48 Hours.
At 72 hours, things are going well, but I have had to work for it! The girls had evidence of mite damage upon arrival, though I could find no mites. I thought it best to actively fight them anyway. I mixed up a foliar with a 24 oz of 18PPM RO, with 5ml of Azatrol, and a drop of dish soap. The PH was about 7.0. I looked closely at every leaf on every plant, and sprayed well--especially the undersides of the leaves. I will hit them again in 3 - 5 days, and then in another 3 - 5 days after that. I will monitor closely. I've been a little paranoid - thinking every spec of coco is a mite! haha Again, I have yet to see any, but the leaves on many tell the tale of the Mom they came from. This is common when you purchase clones - and the one drag of these cut-only strains. Oh well, that is part of garden work. I hope that I will not have to deal with mites in my new zone.
Mites are common on clone only strains. This is mite damage, but I could not find any mites. The white leaf in the background, gave its' all to allow roots to form.
New growth on all looks good. With good roots, and good new growth, I feel I can get over anything else!
I began the Soul Synthetics program today. I went with a little less than half strength. The Soul Grow smells just like Snapple! I have a good feeling about these nutes; anything that tastes that good... hahaha! Seriously, these nutes do seem nice. They mix up really well though they have a little more body than other synthetic nutes.
Have you got soul?
To start the SS program, you use Soul Grow, and Infinity. Roots recommends 3ml, 5ml per gal of each respectively. I went 1.25ml Soul Grow, and 2.25ml Infinity. This put my 18ppm RO to 225ppm. I PH'd to 6.7. This is just about what I wanted for the first feeding... I hit em with less than 150ml each, and still had about 10% runoff... I probably could have waited another day to feed. But I wanted to keep things moist to aid in mite control, and I was anxious to feed em. Coco works well to water when it is still damp rather than dry. I was told the Basement can get hard on you too if you let it dry out. As I went about half strength, it looks like the factory starting PPM's for the SS program are about 400.
Soul Synthetics Grow label.
Soul Synthetics Infinity label.
The environment has been working well. The tents run bone dry, so the humidifier is still necessary. I have never used a humidifier before! Rather than have the humidifier on a timer or activated by the Sentinel, I am letting it run. It has two settings: hi and lo. I have the Sentinel set to fire at 79F or 67RH. It rarely gets to 79 in the tent, so humidity becomes the trigger. Set at 67%, this kicks on the fans for less than a minute until they go off at 63%, this still lowers the humidity to about 55% before it starts to creep back up. This kicks on the fans 5 - 10 times an hour. This works well to bring fresh air (CO2) into the sealed tents.
At 72 hours, things are OK!
Watch your speed; one for intake, and one for exhaust fan speed.
