Welcome to the 2021 edition of the Trailer Park!
2020 was fruitful. Had some ups and downs, but finished the year strong with a decent surplus of really dank bud!
Going to start this year with a small experiment. I’ve been wanting to introduce some beneficial microbes into my root zone for a while now, but didn’t want to spend a fortune on something like Recharge/Mammoth P or the likes. I decided to grab a bag of earthworm castings to amend my coco with. Seemed like a cheap way to get some microbial action going in the rhizosphere. I’m also going to inoculate the coco with mycorrhizae. My hopes with these additions is to boost early growth and give the plants a really good start, which is so important with autos.
Left side is just plain Canna coco coir with mycorrhizae added. Right side is the same but with 30% EWC added. Strains are Dark Spark, Ghost Rose x Cookie Devil, Poisoned Rose x Cookie Devil and Cookie Devil by @Mr.Sparkle Each side has one seed of each. The back middle is just a control with no myco and no ewc.
Today they sprouted (3.5 days later)
Pulling up a chair! I love experiments! Glad you are strapped with plenty o/dank! My outdoor summer surplus is getting dangerously low, but fortunately some indoor is on the way, should have enough come St. Patrick’s Day! Looking forward to watching this!
When I opened the tent this morning a big sheet of water rained down all over my buds. I looked at the hygrometer and it was 96% RH!!
Turns out the duct tape securing my exhaust hose to the egress of the tent had come unstuck, essentially blocking off my exhaust for what I can only assume was ~18hrs.
Hopefully didnt cause any issues and things are already back down to below 60% since fixing the hose.
They seem no worse for wear but definitely had some soaked leaves.
Perhaps you would feel safer with a remote sensor, my dehu stops working when lights go down even for a second. Thanks I check from time to time the mobile and I noticed it , hope yours will be ok …
The PRxCDs that I had started 1.5 weeks after the rest, didn’t get the same training that I gave the others, and had grown up into the light, and the apex was actually past the light on them.
So I defoliated them quite a bit to get more bud sites exposed and lots of tucking and training to at least get things a couple inches below the light lol.
Good spread of buds throughout the canopy. Sucks some plants had been crowded out a bit, reducing potential yield, but should still have a decent overall return on this run as the PRxCDs this round are massive and they always grow huge, dense buds
Now that I’ve saturated the coco I have to begin frequent fertigations, as an issue I’ve identified in the past is when leaving coco saturated for a couple days without adding new water, the seedlings can get pretty unhappy from sitting in old water (I’m assuming lack of oxygen?) and will get stunted sometimes. This has been a huge problem in the past, so I’m hoping I’ve got it resolved.
Some spotting now, but I’m thinking where I turned the auto watering off for the last 5 days that theres a buildup in the coco that needs to be washed out. Debating on whether I should hook em back up to auto watering but use a low EC for a night or two to flush the coco out and cycle over.
Thanks for the light distance tip , you have to know how it looks before searching for it. I don’t think this is nutes related, the whole plant would be affected, not just one leaf, could it be thrips?
when you look at the pics, the plants affected more have darker colour leaves, so they will absorb more light than the lighter coloured leaves on the plants that are having less problems. The darker leaves are also puckered along the veins and droop down, to decrease the amount of light being absorbed, the ridge creates a shadow. I think the low humidity we have had for the last 2 weeks probably didn’t help you much either.
, hope yours will be ok … 
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, you have to know how it looks before searching for it. I don’t think this is nutes related, the whole plant would be affected, not just one leaf, could it be thrips? 
