Got the fans and second light in yesterday, the girls are looking good. I put one fan down next to the girls blowing lightly over their tops and then another blowing down on the grow area from outside the sealed off bit. They seem to have taken to it just fine, I was a bit concerned because of how they reacted when they first moved to the hps but they seem to be ok.
Little bit concerned that I think we might have a slight calcium deficiency in a few of the plants and I assume the others probably have it to a less visible degree also, but I'm only guessing. This is where my inexperience is going to show itself, I should have been prepared for this, I've read it can be a problem in coco, now I have no cal-mag, it'll be the end of the week before I can get some, and my girls are meant to be flipped tomorrow. So that's today's puzzle. We live and learn.
i also tried my hand at cloning last night. I have rooted cuttings before, just not cannabis cuttings! I read to take double what you actually want so I took 5 or 6 I think. I had no root hormone but I coated the stems in watery honey after cutting off all growth except two leaves on each and potted them in moist coco. I put them in the little plastic tray thing under the T5 and I'm keeping the lid misted. Maybe I should put a hot water bottle under them or something? I'm not really expecting anything from them but I wanted to try it because I want to know what I'm doing further down the line and experience is the best teacher.
The little cheeses look bloody awesome. One of them I can just see is gonna grow into the perfect little bonsai with a little help, I'm gonna keep it short and tidy and sturdy. Not sure how I'm gonna play the other yet, it was a very small weedy clone so it's only just getting its shit together and putting some growth on. My little bonsai though.... I'm in love.
I think that's everything.... I've been lazy the last few days about keeping my journal and now I'm sure I've forgotten some stuff.
Oh, we want to go to 12-12 tomorrow, they've been on 16-8 the last few days, today will be the third day I think. They always seemed tired at the end of the light cycle so we decided to let them get some extra rest since we don't need them any bigger and they have double the light now. I know people say they don't really need rest but mine seem to like it. Anyway, we want the 12 hours of light to be during the day so we're not blazing lights all night at unusual hours. It also makes more sense to be using all that electric during the day than at night. The problem I have is how to switch it, since they're due to turn ON at half 9 tonight, so I'm not sure how to rearrange the schedule to make it all fit? Like I can't just literally flip it all round to the times that are convenient to me, surely that'd be a major stressor? I'm thinking less light tonight, so like instead of running the light from tonight to tomorrow aft, we run it from a bit earlier this evening until early in the morning, give them a break and then back on tomorrow morning for 12 hours... I think. More reading to do...