Jiji's Indoor LED Soil, Blue Cheese Grow Journal 2017

[dickagm]

Day 75 Timelapse - Day 31 flowering

There are no signs of expanding rust, overall she is looking good
The temp was 27C
Humidity 51%
No watering

Best Regards,
Jiji

 

[dickagm]

Day 76 Timelapse - Day 32 flowering

The temp was 26C
Humidity 50%
No watering

Best Regards,
Jiji

 

[Tony Urban]

I cant get over those long slender beautiful leaves, that is a gorgeous plant

 

[dickagm]

Day 77 Timelapse - Day 33 flowering

The temp was 27C
Humidity 50%
I have made 1L + 2 ml sensi calmag mix and sprayed the half of it over the whole canopy, the other half I've used to water her.

Here are a few pics from today

And the timelapse

Best Regards,
Jiji

 

[dickagm]

Day 78 - Day 34 flowering

The temp was 26C
Humidity 30%
Watered with 4.5L with 1/2 nute strength (9ml by each micro, grow, bloom + 4ml calmag + 4ml sensizym + 4ml bigbud) + 1g Sodium bicarbonate to raise the pH to 6.5 after adding the nutes.

Note that all the "scars" are still not expanding but I'm getting more of the bottom leaves turning yellow like N and K deficit, old and new (small) are affected. Every day I see about 3-5 dead leaves. Is that normal?

The photos are made with the LED turned off for better color accuracy.

Best Regards,
Jiji

 

[dickagm]

Day 78 Timelapse - Day 34 flowering

Best Regards,
Jiji

 

[SnarlyWeed]

Jiji, when you are getting close to harvest, the bottom leaves are sending their nutrients to the flowertops, that is why they turn yellow and eventually drop off. It's ok to trim them when fully yellow. The closer to harvest, the more leaves will send their nutes and then yellow. I'm not sure how long your strain takes to reach harvest, but would guess you have 3 to 5 weeks remaining. Could be a little sooner, or a little longer.

 

[dickagm]

Day 79 Timelapse - Day 35 flowering

The temp was 28C
Humidity 48%
No watering

Best Regards,
Jiji

 

[dickagm]

Day 80 Timelapse - Day 36 flowering

The temp was 31C
Humidity 51%
No watering

Best Regards,
Jiji

 

[dickagm]

Day 81 - Day 37 flowering

The temp is 29C
Humidity 42%
Watered with 4.5L of water with a little more than 1/2 nutes strength (10ml by each micro, grow, bloom + 5ml sensicalmag + 5ml sensizym + 5ml bigbud + 1g sodium bicarbonate at the end for pH up to 6.5)

Best Regards,
Jiji

 

[SnarlyWeed]

Things are really getting frosty!!!
Very nice Jiji. I bet its getting a bit sticky in there!

 

[dickagm]

Things are really getting frosty!!!
Very nice Jiji. I bet its getting a bit sticky in there!

Very sticky! Today I have done some rearranging work because the colas where starting to lay on the sides of the tent and it was difficult to wash my hands after.

 

[SnarlyWeed]

You have to admit though, it's a Happy Sticky

 

[dickagm]

Day 81 Timelapse - Day 37 flowering

The temp today was around 31-32C
Also my intake fan died which surprised me, it was arctec cpu fan and those are usually lasting forever.

Best Regards,
Jiji

 

[dickagm]

Day 82 Timelapse - Day 38 flowering

The temp was around 29C, I'm still waiting a new 92mm cpu fan which will come probably in Monday
Humidity was 44%
No watering

According to some strain info that I found on the net the flowering should last about 8-10 weeks or between 56 and 70 days. So there's about a month and I'll be harvesting :icon_cool

Best Regards,
Jiji

 

[SnarlyWeed]

I think I will be looking as forward to your harvest as you will
Ok, maybe not quite as much, but dang close! And will miss all those timelapse. At least we get another month of them
Great job there, Jiji!

 

[dickagm]

Day 83 - Day 39 flowering

The temp was 31C
Humidity 48%
No watering

Best Regards,
Jiji

 

[dickagm]

Day 84 - Day 40 flowering

The temp is 30C
Humidity 49%
Watered with 4.5L of water (10ml by each micro, grow, bloom + 5ml sensicalmag + 5ml sensizym + 5ml bigbud + 1g sodium bicarbonate at the end for pH up to 6.5)

Best Regards,
Jiji

 

[Latitude17]

Day 84 - Day 40 flowering

The temp is 30C
Humidity 49%
Watered with 4.5L of water (10ml by each micro, grow, bloom + 5ml sensicalmag + 5ml sensizym + 5ml bigbud + 1g sodium bicarbonate at the end for pH up to 6.5)

Best Regards,
Jiji

Jiji I keep meaning to ask you - since you're using AN's Sensi line, why are you having pH balancing issues?

 

[dickagm]

Jiji I keep meaning to ask you - since you're using AN's Sensi line, why are you having pH balancing issues?

If I understand correct the AN are best for hydro and when growing in hydro the best pH is much lower than the one needed for soil. When I make a mix with 1/1 strength then the pH gets low to 5.0.

The problems started around a month after I started to water with the nutes! Before that I was watering with clear water only with adjusted pH to 6.5.

Initially of course I have made a test to see what pH the nutes are making and was surprised by the low value but I thought that the guys at AN are knowing their stuff and I've decided that its probably fine.
But when the "rust" came out on the leaves I've got really suspicious about that and googled a bit to see if there are others with same problem. And I found some saying they have problems with the pH and others that don't and the difference was caused by the medium every one was growing in.

Additionally when I have read about deficits it's clear written on many places that in soil the potassium (K) is absorbed with pH 6.5.

After all I didn't changed anything in the way I was growing rather than just tunning the pH at the end of the mix and she is looking healthy since

Please note that this is my first grow and I'm not experienced but this is what I came up after all.

Best Regards,
Jiji