Matt's 420 Grow Journel 2020

[Mattys1992]

Yeah I think they’ll be fine once I get everything perfect

 

[Emilya Green]

Yeah I think they’ll be fine once I get everything perfect

its never perfect.... but you can get close... but usually, something unexpected happens. The great gardener is the one that learns to recover from those things when they do happen, and look what all you have learned so far! Every grow will get better.

 

[Mattys1992]

its never perfect.... but you can get close... but usually, something unexpected happens. The great gardener is the one that learns to recover from those things when they do happen, and look what all you have learned so far! Every grow will get better.

Yeah I understand it won’t be perfect but as good as it can be with the experience I have

 

[Mattys1992]

Off to go buy a new ph meter now as I think the one I have is shit

 

[Backlipslide]

Nobody answered you question. Most ph metres will do. Some are better quality then others, but you buy what you buy. If it’s cheap money wise, then it might not be as good as you want it to. Spend a lil bit of money on a good one. Blue lab is a high quality pen, but expensive. Take the good with the bad, and aim for somewhere in the middle. Don’t cheap out but don’t go the full nines!

 

[Mattys1992]

Bought the best one I could find from the hydro store cost me £40.00

 

[Mattys1992]

So had a little go of LST’ing my 4 week old auto not sure if I’ve done it right I looked at a few pics on here of people doing it and tried to copy what I’ve seen I might sound a bit thick here but I’ve not looked at what it’s actually for what does lst do to your plants is it just for more light and to let it through the plant and better air flower to all the nodes ???? Take a look thanks for hitting like and any tips would be great

 

[Backlipslide]

Yep exactly. It’s better to understand when you top your plants. It forces the plant to focus its energy to all the other internodes and you can have fun with it

 

[Mattys1992]

Yep exactly. It’s better to understand when you top your plants. It forces the plant to focus its energy to all the other internodes and you can have fun with it

I’m planning on topping one of my photos to see how she gets on because my supersoil is too much for them I think there really badly burnt on the bottem leafs

 

[Mattys1992]

I’m planning on topping one of my photos to see how she gets on because my supersoil is too much for them I think there really badly burnt on the bottem leafs

But as far as topping goes I won’t be doing that to my auto as I’ve put her through to much already so just lsting her tying down branches etc

 

[Backlipslide]

Yep, autos are a different story.

 

[Mattys1992]

Yep, autos are a different story.

Does what I’ve done look correct ??

 

[Backlipslide]

There is no right or wrong way of doing it. LST can also mean bending the entire plant over to allow light to reach the lower sites. Is it necessary, absolutely not, but at times it can be fun to do. For the most part The goal is to tie the higher nodes down to allow the lower branches to catch up and have an even canopy. What your doing is absolutely fine. You set out to do some LST, and you’ve succeeded, that’s a win win in my books!

 

[Mattys1992]

There is no right or wrong way of doing it. LST can also mean bending the entire plant over to allow light to reach the lower sites. Is it necessary, absolutely not, but at times it can be fun to do. For the most part The goal is to tie the higher nodes down to allow the lower branches to catch up and have an even canopy. What your doing is absolutely fine. You set out to do some LST, and you’ve succeeded, that’s a win win in my books!

Sweet mate will see how she gets on and report back with some good news I’m hoping

 

[Mattys1992]

So...... I’ve just watered all 3 plants I put 10 ml of calmag to 5 litres of water I ph,d my With some apple cider vinegar at 6.6 then added calmag which took it down to 6.4 my 4 week old auto took about 3 litres of water with about 20% run off my run of ph was 5.8 ? Does this seem about right

 

[Billpopy79]

My pH meter is only a cheap one but I calibrate it with the calibration fluid every couple of weeks,

So...... I’ve just watered all 3 plants I put 10 ml of calmag to 5 litres of water I ph,d my With some apple cider vinegar at 6.6 then added calmag which took it down to 6.4 my 4 week old auto took about 3 litres of water with about 20% run off my run of ph was 5.8 ? Does this seem about right

I wouldn't worry about your run off ph, 6.4 is good.
10ml in 5 litres of Cal mag seems a lot, the most I go up to is 1ml per litre.
I don't think it will hurt anything but I wouldn't be adding that much as a rule.

 

[Mattys1992]

Ok well

My pH meter is only a cheap one but I calibrate it with the calibration fluid every couple of weeks,

I wouldn't worry about your run off ph, 6.4 is good.
10ml in 5 litres of Cal mag seems a lot, the most I go up to is 1ml per litre.
I don't think it will hurt anything but I wouldn't be adding that much as a rule.

ok on the bottle it said 2ml to every litre of water ?? Should I knock it down a dose for next time here’s some pics of all 3 plants some look really badly burnt this is my 4.5 week old auto I will upload my photos next

 

[Mattys1992]

These are both about 2.5 weeks old all got fed calmag ph’d at 6.4

 

[Mattys1992]

So...... I’ve just watered all 3 plants I put 10 ml of calmag to 5 litres of water I ph,d my water at 6.6 then added calmag which took it down to 6.4

 

[Billpopy79]

Should be ok, my cal mag says 1ml per litre so yours could be weaker.
Your auto looks spot on to be honest, nice and green.