2-20-04, Day #8 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 76f, RH 62%, Nute Temp 71f, PPM 1400, Ph 5.3.
The ppm rose a bit, which means the plants are using more water than nutes.
I’m fairly certain at this point that the smallest plant is a male. No big deal. The other two plants can use the extra room.
As soon as I see a cluster of balls on a stick I’ll remove it from the cab.
Here’s a pic of what I’m 100% sure is a male preflower.
2-21-04, Day #9 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 79f, RH 55%, Nute Temp 72f, PPM 1450, Ph 5.7.
I pulled the male plant today & topped up the other two bubblers with the solution from the bubbler the male plant was in.
If you’ve noticed, the ph has been really low the last few days.
That’s because I didn’t calibrate my ph pen when I should have & it was off by 4/10ths of a point.
To get the ph back in the proper range I added 1 ml per gal of silicone, which brought the ph up to 5.7.
2-22-04, Day #10 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 76f, RH 58%, Nute Temp 72f, PPM 1470, Ph 5.8.
Everything’s looking good, so there’s not much to report today.
2-23-04, Day #11 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 76f, RH 60%, Nute Temp 76f, PPM 1475, Ph 6.1.
Some of the leaf tips were burned today from the high ppm of the nute solution.
So I guess its time to switch to the flowering mix.
Since the flowering mix has less nitrogen, I don’t believe the high ppms will be a problem.
The plants are still stretching & are now 23” tall.
Here’s what I added to 10 gallons of water to make the new solution.
6 ml per gal Micro
2.5 ml per gal Grow
11 ml per gal Bloom
This made the ppm of the new solution 1450 with a ph of 5.9.
After adding this to the bubblers the ppm was 1475 with a ph of 6.1.
Here are a few pics of how the plants are progressing.
Group Pic:
Top view of the group:
Plant #1:
Upskirt:
Cola:
Plant #2:
Cola:
Pistils:
2-24-04, Day #12 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 76f, RH 60%, Nute Temp 73f, PPM 1380, Ph 6.0.
The ph went up to 6.4 overnight so I added 1.5 ml per gal ph down to get the ph to 6.0.
The plants really sucked up a lot of nutes last night as well.
2-25-04, Day #13 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 76f, RH 58%, Nute Temp 73f, PPM 1360, Ph 5.7.
The ph was at 6.1 this morning, so I added 2 ml ph down per gal to get the ph to 5.7.
The plants are still stretching (they’re 27” tall now) & starting to produce more pistils.
2-26-04, Day #14 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 75f, RH 58%, Nute Temp 73f, PPM 1400, Ph 5.9.
The ph dropped to 5.5 overnight, which really surprised me. I thought it would start to drift up on a regular basis with the flowering nutes.
They drank a lot of water since yesterday as well, causing the ppm to go up to 1450.
So, I added 1 ½ ml per gal silicone to each bubbler along with 40oz of r/o water.
This brought the ph to 5.9 & the ppm to 1400.
For the last week I’ve been pulling off dead fan leaves from the lower part of the plants.
The fan leaves dying off at this stage of the grow is very normal as the light can’t penetrate to the bottom branches.
Be careful not to pull them to soon. Leave them alone until you can pull them off with a light tug.
They should be fairly crispy by then. Pulling them off to soon rob your plants of the nutrients that are stored in the leaves.
I’ve also been trimming off a few of the small lower branches. I know from experience that they won’t amount to much of anything & I’d rather not waste the time or energy letting them grow. To keep the plants from going into shock, I don’t trim more than 1 a day & never more than a couple a week.
Here are a few pics of the girls at the end of the 2nd week of flowering.
There is also a pic of the lower branches showing the trimming I’ve done & a pic of how crispy a leaf has to be before I’ll pull it off.
Group Pic:
Canopy:
This is the top of a cola:
Undergrowth:
Crispy Leaf:
