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It's normal for the ph to begin rising more quickly during blooming due to higher nutrient needs....mine really starts to go up about week 4 into blooming. I do check mine much more often towards the end.
Tom is right....now it's starting to get to the good stuff.
Good work ASD.:thumbsup:
I'm still debating on what type of clone propogator to go with I'm reading up on stuff now...
Eve has shown 2 more pistil sets but the growth is extremely slow so far it's possible I did some root damage when I pulled all the other ones out so I'll have to wait and see...
No real change on the other 2 just yet so I'm still hoping they're fem
I noticed that the ppm is climbing very slowly which sounds like they have just as much food as they want...
I can't remember how fast bud develops...is it fairly slow at the beginning and gains speed as you get further into flower?
I was also wonderin if there is any harm in taking a clone from a lower branch when it's in flower?
I'm definately excited for the next several weeks and once I get the same genetics it should be easy to just keep raising the light evenly and all that...
ASD don't ask me one single thing about clones and cloning......never even seen a clone in real life, lol. You should still raise your nutes slowly....don't stop.....this may be why the growing is slow. Obviously watch for burn though. After a few days your ppms don't accurately reflect WHICH nutes are still there and how much.....only a total number. Your plants will take up different nutes at different levels.
Gotcha WH I think you are right again about needing more food...that would explain a healthy look and feel with little growth...I'm testing a few things with ppm now and I've heard from a few people that use aero that have also noted that although the ppms start off really low they do increase pretty quick once the plant is established...I'm thinking this might be due to the roots hanging in air when they are tiny and it becomes more of a dwc once they're laying on the root chamber...
currently at 700ppm and tomororw if they still look fine I'll be going to 800ppm...Eve looks pretty much the same besides a couple more sites showing pistils but the other 2 are definately showing growth...<= this also leads me to believe they could use more food
I've decided to test a theory...I mixed up the next nute solution for the res today and I'll just dump it in tomorrow...I'm hoping that will reduce the ph fluctuation that seems to happen shortly after adding nutes I'll update if I can see anything significant
Even's clone is showing some signs of growth as well and should be transplanted from the organo plug soon. I want a system that will allow me to start from seed/clone and find out the sex too if possible...still thinking about making my own but the room has taken longer than expected to setup so that idea is backburnered atleast for now...
I did start preparing another batch of seeds (no idea of origin but my friend claimed they're awesome) they are currently sitting in a shotglass of water until I notice em crack...still debating how I want to start them once they're ready but I got time :p atleast 15 hours or so
I wanna stay away from dirt entirely if I can so that means I may have to get a few more systems prepared asap guess tomorrow is gonna be a busy one
I'll post some new pics soon probably when bud is big enough to photo
ASD You WILD ANIMAL, you! Look at you go! Addictive isnt it? ;)
hehe I know I should be in bed but I've been learning more about this stuff than I've wanted to learn about anything else in a long time...not just mj but botony in general it is definately addictive :jointsmile:
I'm 90% sure the extra nutes will speed up development I'm going to up the nute strength 100ppm per day till I see some burn just so I know the limit
Time to watch the sopranos and sleep...tomorrow's adventures are gonna rock
PS How are your babies doin by the way? I'd assume at this point they've really started to take shape...hope they're thriving like your last grow :cool:
Olive and Lola seem to be males...I'm not positive as there is only one ballsack but from the way the other males developed I can pretty much consider it a done deal...Olive has strengthened up a bit but still thin/weak and Lola was looking very nice with really tight spacing...if I woulda known only one female woulda made it I would have kept the best male which had the bushy top...oh well
Eve has shown a few more pistils and is crawling along as usual...the nutes are now at a little over 800 and if there is no nute burn I'll bring it to about 1000 tomorrow
Pic update soon
DO NOT TOSS THEM YET! I have learned the hard way never to call them male until I see at least 2 little male pods together.....later ones are usually female.....wait and make sure....can you photo?
I still can only see one ball growing on the 2 in question so I haven't chopped em yet...I'm hoping the boost of nutes may just burn Olive so I know where my limit is for size...we'll see though there was no sign of nute burn at all and I know my grow isn't perfect but it can't be that much worse than every other grow log with comparable lighting...
I will take several pics tonight with the good camera and hope they come out good enough to show detail...I'll put up 3 pictures the best sex site of each...I'm at 15 Day flower 5 from when Eve proved female...although the smaller 2 were pretty young so they may take longer to finish
Some of the seeds are cracking so I'll be taking care of those very soon as well...
Until later tonight all
PS 100ppm starting water...Nute distribution is 800ppm of 5-15-14 & 100ppm of 2-45-28 & 50ppm of BCuzz stimulator
I have an hp 945 it's a 5megapixel with 7 optical zoom...for some reason the screen is all scrambled and pictures/video come out scrambled too so it's not just the viewer
It's possible it's the batteries I'm using as it started when I put in the regular duracells but that was also the time I tried to take a picture with the light on and the lines were shooting across the screen if it's not the batteries I'll try to call hp I guess but at that point it's probably junk
I'll try to get some pics up soon...
PS It looks like the Balls are pretty rounded and plump on Lola but still only one per site and it even looks like towards the top node that there are a couple unexplained white/clearish hairs so I'll update hopefully later tonight with some pics...
PPS Oh and still no nute burn at 1050 so I'm gonna up to 1200 next