420 Magazine's Official Girl Scout Cookies Comparative Grow By CigNv

PH meter arrived the other day and confirmed a pretty high soil ph of about 8 to 7.5. They were quite dry at this point too so they all got a good watering of near full strength nutes. PH dropped to about 7 after that and is remaining there as of this morning. Checked a few other plants I have going and ph is riding at about 6.0 to 6.5 on most of them.

Looks like a high ph lockout may be the culprit. Likely from a combination of my tap water which has a ph of about 8, adding all the extra calcium, not enough nutrients being added and letting them get a bit too dry. Feeding with soluble ferts can be more like hydroponic in that you need a bit more water to keep the nutrients available since there is very little in the soil.

Going to feed them heavy for the next week or so and see how they do and not let them fully dry out. I was planning to flip to flower next weekend, but may give them another week. One week to recover, then the week after to bulk up. The bad leaves will be left in place for now in case they still need to pull nutrients from them while they recover.
 
Day 42

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The new growth looks good. I think they'll all recover.
 
Day 47

Recovering quite well so far. A few burned tips developing and ph is still hanging around 6.5 to 7.0, but I think I may be good to pull clones and trim them up mid next week and start flowering on likely the 5th.

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CigNv said:
Day 47

Recovering quite well so far. A few burned tips developing and ph is still hanging around 6.5 to 7.0, but I think I may be good to pull clones and trim them up mid next week and start flowering on likely the 5th.

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That's going to be one full tent you'll have growing on their my 420 friend! Lookin great tho cheers!
 
All that green :yummy: Nice one:thumb:
 
CigNv, I will be following along, looks like you are getting you grow dialed in. Cheers
 
Hey Cig! Looking good! :thumb:
 
They look well recovered and will get trimmed up and ready for flower likely tonight or tomorrow. I think 1 through 10 can fit in my 4x8. The freak 11 will go outside and get up potted to a 27 gallon tote.

I don't see a lot of places to take good clones from underneath so may just pull a couple tops to get what I need and level them out a bit.

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Your plants look great, Cig! They really fill up the tent. They look so nice and healthy.
 
That looks really cool with them all together making a carpet of green. Nice work.
 
Day 52

Everyone got their preflower hair cut and topped at a few nodes if needed to even them up. Soil got topped up a bit where needed and a tablespoon of calcium and magnesium was added. They were placed in the 4x8 where they will get a few days of recovery then flip will be this Saturday night.

When pulling out the large fan leaves that showed the deficiency earlier i was happy to see that a few had actually got a bit of color back in them. Looks like I am back on track with the feeding. They will get another calmag feeding around week 4 of flower which should carry them to the end.

On the medic grow light. I pulled it out of this tent and got a 5x5 for it. It is much happier in there. It was just too much for the 4x4 footprint. Still very happy with how it performs. It will just be much more efficient over there. Thinking about doing a full tent SOG with it.

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Also, decided to put 9, 10, and 11 outside. I wanted to give these 8 all the room they needed.

I was also able to get about 4 backups of each one in the cloner which will be used later to create a seedline from my two favorites. So far 4 and 7 are leading for me. Of course final finish can change everything, but I just like their shape and growth the best so far.
 
Amazing looking ladies!
 
Day 54
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9, 10 and 11 settled in to their new summer home. Also another new surprise. It looks like 11 is turning into a triple node. She also looks to be a bit more on the sativa side than the others.


From left to right #9, #11, then #10
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oo man, I am so jealous! I would absolutely love to grow a few outside and legally could but no good sunny spots at my current location. They look beautiful, can't wait to see them all grown up
 
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