yeah theyve been on the rack for decades.lol they are in tough plastic covers though
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Torture is done on the top right plant. Hoping this will make a good comparison picture for when the 8 tops start to grow out.
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They look awful. The top right is stacking nodes like it’s going into flower but the light schedule is 18/6. Idk if it’s stress from tons of topping or what. I started adding 1 ml per gallon of cal mag and 1 ml per gallon of floranova grow to see if it helps em at all.
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It looks they are finally getting the swing of things. Watering is becoming more frequent and they are all looking much healthier. I’m hoping to throw them into 12/12 in 2-3 weeks.
Something odd though… @Hellraiser is it normal for veg plants to push out calyxes with white hairs this early? I know the light schedule hasn’t changed at all and I never had any hairs like these on my previous grow until well into flower.
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They’re also so small for being almost 7 weeks. Never actually topped 3 times before so maybe I just stressed them into oblivion.
It’s normal, most of my plants shoot out preflowers like that around 6-7 weeks old, some strains can take a little longer, some sooner, no worries.
Yeah a triple topping can slow plants down a bit but once past that they can pack on some growth.
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@Hellraiser im having trouble identifying the problem with these plants. I’m hoping to send them into flower soon but they don’t really seem healthy enough for me to be confident enough to do so. I have steadily increased the amount of floranova grow nutrients I have been giving them since Christmas. I started at 1 ml floranova grow + 2 ml of cal mag with a straight 6.5 pH watering once every 3 waterings (I was watering roughly every time I have noticed signs of underwatering aka lazy stems).
My last watering I gave them the full schedule recommendation of 2 ml of floranova grow per gallon and 5 ml per gallon of cal mag. I’ve been debating giving them 3 ml of floranova grow and 5 ml of cal mag per gallon on the next watering as I haven’t noticed any dark green foliage yet. Do you have any thoughts on what the issue is? I’m definitely only using clothe pots from now on because I have a suspicion that could be contributing to my issues.
Also I achieve run off surprisingly easily compared to last grow. On my last grow it would seem to take a full gallon if not more to get run off and this grow each plant takes about a half gallon. The soil I used had been sitting around the house for a while and 3 of the plants are using root organics instead of ocean forest like last time. Everything seems incredibly different this time around.
Have you checked your ppm and ph of your run off? Something is off. If you are unable to check ppm and ph of run off flush with phed water 3 times the pot size. 5 gallons needs 15 gal of water ran through it. Then give a decent feeding with cal-mag. That will reset your medium and fix whatever is wrong. If you can check your ppm and ph of run off and its not 6.0 to 7.0 ph ( I prefer 6.2 to 6.8ph) and under 1100ishppm flush your locked out. If you are in the correct ph but low ppm feed them more they hungry.
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I have not checked any run off readings. I obsessively checked all sorts of readings last time and found my run off readings to be extremely low, but my plants were healthy so at the time it didn’t matter to me. I will definitely check them at the next watering for the extra data point to help identify the problem. The symptoms seem like low nitrogen to me which is why I keep trying to increase the grow nutes. I want to see them start to trend towards a dark green but I don’t have enough experience to know if that’s what they’ll actually do if I continue to increase the grow nutrients.
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I check run off every time. It lets me know what she needs.
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Yeah time to check the ph and ppm of runoff, either they are way underfed or nutrients are being locked out.
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About to try this tonight. Should I just water with straight pHed water and see what the run off numbers are?
@Hellraiser and @Axemanjake23 so I took about a gallon of water pHed to 6.4-6.5 with about 150 ppm and ran it through one of the plants.
The run off tested 6.5 for pH and 450 ppm.? So do they seem just underfed? Like should I try a heavier feeding dose?
Edit: actually they have got to be underfed with readings like that. I’m going to dose them with the full schedule.
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Yeah buddy get that ppm up, feed a little more. I would shot for 700-800ish its not an exact science. Lol
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Still not great after a week and a half or so of 800;ppm feedings. I feel like low temps may have had a hand in this as well. I will definitely have to make some upgrades to my gear and process if I ever plan on growing in the basement during winter again.
Flipped to 12/12 on the 26th. Hoping to salvage some smokeable bud off these girls in time to do another run in the spring.
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Man get a little ceramic heater and put in that tent. Set it to 72 and forget ur problems
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They’re looking pretty good to me!
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I know I should and I have been thinking about it for a while. I’m just like pathologically cheap and I have a side business that hasn’t necessarily been doing bad but stuff has been extremely uncertain so buying anything but food requires some mental gymnastics.
Do you have any flood lamps, heat lamps, or old school light bulbs that put out heat? Have you turned down your intake to alow less air to be pulled through? That heats it up. Do you have your lights on during the coldest part of the day? I am thinking here. Lol… cheap blurples they dump heat, got any???
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