Flying High With Hawk - 2024 Grow Journal

[InTheShed]

I certainly understand that you can't pick them up with the back and all, but can you tip them to feel the bottoms? I don't trust water meters without another confirmation method.

Are you watering to runoff and leaving the water in the trays to get soaked back up? And how often do they need water?

In terms of hunger (if it's definitely not a water issue), I'd give them 5.5g MC/gallon once and see what changes.

 

[Hawk518]

Are you watering to runoff and leaving the water in the trays to get soaked back up? And how often do they need water?

I water to runoff and leave the water to get soaked back up.
They're getting watered about 2x/week.

In terms of hunger (if it's definitely not a water issue), I'd give them 5.5g MC/gallon once and see what changes.

I'll give them some of the Mega Crop and hopefully, things will turn around!

Thank you so much!!

 

[InTheShed]

I'll give them some of the Mega Crop and hopefully, things will turn around!

Not soon though, the outside of the pot looks drenched.

How long does it take to soak the water back up from the tray?

 

[Hawk518]

Not soon though, the outside of the pot looks drenched.

How long does it take to soak the water back up from the tray?

Thanks again! The pic was taken immediately after watering. Not sure how long it takes to soak the water back up. I’d guess a couple hours at most. Today is two days since watering and I’m planning on watering them again tomorrow.

 

[InTheShed]

Thanks again! The pic was taken immediately after watering. Not sure how long it takes to soak the water back up. I’d guess a couple hours at most. Today is two days since watering and I’m planning on watering them again tomorrow.

How you decide when it needs water? Sorry for all the questions, but I don't feel like a GeoFlora plant should look like that from lack of nutes even if you only feed every 14 days.

 

[Hawk518]

How you decide when it needs water? Sorry for all the questions, but I don't feel like a GeoFlora plant should look like that from lack of nutes even if you only feed every 14 days.

I've just used a water meter for the soil. I'll sample a few different places in the grow pot. If it reads Dry, I'll water. Not sure how else to do it. Unfortunately, I can't use the method of picking up the grow pot to determine weight (cause of back issues). Often, I'll also touch the top of the soil to see if it feels dry.

Sorry for all the questions

Not at all. Thank you for your expertise and for taking the time to help a newbie. It's seriously appreciated more than I can say!! The more I talk things thru with someone with experience, the better I'll be able to handle my next grow on my own. THANK YOU!

 

[InTheShed]

I've just used a water meter for the soil. I'll sample a few different places in the grow pot. If it reads Dry, I'll water. Not sure how else to do it. Unfortunately, I can't use the method of picking up the grow pot to determine weight (cause of back issues). Often, I'll also touch the top of the soil to see if it feels dry.

I'm not sure where those water meters read from: top, bottom, average across the length? Also the top couple of inches of soil can be dry (from evaporation) but the area below can still be pretty damp.

Any chance you can get your wife to tip the pot back so you can feel the bottom without having to lift it? Do you have any kind of grate to put in the saucers under them so they don't suck the runoff back in?

 

[Hawk518]

Great Q about the water meter. I always thought it measured from the end of the tip. So just a matter of placing it at different depths in the grow pot.

I’ll try to tip the pots to check the bottoms. Never realized that you don’t want the pots to suck the runoff back in!! THANKS again!!

 

[InTheShed]

If they suck it back up right away that's okay, but if it takes a while it could be keeping the feeder roots at the bottom too wet and deprived of oxygen.

 

[Hawk518]

If they suck it back up right away that's okay, but if it takes a while it could be keeping the feeder roots at the bottom too wet and deprived of oxygen.

ok, definitely time to go back and read the @Emilya Green article on watering!

The Proper Way To Water A Potted Plant

The Proper Way to Water a Potted Plant Also covered: the importance of pH and why we successively up-pot How to Water Over the last several years I have put a lot of study into this, and I feel that I can now define the proper way to water a potted plant. Keep in mind that this discussion...

www.420magazine.com

 

[Hawk518]

6/17/24
Watered the Autos. The Blue Berry Glue Auto has a lot of yellowing leaves. Trimmed off a lot of the dead leaves from both Autos. Tried to get decent pics of the trichomes. Very curious how long til harvest. The pistils have started to change color from white to amber. Not really seeing anything w. the trichomes yet.

 

[Scottay]

She's looking pretty dense!! Gonna be a nice harvest from her!! Happy Monday!!

 

[PlainOldGuy]

ok, definitely time to go back and read the @Emilya Green article on watering!

The Proper Way To Water A Potted Plant

The Proper Way to Water a Potted Plant Also covered: the importance of pH and why we successively up-pot How to Water Over the last several years I have put a lot of study into this, and I feel that I can now define the proper way to water a potted plant. Keep in mind that this discussion...

www.420magazine.com

Throw your water meter over the fence. If it's hot then they probably need some water. I do a lot of bottom watering, and it really helps out. Seems to make the roots stretch.

 

[Hawk518]

6/20/24
This is my 1st Autoflower. Started germinating on 3/28. So, it’s 12 weeks from seed and in the 7th week of flower. Am I counting this correctly? Need to check trichomes, but I’m thinking it should be very late in flower. Trying to figure out how long til harvest. Pistils still look white more than amber.

The two photos outside are growing well, but very hard to see in my pictures!

SHORT NEPALI - AUTO

BLUE BERRY GLUE - AUTO

PHOTOS

 

[InTheShed]

That short Nepali is really packing on some weight in those flowers!

 

[Hawk518]

6/21/24
Watered the Autos in the tent. Also fed them some CalMag and MegaCrop in hopes of getting the yellowing leaves back to a nice dark green.

 

[Hawk518]

6/25/24
Fed the Photos some GeoFlora Veg. Tried to do some LST on the CBD Critical Mass and promptly snapped TWO branches! WTF? Taped / splinted the branches and hope they fuse together again! The 4Kingdoms plant is getting pretty tall. The branches you see on the bottom are ones w. LST, not the broken ones.

 

[Hawk518]

6/27/24
Watered the Autos. Seeing some fungus gnats. Put up some of the yellow stickies to catch the gnats. If I have fungus gnats, then maybe I am over watering after all?

SHORT NEPALI - AUTO

BLUEBERRY GLUE - AUTO

 

[Hawk518]

6/30/24
Lots of rain last night for the Photos. Unfortunately, the other plants in background make it hard to see them. Hopefully, the neighbors can't see them very well either!

 

[InTheShed]

Hopefully, the neighbors can't see them very well either!

If you're relying on camouflage to keep them on the DL that will only last you another 3 or 4 weeks! The smell will definitely give them away at some point.