Just to give you an idea I just had a northern lights go from mostly cloudy trichs with clear to 100% cloudy with 20% Amber in a week.
Right on. mine still look clear to me
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Still looks like decent amount of white pistils, which means she’ll put on a little more weight if you let them go. When you see the pistils receding start checking trichs on buds. I usually shoot for about 20% amber, but as long as most are cloudy or further you can take them.
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@Kratos I couldn’t have said it better!!! 
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@dbrn32 I’m hoping it puts on a little more weight also but this is pretty exciting, getting ready to reap what you sow for the first time. Im gonna experiment more with harvest times with my photoperiod. I think there’s gonna be an actual harvest with that one!
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Gold Leaf: Down to 3 plants now but they’re all strong, also I started training. The one gold leaf that’s in a #1 pot actually has 3 leaders! Kind of serendipitous really since I was gonna top her to begin with. I’m not sure if I topped or fimmed it but I plucked all 3 tops this morning. Hopefully she’s not too young. Probably gonna transfer the remaining two plants into #1’s this week sometime, I’m just waiting or the leafs to grow past the container.
Black Widow: Culled one a few days ago so I’m down to four now. Started training the girls in the #1 pots. One of them I topped, the other one I’m just going to use LST. My plan is to grow the LST one in a spiral.
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Hey man I’m seeing some discoloration in the leafs. I’m using pro mix soil and watering at about 6-6.5. Both strains are showing funky colors. Humidity is fine, dropped to 30% once or twice but usually 60-70%. I have them under a 12 channel LED pulling 401 watts. I usually have the LED at full strength (Veg/bloom setting both active). I put them outside a few times when it was sunny also, idk if that could be the culprit or not. Let me know what you think. Thanks!
Hey man I just realized I didn’t respond to you. I’m a total rookie when it comes to forums, bear with me. I’m not sure if you asked about the light because I was complaining about some runt plants or if I had a pic with the lights far away, but I think the thumb rule is 24” for a 600w, 40” for a 1000w and 12” for an LED. That’s my thumb rule at least lol.
Are those leaves touching medium? That will usually make them die off pretty quickly. I’m not familiar with that bag of promix, does it contain nutrients? A lot of them don’t have much and require feeding pretty early. Also, most promix is recommended by manufacturer to run ph of between 5.8 and 6 2, with a lot of really good growers liking 6.0.
I would maybe hit up promix website or bag and see if it lists specifics about the product you have. If you don’t find much there, you could probably run a slurry test and see where your at for ph and ppm, then move forward from there.
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The promix stuff has all the nutes I should need for a 60-80 day veg. I like a pH of 6 also just cause it’s easy and I can do it on one of those liquid test tubes if I have to. I’m going to put the soil ones in a 3gal smart pot with that ocean forest stuff. That seems pretty popular.
Yes the leaves we’re almost certainly touching the soil at some point, that’s enough to do that to the leaves!? Cause it feels like a nutrient problem to me, rubbery and wetter to the touch too. I didn’t know you could burn a plant with just soil? I guess they are growing damn good aside from the colors so maybe it’s my environment? I know if you cool it off during flower, you’re supposed to get groovy colors in the leaves. In fact, the ones even named "gold leaf’ lol
You can, but what you have doesn’t appear to be nutrient burn. There’s definitely something going on there, I’m just not sure what it is. Do you have digital ph and tds tester?
Yessir, ph meter is pretty nice and I calibrated it about 10 days ago. TDS meter was $20 but it gets me a ballpark at least. That’s good it’s not nutrient burn, that means the leaves will get their life back.
Run a slurry test and see how it turns out.
Ph is always a little higher than what I put in but that’s normal. I think you hit the nail on the head with the leaves touching the medium. The soil these days ought to have a chemical warning label with all the stuff in there lol. I think the plant just hasn’t gotten a chance to use any nutes in the soil so when the soil hit the leaves it left a little nute burn. The other plants that are still in the seedling pots aren’t showing any of the same signs and I think I know why. I was pretty sloppy with the soil cause I figured it couldn’t hurt anything. When I transferred into the #1 pots, there was soil everywhere lol. I remember having to spray off the leaves to get the dirt off. Lesson learned I guess.
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Hey man i kind of feel like I’m asking you a lot of questions, I’m not sure who else is good at what or if there’s someone else I should be bothering… but, I’m pretty sure I’m looking at amber trichomes here on those autoflowers. I actually started a different topic thing for my other grows btw but there’s already a bunch of people on this one. Anyway, I took a snippet of a leaf from two different parts of the plant just to make sure I was being thorough. The pics are of each leaf at 60X magnification.
Now that I’m looking at the actual pics and not trying to balance the loupe on the iPad while trying to not breathe so I don’t blow the stupid leaf away, these are deff cloudy and Amber! This is legit, my first harvest ever! I hope I can have some patience and dry these things out for a week.
You can ask me all the questions you want, that’s why I’m here lol. I may not have all the answers, but will do my best for you.
You want to look at trichs on the buds and kinda disregard the ones on leaves. The buds may or may not be in similar condition, but that’s what will be your good usable product, so monitor the buds and not the leaves.
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Damn. Ok
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