gr865
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Day 45 since sprout
Just got home this morning from a weekend away, to find some fairly droopy plants.
Yep very lite pots. Main irrigation went down, judging by the amount of solution in the rez's and the amount of solution they had been consuming, it went down between the 2 PM and 8 PM watering’s on Saturday. So that means they missed between 7 and 13 one minute watering’s, from Saturday evening to this morning when I arrived home. The touch of Cal/Mag deficiency I experienced a few weeks back really expressed itself when they dried out.
And I hope the roots have not suffered much. I have done 2 - 1 minute watering’s 5 minutes apart to rehydrate the root system and the water started running through the smart pots before the second minute finished. That is how dry the coco is. Going to let the set for a few hours then do a good hand watering drench with the high rate of White Shark in the regular pH’ed solution. Have been adding it weekly, but if the roots are that dry I do not expect there to be much microbial activity at this point.
Is this the right thing to do? I would think that it will not hurt.
Another thing I believe helped reduce the damage is I am running the lower lamp on a 12/12 cycle, need the light there but still trying to get as much stretch as possible before I go into flower.
This plant was topped last Wed morning and today every branch was reposition and re-tied to the screen. Have the branches where I want them now, at close to 90 degrees to the main stem, some of the plants more than others. Remove most of the damaged leaves along with removing some of the large fans from the back of the screen, but the upper fans get left in place till that branch can support itself.
If the roots are a damaged as I believe they are, I may go back to manual operation of the Irrigation system till the roots rebound.
These are for sure indica pheno's, short plants
As Rozanna Zanna Zanna’s daddy used to say, “It’s always something”
GR
Just got home this morning from a weekend away, to find some fairly droopy plants.
Yep very lite pots. Main irrigation went down, judging by the amount of solution in the rez's and the amount of solution they had been consuming, it went down between the 2 PM and 8 PM watering’s on Saturday. So that means they missed between 7 and 13 one minute watering’s, from Saturday evening to this morning when I arrived home. The touch of Cal/Mag deficiency I experienced a few weeks back really expressed itself when they dried out.
And I hope the roots have not suffered much. I have done 2 - 1 minute watering’s 5 minutes apart to rehydrate the root system and the water started running through the smart pots before the second minute finished. That is how dry the coco is. Going to let the set for a few hours then do a good hand watering drench with the high rate of White Shark in the regular pH’ed solution. Have been adding it weekly, but if the roots are that dry I do not expect there to be much microbial activity at this point.
Is this the right thing to do? I would think that it will not hurt.
Another thing I believe helped reduce the damage is I am running the lower lamp on a 12/12 cycle, need the light there but still trying to get as much stretch as possible before I go into flower.
This plant was topped last Wed morning and today every branch was reposition and re-tied to the screen. Have the branches where I want them now, at close to 90 degrees to the main stem, some of the plants more than others. Remove most of the damaged leaves along with removing some of the large fans from the back of the screen, but the upper fans get left in place till that branch can support itself.
If the roots are a damaged as I believe they are, I may go back to manual operation of the Irrigation system till the roots rebound.
These are for sure indica pheno's, short plants
As Rozanna Zanna Zanna’s daddy used to say, “It’s always something”
GR
It is a great hobby that provides me the medicines I need for pain management, stress relief and allows me to get much needed relaxation without meds or alcohol. 