Sooo.... I guess I got a little ahead of myself once more... Mainly referring to the spots on TG1 but also the clawing on ZG2 and generally the signs they are showing.
Since last time, I waited until top soil was dry, watered on the 04/20 and proceeded to water with 50% Tap (Left 24h to dechlorinate) + 50% RO as instructed, I did somewhat deviate in PHing the mix to 6.3 which lead to testing the run off that came up at around PH 8+ (Noted each individual PH), they then received another water approx 30minutes later of the same 50/50 mix at 6.3 (I guess I panicked), the solution running out was also very dark which caused even more distress. Tested again each individual run off and took notes, some lowered to ~7 some still ~8.
I then proceeded to leave it at that, feeling quite satisfied at that point, I thought they were getting better so didn't want to go full crazy on them.
Fast forward a couple days I started noticing some new signs on 3 to 4 of my plants, while all the others had started expanding nicely.
Humidity + Temp has been kept to fairly nicely, between 26oC and 29oC, 60% and 70%, my temperature/hygrometer's max has recorded a bump at 30oC but couldn't seem to find when.
Light has since been raised again (24h ago).
My thinking has been that all the plants to the right and especially the ones in the ''stream of RO humidity'' seem to be affected, I hadn't really thought this through but realised this morning that my humidifier had been pumping it's stream of humidity right by essentially these 2 front plants where during the 18h ON period it seemed to get worse, yet stabilize while the lights were off (I remove the humidifier for cleaning).
Tent is now fully closed with air only coming through the two side vents and the humidifier placed in a more suitable position.
I also tested the soil's PH by taking a sample set in RO water at a 1:2 ratio left for 30minutes, took another reading at 1hr coming up with a 7.4 reading (Meter was recalibrated prior)
Any thoughts on what to do next? Any tips in general? Watering will probably come tomorrow or after tomorrow and was considering doing something similar again, soil seems still quite hot as I've been getting a little leaf tip burn on most plants.
Since all this I've started saving PH In & Out values, ranking and measuring height for each individual plant, created a table where I record Temp and humidity hourly & from multiple sources (from surveillance cam, turned off during lights out), and generally being a lot more thorough about everything I do, revising and noting a precise process so info will be coming in throughout these next few days in much more depth.
Also received my
bluelab EC testing Pen, and tested my tap water: PH 7.2 , EC 0.5 , PPM 250
The arsenal has also increased:
Feather Meal:
Blood Meal:
Marine Guano: NPK 12-9-2
Bone Meal:
Crustacean Meal:
Lava rock powder: Lava Rock Powder 50%, Basalt Powder 50 % / Silica 44 %, Magnesium 13%, Calcium 11 %, Other :(Potash, phosphorus, iron, zinc, boron...)
Oyster shell meal:
Insect Frass:
Kelp Meal:
Bat Guano: NPK 1-10-1
Worm Humus:
Advanced N Mother Earth Tea:
Advanced N Ancient Earth: Leonardite, humic, fulvic
Advanced N Tarantula: Various Bacillus & Arthrobacter globiformis
Advanced N
Voodoo Juice: Various Bacillus
Advanced N Iguana Juice: alfalfa meal, bat guano, fish meal, sulfate of potash, Fish base, krill extract,
yucca extract, kelp meal and alfalfa extract. NPK: 3-1-3
Advanced N bud factor X:
Advanced N Piranha: Trichoderma, glomus, rhizopogon, pseudomonas
Advanced N Nirvana: alfalfa meal, earthworm castings, humus, seaweed extract
Advanced N
Sensizym
I know that's a lot... I Panicked at the beginning of the month and well... If I don't end up using any of that then that's just that, I'll think twice about it next time. I do want to eventually make my own supersoil which does now sound quite daunting now and test out some stuff though... But yeah...
Hopefully you guys will be able to shed some light on this affair, meanwhile I'll try and perfect my basics!
I'll also do my best to update my own Diary which should reflect the situation in more depth.
Thanks again.