The grower and plant are synergistic, in a sense.
Even with the worst genetics, an expert grower can make something happen where novice growers could not. However, the best grower is then at the limit of genetics.
The sun is significantly more powerful than HPS and will never cause light burn. That said, your location is important. If you live in the pacific north-west, you will have more clouds than sun.
Your biggest worries should be bringing pests inside if you grow indoors during the off season...
When was the last time you fertilized?
It has happened a few times where this happens regardless of amount of water.
My plants always droop when I don’t feed them enough.
If there is a problem with watering and you are away for long periods often, you can always try to make the containers into mini hemp buckets next time.
I travel a lot and have a 3x3x6 so I will get some real water suckers. I got some 5gal buckets. I’ll put a hole about and inch or two up...
Depends. If you have no light, no longer than 8 hours in veg for the “night” cycle.
However, even one of those battery led lights you would stick in a closet should prevent flowering so you could get more time with that.
So that would mean you are sitting at about 100 ppm of food. Usually my first feed is 400 to see how it goes. I up it from there. 100 just seems too low, but maybe someone who grows hydro could give some input on hydro ppms.
I usually see hydro ppms 10-20% lower than soil if I'm not mistaken.
Ppms at 147? Are you using distilled or RO water? That seems really low. I do soil, but my first feeding is no less than 400 not counting my ppms from the tap. I'm usually around 130 tap plus 400 for 500-600. 147 doesn't have nearly enough. But that might be different for hydro.
How many weeks have you been going? If you are using synthetics you should flush every 3 weeks or so if you are feeding a lot.
Usually a .5 to 1.0 ph drop for runoff is normal in soil.
If the plant looks fine then relax.
If you thing you need to flush, then run through phd water. The...