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Diary PCBuds mini-grow
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PCBuds
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The sucky part is that I ended up with my lights bass ackwards.
I've got my 2' 5000k strips on the ceiling, and my 3500k strips on the walls.
Maybe next grow, I can start the plant off with just the 3500k side lights and see what happens?
I'd make sure to dial it in to 5000 LUX for the baby and 8000 LUX for the seedling, to make sure it doesn't end up squat from too much light.
I think that would be a good test ?
Perhaps you can remind of this with my next plant, because I'm sure that I'll forget, and won't be able to find this post. Lol
I think I'll try another one of your new seeds again, to see if I can get a bigger plant than the last attempt with the new batch of seeds ?
PCBuds
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She is standing almost normally now.
I'm really liking my new round SIP container.
I can easily rotate the plant around.
The plant tends to lean away from the wind from the circulation fan, so I can spin her around to keep her growing straight.
So, I gave my plant a spin and ended up having a fan leaf getting sucked into the fan. Lol
I made a bit of Cannibis salad.
It's good to prune your plants.
It keeps them healthy and strong. lol
I'm really liking my new round SIP container.
I can easily rotate the plant around.
The plant tends to lean away from the wind from the circulation fan, so I can spin her around to keep her growing straight.
So, I gave my plant a spin and ended up having a fan leaf getting sucked into the fan. Lol
I made a bit of Cannibis salad.
It's good to prune your plants.
It keeps them healthy and strong. lol
PCBuds
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She's 34" tall today and looking pretty good.
Interestingly, it's just the stems of the leaves that have turned purple.
The main stalk at the bottom is also turning purple, but the branches of the colas are still green.
I gave her another 2 liters of water.
I've got my lights set at 20,000 LUX but the strips are drawing less than half of what they were set at for all of the other plants I've grown.
I'll give her a while at 20,000 LUX then I'll crank it up some more.
f-e says that about 50,000 LUX is the maximum that I should go to, so I turned up my lights to the test current and got readings of right around 50,000 LUX, so that's perfect.
The weather if finally cooling off with fall setting in, and that works out great with the extra heat in the closet from all the lights being on.
Interestingly, it's just the stems of the leaves that have turned purple.
The main stalk at the bottom is also turning purple, but the branches of the colas are still green.
I gave her another 2 liters of water.
I've got my lights set at 20,000 LUX but the strips are drawing less than half of what they were set at for all of the other plants I've grown.
I'll give her a while at 20,000 LUX then I'll crank it up some more.
f-e says that about 50,000 LUX is the maximum that I should go to, so I turned up my lights to the test current and got readings of right around 50,000 LUX, so that's perfect.
The weather if finally cooling off with fall setting in, and that works out great with the extra heat in the closet from all the lights being on.
PCBuds
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Yup, that's been done.
I started about 3 waterings ago.
The watering before that was half & half.
A high EC will cause some stretch. Increasing it further can stop them drinking so much, giving wilt signs to watered plants. Where the wilt becomes curling back under seems to indicate this. Such signs may go after watering the EC down each day, then come back as the water is consumed, increasing root zone EC again, if they don't take the food.
I have seen over fed cuttings stretch, turn red and hard, and curl the leaves under so far the tips were pointing up again. They turn light green and mottling can occur. They can look totally ruined but still come back with a much reduced EC.
Of course, the signs that suggest high EC might be because of the extra transpiration the extra lights bring. Increasing fluid flow within the plant will pull water from around the root, leading to higher EC at the root if the food wasn't taken. This can be so localised a runoff test won't see the full extent of what the root see's
A plant stressed out in this way will do better with less light, or lower EC.
Just some food for thought. The biggest clue might come from your watering schedule compared to the wilting time.
It's best not to drop the EC in huge increments, if you needed to. If the salt level drops a lot at the root, then the salts within the root will try and come back out. This isn't selective, so causes a wobble. In coco, I drop my EC 0.1 and the runoff will raise 0.1 as the plants let go. It was boggling me for a while.
I have seen over fed cuttings stretch, turn red and hard, and curl the leaves under so far the tips were pointing up again. They turn light green and mottling can occur. They can look totally ruined but still come back with a much reduced EC.
Of course, the signs that suggest high EC might be because of the extra transpiration the extra lights bring. Increasing fluid flow within the plant will pull water from around the root, leading to higher EC at the root if the food wasn't taken. This can be so localised a runoff test won't see the full extent of what the root see's
A plant stressed out in this way will do better with less light, or lower EC.
Just some food for thought. The biggest clue might come from your watering schedule compared to the wilting time.
It's best not to drop the EC in huge increments, if you needed to. If the salt level drops a lot at the root, then the salts within the root will try and come back out. This isn't selective, so causes a wobble. In coco, I drop my EC 0.1 and the runoff will raise 0.1 as the plants let go. It was boggling me for a while.
