Day 18
I'm sure that if I keep trying, I will kill this plant. Saturday was not a good day at the farm. I had removed a fan leaf to allow more light to hit lower areas and decided to adjust the LST. I felt a snap. The top snapped. It didn't come completely off so I decided to try and tape it and at least see what happens. I know that I could remove it and that would only promote secondary growth but I was curious to see if this could be saved. One of the fan leaves above the break shriveled up right away so I removed it. One other large fan leaf above the break was adding weight and nutrient needs above the break so I removed it too. Three large fan leaves removed.
So far it appears to be making it. Growth has slowed but that is to be expected, like when topping a plant. I also changed out the nutrients.
I had originally started by trying to keep the nutes as close to 200 PPM as possible. Some of what I have read would indicate that that was too strong as each day the plant would use about 1/2 galllon of water and the PPM would go up accordingly. Apparently when the nutes are right, the PPM remains the same when water is used. Others have mentioned "listening" to your plant.
This plant seemed to be needing something so about 4 or 5 days ago, I increased the strength of the nutes to about 350 PPM. I wanted to see how well it did with stronger nutes for at least 3 days before changing the reservoir. I changed the reservoir Saturday and have nutes close to 500 PPM. Plant appears to be looking healthy. Trimmed like crazy but it does look healthy and is starting to look bushy. Gaining some height too.
Hopefully it hasn't been stressed too much.