Diary PCBuds mini-grow

[PCBuds]

I'm not sure about the potassium silicate. I know it should go in the tank first though, and have a good mix around. People are talking about an hour. Calmag has similar mixing needs, but can't go first when pot-sil is being used.

That's too much work.
I just wait until my bobber reads 2" of solution left and mix up more solution.
I just mix it all together...

I have my Folgers Coffee container marked at 1/2 gallon and 2 liters.
I mix up 2 liters at a time...

Back to the spiky looking serrations, I may of picked up the answer in another thread. It can be a sign they are not drinking, due to excessive salt at the root... As it's too salty.

It shouldn't be too salty.
It's brand new media with coco coir, perlite and a soil mites.

I was under nuting since the start, so I don't think I should have any salt buildup.
I figure the plant should have absorbed all the nutes ?

Not a lot can push out P, but if anything, it's likely calcium. Which also pushes out Mg. I'm not sure it matters though, unless you are being a bit heavy with the calmag. Which carries some N usually, and we do see N toxicity. I think we spoke about that.

I figure that she is looking OK and all the problems she has had were from earlier issues that are still showing on the plant.

She does seem to look better now, but the main cola and the leaves don't look 100%.

The lower colas look pretty good...

The top of the main cola is reading 24,000 lux, while the side colas are reading 20,000 lux.

Perhaps she is getting too much light ?
But all my other plants have had even more light.

I see you like thermometers. I just got a new type. Temp and RH, displayed constantly.

I don't really care too much about my RH and temperatures, because there is little that I'm willing to do to try to adjust that.

I'm not buying an air conditioner, humidifier, dehumidifier, to accommodate a plant.

I have several thermometers because the temperatures can differ from each other a lot, so I take an average of the readings, to determine when to turn on my exhaust fan.

It was close to freezing with frost warnings here a couple of weeks ago, and now we're pushing 34°C with a humidex of over 40°C, so I had to turn on the fan to blow the heat out of the closet.

The air blows through a furnace filter at the bottom and then blows out the top of the closet.

It's still pretty warm in there.

 

[PCBuds]

What I don't like is how the solution at the bottom of my SIP container is always really high...

That could mean that I have all kinds of nute lockouts going on.

I put the solution in from the top at the stalk at 5.8 PH and it drains through the media and gets to the bottom at 6.8 - 7.5 PH.


That could be a big part of my problem, but I have completely ignored my PH in the past and had much bigger happier plants.

I don't like to drain and dump my "reservoir" because it seems like a waste but I have drained it, PHed it and poured it back in.

Perhaps it's better to just LIFTA and let the plant figure it out ?

I may be upsetting the plant by constantly playing with the PH ?

 

[PCBuds]

I decided to mix up a 2 liter batch of nute solution using degassed tap water.

This is what it ended up at without any PH up or down...

That's perfect !!!

I'm not going to bother with the RO water anymore, I'll use it for my coffee...

And who knows,.?

Maybe the tap water has buffers in it to keep the PH stable ??




That's what I used to do before I got my RO filter and never checked my PH..
Tap water and Maxigro/Bloom..

 

[PCBuds]

I've got nothing against this plant,..
She's all beefy with buds..

It's just that she's so tiny...
She's less than a foot and a half tall.

I want a four foot plant that's just as beefy...
Maybe a pounds worth of buds...

 

[f-e]

5.95 Nice.

I'm just now reading your gauges and looking at the airflow and airspace around your plant. It might be having water retention issues. Rather than problems picking some up. I would really like to know what the spiky look means, having seen it so often in images.

My Temp/RH meters were a flop. I looked after 24 hours and it seems one just pressed the (non existent) reset button itself. 20 minutes later the other still has it's high and low scores from over 24 hours ago. So in use, there is a good chance they will of just deleted the data I want (like this first time) or I won't know how old the readings are (Like this time) so the min/max isn't the best ever... it's the worst.

 

[PCBuds]

I'm just now reading your gauges and looking at the airflow and airspace around your plant. It might be having water retention issues. Rather than problems picking some up. I would really like to know what the spiky look means, having seen it so often in images.

I aimed my circulation fan down a bit ,so it's blowing towards the middle of the plant now.

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I wonder if the spiky look is permanent, even if she's happy now.

I don't have any new growth to watch anymore.
She's well into flowering now, so it's just the buds filling in.


She's 18" tall now, so she grew another 1/2".

 

[PCBuds]

Some pictures from today...

 

[PCBuds]

The closet plant...

 

[ReikoX]

She may not have gotten very tall, but she sure is chunky.

 

[PCBuds]

She may not have gotten very tall, but she sure is chunky.

Yeah, !!
I'm going to get a lot of big buds off of her. !!

I'm guessing 50-75 grams ??

 

[PCBuds]

I might get a gram or two off my outdoor plant. Lol

I've got a cool mosquito eater keeping watch over her...

 

[PCBuds]

Dragonflies are cool !!!
They don't mind posing for pictures.

 

[PCBuds]

My float bobber was right at the bottom of the planter, so I gave it 2 liters of water, but the float didn't move, so I gave it another 2 liters and water started running all over the closet.

It turned out that the bobber was stuck. Lol


I took the planter out of the closet to clean up the mess and took a few pictures in the daylight.
I still find it hard to take a picture that looks like what I'm seeing though.
Maybe I should take the plant outside for pictures ?

 

[PCBuds]

My outdoor plant with it's Dragon.

I've got Dragon poop on my plant, but that's OK.
It should wash off. Lol

 

[PCBuds]

 

[exploziv]

Nice pics man!

 

[Frosty Nuggets]

Dragonfly poop on your plant? Foliar feeding.

 

[PCBuds]

Nice pics man!

Thanks.

It was a lot easier to take a picture of the dragonfly.
I was using the macro lens on my phone and had it 4 cm from the dragonfly.
It just smiled for the picture. Lol

I find it difficult to take plant pictures and have it all in focus.

 

[PCBuds]

Dragonfly poop on your plant? Foliar feeding.

Yeah, I guess.
It's all natural. Lol

 

[Caio]

Great garden PC... As always. Keep up the good work