Day 26
Fair warning - Kidney stones are acting up bad, so I am stoned to the max and doped up on narcotics as well.
The good news:
The plants look like they are starting to grow much faster the last couple of days. Its almost like they heard me complaining about slow growth and decided to get it in gear
The root pruning is really working as far as forcing side growth and slowing the downward plunge. It took almost 3 days before the roots sent more shoots straight down, but they filled out to the sides a lot in that time. I did a second trim last night of a couple that had just started to go for the bottom again.
Im not 100% sure this is a good thing over all, but it is very interesting and more fuzzy side shoots seems like a good idea to me. Probably not all that practical in most situations anyway.
The bad:
My rez keeps turning cloudy after two to three days. Im keeping the temps way low - under 65F max, plus Ive been keeping at least 2 PPM chlorine in the rez. But if I dont refresh the chlorine every other day, the rez turns cloudy and the PH shoots up to 6.4. From everything I have read, I should not have to refresh the chlorine that often. I shouldnt even need chlorine if Im keeping the rez that cold. Im starting to wonder if my bag of nutes got contaminated somehow. Moisture did get inside and caused it to clump up a lot, but I ground it up in a coffee grinder.
This is really annoying.
More good: The crap in the rez does NOT seem to be infecting the roots, so thats good.
Also, these levels of chlorine are not killing off all the fuzzy hairs. They actually look pretty darn good over all.
Im too stoned to process a bunch of pics…more later…