My First Indoor Grow Please Follow Along

5-6 hours of direct sunshine this morning/afternoon.
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Electricity is out but luckily the sun is out and in full force as well. As you can see the yellowing on the flowering plant has continued and grower. I had done a feeding with bloom and grow nutes (Bio-Bizz). I'm guessing there is an acute lockout problem of Nitrogen. It is what it is. I tried foliar feeding yesterday with a seaweed extract + a general purpose liquid nutrient solution that indicates its use in foliar feeding, don't know if that will help. Afterward i put them under a direct fan and the lights to help dry out buds and avoid any holding problems. Everything continues to still be growing/advancing but I can't help but think it could be doing better, like i'm not really getting the full potential of the plant. The 2nd plant has begun to flower as you can see. Nice green color and no problems with notes up to this point.

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here we see the younger plant. it must be in its 5th week. this plant as mentioned previously is being allowed to grow as it naturally does without any or very little interference.
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I have to agree with penny that all you can do with the older one is hang on and hope for the best until harvest. On the younger one I would try a bit of gentle LST on those outside budding branches just to get some light and air to the interior. You don't have to train it down, just slightly outward. Any bud sites lower on those branches will be able to get bigger and give you more production.

You can see what I did here on my AK-47 auto to spread the bottom out for more light.

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The younger plant has now begun to yellow on the lower and low-middle fan leaves. They are yellowing from tip back towards stem. Today i watered and fed. 3 litres of tap water that was sat out to evaporate then i cooked banana peels in it for 15 minutes then strained and dissolved a heaping teaspoon of honey in and a pinch of local, natural sea salt. i then added BioBizz Grow, Bloom and Top-Max + som seaweed extract flowering enhancer. 2 litres through bottom feeding/capillary feeding and the final later watered from top. then later in the day i misted with distilled water + a little bit of local, organic, broad spectrum plant nutrients. i hope the yellowing is lack of N and that this helps, if not idk then. What do you guys think?

Also on the older plant many leaves are turning purplish color, not sure if this is associated with previously yellowing leaves or just that this pheno or strain has a tendency to purple somewhat. Idk its my first indoor grow as stated. my other thought was that yellowing was because of lack of light since i only have a relatively low powered LED (95 real watts in 3 watt epistar diodes) + another 90 watts of CFL.
 
IDK if i ever mentioned but I live in a rural town in the southern cone of South America and don't have good access to many things, Epsom Salts included. i know the sea salts contain many other minerals in small amounts. I figured it couldn't hurt and has a small chance that will help in someway.
 
I always thought salt was was you put in soil to make sure nothing ever grew there again
 
well then I may have made a mistake.... as i said it was a very small pinch not 3 litres of water. much less than a tsp. more like 1/4 tsp. idk about nothing ever growing again, although if thats true i may use salt for an application on the piece of land i own next to this 1 where i live. For my grounding/earth on my house electrical system we connected to copper bars with thick copper wire and buried it in mix of charcoal, sea salt and earth. still has weeds that pop up in that general area, although maybe the salt is to deep to affect the shallow rooted weeds that grow up and i pull out.
 
Ron Wann said:
well then I may have made a mistake.... as i said it was a very small pinch not 3 litres of water. much less than a tsp. more like 1/4 tsp. idk about nothing ever growing again, although if thats true i may use salt for an application on the piece of land i own next to this 1 where i live. For my grounding/earth on my house electrical system we connected to copper bars with thick copper wire and buried it in mix of charcoal, sea salt and earth. still has weeds that pop up in that general area, although maybe the salt is to deep to affect the shallow rooted weeds that grow up and i pull out.
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"Just a few grains of rock salt are enough to kill most plants."
The Rock Salt Concentration Needed to Kill Plants | Home Guides | SF Gate

Not sure what the benefit is but there is definitely a downside!
 
How far out from chopping this down does it look. I do not have access to a loop/magnifier so i will have to use other means to determine the best time to harvest. 1. What do you guys think by looking at it right now about when will it be done? 2. What other methods/techniques should I be using to determine best harvesting point?

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Photos able are whole plant, the main cola, what wove have been the tallest point of plant and 3rd photo is a secondary cola.


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Is this normal that stem is reddish-purple? It began to change along with leaves to the purplish color.


HERE IS THE YOUNGER PLANT
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