Date: 1/18/22
Strains - Hindu Kush (Abby), Purple Haze (Jenny), and White Widow (Betty) - All fem and photo
Light height and reading - 400w LED @ 100% 24 Inches away - 25-30k LUX
Medium - Fox Farms Happy Frog & Ocean Forest + 10% perlite in 5gal cloth pots
Nutrients -
@Prescription Blend
Water - Carbon-filtered well water (100ppm)
Grow space - Vivosun 8x48x80 tent in basement
Extraction - Vivosun 6" Variable Speed Extraction fan
2 Oscillating fans + 1 Tower oscillating fan + 1 12" floor fan
Weekly temperatures
These girls have been through a lot in the past couple of weeks; a 4 day power outage that was very cool and humid, re-potting to 5 gallon pots, and a move to the 4x4 tent with a 400w LED that is much too dry. On top of all of that, I went to check on them the day after their last watering and found water still in the drain trays
I have new drain trays for them so that will not happen again.
I am still trying to get the humidity up in the tent. I put the humidifier in the basement and added a wet towel in the tent with the intake blowing on it. It raised humidity but not enough. I was trying to keep the humidifier out of the tent because it makes such a mess (with well water it puts calcium carbonate everywhere), but I finally put it in there for now even if I need to buy RO/DI water to use with it. I also ordered an A/C Infinity exhaust fan so I can better manage the environment in the tent
Betty (White Widow) is doing great and may be catching up on the others. She was tied down very young and was recently topped (by accident). Her stems are huge and her nodes are stacked incredibly tight together. She has one cola in particular that is thick and stacked!
Jenny (Purple Haze) is doing OK. Everything looks good on her except that she is a bit droopy. I guess I am used to having my plants praying to the lights and she is not doing that right now. She is all stretched out right now and needs to fill in the middle a bit.
Abby (Hindu Kush) looks sad and droopy. Her leaves are still green but they are all pointing down. She is looking pretty bad.
So I am trying to address any possible issues.
Tent Change - I checked the PPFD and do not believe that is an issue. I turned the light down to 80% for now, though, just to rule it out.
VPD - I know the VPD has been too high. I put the humidifer in the tent with DI water and have a heater in the basement to try to get it a bit warmer and wetter.
Watering - I'm still getting the hang of watering in the 5g cloth pots. I had my watering frequency and amounts down pat with the 2g cloth pots and am learning how much/often watering is required in the new 5g pots. I definitely watered too little when repotting. I then watered them after a few days and I may have given them too little again.
I am hoping that they are just missing their
@Prescription Blend Due to the cold/wet conditions with the power outage and the repotting they had not been well fertigated in a while. I mixed up 5 gallons of
@Prescription Blend and gave them a good fertigation last night. They were all pretty dry.
I also removed all of the LST and set up the net. I'll be more present in the next couple of days and I tuck and bend to fill in the net so I hope I can get them turned around. I want some nice healthy girls to take some clones and switch them to flower soon.
Happy Growing.
