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Lemon Cherry Cookies Auto by Fast Buds (Day 22)

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I fucked up a little bit: one week ago I added a little bit of organic fertilizer. However I didn't notice that it was a mix of organic with mineral actually. As you might know: you are not supposed to add any minerals because they might destroy the balance of nutrients and bacterias in the organic soil and I'm suspecting that's what is happening here :oops: So growth slightly slowed down and you can see symptoms of Nitrogen burn on new leaves - or at least it looks like that. I think it should be fine in a long term though. It's nothing that can't be fixed but I have to be very careful from now on and I'm going to use plain/filtered water with adjusted pH for a while.

Apart from that: you remember how I said that I will let it grow as it is a week ago? Well... fck that! :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
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she stretched quite a bit :biglaugh: you can also bend the top of the plant with no problems! heck, better bend everything down :biggrin:
 
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Main trunk is VERY thick already so it can't be bend 😅 However I might bend upper branches at 45 degrees in relation to cross branches. It might be 1-2 days too early for that - it would be good for them to grow a bit longer to make the bending easier 🙂
 
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I'm gonna perform some defoliation for sure. But I'm going to wait with that for a day or two. This girl is already stressed a lot, so giving it a few days of break from torture would be a great idea :comfort:
 
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Lemon Cherry Cookies Auto by Fast Buds (Day 28)

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There are more and more pistils popping up. I might count tomorrow as the 1st day of flowering officially :biggrin:

For now there is no need to add any nutrients. Soil is still full of that. However, I added some microbes and a recommended dosage of Acti-Vera (BioBizz) yesterday :geek: Next time I'm gonna start adding tiny portions of Bio-Bloom as well :good:
 
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The plant is mostly fine, and it's not a serious issue but it's still a problem to be solved:

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For the most of the light cycle (18/6), leaves are facing the cobs, looking absolutely normal. But about 3-4 hours before darkness, they start drooping like on the photo above.

Soil is not too wet or too dry in my opinion. pH shouldn't matter - it's in the accaptable range so far and shouldn't be the cause. Temperature is a bit too high but it shouldn't be the main cause as well. A few things that come to my mind:

1. Light intensity might be a little bit too much for the plant at this stage of the growth.
2. Humidity is only 30% which also could be responsible for that - at least to some degree.
3. There is about 15% of perlite in my mix, while ideal ratio to vermicompost and peat moss should be 1:1:1 so maybe roots don't get enough air in the end of the light cycle? It would be a little bit weird considering that they sit in bags that are supposed to improve that aspect, but idk... maybe. I had a grow that was fine without use of any perlite at all, but it was under just one cob.

In the morning everything gonna be back to normal, but drooping is going to just repeat hours later again. The same cycle over and over again. Anyone any idea? :unsure:
 
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My first guess is the light intensity.
The outer edges off the leaves at the top are a sign that the plant can't do what it wants to do.
Raise the lights a little bit and it should improve...if you can raise them. 😁
The DLI is just too high.
Never used cobs but i think you can't dim them but that would also be an option. :biggrin:

You could try to raise the humidity if you can, it's on the lower scale to me.

Is a spike in temperature possible?
 
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I can't rise them... they are like 1cm from the ceiling XDXDXDXD

However I can just decrease the length of the light cycle from 18/6 to 16/8 for example. I saw some canna expert explaining how to manage light energy: with photoperiodic strains you don't have as many options because it should be 12/12 (in most cases) so if it was a photoperiodic strain, I would have to turn off 1 cob or dim them both - if I had dimmers 😅 With autos there is 1 more option: changing the light cycle. Why? Because what matters is not only maximum light intensity that plants can absorb, but a sum of energy they absorb during the whole cycle as well! Many growers are not aware of this 🙂

Edit: how much energy a plant can absorb depends on a few factors and strain selection is one of them. What I got is more indica than sativa. I'm not sure... but it's possible that some indica strains require a little bit less light than other. Of course there are some people running autos on 24/0 but I think that they use smaller light intensity, and more optimal temperature/humidity to make it possible.
 
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It just came to my mind... if I would replace both 1400 mA power supplies with 1050 mA it would be perfect 😯

1. Balanced energy consumption
2. Lower risk of a light stress
3. Lower temperature inside of the tent

New power supplies don't cost a fortune. They are cheap. Damn...
 
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