9wks and no flush. Pruned all the bigger fan leaves about a week ago. Stalled growth and nutrient uptake, which was about 100ppm/day. About three days after pruning, roots showed a lot of new, thick fish bone branching, then another three days later, new pistils and buds started really filling out. Nute uptake now 20ppm/day without fan leaves. I'm now a convert to pruning fan leaves, just not all at once, like i did this time.
Those ppm/day rates are only relevant to one's particular system. it's dependent on not only plants and solution, volume of system, number of plants, etc. Just mentioning those numbers here to illustrate the fact that plants with fan leaves were consuming 5x more nutrients with good trich production but not packing on a whole lot of bulk where it counts.
Water consumption also dropped from 10-15gal/day to about 2gal/day.
pH has been very stable. I top off with tap water that's been gassed off for a day and adjusted to 6.0. each day, that will nudge the ph upward. When i get to ~5.8, i switch to tap water bubbled and adjusted to 5.0 until my system gets down to 5.2, then back to 6.0 adjusted tap. I bubble the tap water 20 gal at a time in garbage can.
Cooler outdoor temps allowing me to save a little power by dialing down the light cooling fan as well as the room exhaust fan. Having trouble keeping up with low humidity though. Thinking about putting triple ultrasonic fogger back into action.
8x high output t5 fixture is hanging sideways, adding plenty of supplemental light to the indica, which was so far from the overhead 600w hps that it stopped growing. T5 is an inch away and shortie is now going nuts again.
Clippings that went straight under 12hr are all rooted and popping all kinds of pistils. None of them stretched at all. cloning straight to 12/12 without rooting might be the way to go next time with sativa. Micro sog?
fish putting on lots of weight, looking healthy and happy. all three crabs are now dead. pleco still doing great, snails laid some eggs. scavengers i put in the actual flood trays are looking pretty skinny, but i see them taking a dump all the time, so they must be eating something. they look pretty content and adapted to the constant ebb/flow. they pick at debris and algae on the roots, but don't really chomp on them or disturb them in any way that the plant seems to mind.
great white shark, with 8X HO-T5s to the right. you can see the old pistils dried and turned orange. introduction of side lighting brought it back to life. all the white pistils are new growth from the last few days. rotating 1/4 turn every other day.
silver haze continues to fill in. every day i go in there, it looks different! in some of the photos, you can see trichs already turning amber. still a three or four weeks away from the chop. going to let them go until they start to kick the bucket or thanksgiving is upon us, whichever comes first.
