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Good call. I am actually thinking of using a 50% ripen schedule of nutes, too, since the trichomes are still not quite where I want them, and the plants are phototroping normally now. They are bouncing back great. Sucks I lost about an ounce of that sativa, but there is a ton left on her. I will make butter with her top when it finishes drying, want to let the plant metabolize as much as possible first, at least 3 days of drying before making butter.
OMG that sucks so bad =( all that work to come to end early. thank god 3 and 4 are still going. i am going home to make some sort of trellis, I was gonna say some thing the other day but i was so stunned by their beauty i forgot. Mine is on day 2 of 12/12 and no where as high but better to get the suspension line on now while i can get to the back of mine. I cant believe ur only running a 400 and those ladys look great. What nutes r you using ? I am using gh flora on the simple plan so far but i ph my bucket let set over night no rise what so ever put the plant in and for the last 3 days my ph had wanted to climb from 6.0 to 6.4-6.6getting kinda to be a pain. i have a home made lid/net pot which is easy to open and ph and correct but i got a bucket lid for the 2nd one and it a pain in the royal arse, thing drips every where. Well 2nd ? is i am using fish ph lower to bring it down, i know i plan to get the correct stuff but havent yet , ? is will the hydro ph chemicals work better ?
Your pH can rise from many factors. My guess is that something is in the res decomposing (any of the zymes will fix this. I can speak for hygrozyme, but I hear others are great, too, like cannazyme, etc). Put your nutes together, pH it to 5.6 or so, then feed. As the plants use of the solution, or as the pH rises, amend with a pHed solution to counteract. For instance, if you are aiming for 5.8pH, and your res is at 6.0pH, add solution on a refill that is 5.5pH. Do not make massive jumps all at once, but GH is extremely well buffered. It is also chelated extremely well, so you can get away with some fluctuation. Mn may only be available naturally at 5.8pH in hydro, but with a superior chelation, the plants can pick it up on a much broader scale.
I am using GH flora series, its cheaper, and does a great job. I don't use many additives at all. Zymes if needed, superthrive after bad stress or early rooting, and now floranectar to carb up the plants. My pH doesn't move much at all. And yeah, I would get some GH pH up and down. Not that the aquarium stuff won't work, it might; but it was not made for ingestion and is most likely not as stable for a solution built for feeding hungry plants.
As for a trellis, it is a good idea. However, in my case, it may not have helped. The actual lid of the res is the point of failure in my situation.
As for my plants, they are looking great now. I may even get the added bonus of "golding" that fat bud on plant 3. Unintentional girdling, haha. My harvest is still going to be amazing, and far beyond what I expected to get from 3 autos. And if I can get some butter from the loss of that amazing bud off of plant 1, even better.
Plant 1 still needs time to mature, plant 2 is almost there, 90% cloudy, and plant 3 is almost pure cloudy now, but no amber yet.
