Day 42 - Reservoir change day

It has been nine days since the last reservoir change. I chopped one of my plants a couple of days ago and another one today, both were male. I have been able to identity the remaining three big plants as females and the sexual identity of the tiny one is still ambiguous. So the four remaining plants received 4 gallons of water, 30 mL of H2O2, 2 drops of tea tree oil, 3 drops super thrive, 9/8 Tbls (~17mL) floramicro, and 18/8 Tbls (~34mL) of florabloom. I also replaced the MH bulb with a HPS bulb. The current lighting is the 250 watt HPS and four LED panels working as side lighting and reflectors. I don't have any CFLs in the mix right now, but if I can keep the temperature comfortable I hope to add some blue CFLs.

All of the plants have nicely developing root systems; even the dwarf has roots into the reservoir now. They don't seem to be getting taller any more, but they are bushing out very well. The scent is becoming noticeable, but it is still very weak. I'm happy with how things are going and I'm eager to watch these buds begin to swell.

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This is the closet; you can see here the oscillating fan, the LED panels, the 250 HPS, air pumps, air tubing, a white tee shirt acting as a reflector, and some of the plants.


K.R.


E.M.


G.L.


Dwarf-dwarf


Another shot of the closet showing the tangle of wires and tubes.

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Day 43

Yesterday I meant to use tablespoons to measure my nutrients but I realized today that I was using a teaspoon measurer, so I only gave the plants 1/3rd as much food as I meant too. To rectify the situation I added 1/2 Tbls of micro and 1 Tbls bloom to raise the concentrations closer to what I intended them to be. I also added 1 tsp of mycorrhizal inoculant to each bucket today.

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Day 48 - Reservoir change day

Today I decided that maintaining Dwarf-Dwarf was more trouble than it was worth, so now I'm down to three plants. Dwarf-Dwarf had not sexed yet, had irregular and asymmetrical node and branch development, and it was much smaller than all of the other plants. So there.

The remaining three plants all received a fresh 3 gallons H2O, 3 drops of Super Thrive, 30 mL floramicro, and 60mL florabloom. They are thriving under the 250 watt HPS and five 14 watt LED panels for supplemental side lighting and reflection. EM and GL both have received LST. KR is doing well, but she isn't showing nearly as vigorous the growth as the other too are experiencing and a few of the leaves near the bottom have begun to yellow. I hypothesize that I under fed KR last week and she has had less nutrients than the other plants. Hopefully she will perk up with the fresh reservoir.


I took some pictures to show the current arrangement of fans and lights and also to show the growth of the plants over the last week. I will post them later tonight when I can find the camera's cable to hook it up to the computer.

Overall, I'm very pleased with how this grow is going. My only disappointment is that I didn't start more plants. I'm glad I started with six instead of four like I had originally planned. At least this is Lowryder and the grow will be completed soon and I'll get to start all over. There are many reasons to pick or avoid auto-flowering strains; the main reason I like them is how many grows I can complete in a set time span. It gives me more opportunities to start over and apply new things that I've learned. I guess I should be able to start applying what I learned from this grow in three or four weeks.

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Day 49

Ok, here are the pictures I took last night. I apologize for the poor quality, but they show the gist of things.


Here is the current setup; a fan pushing air into the closet, a fan pushing air over the plants, five 14 watt LED panels set up to work like reflectors, and the 250 watt HPS. Temperatures stay in the low to mid 80s and the humidity stays in the low 40s to low 50s.


This is GL. She has been trained down in three spots. You can compare to the previous photo and see she is growing well.


This is EM. She has been trained down only in one spot. You can see she has grown well since her last picture too.


This is KR. You can see some of the yellowing on the bottom leaves. You can also see that she hasn't grown as much this past week as the other two. I hope she perks up.

Peace out.

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Day 56 - Reservoir change day

All of the plants received a fresh ~3.6 gallons H2O, 20 mL GH Floramicro, 40mL GH Florabloom, and ~3mL Superthrive. I also did quite a bit of low-stress training and supercropping today. The bulkiness and bushiness of the plants has increased so much I no longer have room for two of the LED panels. Thats fine, however, as the plants have expanded to absorb quite a bit more of the HPS directly. The plants continue to grow quite rapidly from week to week. Their scent is also starting to sweeten up the room. I will post current plant pictures later tomorrow.


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