Hey Honey Let's Go Outdoors

Uff... This week was full of surprises. Weather was nice and sunny with one day of hail. It was like heavens opened and rained down hail. Literally. I got bombarded while saving plants from balcony. It's not a nice experience and it hurts a lot when hit in face with small pieces of ice. 😂 Plants continued to grow and are getting really bushy. I'm tying the branches each day to side of pot and tucking the leaves. I need to do this every day as the leaves block the light and I want those small branches to develop soon so I can start forming the final look of the plant. Defoliation needs to be done on some bottom leaves that really don't get any sunlight. I'm aiming to get a pot with lots of buds shooting up. 😎 At the end of the week I started spotting some problems. 😱 Brown spots appeared on some leaves. 😖 The symptoms were spread sparsely throughout the plants. Second set of leaves looking from top were affected. I got into panic mode as I never seen something like that. 😩 It was all going great up until now. One of good things that happened this week is that I got pH meter. Finally, I have some instruments to check my garden. First thing I did was flushed the plants with water. What I found in runoff water was unbelievable. The pH was at 5.2 in one plant and in the other pH of 5.4. The HORROR. 😱 How did that happen was a small mystery. To cut the story short, nuts that I have are a bit much acidic with high ppm and slowly lowered pH of soil and probably caused some lock out. So by looking at the elements chart I saw that I had a lock out of some elements and had to raise the pH lvl of soil ASAP. In all that panic, I wasn't sure of anything any more. I doped a question here and asked around. So in the mean time while waiting for answers, I started flushing plants with plain water of pH 7.2 and managed to raise pH to 5.4 and 5.7. At last flush, I gave them some small doze all purpose nutrients 5/5/5. The problem got worse later on as I don't have any pH+ around and was thinking how to correct this fast and proper so the plants don't suffer. The only thing left to do was ordering some. I ordered pH+ from BioBizz but some nutrients caught my eye and got them also, FixMix and Bio Bloom. I realized something when shopping online, I just can't buy one thing 😂 Anyway, the packet should be arriving in 5 days. In the meantime while waiting for package, the plan was to get pH lvl of soil to at least pH 6 just by adding water but then I thought what would plants eat. Surprisingly day after, I got a present package from my shop where I buy all the stuff for gardening. They sent me Cannazym, for you who don't know, it's the enzyme that breaks down dead roots and activates micro-organisms in soil. Also in package were bottles of nutrients Bio Vega and Bio Flores. Those nutrients don't need pH adjuster so the plants will be fed by the time my BioBizz package arrives. I'm planing to finish those plants with BioBizz. One thing to add: People here were nice enough and answered my questions. They said it was Cal deficiency and by looking at that chart mentioned, I saw the reason why. Since I didn't have any liquid Cal nutrient at home I could only use one in powder form. What I have is Cal/Mg/Fe with Zeolite, so I sprinkled 18g on top of the soil and watered it. So, all in all the week was busy, lots of stuff was done, lots of stuff happened, good and bad but I'm aiming for positive side and hope all will end well. cya all next week where plants will be OK and continue to flourish.