3-5-04, Day #22 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 80f, RH 51%, Nute Temp 72f, PPM 1550, Ph 5.9.
The plants drank 1 gallon of solution so the ppm was up to 1640 & the ph dropped to 5.6.
I added 1 gal of top up solution, with nutes to each plant.
Here’s what I put in the top up solution.
8 ml per gal Micro
16 ml per gal Bloom
1 ml per gal Silicone
After adding this to the bubblers, the ppm was 1550 with a ph of 5.9.
3-6-04, Day #23 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 78f, RH 49%, Nute Temp 72f, PPM 1550, Ph 5.9.
The plants drank ½ gal of solution, which brought the ppm up to 1630 with a ph of 5.9.
I added ½ gal of plain ph 5.9, r/o water to each bubbler.
This brought the ppm to 1550 with a ph of 5.9.
Here are a few pics of the girls.
Group Pic:
Canopy:
The next 4 pics are all of plant #1. You can see the trichomes starting to form in a couple of the pics.
3-7-04, Day #24 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 78f, RH 49%, Nute Temp 72f, PPM 1550, Ph 5.9.
No change since yesterday other than they both drank anther ½ gal of water.
3-8-04, Day #25 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 78f, RH 49%, Nute Temp 72f, PPM 1470, Ph 5.8.
I topped off the res today with a gallon of plain water ph’d to 5.9.
The flowering stretch is over but I’m worried that they will continue to grow another 2” to 4” before they’re finished. This puts me in a bit of a quandary.
The lights are as high as they’ll go & if the plants grow more than a couple of inches, they’ll be into the lights.
I’m either going to have to do some more training, which will be very difficult as the stems are starting to get woody & therefore don’t bend very easily.
Or, I’m going to have to remove the shelf between the top & bottom part of my cab. Not an easy chore. It’s nailed & glued to the sides & back of the cab.
I guess I’ll try doing some more training first & see how that goes.
On another note, a couple of weeks ago my circ fan fell on plant #2. It bent one of the stems quite a lot. At the time, I didn’t notice any damage to the stem.
Today when I was checking the nutes I noticed a large split in that stem.
This just goes to show how resilient MJ plants are.
The cola on that stem has the most trichome production & is one of the largest in the cab.
Here are a couple of pics showing how close the canopy is to the lights & one of the split in the stem.
3-9-04, Day # 26 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 81f, RH 38%, Nute Temp 72f, PPM 1510, Ph 5.7.
The plants drank less than ½ gal of water so I didn’t do anything with the nutes today.
I tried to do some training yesterday to get the tops low enough to stay out of the lights. Unluckily, I couldn’t pull them low enough for them to be able to finish flowering. So, I spent 10 hours today redoing my cab,
I took out the shelf separating the top & bottom parts of the cab.
Now I have 7 ½’ in total height, so the plants have lots of room to grow.
I installed my ozone generator at the very top of the cab.
My ozone generator has a fairly powerful fan built into it, which enables me to use it as an exhaust fan. So I took one of the 4” fans out of the top of the cab & installed it at the bottom of the cab as an intake fan. Now I have two exhaust fans & one intake fan. I removed the Y connector that let the two-exhaust fans vent out one hole & installed another exhaust pipe going into the ceiling. Now each fan has it’s own exhaust hole, which gives me much better airflow.
Let’s see, what else did I do. I took out the humidifier to get the humidity into the 30s. I balanced a fan in the branches on the top of the bubblers & pointed it straight up into the plants. I took the other fan & pointed it at a wall to get even more air circulation.
This new setup seems to be working fairly well. Even though the humidity has dropped below 40%, the temp is still in the low 80s.
The only other thing I can think of that I did today was removing all the training wires. The flowering stretch is officially over so they’re not needed anymore.
That’s it for today. See you tomorrow for a res change.
Here are a couple of pics of the girls when I had them out of the cabinet, a few pics of the changes made to the cabinet & one of the girls back in the cabinet.
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3-10-04, Day #27 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 76f, RH 38%, Nute Temp 74f, PPM 1400, Ph 6.0.
The new setup is doing awesome.
The cab temps are lower than I’ve ever been able to get them without the humidifier & the humidity is perfect for flowering.
Installing the intake fan made all the difference.
I changed out the nutes today.
The last nute change I had the ppm at 1600 & got a little leaf burn.
So this time I’m only going to 1400ppm.
Here’s what I added to 10 gallons of water to make the new solution.
7 ml per gal Micro
3 ml per gal Grow
15 ml per gal Bloom
2 ml per gal Ph Down
After adding this to the bubblers, the ppm was 1400 with a ph of 6.0.
Here are a few close-ups of the girls & one overhead shot.
You can really tell how fast the buds are developing by looking at the pics from 4 days ago.
3-11-04, Day #28 of Flowering:
Cab Temp 76f, RH 38%, Nute Temp 74f, PPM 1400, Ph 6.0.
The plants drank a gallon of water each since yesterdays nute change.
The ppm only went up to 1440 though. So the plants are taking up close to equal parts of water & nutes.
The ph keeps drifting downwards, which seems kind of weird to me.
It was at 5.7 this morning.
The ph usually starts to drift upwards once the flowering stretch is over.
So I’m really baffled as to why the ph is drifting down.
Anyway, I topped up the bubblers today. The only nutes I added to the top up solution were Bloom & Silicone.
Here’s what I added.
13ml per gal Bloom
5 ml per gal Silicone
After adding this to the bubblers, the ppm was 1400 with a ph of 6.0.