Mephisto Comp Weekly update 2/23/18
@wwwillie @Ripper
Sorry for my bad photography. Have to shoot with flash during lights off in tent to avoid the HPS gold tint, and my girls are on a table, so not much headroom to get all in a shot from above. They all just woke up (lights haven't come on yet and it was 66F temp), so they look a little droopy.
We reconfigured our tent intake and exhaust lines, added a second 1000w HPS light, and have been able to get temps down from high 80sF. We are now running high 70sF to low-mid 80sF during the day and mid-high 60sF to low 70sF at night. RH ranges from as low as 30% to as high as 50%. Not terribly worried about humidity. Been checking the soil pH with my CWP Accurate 8 and it's running between 6-7 pH. Using a mix of half well water and half RO water which generally doesn't require pH balancing and brings down the PPM of my well water to around 100. Using Mephisto soil amendment mixed with Roots Organics Original in bottom of 3 gal airpots and just Roots Original on top. Water only plus recharge once a week, planning on adding Mammoth P during flower.
Most of girls in pre-flower, a couple I think early flowering. Last week I had topped my Solo cup girl Sour Livers and she is really bushing up, but she is clearly struggling some in that cup. Light in color. Nitrogen deficiency? Still learning. Still toying with bailing on the Solo comp and transplanting her. Still need to transplant my stunted Cosmic queen (today as I have 4 other even younger gals to transplant). Yesterday topped Samsquanch and Creme de la Chem. Going to leave the others alone, except I would like to start some LST on at least some of them. Problem is, don't know what I am doing with LST. Will figure it out with some research/help.
Only one more note: my two 4 Assed Monkeys (one older than the other) seem to be different phenotypes it appears? One more squat and bushy, one more open and lanky. I have no clue at this point which of these 7 plants I will choose to move on with in the competition. Will decide last minute. That's the update. Sorry it's a book lol.
Here are a few photos. From front center left clockwise: Sour Livers Solo Cup (31 days), 4 Assed Monkey [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG] (20 days), 4 Assed Monkey [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG] (31 days), Creme dl Chem (20 days). Samsquanch (20 days), Trident Special (20 days), little Cosmic Queen (20 days).
Solo Cup girl Sour Livers (R) and stunted Cosmic Queen (L)
4 Assed Monkey [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG] (the younger)
Samsquanch OG (L) and Trident Special (R)
4 Assed Monkey [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG] (the older) (L) and Creme de la Chem (R)