(grow log - day 25 "state of the grow" assessment) You're never too old to experiment with drugs

6/29/09
Day 25 flowering

NOTE: leaf curl worse on plants closest to light? Effected leaf starting to feel dry. I’ve been running pretty low nutrient levels bud a f full dose of the new BudXL? At next flush back off of BudXL and see if that helps? ))) 5 days since last flush ((( and highest EC was 1.7 and plants are using nutrient and water. Also, need to lower temps and plants which mends bending buds - I’d like to wait another week or so before bending but will have to do it today. I’ll also buy another in-line fan to further the light heat exhaust. Could have effect to further maturation - reduction in temp; light (bending and removal of liquid light) removal of BudXL, an enzyme that increases uptake of nutrient and also increases sugar transfer to buds. It certainly appears to be working but the Liquid Light increasing photosynthesis overall (and possible giving them “too much light,”) in combination with a 400 watt sodium light in such a small cabinet, in combination with boosted uptake due to BudXL additive in combination, with too much heat from Sodium light - all working together. But the buds are damn fat for only day 25 so I'm not complaining merely understanding: hum, what are the Girls trying to "say" to me. I am seeing them, not simply looking at them; listening to them, not simply hearing them. The Girls will tell me more precisely than a "paint-by-numbers" blanket instruction like, "do this at three weeks, and that at four weeks". Like they'll tell me when to give them suger, when their show signs of really drawing into themselves late in flowering, that's when I'll hit 'em with BudXL and Shooting Star and hopefully they'll suck up every last drop of THC and Cannabinoids into the big, fat buds.

Luckily, I kept everything else right in line! But seriously, it is seldom one thing that gets you but multiple issues. Too much is often the problem with hydroponics especially when using very efficient systems the nutrient uptake is so efficient that a “normal” dose of nutrient can cause burn. I’ve kind of anticipated this and have been going low with nutrient all along, only hitting a max of EC 2.0 during flowering and then only after building up from day one of routine 10-14 day flush to a high of 2.0 on day five or six and then I let it go back down only adding more bloom if the EC falls below 1.4. (usually I run the nutrients really high, like just flush one day and bam right up to 2.0 the next and over 3.0 the next for the whole first four weeks of budding) Looking at them, now is good time to reduce nutrient levels with just a little but constant reduction in nutrient EC saturation, it helps them in bud signaling, especially when combined with increase in dark - 12 hours dark to 12:30 all the way to 14 hours dark last week and three days totall dark right at the end, combined with reduction of temperature.

By tracking system usage of EC, it has been using nutrients and water steadily. It is simply a matter of measuring intake and out-take and the difference is what the plants are sucking up for dinner. I’ve only seen the EC not drop after 10-14 days as it should from salt build up. So appears that the system is running smoothly and the plants are doing grandly except for the minor leaf curl. By the book, harvest date would be pretty much 30 days from now, but I think they will come in earlier. I’ll be cutting lights back during last three weeks or so, something I never do, and I’ll lose some weight on the buds but should be able to bring them in maybe ten days sooner. Another experiment, also I have to keep plants inside cabinet because of all I have going on around here and coming up.

The fact that they have almost no odor is a happy coincidence.