Lighting MedGrower does HS1 grow - Mazar (Photosensitive / DWC)

[HolyTHC]

Just look in to this nice view! Look as i understand - you have topped em. So now try to GENTLY separate top colas to sides. If there's nothing to separate - wit till they grow a bit, but idea is to spread these and all other colas this way, that plant would remain low, but growing to all sides. You will see how these babies will explode in growth right after one week
Train em some more and give em shower with some Mg before sleep
About training in general: i will say simple thing and you may already know that or understand that, but this is the way to bend everything and not to break anything. Just bend that much, so you feel that it is pretty tight there. At that point you must stop and fixate your bending with anything. Make sure that it remains in right position, but not too tight. Leave it that way and return to it after some time. Then you can continue and bend some more. This way you could fill all your space with one plant and then let it to flover You will see interesting things there

 

[MedGrower]

Quick update; 2nd day in row where the pH battle goes on. This morning the pH had fallen to 5.3 and I upped it now up to 6.4 pH since I expect it to fall again some. I checked the final pH with two pH pens and drop tester to make sure the measurement is right. I just dont get it why this always happen around the 4th week and then just goes away after say... 5th week? I gets really frustrating to have to check pH, adjust, recheck, adjust and so on all the time Thankfully this will end again in about a week..

Canna says pH moving is normal and you shouldnt correct it since it lives according to plants requirements. Yeah... tried that once and it didnt look pretty. So that advice is just total Bravo Sierra.

Plants are looking good, bit dark. Some hints of needing calmag already but I suspect that is result of the pH war I have. Roots look nice and white.

 

[HolyTHC]

Never used Canna... But Cellmax has never shown me any of this. I pH is dropping - i always assume that EC is too high. But in your case... Do not know what to say, but surely want to know, what it is ant why. Hoping you will resolve this.
For more comfortable use buy pH monitor (any normal one), man. It will save you lots of time and hassle...

 

[MedGrower]

You mean that kind of probe that constantly monitors pH? Yeah you are right I should save up for one good one before my head explodes Can you recommend any? I see my local store has some Milwaukee MC110 model that seems good and rather expensive. But I get it that quality costs.

 

[HolyTHC]

Bro, i do not know which is better, Milwaukee should do just just perfectly I use Hanna, works for me perfectly. I thin it's not in the brand, main thing is it is constantly in the nutes and never gets dry. Getting dry is what kills these more often. Just chose one, preferably not cheap chinese shit. These i do not trust...

 

[MedGrower]

Good news! pH has finally settled to 6.1 and has stayed there now for over 24h. EC had risen to 0.9 so I went and gave one litre of plain water to reservoir to help with the situation. Lower branches were still little shadowed so I took a brave step and cut couple fan leaves to allow more light in. I hope it helps!

Marimar encouraged me to go and try some magnesium foliar feed so I started on it now. I used 0.5ml of Canna
MONO Mg on one litre and its EC got to 0.4. I set the pH to 6.7. Does this sound ok guys? Anyway, next day after spraying leaves seemed to be ok. So far so good! I think that even I will feed Canna Boost to the reservoir in blooming phase, I will try it as foliar too! Anything else I should give them as foliar in bloom? Also, should I also spray the buds or just the leaves?

Distance of HS1 is now 35cm from the plants. Next week I will add another HS1 to the mix and engage the flowering phase. I will take pictures soon and give a proper update tomorrow!

 

[TaNg]

Good news! pH has finally settled to 6.1 and has stayed there now for over 24h. EC had risen to 0.9 so I went and gave one litre of plain water to reservoir to help with the situation. Lower branches were still little shadowed so I took a brave step and cut couple fan leaves to allow more light in. I hope it helps!

Marimar encouraged me to go and try some magnesium foliar feed so I started on it now. I used 0.5ml of Canna
MONO Mg on one litre and its EC got to 0.4. I set the pH to 6.7. Does this sound ok guys? Anyway, next day after spraying leaves seemed to be ok. So far so good! I think that even I will feed Canna Boost to the reservoir in blooming phase, I will try it as foliar too! Anything else I should give them as foliar in bloom? Also, should I also spray the buds or just the leaves?

Distance of HS1 is now 35cm from the plants. Next week I will add another HS1 to the mix and engage the flowering phase. I will take pictures soon and give a proper update tomorrow!

Just spray the leaves bro also only cut leaves off if tucking isn't an option, I only defoliate the very bushy plants and that would be after the stretch phase.

 

[MedGrower]

Thanks for the advice bro! I am so happy how well this grow has gone so far and I want to keep on pushing and not ruin it by doing something totally stupid I feel the strech is going to be crucial and will need a lot of attention from me to do the LST well and allow much light into all nodes... I hope it goes well!

 

[TaNg]

Try not to overthink it bro just go or grow with the flow.

 

[MedGrower]

DAY 25

Both plants are doing good. I spotted some signs of calsium defiency on Rightie but I think those can be blamed on the pH wars I've been having with the reservoir. pH was it's lowest around 5.4 and I had to keep correcting it to 6.2. Now it is settled and all good.

I am doing some carefull LST now on the rightie while waiting for the individual brances to grow enough length to start bending them. EC had risen again to 0.9 and there is one leaf tip showing sign of nuteburn on Leftie. I throw in a litre of water to try to tone down the EC some again.

EC 0.9 (lowering it to 0.8 with plain water)
pH 6.1
RH 56
Temperature (Day/Night) 29.3 / 26.4 = DIF 2,9

PICTURES:

Leftie top view: (note the nuteburn leaftip on the bottom)

Leftie side view: (holding couple of large fan leaves down with rubber bands)

Rightie top view:

Rightie side view:

Rigthie leaf closeup: (seems to me like there was a temporare calsium lockout due to super low pH. Am I wrong? )