Diagnosis
When I woke up this morning and checked on my ladies I found the PH issue had progressed. It looks like a lockout deficiency of some sort, to my untrained eye it looks like Manganese and maybe something else, but I've included a couple of pictures that will hopefully come out ok if anyone would like to chime in. In addition to the rust spots and some nutrient burn in places I'm seeing some pretty heavy canoeing in a few leaves. and even a small sugar leaf higher up a small bud was practically killed overnight. The crazy thing is it's only affecting Thing 2 which tells me that in addition to having different growth structure, smell, and appearance, she also has vastly different tolerances. I don't mean to be disparaging to RQS, but that is a really really wide gap for a single strain, so I won't be growing any RQS for the foreseeable future. I'm sure they have some good strains but for a strain as old as NL to have this level of genetic drift I can't help but feel like my energy would be better placed elsewhere.
As to what I'm doing about it, I've done another 3 liter flush on each of the girls. Before flushing I added 1 teaspoon of CAMG for evey 3 liters of distilled water. Other than that I took the wire hangers off of my light, and replaced them with much shorter paracord because I feel like what I'm actually seeing in the main cola of Thing 2 is some light bleaching/damage at 40cm which is crazy. So now the closest bud is 50cm or about 20in. I've been using metric for the bulk of this grow because the rest of the world including our seed suppliers use metric so it's confusing to be using two standards and so I switched out of laziness more than anything else.
The supersoil is already starting to kick up some serious funk which smells incredible, like a combination of walking through an old dank forest, and the smell of decay, in a good way if that makes sense. I've really got things together in terms of the process and supplies I'll be needing for the next several grows, and it feels really good, when I walk into my closet I have plants growing, soil brewing, and this big cabinet filled with all growing equipment, it's like a grower's cockpit
Anyway I'm rambling I'm going to post some of the pictures of the issues I"m seeing and hopefully if you guys have a minute you can chime in. Don't get me wrong I'm not biting my nails here because generally the girls look healthy but I do want to get this under control and make sure the steps I'm taking are going to be sufficient to get them back to happy. Peace.
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