@dbrn32
Hey do plants grow more when the lights are out or is my perception skewed cause I look at my plants a few times during daylight? I always love checking my garden in the morning, the plants are always a little bigger in the a.m.
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The plants grow regardless. What you usually see from dark is more internodal elongation. Which would make your plant taller, and probably be what you are noticing.
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Ok, I figured t was just me. I probably check the plants every 6 hours in the daytime so I don’t notice changes until I stop looking for 10-12 hours. I wish I had a fancy camera so I could make a time lapse. I used to have a GoPro but idk where that thing is. I hope it’s in my house somewhere tho, there’s a few videos on there I wouldn’t want popping up on the internet lol.
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Editing these pics is starting to get cumbersome…
Can anyone tell what this is by the pic? These two plants are the only ones that seem to be affected. They’re both in soil, promix organic (0.3, 0.05, 0.1), and I’ve never used nutes or dry amendments. I did slop a bunch of dirt all over a couple times and I’m hoping that’s what happened here also. I hope I don’t have some kind of bugs in there cause I’m broke so I can’t buy any bug deterrents. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks!
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I would probably check for bugs first. Use some sort of magnification and a flashlight, paying special attention to underside.
No bugs that I can see, I must have checked 50 leaves lol. Used a 30X and 60X. If there were bugs, they would just stay on the leaves? I was thinking there was something munching on it during the night sometime and then scared off when the lights come on. That’s a relief then
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Hang some yellow sticky cards around they will tell you whats flying.
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That’s a good suggestion.
Have you been monitoring ph and ppm?
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I don’t have any sticky bug sheets, I do have a couple sticky rat trap paper things tho. I assume the yellow sheets from the hydro shop have some kind of bait for bugs on it. I could put some sugar or something on the rat papers? I’m unemployed for the time being so cash is pretty tight. If you know some kind of ‘poor mans’ version I can throw together, I’m all ears.
Yessir, I’ve been watering with ph 6.3-6.5 and that’s distilled water. I’ve been using lime juice to get the ph down and throw in 1ml/gal of calmag. Lately I’ve been seeing the ph lower in the runoff, right now the runoff is 5.5. Ppm is off the scale but I assumed it’s cause there’s pieces of soil and stuff in the run off.
A lot of people using juice, vinegar, or household stuff like that to alter ph seem to end up having problems. If your runoff is trending that low of ph I would consider getting ph adjuster and running at least a mini flush. Get your root zone ph reset and proceed from there. Also, you should get into a more complete nutrient line too. Calmag is great to have around, but it supplies nothing but calcium and nitrogen. There are several other nutrients your plant will need
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The soil should have all the nutrients they need at least until flower. I just throw some calmag when I’m using distilled water. I think calmag adds Magnesium and iron too btw. I’ll try a flush in a couple days when I water again tho. I mentioned that I was too broke to even afford those sticky bug sheets in the post right before so I won’t be buying anything very soon. I have some GH ph down also I just like the idea of only using stuff I wouldn’t mind eating myself with these girls. My buddy actually dubbed this batch my ‘hippie’ grow lol. Once I decide they hit their growth spurt, I’ll switch to just ph’ed tap water instead of my calmag & distilled mix.
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Hey I responded to your last message but I didn’t do it right. My last post was for you tho, the one with starts off with ‘the soil…’
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Well, if you’re sure you don’t have bugs it’s likely a nutrient or ph issue. Very difficult to shoot from the hip on without tools and data.
I guess I’ll keep flushing them when I feed them for a few rounds? I’ll take another look for bugs next week too. Apparently this is the beginning of bug season around here, I had to kill a couple spiders and mosquitoes the past few days. I’m really tempted to grow these guys outside too. My options are limited, but I think I can can get away with putting the smart pots these plants will be in on the roof of my house. I think I might just be taking an unnecessary risk with that tho. Plants need a bunch of space above and below ground to get, say, a 6’ tree at harvest right? Cause I know I couldn’t fit all 7 plants comfortably in the small patch of yard I’m working with and still be clandestine about it. Damn I wish this wasn’t illegal, what a stupid law! How can a plant be illegal, especially a plant I’m using for medical purposes you know?
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What do think would happen if I were to switch mediums the next time I need to do a container increase? I’m thinking about taking one each of these girls and putting them in coco coir w/ liquid nutes. I’m also thinking about taking one of each of this other grow with 4 strains I’m doing already in coco and transferring to soil. I’m thinking it might be a good idea to keep the mother plants in regular soil as I heard they taste better that way. It follows, to me, that a better tasting plant is a happier plant. And of course I want the mothers to be superior since that’s what I’ll be cloning from. Plus I’d get the added bonus of a little science experiment via some side by side grows! I ought to get a fancy camera. Maybe a video camera? Something I can do time lapse stuff with. You can’t post videos on here like you can with pics can you?
I hear you. Please just do me a favor and watch the language.
When you flush a plant, the water you use should be nutrient free. Flushing is a technique to remove minerals from your pot or growing vessel. If you’re feeding or just generally watering until water comes out of the pot we usually call that runoff. Its semantics, but sometimes a little detail can get lost in translation and become an issue.
You can pot from one medium to another. But it does seem to me you would be better off keeping soil plants in soil and coco plants in coco