So far these nutrients are very good if you are not going the organic route. I am quite impressed with their ability to feed the plant. There are some things that I've noticed, and this may just be my beginners level education, but it seems like the EC's you see listed by a lot of the bottled nutrient companies are extremely high! I would be surprised that my plants could survive with an EC of 1,3 using jacks professional. My plants get nutrient burn with much over 0,8 EC using jacks. I am pretty sure there have been no lockouts at all just some nutrient burn in the beginning when I overfed them. When I try this next time, I will begin feeding them at 2 weeks with 1/8 tsp for the first week, then up to 1/4 tsp on week 4?
I haven't touched my PH down or PH meter since I started this grow, and damn what a beautiful thing. I still do want to get back to some organic soil in the future, just so much space and electricity to do this! Now
@arb has me so intrigued with his medium and nutrients the minimalism, I kinda wanna just outright adopt it as all other methods have been a bust in one way shape or form. I realize that I say all of this while I am mid bloom and who knows what may happen but it does seem that the plants are not lacking in any particular nutrient or getting too much so I guess I'm in the safe zone.
I'll be raising the lights another inch or so, put them about 14" above the canopy, hoping to keep them right at around 12" above the closest tops. Not sure still how this scrog-pro trellis will do shading the undergrowth, I expect to see a negative impact there.
Also, my gut is telling me that this 4x4 trellis should have 5 plants, the middle just seems so empty and even another week of growth that I missed this round doesn't seem like it would have filled in that empty space. I also wonder if going in 5ga fabric pots would have been a better option to get a bigger plant to fill the screen.
I am really surprised at how The Church is growing, really long spacing between nodes during stretch. This is an indica variety but the stretch felt a lot more like a sativa. That plant was the furthest behind having been restarted a week later, then FIM'd and took some fan leaves, it did fill in nicely but you can see it hadn't had all those new growth's plucked so it was esentially topped 1 whole round less than the other 3. I think I did the worst topping the bruce banger, missed some spots. Frankly this is my first attempt at this so I expected to have some fouls.
Cheese and Orange Hill Special are growing very similarly, which makes sense since they are both closely related. So far all of these varieties seem to be as the breeders stated, great for SCRoG and takes well to topping and training. These girls never missed a beat, always saw new growth within a day of topping, and no branches were broken when LST'ing and moving around during SCRoG duties. No silica as well.
Still feeding 1/4 tsp a gallon, at about 3/4 a gallon of nutrient water per plant every 3 days or so. Little or no runoff. I am feeding them with a funnel in my siphon pump tube that I put down to the stalk of the plant and slowly water each one. Makes it much easier than trying to feed in such tight quarters.
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