Day 52 and 23: less nitrogen! no, wait, more nitrogen!
It's day 50-ish for most of the tent (52 for the WWbx1s, the others sprouted a few days later). Flowering is carrying on. I switched from veg (Foliage-Pro) to flower (Bloom) nutrients, and a couple of the plant's fan leaves got really yellow practically overnight. I've switched back to mostly veg nutrients and the other plants are greening up again, but the WWbx1s already had some rough looking fan leaves and dropped a couple. Those two have been a lot touchier with nutrients than the others this grow, being the first to show symptoms of excess nitrogren in late veg, then nitrogen deficiency in flower, and wanting a lot more calcium than everything else. I'm not too worried, though -- a couple other people have mentioned it being finicky about nutrients, and the colas look good. I'm giving the same nutrient mix to everything in the tent, so there's usually something that wants more or less of this and that.
I've been mixing two gallons of nutrient solution at a time, and when one of the gallon jugs is empty I fill that with 1/2 - 3/4 gallon of calmag water, slowly pour that through the pots, and measure the runoff. (And then give it to other potted plants.) It's usually been 400-500ish us/cm over the input, which means some buildup is getting washed out, but it's a far cry from the 1500-2000+ us/cm flushed out last grow when I didn't get around to it. Watering to runoff every 5 or 6 days seems often enough without being a lot of extra hassle.
I rearranged them so that the tallest plants are in the back -- the Pakistan Ryder and Sweet Trainwreck are a few inches taller than the WWbx1s now -- and the shorter Bobby's Widow is still front-right.
WWbx1#1. Some of the fan leaves that got spotty like calcium deficiency are looking worse for wear now. I switched to adding a little calmag instead of epsom salts (the base nutrients already contain some calcium and magnesium), but the older growth isn't going to recover. (The bottle in the tray is there to help keep the top-heavy plant from tipping.)
The Pakistan Ryder is well into flower now, looking like WWbx1#1 did about two weeks ago. If this one ends up finishing quite a bit after the others I can move it to the other tent with the APBE, I guess. Some of the top fan leaves are looking a bit stressed because it kept stretching and was briefly too close to the lights.
Bobby's Widow #4, shorter than the others and quietly doing its thing.
WWbx1#2 is filling out like #1. It too has some yellowing/spotted fan leaves, though not quite as bad as #1. It has floppy OG branches, and after taking that picture I added wires so the side branches are held up better, supported by the stronger branches.
One of WWbx1#2's tops.
The Sweet Trainwreck is filling out too, looking like it will have some long colas.
Sweet Trainwreck top, with flash highlighting the growth all the way down.
Meanwhile, the Auto Purple Bastard Eater is on day 23 from sprout. I'm planning on topping it in the next few days, once there's a clear shot at cutting above the fourth node. The nubs on the branches near the stem have turned into independent branches now, and hopefully topping will make them really take off.
There are a lot of roots underneath the airpot, in the bottom of the bucket. I probably missed my chance to stick the whole airpot in a larger airpot, but I'm fine with just bottom-feeding it. I moved it to a wider bucket instead. (I forgot to add a wick when I set up the airpot, that may have given it a quicker start.)
I'm about to mix more nutrient water for the APBE, so far it's been getting by on distilled water with about 150 us/cm of pro-tekt and only 250 us/cm of foliage-pro, which is nothing. I'm going to increase the f-p, but still staying quite low.
It's day 50-ish for most of the tent (52 for the WWbx1s, the others sprouted a few days later). Flowering is carrying on. I switched from veg (Foliage-Pro) to flower (Bloom) nutrients, and a couple of the plant's fan leaves got really yellow practically overnight. I've switched back to mostly veg nutrients and the other plants are greening up again, but the WWbx1s already had some rough looking fan leaves and dropped a couple. Those two have been a lot touchier with nutrients than the others this grow, being the first to show symptoms of excess nitrogren in late veg, then nitrogen deficiency in flower, and wanting a lot more calcium than everything else. I'm not too worried, though -- a couple other people have mentioned it being finicky about nutrients, and the colas look good. I'm giving the same nutrient mix to everything in the tent, so there's usually something that wants more or less of this and that.
I've been mixing two gallons of nutrient solution at a time, and when one of the gallon jugs is empty I fill that with 1/2 - 3/4 gallon of calmag water, slowly pour that through the pots, and measure the runoff. (And then give it to other potted plants.) It's usually been 400-500ish us/cm over the input, which means some buildup is getting washed out, but it's a far cry from the 1500-2000+ us/cm flushed out last grow when I didn't get around to it. Watering to runoff every 5 or 6 days seems often enough without being a lot of extra hassle.
I rearranged them so that the tallest plants are in the back -- the Pakistan Ryder and Sweet Trainwreck are a few inches taller than the WWbx1s now -- and the shorter Bobby's Widow is still front-right.
WWbx1#1. Some of the fan leaves that got spotty like calcium deficiency are looking worse for wear now. I switched to adding a little calmag instead of epsom salts (the base nutrients already contain some calcium and magnesium), but the older growth isn't going to recover. (The bottle in the tray is there to help keep the top-heavy plant from tipping.)
The Pakistan Ryder is well into flower now, looking like WWbx1#1 did about two weeks ago. If this one ends up finishing quite a bit after the others I can move it to the other tent with the APBE, I guess. Some of the top fan leaves are looking a bit stressed because it kept stretching and was briefly too close to the lights.
Bobby's Widow #4, shorter than the others and quietly doing its thing.
WWbx1#2 is filling out like #1. It too has some yellowing/spotted fan leaves, though not quite as bad as #1. It has floppy OG branches, and after taking that picture I added wires so the side branches are held up better, supported by the stronger branches.
One of WWbx1#2's tops.
The Sweet Trainwreck is filling out too, looking like it will have some long colas.
Sweet Trainwreck top, with flash highlighting the growth all the way down.
Meanwhile, the Auto Purple Bastard Eater is on day 23 from sprout. I'm planning on topping it in the next few days, once there's a clear shot at cutting above the fourth node. The nubs on the branches near the stem have turned into independent branches now, and hopefully topping will make them really take off.
There are a lot of roots underneath the airpot, in the bottom of the bucket. I probably missed my chance to stick the whole airpot in a larger airpot, but I'm fine with just bottom-feeding it. I moved it to a wider bucket instead. (I forgot to add a wick when I set up the airpot, that may have given it a quicker start.)
I'm about to mix more nutrient water for the APBE, so far it's been getting by on distilled water with about 150 us/cm of pro-tekt and only 250 us/cm of foliage-pro, which is nothing. I'm going to increase the f-p, but still staying quite low.
