first grow white widow fem

principlesarelife

principlesarelife

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day 60 veg

13 inches tall
light 31 inches from canopy
she thick bruh

should i start trimming her?
i've read:
focus on the ugliest & biggest fan leaves sparingly, since they store nutes to promote air flow & light penetration
the lowest or leggiest branches (to promote canopy growth)


i've started following a different feeding chart. the last chart the leaves made it seem she wasn't being fed enough cal/mag + mediocre grow speed

my cal/mag & nitrogen issues are pretty minimal now since the feed chart swap
been watering every 3 days the last 2 waterings with some runoff every other watering
1-1.5 gallons. 600ppm RO water.
i feel like watering every 4 days would be optimal now that the nutes are corrected?

several leaves are a lil more tender than i'd like, & some have some holes that look like wind burn?

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eQui

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Lux doesn't apply to the plants.. it's only indicating how bright the light will be for the human eye.. PPFD would tell u more how the plant is liking it. I think u could start to send them into 12/12h flower anytime now. Oh and btw, u can start to think about defoliation on the lower parts since keeping branches and leaves alive there costs energy that could be needed at the top.
 
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eQui said:
Lux doesn't apply to the plants.. it's only indicating how bright the light will be for the human eye.. PPFD would tell u more how the plant is liking it. I think u could start to send them into 12/12h flower anytime now.
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that's true about ppfd & lux..
i'll be switching to 12/12 on thursday so i can water transition nutes ratios on the same day

so i don't need to trim her?
 
principlesarelife

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day 8 flower

she's blooming beautifully! she's stretching!

tallest tops = 20 inch from coco
plant = 23 inch from light

some nitrogen deficient leaf death at the bottom

been watering every 3 days 1 1/2 gallons still in my 5gal pot


tower fan is being replaced, it died.. using small stationary fan atm
got tired of having to refill/set off timer on the humidifier.. lol


i believe i mistakenly didn't give enough floragro, which explains why her stems were so short!
after some reading, it seems i forgot to flush the coco for small particulates. big woop.
also, could've pre-saturated the coco with calmag. how would've y'all gone about doing that? would've avoided some of the minor cal/mag def i've been experiencing



should i trim her big leaves? i read that the nutrients are stored in the fan leaves..

stopped using the scrog net. at this point the net seems to be more of a nuisance than an aid?
 

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eQui

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Nice looking canopy. Maybe the lower leafs died because the lack of light penetration and not because of the nitro..The green of the plant is a bit lighter(what would be a Nitro defecit) but I can't tell for sure because of the purple lighting.. You could measure the EC of the outgoing pot water, that would tell you a bit more.
I would also advice you to lolipop the Plant (remove leafes and weak branches that dont seem to reach the light in a effective way), top looks very nice and pretty even. Overall i think you are good if you feed her next time like advised.
Sorry, incase u noticed something... not a native english speaker here..nah actually i don't give a F :x
 
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principlesarelife

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@eQui

Lol! Thank you!! On 420forum.com the community helped me determine I was being lazy about phing my water. My ph was 5.4, after calibrating my ph meter. The ph color solution wasn't accurate enough!

Now I'm feeding at 5.8 ph! We'll see how it goes from here!

Ppm is about 600 last I checked.

Lolipopping.. wondering if I ought to because my l.e.d. light is fairly intense. I just reached week 2 of flowering
 
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