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Day 13 in flower for these Polar Gelati. The stretch is on. I'm refilling my res today. Adding liquid koolbloom to the mix for the next phase.
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My porch plants thive in the heat with this added to their diet. Beet extract.
Tricks the plant to keep transpiring, keeps the PS2 light channel pumping instead of shutting down.
Hand water it in or foliar, I wouldn't let it sit in the reservoir.

 
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Those plants are having low transpiration, low drinking
they are sucking up water pretty quickly, those 2 a little slower but not much. I do think maybe 1.5 tsp Maxibloom with 1/4 tsp of Koolbloom every other day was too much. I am starting to see the glossy leaves in some of the other plants too.
I have never had glossy leaves and some twisting and clawing like this. I have also never fertilized this heavy. I was thinking that what I was doing was like growing in coco. Apparently not.
Inside the tent it's been holding at around 85 degrees and 50 to 70% RH.
I flushed them out with fresh water and now I'll be fertigating with 1/2 tsp Maxi bloom and 1/8 Kool bloom. Every other day is the proposed schedule. When I do water/fertigate I water until I get a solid flow draining out of the bottom so in essence I am flushing out the old nutrients with every feeding. Or so I thought. There in lies the problem I thought I was thinking but I wasn't.
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1/4 level tsp of dry koolbloom weighs 2 grams. Aha!
lets dial that back to a scant 1/8 and see if that is better.

Looking at your plants I think you're too early for dry kb. Dry kb is a ripening agent, you want to run it the last 1-2 weeks before you start tapering down your nutrients. I use liquid kb right up until I switch to dry for one week before taper.
 
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