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[A4]

Nice work VA Gent! On that ph meter, you may have already done it but I thought I would mention it. The probe needs to be cleaned pretty frequently so you may want to have a look at that. I can always tell when mine needs to be cleaned because it starts taking too long to settle on a number. They sell a cleaning solution for them that you soak it in for about 30 minutes.

 

[virginia gent]

It happened again. Cheap 6in duct booster fan, plastic fins, works for a grow or two than after being off for a week or two, never runs again. I left my old fan/filter combo in the small tent for drying, dumb. Have been buying fan/filter from HGT, bought a set up from Gotham for my new tent and it has metal fins and the filter has a reversible flange. Gothams' fan is quiter and works well with the speed controler and is about the same price. I had thought to use a 4in fan/filter combo for drying, tent 60cu ft, 100 cfm and a 6in clip on circulating fan, should be ok. I made a commitment to run the whole grow setup from one 15amp breaker and I think I better start adding up what is pluged in now because I still need to get another bs240uv and a second clip-on fan for the grow tent.

 

[virginia gent]

View attachment 293312View attachment 293311 I think this is day 37, anyway A4 you were right. Tested bottled water, normally 7.0-7.1, read 7.53 cleaned probe 7.1, thanks A4. Quick flush (only 1 gal each) with 6.4, runoff 6.7 so I think it was cought in time. I will come back in a day or so with some cal-mag at 6.3 and check my runoff, hopefully growth will pick-up again. The two older girls (center, right) are getting fat and the center pic shows a nice main cola. All the girls are at 18in, about 4-6in shorter than I had hoped for, the lost of the bs240uv for a week and high ph for another week has cost me that extra growth I guess.

 

[A4]

They are still looking great man! Gonna be a good Christmas in VA this year it looks like.

 

[virginia gent]

Gave everyone a good drink of cal-mag bloom (2000ml) and a half cap super thrive. One of the girls seems to have stopped vertical growth and has started putting out some resin. I have changed my 4 t5s' from grow (6500K) to bloom (3000K) bulbs and will start bloom nutes in the morning. The one plant that is a week younger still looks like she wants to keep growing so I will try and keep her on a different schedule. The two others are acting different (one getting visible resin the other not) and I'm too stoned to keep it all stright so everyone might just end up getting treated the same.

 

[virginia gent]

View attachment 294271This is the girl that has started putting out some resin first. Gave the two oldest 10ml/gal tiger bloom and big bloom @3000ml, ordered some sledgehammer to use next grow between veg and bloom nutes, will start plain watering between feedings.
Both of these plants did the same thing as the last plant from this batch of seeds I got as a freebi last year from OSSC, grew to 18in and got some fat buds. The young one is almost 20in and may get to 24in next week and the other older one is 19.5 (she used to be shortest) and might still be growing.

 

[virginia gent]

View attachment 294860View attachment 294859The center girl is the one showing resin and hasen't grown any in a few days (18in) so she got 5ml tiger bloom and 10ml big bloom @4000ml. The one on the right got 5ml grow big and 10ml tiger bloom @4000ml because she is still growing (19.5) and isn't showing resin. The youngest (about 33days) is at 20in but is still wet, she gets hers late tonight. Getting some tip burn so plain water Monday (first pic).

 

[virginia gent]

View attachment 295091View attachment 295090View attachment 295089View attachment 295088View attachment 295087I must have been eating s**t pills because I am full of it. Both older plants are showing visible resin and not growing at week 6. The youngest (left in all pics) got 5ml grow big and 10ml tiger bloom and half cap super thrive @4000ml. The plants are less than 2ft because I kept the node spacing close in the beginning (5ft tent), lost more than half my lights for a week, and my light-off temps are 70f. So time to stop complaining and start fatting up the buds. The sledgehammer will be here this week and I can clean and start bloom nutes for everyone this week. Their color is good and the bud sites are developing well, I can see why WoS said 55 days to harvest. Now that I have my old tent set up for drying I can harvest as and when I please, not when the first one is ready.

 

[virginia gent]

The sledgehammer got here and everyone got 10ml/gal @3000ml each and this weekend all will get bloom nutes. The plant on the right is getting some fat buds and looks like she will be the first to harvest (3 weeks?) and the young one (left) is getting some visible resin and has stopped vertical growth (20.5in). I forgot how much AKR smells, even my new filter can't keep up.

 

[virginia gent]

View attachment 297443View attachment 297442View attachment 297441View attachment 297440Day 47 and two of the girls reacted well to the sledghammer, one yellowed badly(right). I am treating her differently, gave her 10ml cal-mag bloom and half cap super thrive, yesterday, and she is doing better. The other two(left, center) did well and got 10ml tiger bloom and 10ml big bloom @2000ml each today and 10ml cal-mag grow two days ago.