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selfmedicator462

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here are a few more. I fed today and bumped the nutes up and made sure the PH was about 6.5..my runoff was 5.8

I looked at some pics in a book and it does seem like a K deficiency.
 

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SeedHo

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like i said it could have been a few things, but i think you got it right. just keep an eye on it, the changes you made shouldn`t harm anything. hows your space dealing with the big light.
 

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I need to come up with a better drip tray. Right now I can remove the pots to water but once they grown into the screen I'm screwed. The airpots drain a lot of water before they are fully saturated so my standard drip trays won't cut it. I'd like to have just one big tray that I can pump the run off out of. Any ideas?
 

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Yeah that's kinda what I'm looking for. Gonna try to find one big enough for all 4 pots. Then I'll just pump the runoff out after I water.
 

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My nutes seem to be working. the BC is greening back up and growing a ton! Got my RO system up and running today. It dropped my tap water ppm from 350 to 9! It does make the water smell like sewage though.

Photo 6 shows my BC.....it got some light stress today. It had grown so much it was about 3 inches from the cool tube. Glad I caught it and raised the tube up. Some of the others pics show my fim job. They are growing new nodes.
 

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Here is what i came up with for a pan. Its for under a water heater. It just barely fits all 4 pots. Im gonna keep looking for something just a bit bigger. This is 24" round.....if it was square it would be perfect. Neat side effect of having these airpots touch each other.......when you turn one...they all turn! Also made up a hose with a shut off on the end so i can water from my 5 gallon bucket. No trying to use a jug in that small room after its fully vegged.
 

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The BC finally touched the screen. The DQs are getting really bushy. Probably didnt need to scrog them. Wonder when i should flip them to flower? Originally planted in late october but with the lack of nutes, leaving them in solo cups too long and lack of skill they didnt make it to the 3 gallon pots till the 21st of november.
 

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SeedHo

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hey man hows things? gardens looking much better and rolling right along. me personally i would go ahead and flip `em, just due to how long you have invested in them already. have you looked into how your going to flip them yet. there are a few schools of thought on this aswell as everything in this hobby. myself i like to give them 36 hours of darkness before they go into the 12 12 cycle. look into what others do and see which will suit you better. well keep doing what your doing, its working for ya. what do you think, you enjoying watching them grow and responding to the things your doing for them.
 

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Think I'm gonna let them veg one more week then flip. I'll probably do 24hrs of darkness then 12/12. Hope I get some DQ females. They aren't showing anything yet. They have a "spike" at every node. Doesn't look like a pistall. I think from now on I'll just buy feminized seeds. Sucks though cause TGA doesn't offer them.
 

SeedHo

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it all looks good. get ready to start filling that screen, that time is coming. is that a gooood stink :)
i`ve run some of tga`s gear and had very few males, that's just luck of the draw but hey something to look forward too. have you looked at the branching from the tops?
i just got done running my 1st commercial female seeds, i`ve always stayed away from them. due to my health the females look to be in my future, its going to help me down size. are you taking cuts from this run?
 

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I want to take clones but I'm not sure if they will out grow my little box before I'm done harvesting the other batch. 6 weeks in the little cabinet might be pushing it
 
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