Photoperiod Barneys Farm - Peyote Crit/Watermelon Zkittles/Mimosa X Orange Punch

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Dropped the net today. Gotta water again, 2 days in a row. I think that's partially due to me running the dehumidifier at 45% to keep the tent within the 50% rh range. I did follow some advice and I didn't water to runoff, technically, it did drip a little bit out each but the saucers are already dried up. Which normally takes a couple days with my old watering routine.

Anyway here's a pic, I almost wondering if I should have forgone the net. I think I spread my plants a little too much with lst wire for the net to be very effective at opening the plants up more. Got each main branch into its own little square. Some had to be pulled to the outside of the net because it bows in so much around the edges but its down and doing it's job. Its mainly for secondary branches anyway.

 

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Had to water today. 1 gallon each of plain spring water with yucca pH to 6.45.

Stretch is over, plants are no longer producing any new leaves and we are rolling into bud production.

Over all plants are doing pretty well. Some minor problems here or there, but nothing Im concerning myself with. Let the soil dry out a bit too much. Pots were light as air today but no droopieness so all good. Noticing that the watermelon zkittles, even with yucca is still taking forever for the first bit of water to sink into the pot. Noticed that the last couple times so I even added an extra tsp of sledgehammer to each gallon. Still sat on the surface for about 15-20 seconds while slowly sinking in. Other 2, the water just runs right in. Not worried plant seems fine just a note.

Tried to get some good pics of bracts and stuff but Im too shaky to do it today. Kept coming out blurry and pretty indistinguishable. Theres multiple pistils coming out of all the preflower bracts and the tops all have pistils spilling out too. Its definitely a nice sight to see after not growing for a year. Gotta love it.

Thats all for today.

 

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Forgot to make this post on Wednesday, but it was day 28 of flower.

Seems like everything is going well. Battling calcium deficiency/lock out again. Magnesium isn't helping much at all. Did a foliar spray last week and added a total of a tsp of epsom salt to my water over the last 4 waterings. I took it slower this time because I wanted to see if this issue was the same as before, its not. Because Im watering almost daily now, and the rust spots are still progressing, tops were all yellowing but are starting to green back up so I thought it was like last time where Magnesium got locked out from an abundance of calcium so it couldn't take up either. But so far the green is coming back but the rust spots on older leaves are still coming in every day. Only thing is its only a few leaves scattered around the plant on both the mimosa and watermelon. So I did a slurry test on both plants soil yesterday before work, came in at 6.58ph so my soil isn't out of whack. Im thinking maybe I just dialed up my lights too much too fast and it couldn't process nutrients fast enough. With the dehumidifier the plants are transpiring faster than they ever have before and I think this is what caused my imbalance. And sure enough. After I bumped up the dehumidifier by 5% they started slowing down with the transpiration, and the progression of rust spots has slowed but not halted. Its only been 2 days since I raised the humidity slightly so we'll see how the next week plays out.

Other than those 2 plants the Peyote Critical is taking all this abuse like a damn Rockstar. Slight burned tips on older leaves but other than that the girl is just enjoying being alive. I almost think its impossible to screw up this strain nutrient wise unless you have no clues how to feed plants.

Thats all for today

 

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Another week down. As I mentioned problems all over. It is what it is. The watermelon seems to be bouncing back a bit. Dead spots still popping up. But there seems to be a lot more deep green. The Mimosa......I cant decide if its trying to change color or if its just getting worse and honestly I think its a little of both. It does turn purple red and orange in some of the stock pics, but dead spots are still popping up everywhere on her.

Been giving them plain water the last few days. Well as plain as my spring water can be. I think after I use up thr last of my happy frog is used up, which will be the next grow, Im gonna try giving organics a go. My local stores are overflowing with the stuff plus I wanna try out purple cows indicanja out. Im skeptical about it because it says its got everything you need from seed to harvest but theres no info about what's actually in the stuff so Im gonna go look at it because they have pallets of the stuff right down the road. I doubt it will take a plant fully from seed to harvest but Im really warming up to the idea of just watering and maybe top dressing once or twice a cycle and letting the microbes and the plants worry about feeding eachother. So far I've seen pretty much a similar version of everything organic on here and scattered around the internet organics-wise in my gardening store in town.

Anyway here's some pics. If they don't all load Ill reload this post later, I dont like using my company wifi to upload, and I get shit service at work.