Happy July 13th…sunny and 85 and the girls are happy.
Older Gelato at Day 65. 2 younger Gelato’s at Day 44.
Even though they’re the same ‘strain’, from the same seed pack, there’s quite a difference between older the Gelato and her 2 younger sisters in regards to secondary branch development. Older girl Not topped vs younger girls topped at 4th node on day 15. Stalk base thicker on younger girls.
On older plant, the next 2 set of branches below main Bud are compact and close to stalk. Lowest set did branch out more with small but nice buds.
On the Younger girls, the two main branches ( after topping) and the Next lower set are very nice with great secondary growth. Love it.
I believe I kept lights to close to older girl and that kept her shorter than she should have been.
I was seeing some stress to the younger girls, late in the evening, after being back under lights for final 6 hrs after 10 hrs in sun. They were growing like crazy, but I was not adjusting inside lights height accordingly. Hell, they were only 14" away and I raised to 28"
I changed watering schedule on the younger girls from 1 gallon every 3rd morning to 1.5L every morning, beginning 3 days ago. They were too dry by the 3rd morning and some droop. They Like this new schedule. Expecting to be at 2L each morning next week.
Now on July 3rd, Day 33, I watered them to runoff. Mix Going In was 658 ppm and pH of 6.3. Runoff was 2064 for one and 2078 for the other…pH of 5.9 for both
Today, Day 44, the Younger girls mix per gallon is 1 Tsp CalMag, 1/2 Tsp FloraGro, and 1/2 tsp FloraBloom. PPM reading of mix at 563.
Older Gelato at Day 65 began getting Only pH’d water 3 days ago…
July 10 the runoff was 1247ppm and 6.1 pH
Today the runoff was at 840 and pH 6.4
I am still a newbie when it comes to ppm and all…
I can tell she is not drinking as fast
Otherwise I think she is almost done, fewer clear trich’s than cloudy and a few scattered ambers.
Inre Older Gelato, Other than taking off 3 leaves 8 days ago on 4 leaves this morning I have done nothing to her.
Inre Younger Gelatos… topped at day 15. smallest lowest branch removed from each on July 3rd. On July 8th I removed 2 smallest sprouts from remaining lowest branch. Today I remove 2 small sprouts from bottom of G7. I have Not done Any leaf trimming. I have twice done some very light lst, for a 12 hour period only, to slightly spread branches…worked well I think. I have earmarked about 4/5 leaves each to trim from middle, next week, for increased airflow.
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