DIY Cheap Noob Indoor Amnesia Haze grow

This week I switch the light cycle to 12 hrs ON and 12 hrs off. My dollar store nutrients come in "bloom" version which is 15-30-15, which is what we need. However to make the change a little bit gradual, this week I will use half of the 15-15-15 and half of 15-30-15 to average on a 15-22.5-15. Tip. Dont mix the nutrients before adding them to the water. Fine tuning the amount and ratio of nutrients you feed your plant is something beginners dont really have to worry about, you just feed it a reasonable amount of vegetative or flowering formulas, up the nutrients if it shows deficiencies (according to manufacturers indications), unless you check the run off and it is too high. If this is the case, just flush the soil and restart the process. I won't increase the nutrient concentration (to 1.5mS/cm) unless I start to see some deficiencies. ***Update Day 46: I saw some signs of nutrient deficiency in the lowest leaf. However, as always, before upping the dose of nutrients, I checked the run off.Indeed, the water going in was EC 1.8 mS/cm, but the runoff came a around 5.0 mS/cm!! I am not a runoff expert, but that sounds like a lot of minerals were left on the soil since the last time I checked the run off. So, the symptoms are more probably because a nutrient lock out due to high nutrient concentration in soil, instead of a deficiency. Here is where the EC meter comes in handy, cause otherwise, I would have upped the dose of nutrients, worsening the problem cause I still didnt get any visible signs of nute burn or nitrogen excess or anything, so you are able to catch nute excess before it affects the plant morphology! Instead of upping the nutes, I flushed slowly with about 24 lts of 6.5 pH tap water, 8 liters at the time. I stopped when I saw the EC on the runoff get to about 2.0 mS/cm. I will feed with 1.0 mS/cm instead of 1.8 mS/cm until I see the run off stabilize at no more than 1.5 mS/cm above the water that goes in the pot. I guess if you flush it all the way to 0.5 mS/cm you dont need to do this, but I wanted the flush to be gradual, try not to shock the roots too much. After all this is just my second growth, so I need to fine tune how many nutes this strain needs... This happened although I was following the RQS guide to nutrients, I guess that as I noob, I didnt have the perfect environment for the roots to uptake everything I fed them. Anyhow, on next grows I am going to experiment with different EC (600 for one clone, 900 for another one, and 1200 for the last one) and see how each one behaves, how their runoff varies, etc. But that is a whole 'nother story, experience is a good teacher. {{ My cloning technique}} I had to develop this very special way of cloning because of the first pheno I got, it was a blueberry cannabis which was very very hard to clone. I tried rockwool, dwc, cup of water, aloe Vera, honey, rooting hormone. So in the end only this combination of techniques was able to reliably clone every cutting. On the picture: 1 is a shot glass and a powdered rooting hormone (IBA 0.4%). 2: A transparent plastic box with a lid. 3. DIY dwc buclet I use for clonning. Basically a 2lt plastic ice-cream bucket (painted black to avoid algae growth) filled with water. I also cut some holes in the lid for the cuttings and added a 3 liter/min aquarium airpump and airstone). I also have a clonning ritual that works for me. First I place my cuttings in rooting hormone and leave them in small water shot glasses in lowlight inside the plastic box to increase humidity. It's only after I would see roots start to pop out of the stem, that get them into the dwc ice-cream bucket. It works everytime! I've run some experiments (although, only with two strains) and it seems to me that the higher concentration of IBA makes them start to root faster in the cup than in the dwc (where the rooting hormone gets diluted in the solution); but once the roots are out, they grow like crazy in the oxigen rich water of the dwc.