Day 32 Update - Day 7 Flower
Today is the 1st day that I started less than once per day watering/feeding. Instead of watering right when lights came on I waited to water until 1 hour before lights off. I'm experimenting with letting the coco have a chance to dry out a little more. Early in the grow, I was unable to do this...presumably because the moisture that was present became too *hot* with the nutrients that were still present. This evening, to my surprise, the girls looked as if I had just fed them. Leaves were very perky. This gives me a few clues:
1) They perhaps were a little unhappy with being watered as often as they were
2) They are now capable of stronger nutes.
I began them on the Week 1 flowering feeding schedule one week ago and I started weak...20% strength. I increased the percentage with each feeding in increments of 5%.
Tonight I deviated from this and bumped the feed all the way up to 50%. Aside from the 2 clues listed above, the PPM's of the last feed was only in the low 400's if you exclude my tap water. At 50% strength, PPM was 725 including my water and 555 excluding it. Seems reasonable and possibly still on the weak side...we'll see.
Tonight I decided to pull some individual plants out to showcase some of the variations in growth patterns. Up until now, I've only been showing the stretchy ones so let's take a look at some others too now.
So far, the strains that are furthest along in flowering are Skunk #1, Northern Lights and Bubble Bomb.