1st Legal Grow 😴💤

[Paranorman]

I know it …realistically I was thinking eight days but now I’m just hoping they root ?! …I’m thinking probably 12 days ?

[Paranorman]

I’ve made a decision on these Autos…!

…if anybody would like to give some input would really like to hear it because I feel this is pretty radical !?

…I’m going to leave them alone…!?

(I told you this snooze was over!)

[BIGE]

patients grasshopper!

[Paranorman]

Oh you have no idea…! lol

She was my problem child back in my first growth thread, if her smoke wasn’t so damn insane I would have been over her a long time ago…!

[Paranorman]

Journal 1/23

Never saw this before, all the top leaves are reaching up on the plants I watered last evening…

GH Flora at 2-2-2 at 75% (7.5ml×3) is obviously too much for these plants at this point in their growth cycle

Have plenty of water warming up, if I flushed now the cold water will do more damage than if I wait. I’ll see them tonight at 9 and reassess

My personal feeling is they’ll be fine, I was going to use 50% but that’s 1-1-1 & they’ve been getting that right along, tried to turn it up, but apparently a little early

[Paranorman]

I don’t usually push newts, I’ve been getting away with it but it ends now.

…when I get this fixed I’m going back to doin’ it my way, I’m very happy with my somewhat reserved grow style

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[Paranorman]

Well I should have been clearer, I never saw them waving so high before…!

There fine…! I knew they’d be fine (I said it above)

…in fact, if anything they look like they’re suffering from explosive growth…! (I had to raise the light an inch)

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Once I check my new high-tech whiteboard I’ll figure out what PPM I fed them at and I’ll reduce it by a hundred for the next feeding

@FloridaSon This is an example where at next (plain pH) watering I will do a run off of at least 20 percent to flush out salts and lower the PPM (not a flush, just a normal 20% over-water)

[Paranorman]

…from the smallest

Roots-a-poppin’!

…One of the wavers

…A smaller lower Bud on one of the flowering adults (it’s exploding with sugar)

Tomorrow in the morning The Afghani Gold will get topped, the 8-ball clones will get transplanted, I’ll consider taking more clones from the second generation of incredible bulk clones and I’ll sum up everything I did tonight in a journal entry

…just wanted to put this up there now cuz I was exploding with joy at how well everything’s doing this evening…!

[bob31]

I’m drooling! LOL

[Paranorman]

That’s sweet isn’t it…! I couldn’t believe it I kinda saw it but I don’t get to the back of the tent very much, tonight when I was in there I snapped that pic, pretty amazing…!

Also in that clone tray pic a few above that I took yesterday those roots weren’t there, tonight theres two of them like that…!

Edit: …anyway I worried about the waving girls all day ( The Cult of the waving girls. It could happen)

… if you’ve been following along I fed these plants from go to prove that fox farm ocean Forest wasn’t a “hot” soil, its people who add too many nutes -too fast, not the product … and I think I showed that ?

So anyway I’m going back to my less aggressive, more mellow feeding schedule (aka the snooze)

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[Paranorman]

I kind of think I’m remembering something about the waving girls …when leaves reach up like that, I don’t think that was the newts, I think that’s cold water shock

I don’t even know who to call in to ask that question, to be honest …maybe I’ll search Cervantes and Rosenthal tonight and see if I can find that in print ? …so I’m not positive on this I just wanted to put it out there with that caveat

…and if rookies or even intermediates are reading here you should read this: cuz I know I ramble on sometimes but this is the serious s***

…if I was panicky when I saw those leaves reaching up and poured in cold water to panic-flush (another phrase I’m coining), I would have, if not killed those plants, I could have hermied them and/or set them back for weeks …just wanted to put that out there, hope this helps

[pbs86]

very true paranorman. usually the best thing to do when you dont know what to do, is nothing at all! From my experience growing though, leaves standing up/waving or whatever you call it has always been good in my grows. Its always been explosive growth!

[Paranorman]

Its always been explosive growth

That’s an interesting expression! LOL

…no, they stood up within an hour after I watered them so something was affecting them

I believe I recalled something about Cold water having an effect like that, but something definitely affected them and it doesn’t appear to have been the newts so I believe it is the cold water (it wasn’t extremely cold, it had been sitting on the tent floor for a day but still I usually warm it on a propagation mat for a few hours before I use it, I guess the girls like it warmer)

Make no mistake: cold water leads to root shock …and there’s all levels of root shock

I suspect the waving (not sure what else to call it) was a minor manifestation of cold water root shock, and if it’s too cold it will negatively affect plants as I’ve described above plants

[pbs86]

lol they look great though man. The four i have going right now are going into their 3rd week of flower and are starting to put on their sugary frost. i am so excited! Cant wait to have grown my own weed and show it off!

[Paranorman]

Hey man make a journal put up some pictures we’d like to see it and don’t forget to tag me in if you do, I want to see it too…!

[BIGE]

really!!! it’s hard not to be envious!!

[Paranorman]

@pbs86

From my experience growing though, leaves standing up/waving or whatever you call it has always been good in my grows. Its always been explosive growth

Cult of the waving girls (mystery solved?)

The Cult of the Waving Girls

Also known as why all of a sudden do my plants wave at the ceiling??? So yesterday maybe an hour or so after I fed nutes I looked in and on five of the six plants I fed the top leaves looked like they were clapping above their head, it look like somebody put a gun on them and said reach for the sky, for lack of a better way to explain it …I have a couple pictures [image] [image] First I thought the newts were too strong then I thought maybe the water was too cold but neither of these were …

It was pretty much what PBS said (although I’ve never seen an example as extreme as this) the link has some more info about this but I’m going to take it as all positive !

honestly, nothings changed (for once everything’s dead on) I knew the newts weren’t excessively strong and the water wasn’t excessively cold but they hadn’t started doing this until 24 hours ago right after I watered so that was my first suspect, anyway this is unique, in my book at least (these plants are reaching for the sky!)

Thanks again to The Grow Mentor for their speedy reply, much appreciated!

[Donaldj]

I looked at thread and typically in my experience the wave taco shell is heat stress/light stress related leaves move to reduce direct surface area exposed. The fact it comes on right before lights out means you’re right on the border of stress

[Paranorman]

Hey Donald thanks for the reply I’ll keep that in mind and check it tonight, I’ve burnt them before lol this time there is no taco shell, it’s more like a clam shell closing up on itself

I’ve never seen anything like it and they are not necessarily the ones under the light, at 64 degrees and there’s really no heat to speak of from the light plus I’ve gotten up maybe eight inches above them and only on 600 watts

I’ll double-check it again but is all I can do to keep heat in there LOL! Thanks again!

[Paranorman]

#8-Ball Kush Clones
Rooted & Transplanted

I put them in 6-inch squares to slow them down and to save room until I’m ready for them to suffer explosive growth, this will give me a couple more weeks leeway