Indoor Barney's Farm - Purple Punch Auto (First grow)

[whiterose55]

Hi everyone,

I previously made a thread in the "Infirmary for sick plants" since I was overwatering. Thankfully she fully recovered with the help of @Cannaficionado and @Kausk
Now I moved here so I can share my experience with all of you without flooding the other section

I watered her with 1.5L yesterday and in my opinion she is looking strong.
I took these pictures today.
Any advice for me going forward?

 

[Kausk]

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Very nice recovery! Also the bending went perfect. I would take off a few of the big old leaves that are growing towards the center of the plant, thus blocking off light from underlying nodes. You will see how quickly the exposed nodes will grow! But dont go too hard on the defoliation. I like to take off only a handfull of leaves in veg stage.

Any signs of pistils showing?

 

[Cannaficionado]

Looking gorgeous. I knew she'd pull back around! The only advice would give now is let her do her thing. Once you start seeing preflower pistils, I would do a minor defoliation. Just try to get rid of anything really covering up where buds will form. She will still produce new leaves for a 2 to 3 weeks after until she kicks fully into bud formation. Then one more small defoliation and then let her ride on out to the finish line. Don't go overboard though, leaves are where plants make their sugars so its beneficial to leave as much as you can.

 

[Cobstopper]

An alternate to removing is leaf tucking to get light to the branches. Don’t let the lower leaves lay on the soil, wire up or remove if necessary.
Add a small fan if you don’t have one.

 

[whiterose55]

Added the fan and removed a few big leaves covering the center of the plant.

I do see pistils forming on the top nodes. When new leaves will grow to hide them, I will proceed to remove them.

I will keep you guys updated when the buds will start to grow

Should I start giving her 2 or 2.5 liters of water or keep the 1.5?

 

[Cannaficionado]

Added the fan and removed a few big leaves covering the center of the plant.

I do see pistils forming on the top nodes. When new leaves will grow to hide them, I will proceed to remove them.

I will keep you guys updated when the buds will start to grow

Should I start giving her 2 or 2.5 liters of water or keep the 1.5?

The amount of water you give a plant entirely depends on how fast its leaving the medium. You can judge by either heafting the pot or digging your index finger down the side to the first knuckle, if its dry all the way down (about 1-1.5 inches) you can water. I forget are you in soil or coco?

 

[whiterose55]

The amount of water you give a plant entirely depends on how fast its leaving the medium. You can judge by either heafting the pot or digging your index finger down the side to the first knuckle, if its dry all the way down (about 1-1.5 inches) you can water. I forget are you in soil or coco?

I am using pre-fertilized soil mixed with expanded clay

 

[Cannaficionado]

I am using pre-fertilized soil mixed with expanded clay

Ok if its soil you definitely want to avoid run off but you wanna keep it moderately saturated. In soil as water leaves the medium salt based fertilizer will get concentrated. Don't keep it too wet and not too dry. It takes practice but you'll get it. Im almost finished with my grow, to keep these girls happy I have to water them twice a day in 5 gallon pots, about 1/2-3/4 of a gallon twice a day. Theres very minimal run off but they are drinking so much water my soil is hydrophobic on the very top every day which is what you want to avoid.

A month ago I was only watering about 3/4 to a gallon once a day to once every other day. Like I said it takes some getting used to. If you zoom in on the plant on the right you will see some very dry crispy leaves. That happened from me not watering enough. They have been that way since the start of flower but once I started giving them more water the leaves stopped shrieking up on me. Even the ones that are 80% dead are still very attached to the stems, thats why I chose to leave them on. I only take off leaves blocking budsites and ones that fall off with little to no effort.

 

[kfigerm]

i always advocate to leave the botton 2-3 pairs of fanleaves detaching from the stem as indicators. If they show any problems it may sure be a deficiency. if not everything may be fine if you don't see andy problems upwards. Problems upwarsds may indicate a lockout or overwatering prob.
Watering/feeding may become a problem, but all looks nice mate. Keep it on the lower side - always!
Keep on groovin' - looks nice atm.

 

[whiterose55]

Hello everyone.

The buds look to be starting to grow. How do they look?
I started giving her 2.5L every 2-3 days with 20ml/L of natural NPK 5.5-5-7.5 and 24h light (this light cycle began the last time I posted here but I forgot to mention it

Looking at @Cannaficionado 's grow, I reckon she has 2-3 weeks left since you started this time earlier than me and you are harvesting now, right?

Have a good day guys