Hello all.
It's Day 27 for the New Trick girls and our heatwave has ended!
It's 41F as I type this morning, nearly 40 degrees below what it was a few days ago. The tent is a cool 80F with 50% RH. I'm calm again!
The plants are no longer getting bombarded with too much light, hopefully. I'm giving them 39K lux per my Photone app.
Here's a pic from this morning:
They've been moved around. The Lemon Bubble is now back left. Hash Lover back right. Cosmic Lights is front left. And front right is Blue Cindy.
Last night I topped off the reservoir of the 2 in the rear with plain water. Each res took about a 1/2 gallon. The solution that was already in the res was a full dose of Strive nutrients. So now those 2 plants will be getting a diluted dosage of Strive. I'll let their bases nearly run dry and then refill them with another gallon of plain water. After they drink most of that I will resume Strive feedings. (They've gotten a bit too much N due to lack of any water-only feed to this point.)
The plants in the front also got their reservoirs topped off. Since they're on Grow Dots, they just get plain water with calmag @ 2ml per gallon. They also took nearly 1/2 gallon each, but a little less than the rear plants.
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Last night I also topped the LB & HL and started training on their upper two nodes.
I'll do the same to the BL today.
I'm up in the air about the The Cosmic Lights. I may not be topping her. In fact she may just get some mild LST. She was the first plant to emerge from soil and is now the smallest one in the tent. My gut says to stress her as little as possible, just let her grow and remain relatively healthy so that I can get some nice, healthy cuts. But my naysayer on the other shoulder says, "What if the cuts don't root? Then you've got an untrained plant that will not produce as much as you could have gotten out of a trained one, and you don't get another chance." (I have no more CL seeds and the strain has been discontinued.)
I'll give it some more thought. I've still got time to go either way.
Question for the masses: Will a cut from a plant that is not entirely healthy produce a clone that is not entirely healthy?
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I used new tan pots for this grow for a reason -- because of the SWICKS.
I was hoping that I'd be able to see how the water was moving up through the medium by changes to the shade of the pot material. That has worked but with unexpected results.
You can see in the pic above that each pot seems to have water concentrated in a certain section of the pot (those darker-looking, greenish areas). Initially those darker areas appeared on only one section of each pot. As the days pass, the darker areas are beginning to appear in other sections. Still, I find it interesting that in the beginning, it looks like each pot was channeling water to a specific area.
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For the record, I didn't fully follow AC Infinity's (ACI) recommendations when I set up the swick bases. ACI suggests setting two wick lines in the shape of a plus sign like this:
But I chose to do mine using 4 wick lines (of shorter length than the ACI way) forming a square. The ACI way leaves 4 wick lines in the res. The way I did it leaves 8 wick lines in there.
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So it's nearing day 30 and that's when I said I would begin Phase II of this grow!
I'm going to limit Phase II to 2 plants -- probably in 5 gallon pots -- and I'll be going back to soil.
But which two?
It's usually very hard for me to pick, but not this time.
I was very disappointed a while ago when I couldn't get a Chemdog #4 to strike. So I'll be trying another of those. Herbie's describes it as a blend of landrace Thai and Nepalese genetics. I want it 'cause it sounds like something I've never had before!
As for the second plant, it's been hard to ignore the hype surrounding the potential of the Cap Junky strain. So I'm going to try one of those.
I know Shed is growing one this summer, so my little CJ will be a good set-up for his big one, which could easily turn out to be the crème de la crème of CJs for this summer (his being a redemption grow and all that
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That's all I've got for today.
As you already know, your presence here is always appreciated!
PEACE
It came out really good! I just now finished doing the math. Here ya go.
and I've been observing the same channeling of water.. you think it's just the more root dense areas slowly spreading out. They must really be pulling it up! Very intriguing. Didn't expect to to see it as we are so cheers 
