Hello everyone 
The reason for opening this thread is exactly what the title says. I spend quite a bit of time on overgrow.com—scrolling, reading—and then I forget what I’ve read…
I need a way to do this more effectively.
But first, let me show you what I have in the box. I have shitty camera, but…
All plants are 24 days on 12/12
5 x Frankenstein by @JohnnyPotseed
7 x Satori by Mandala Seeds
2 x Double Durban Thai by @Guitarzan
2 x Dead Whabbit by @santero
5 x Cobra Lips F2 by @Budderton
The space is 9 x 4 with two Mars Hydro FCE 800W lights.
The plants are healthy, but I can’t cram them all in there together anymore. I learned that lesson long ago, but I never seem to apply it. I always overdo it. OK, I have some kind of excuse that involves another person—he was supposed to take the extra plants and he did take three Frankenstein, but now he says he has no more room. So now I have to dig myself out of this situation, and I don’t have a second space.
Yesterday, I took two smaller Cobra Lips out of the box, but I’ll definitely need to remove at least one more plant. With some thought, I picked these two CLs. They’re the smallest, but that’s not the only reason. They’re “problematic” because they drink the least, which is probably also why they’re the smallest. The watering rhythm for the big and small plants is pretty well synchronized—except for these two, which fall out of an otherwise relaxed schedule. Anyway, I pulled them out and they’re going on the balcony to reveg, and later they’ll try their luck under the open sky, in some bushes.
Now, the question is what to do with the rest (CL, DDT, DW). It is hard for me to toss anything.
I flipped them to 12/12 after about twenty days of life, and now it’s day 24 of flowering
What if I cut the large side branches on the smaller plants and leave only the main tops? Would that stress them out so much that they’d herm? I’d try to make clones from the cuttings. That way, I could maybe cram them into the space.
Another thing I’d like to know is about feeding.
I’m making my own nutrients from raw salts. At first, I copied a well-known brand, and some plants didn’t like it. Satori showed signs of overfeeding even though I wasn’t heavy-handed with the nutrients. Which didn’t surprise me too much, since apparently their genetics require less feeding. Then I copied Jack’s 5-12-26 with calcium nitrate and added micronutrients. I only lowered Mg to 80ppm, because 96ppm seemed a bit much to me. They’re on full strength every watering with no signs of overfeeding and are thriving. I water every two days with some runoff.
They’re now in the fourth week of 12/12, and maybe I should change the feeding mix, but I can’t decide how to compose the ppms of individual nutrients. Or should I just leave things as they are and continue?
One more question.
The two plants I took out of the box have been under light the whole time—20 hours a day. What would happen if I put them back into the box on 12/12? Would they continue flowering normally, or would they be too stressed? Technically, their night period wasn’t disturbed, so I’m wondering if that helps.
I’m asking because now I’m hoping that maybe one of them could still fit if I trim all the smaller plants the way I asked about earlier.
Ufff, I’m tired of thinking in English and I think that’s enough for a first post. Thanks for reading—and for any answers to the questions I’ll be posting here.
Cheers
Pannonian
