff in the tray, that's the second from a flush this grow - just 4L "waste" yet for the garden.

Everything is now heading to an uncircumventable end.

This time a special salute for all the brits...

Cheers! Cheers! Cheers!

Get in there mate and whip off some leaves of you can ?
Helps with so much .

 

[kfigerm]

Get in there mate and whip off some leaves of you can ?
Helps with so much .

Thanks.. well look at the first pic, it shows what is removed - all the stuff except the upper three leaves, that sit between buds down to a little "skirt" at about 30cm is gone. I keep the lower fanleaves on purpose.
My assumption is based on the fact that the plant will thrive healthy until she produced seeds for reproduction as long as she has all she needs.
She only reacts when something is not perfect to remedy.
So as long as I am the plants god, I have to care she prospers, she reacts on ME!
And I have to work together with the lady to keep her happy. For this I leave those big fanleaves there below for "communication" purposes.
I don't want to waste nutes so I try to stay at the lower end (remember, it's really hard to overdose with the pyramids, for me it's just a thing to cope with my 0-runoff strategy).
They have the biggest reservoirs of water and movable nutes, so they react fastest on under/overwatering and to all problems with movable nutes. They give you plenty if insight and TIME to react or if they "change" too fast, you know you are in a mess for sure.
So if you can trust the rest of the environment - which i do, they are a great deal to watch. And If they have damage and it won't progress to other leaves, you are back on track most of the time.
In this thread I already showed some theory incorporated since the grow of the dutch passion ultimate.

tbh I already lost some lower leaves of the ws because of the short dry period - they stretched like hell and at the same time weren't fed - the lower leaves gave their life for the whole of the plants ;-)

Cheers!

 

[kfigerm]

this is the main stage, an you think i should pull off more there?

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