Thanks 619ster! These ladies are practically taking care of themselves, but I am gonna do a bit of an update below talking about what I have been doing to get such good results this round. Get the LADs asap!
Thanks Mogrow, the Grenades have really lemony smells right now, especially one, but they didn't stretch as much, and aren't swelling as early/fast as the LADs, which stacked almost as nicely! I hope they catch up because the strong lemon is really what I'm looking for in a keeper this round.
Okay, so I didn't say much recently about what I have been doing because I wasn't really sure how I was doing so well using these JRPeters nutrients for the first time and growing a 5 strain crop all with the same feeding, and I was afraid of sharing blind luck information that was going to go sour at some point. . . . but I think I can confidently share my feeding up to this point saying that it works really well for the first half of the flowering cycle.
I have been sticking to the 3-2-1 ratio as its called but technically it is 3.0g Pro Hydro, .005g MOST, 1.0g Epsom Salt, and 1.8g Calcium Nitrate. . . mixed in that order and then diluted to the desired EC. This has produced green healthy zero deficiency plants through veg and flower up to week 4 so far, and I will let you know how it goes after its finished.
So I have been doing a pretty simple feeding routine, since I am using pure coco and doing Drain to Waste it doesn't take much to keep things happy. I am still watering by hand this run, mostly because I like getting in close with my plants when I water and I also like the smaller batches I can mix up while this is still my first run with the nutrients. Early on in flower I was watering a little over a gallon every other day, but by week 2 I was watering around a gallon a day based on how dry the media was getting. For the most part I never let the media get completely dry, with the exception of two times on day 20/21 to kick in flowering extra hard, and currently at day 29/30 to boost the flowers a little more while new calyxes are still being produced. On those two occasions I wanted extra oxygen to get to the roots so I had to let the media get a little drier than normal, which means the salt content was going to seem like it was going up to the plant. . . . so to prepare for the dry spells, I would feed with 1.0-1.3 EC solution as a flush instead of the normal 1.6-1.8 so that as the media dried out the plants wouldn't get burnt. This has worked perfectly so far and I hope to do it one more time around day 39/40 before a touch of homemade
MOAB and then flush to harvest. I think that about covers the feeding I have been doing. There hasn't been the need for any foliar feedings, but I did do a foliar of Silica and Epsom salt at around 10 days I believe, before I raised the level of epsom salt in the nutrient solution from .5g to 1.0g.
The only other note-worthy thing I have done is a little more defoliation, about as many leaves as last time were removed again, just to keep the canopy open and light penetrating, as the leaves continue to grow in size some have to be removed. The buds are looking really nice all the way up the colas at this point, and the colas are over a foot long so thats pretty awesome in my book!
I hope you are all still enjoying the log, this room is gonna keep feeding heavily and be even fatter by the next big update on Friday, but for now here are just a couple more photos I took today to hold you over through the week.
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-Meeks:)
