Help_Needed's Fast and Simple - aka the Oh-My-God-I'm-out-of-weed grow

[Help_Needed]

Not much to say, really. The grow is progressing well, all things considered. The weather is *still* giving me fits - we've barely had our first snowfall, which is like two months later than normal. Otherwise, the plants are healthy and happy.

One minor problem, it looks like this time around I've got a touch of algae in the reservoir. I've added some more hydroguard - it was time for it anyway - which should keep it in check. It doesn't seem to be hurting the plants at all, and isn't completely taking over, so I'm not going to worry about it now. And quite frankly, I'm not 100% certain it's algae. My nute isn't quite the same one I'm used to, so it may just be a bit darker than normal.

Oh, and for some reason my air stones are conking out already. I usually replace them after every grow, but for some reason they're just sort of puttering. I'll get some new ones this afternoon.

Key Numbers
TDS: 1400ppm @0.7 - This seems to be the plants' "happy spot" for this mix of nutes.
pH: 5.7
Res Temps: 75F
Ambient temps: 79F, lights on; 71F, lights off

Pics

The garden: It's filled in quite a bit, but there's been almost NO vertical growth. I've never played with LST before at all, and it's kind of cool seeing how short the plants are. I've had problems in the past with them growing into the light at the end of the grow when I didn't have any room to raise it. Maybe I'll have to make the light LST I did part of my standard procedure.


Some bud porn. They're coming in nicely. If this grow mimics the last one, I'm two weeks and a few days away from harvest.

[Help_Needed]

Hey again, GC. Sorry for the long absence but I've been busy and I sorta let the grow log go dormant for a bit heh. The grow's still going well, though.

This strain confuses me. Despite the fact that I'm growing from clones this run has be quite different from the last one. At this time on my last grow I was cutting down plants and trimming colas. This time around I've got probably another 5-7 day to go. On the plus side, I don't remember the colas from last grow being quite so fat as they are this time.

A couple of thoughts of note - First, although Mr. Lukas abhors any sort of additives or flushing and strongly recommends against both in his nute program, I've started to do a mild flush this time around just to see what happens. Second, a couple of the colas have gotten too heavy for the plants to support (hate when that happens ) so I've got a couple of nylon zip lines holding them up.

Key Numbers
TDS - Unknown
pH - 6.0 (I got complacent and let it creep up a bit)
Res Temps: 70F
Ambient Temps: 72F, lights on; 64F lights off

Pics