I Miffed my FIM but its coming close to TRIM

Howdy fellow growers, smokers and uhh, do-er-ers? haha

Some will remember my last post regarding my "grade school" attempt at FIM'ing my indica but suffice to say, seems i was a little over worried, its just a "weed" right?

Anyway, I'm back again with more words and questions to rattle the brains of those possessed with the inferior DWC knowledge...

I vegged for 6+ weeks (I cant remember exactly, i got caught up watching the beautiful thing grow, for a while there i forgot that it had a flowering and cultivation stage HA!)

At 6 weeks i had definite tell tale signs she was female, crossed stipuls and pistils already starting to show on some branches

Week 6.5/7 I gave her a clean 12/12 switch - prepped one timer to kick on 3hrs later, turn off 3 hrs earlier, when she turned off her final 18/6 i switched the timers around - also giving her a fresh batch of NEW nutrients (i was using floranova but switched to Mills after the hydro guy sold me on it - $100 bottle for $50 no braino!)

Im coming into week 1.5 weeks of bloom now (Thursday being the beginning of a week) and have noticed her growth has started to slow RIIIIIGGGHHHHT down - i went from seeing a crazy 5-10mm of growth a day down to an un giveable number - she's stopped her flower spurt i know that much - I did however prop her main stems UP so they faced the light, instead of continuing to try climb my damn walls like a crawler or vine lmao, i dont feel this has had any effect....

PH - 5.9
PPM - 1100 (now 1000, dropped 100 in two days, is this a good intake btw?)
Temp C° - 20ishh
RH - doing my best to keep it at 50% had some climbs upwards of 70% however (hoping ive worked out my intake/exhaust air now, ill take a full pic of my setup for you to understand more about why intake/exhaust is damn hard)



Ok now you got the basis of my girl down what i wanted to know is
Should i start using the Bloom Enhancer - it reccomends to use it once the second week has kicked in (im unsure if this is including the first transition week or not, I am also unsure if due to my girl spending an extra 2 weeks in veg (compared to there charts) would allow her to have grown to the level to accept my Bloom Enhancer


PICS OF HER OVERGROWING




P.S - I do have a proper Mylar grow tent with the necessary equipment (nutes table etc)
I am growing her like this due to being in a rental (air pump is hard enough to hide) as well as proving not only to myself that i can do it DWC, but to also prove to myself it doesnt take $1000 for the most basic of DWC setups - decent light+ ballast is $400 these days, disregarding all the extra bits and bobs

I paid $300 for my Tent, 6 grow tubs, air/water pump, 50l reservoir tub
$200 for my nutrient range, $140 total for lighting
So for well and truly under $500 including power usage i have brought her up, yield may not be the best but this is more a "if a 130w cfl will grow 30g in those conditions, im sure a 200w MH/HPS combo could grow triple"

Drop your PPM to 850 or so for a few days. Let us know. Then gradually increase again with your bloom booster as part. You're awfully high right now in my opinion.

Watch adding nitrogen at all. Your cal mag probably has some as do most Micros. I'm not familiar with what you use.

hotrodharley said:

Drop your PPM to 850 or so for a few days. Let us know. Then gradually increase again with your bloom booster as part. You're awfully high right now in my opinion.

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I had her at 850 - just brought her up to 1100 without noticing any issues - will bring her back down though - tested today at 1000 so i will top her with some water to drop the ppm by another 150-200

I personally dont add anything other than my 2 part Mills atm - contains N Cal and Mag

My bloom enhancer is .7% nitrogen to the 3% in my 2 part - 3% potash and 3% phosphate

I will drop my PPMs over a few days and add the enhancer -

You can always raise it as you know and low PPM will not cause burn or lockout.

Yeh sweet, i will bring her back down to 850 then start using the bloom enhancer - 2 weeks after that i have a ripening enhancer

In regards to her overgrowing her keep, i have used plant ties to pull the branches closer to its opposite instead of using a screen - she will lose yield/growth in the middle but should have a rounder growth not being squished yeh?

hotrodharley said:

You can always raise it as you know and low PPM will not cause burn or lockout.

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Thought id give you an update on how she's doing
Just finished first week of PK
Slight burning on some pistils, most of the top leaves have suffered burnt tips
This was a result of the closet becoming too confined for her
Id wake up or come home from work to find she'd grown into the light in a matter of 12hrs!!! Wasnt aware growth could be this damn quick lmao

Moved her into the big tent, she got a little sooky but loved every moment when she started to stretch out
Just the challenge of getting optimal light heights now, sometimes they start to burn up at 20cm, sometimes they dont burn up untill 10cm

orikeii said:

Thought id give you an update on how she's doing
Just finished first week of PK
Slight burning on some pistils, most of the top leaves have suffered burnt tips
This was a result of the closet becoming too confined for her
Id wake up or come home from work to find she'd grown into the light in a matter of 12hrs!!! Wasnt aware growth could be this damn quick lmao

Moved her into the big tent, she got a little sooky but loved every moment when she started to stretch out
Just the challenge of getting optimal light heights now, sometimes they start to burn up at 20cm, sometimes they dont burn up untill 10cm
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Hell yeah. Killer sativa leaves there. Thanks for the update. Good luck.

hotrodharley said:

Hell yeah. Killer sativa leaves there. Thanks for the update. Good luck.

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Haha, yeh those Sativa leaves only came in when i switched to flowering, looked very, VERY indica dominant up till that point - hence my closet becoming too small for her, the sativa growth came in and gave me a whollapping!! haha
Space has never been an issue prior, just very thankful i had this tent unused waiting for her!

orikeii said:

Haha, yeh those Sativa leaves only came in when i switched to flowering, looked very, VERY indica dominant up till that point - hence my closet becoming too small for her, the sativa growth came in and gave me a whollapping!! haha
Space has never been an issue prior, just very thankful i had this tent unused waiting for her!

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I had a Super Silver Haze that I had to kill. It grew like kudzu. 12' and trying to strangle me. It would not stop growing.

aww no! I wouldn't have killed it, I woulda just suffered with the lack of growth and spread her wider than the grand canyon - Unless one already did that and in turn, it still reached the top xD then god damnn dude, that woulda taken some magic thumbs to get it that proud

My nan showed me a photo when i was a young tacker of her when she was my age... clear as day in the background a mull plant standing taller than the roof of the house - I didn't ask too much about how or why because i wasnt supposed to know these things at such an age, but yaknow, what runs in the family stays in the family they say