ETHOS Clones (Diary #8)

BLOOM WEEK 7 (Oct 3-9) ---------------------------------------- TARGETS: • 23-25c / 50-55% Day • 19-21c / <55% Night • 1.2-1.6 kPa • 1.5-1.8 EC / 6.0-6.2 pH ________________ Oct 3 (1.5-2.5L) Mix: 20ml CaMg, 36ml Overdrive, 20ml PK 14/15 : 5 gallons water = 1.5 EC / 6.1 pH 🌡️: 25.9c 🆗 (Brief spike at 3AM and 7 AM) ❄️: 19.6c ✅ 🌧️: 60.1% ⬇️ ☁️: 49.6% ✅ 📈: 1.67 🆗 📉: 0.86 🆗 (night low) 📊: 1.35 kPa ✅ Feeding will be a bit different this week because the Cherry G-S-Y has a 9 week flowering time. That means I have to keep the full strength bloom for this week, then lower nutes for week 8 and flush week 9. The rest are advertised as 53-60 days with early flower onset and fast ripening. These will all get the lowered EC of 1.5-1.8 this week and flush next week. The Kush Cakes, Mandarin Cookies and Early Lemon Berry all have signs of being ready on time. _____________ Oct 4 (2L) Mix: 20ml CaMg, 36ml Overdrive, 20ml PK 14/15 : 5 gallons water = 1.5 EC • No runoff 🌡️: 25.8c ✅ ❄️: 21.3c ✅ 🌧️: 57.1% 🆗⬇️ ☁️: 48.7% ✅ 📈: 1.6 ✅ 📉: 1.22 ✅ 📊: 1.41 kPa ✅ All the containers are so light when the lamps come on. Especially the 3 gallon bags. I should've probably been watering twice a day more often but gnats...they're proving to be more annoying than anything. In the future I'll be applying H202 treatments as a preventative measure, not reactionary. __________________________ Oct 5 (2-4L) (Rain at night) Mix: 20ml CaMg, 48ml A, 48ml B, 36ml Overdrive: 6.5 gal water = 2.2 EC / 6.1 pH 6L at 2.2 EC out for CG/GS Diluted to 1.7 EC for MC/ELB/KC • Bit of runoff 🌡️: 25.2c ✅ ❄️: 21.1c ✅ 🌧️: 58.1% ✅ ☁️: 48% ✅ 📈: 1.62 ✅ 📉: 1.24 ✅ 📊: 1.40 kPa ✅ After double checking the flowering times, they're all relatively similar. 56-63 days. HOWEVER ..the Mandarin Cookies has amber trichomes at day 46. Unreal. That's usually my cue to start flushing but I wasn't expecting to start flushing until next week. Still seeing increases in flower size and that should continue as the calyx swell. Some of the tops need more support. The decrease in day/night temperatures is keeping the smell down and I think we'll start to see some colour develop after a week or so. Temperatures outside are supposed to plummet so that will help pull out some of the expressions. _______________ Oct 6 (2L) Mix: 20ml Silica, 24ml CaMg, 20ml PK 14/15: 5 gal water = 1.3 EC / 6.1 pH 🌡️: 26.2c 🆗 (Brief spike) ❄️: 21.1c ✅⬇️ 🌧️: 52.8% ✅ ☁️: 47.4% ✅ 📈: 1.66 ✅ 📉: 1.28 ✅ 📊: 1.46 kPa ✅ _______________ Oct 7 (2-4L) Mix: 36ml A, 36ml B, 24ml Overdrive: 4 gallons water = 1.6 EC /6.3 pH • pH reader won't calibrate, ph of nutes auto corrects to 6.3 pH 🌡️: 26.5c ✅ ❄️: 19.5c ✅ 🌧️: 49.9%✅ ☁️: 46.9%✅ 📈: 1.82 ⬇️ 📉: 1.12 ⬆️ 📊: 1.41 kPa✅ WORST possible timing for my pH reader to take a shit. Buffers read 1.2 over what they should be. Grow shop is closed today and tomorrow so I'm pretty much fucked until Tuesday. It's less than a year old so I'm hoping they can replace it. If they don't fix the issue I'll have to try adjusting my feeds to 7.0-7.2 (which should be 6-6.2. Just hilarious how something happens to me at the end of every grow. All I can do is continue using the pH perfect AN nutrients because they correct the pH automatically to 6.3 (from experience). Throws a big wrench in my other grow because I need to buffer coco for transplanting very soon. _______________ Oct 8 (2-4L) • 4L @ 2.2 EC /6.2 ph (CG/GS) • 2-4L @ 1.3 EC/6.1 pH (rest) • Borrowed a pH meter and calibrated 🌡️: 24.6c ✅ ❄️: 18.8c ✅ 🌧️: 51.4% ✅ ☁️: 47.1% ✅ 📈: 1.62 ✅ 📉: 1.08 🆗 📊: 1.31 kPa ✅ ____________ Oct 9 • 4L @ 2.2 EC /6.2 ph (CG/GS) • 2-4L @ 1.3 EC/6.1 pH (rest) 🌡️: 24c ✅ ❄️: 18c ✅ 🌧️: 50.6% ✅ ☁️: 44.5% ✅ 📈: 1.66 ✅ 📉: 1.05 🆗 📊: 1.37 kPa ✅ Last day of week 7! Still swelling and looking oh so good. Will drop the EC for CG/GS/ELB to 1.5 for next week and begin flushing the KC/MC. Did a light defoliation of the middles to keep the airflow moving and tied up some of the heavier branches. I took an hour off the light cycle so we're now at 11/13. End of next week I'll switch to MH bulbs and drop another hour to finish. Slacking on the pictures but if I don't get in there right at lights on, the pics look like trash. Once I switch the bulbs out to MH I'll be an absolute shutterbug.