Greetings Cultivators,
New to the site and as promised, I’m posting my grow of Mendel’s Aether by Brother Mendel Genetics. I’m super pumped about this strain and the medicinal qualities that were recommended by the breeder.
A little about my grow-
I’m in a 3x3 tent, two fans inside and one inline pulling air out of the tent to help regulate temps and RH. I’m running a single plant site RDWC with an external res outside of the tent, total water volume is about 13 gallons. I’m running the GH trio, calmag, enymes and hydroguard in a live res. I’m also running a chiller set at 68F and I have a system monitor that helps me keep track of all the vitals in the water, pH, water temp and ppm.
I am currently in week 4 since the first onset of flowers, not sure how long this strain will go.
This is my 3rd RDWC grow and it has not been an easy grow. This strain is more finicky than any that I have grown in the past. During veg, the new growth was very pale green, which led me to believe she was N deficient so I raised the ppms on her and she got a bit of leaf tip burn, backed that off and whether I was right or wrong, I decided the pale green was a genetic thing, she always greened up eventually to a normal color. She also got a bit N excess during this process. I changed out the res and reset everything when I realized this and that problem went away for the most part.
Then about a week ago, I started to see what to me looked like a calcium deficiency. I had one night where the ph dove on me right after a res change and I did not get it til morning where she had drifted down to 5.0 pH. I thought perhaps calcium had got locked out that night for a few hours and caused this issue, but it seemed to get worse after I corrected the pH so I did add about 10 ml of calmag to the res and it seems to have stopped this problem…keeping a good eye on it.

