A few weeks back I gave them 5ml of the big bloom and the tiger bloom. First time they have gotten nutes. Started on 11:17. Growing in 50/50 happy frog and ocean forest. How are they looking to you guys? I just got my new Apera ph pen and going to start using that when testing runoff and water. Should make a difference but notice any other problems that I could catch? Or that I need to fix? First time grower. Open to advice.
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Welcome to the community @Bryce Your ladies are looking good Growmie. What you got growing there? Look to be autos, huh? You’ll like you Apera. I have the PC60 and it’s well worth the investment.
What’s that that you got in the corners of your tent? Are those green light sabers? 
Happy growing 
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Looks great growme. Watching and what strains are they and assuming autoflowers
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Anyone else noticed the discoloration of the veins in comparison to leaves.
Or am I just seeing things bc I’m not feeling well?
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Yes they are auto! And my first grow! Thanks for that though! Was a little concerned with how they are looking since it’s my first time. Also those are just the corners of the tent , not sure why they look glowing lol. The apera should be amazing and help me out a lot
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Greetings,
I see what you are asking about. I am assuming you flushed your plants with ph water of 6.2 to 6.5 and started feeding proper fox farm nutrients as to the fox farm feeding schedule right? Then some of what you are seeing is a zinc deficiency, it comes from past stress from improper ph levels knocking out zinc intake. If you did the above flushing and feeds it will improve. New growth looks beautiful being lighter and a different shading, see how they mature for it to disappear. Zinc is found in tap water but using rain, distilled or reverse osmosis water can cause this. Keep a eye on the new growth finishing up and read the leaves. I see you are flowering make sure to use use cal mag to keep the brown spots away.
I use more nitrogen as well during veg up to the mid part of maturing of finishing. Here is a good product from HTG.com
called stump tea veg boost. 1 tsp per gallon per feeding.
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So it’s been a minute since I’ve flushed the plants. However I just recently added nutes to the plants because I’m growing in the 50/50 fox farm happy frog and ocean forest. However if growing in happy frog and ocean forest can I still use cal meg? I have the 3 main bottles, big grow, tiger bloom and big bloom. I added 5ml each of the tiger bloom and big bloom to a gal and fed the plants with 1 gal. I watered them 1.5 gal before that though. Seemed like a lot of water
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Crazy. First time I’ve seen them glow, could be your camera. The camera in my phone sucks.
Be sure to get some KCL fluid to store it if you take extended breaks between usage/grows. I meant to go back and replace the few drops of water with fluid the first time I took a break but forgot and almost had to buy another tip. Did the one you order also test TDS? How have you been measuring pH and PPMs up till now?
Your plants look great. I’m on my 6th grow and still consider myself a novice grower so take that into consideration when I give you my 2 cents worth. I see a little lightening happening but that could be a few different things. It could be that they’ve depleted the nutes from the soil and you’ve timed you first feed just right and the color will smooth out. Good job not jumping the gun on feeding too early in hot soil and burning em.
I transitioned away from FF after my second grow so I really don’t have any specific recommendations in that area but your plants look to have recieved the first feed favorably. Neither seem to be “freaking out” any. (Do people still use that term ) Keep up the good work.
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Also been having problems with the vivosun ph pen I had and just got my new apera pen so it should definitely help me out and get me some more accurate numbers! So past ph problem may have definitely been a thing through the entire grow. I’ll use the ph pen next water to get a better idea of what ph is. I heard ff soil brings your ph down no matter what.
Definitely man! I agree 100% with you. I like ff soil because of the nutes in it and I don’t have to add nutes until into flower. (The situation I’m in) but I’m thinking about switching mediums. I like to be very accurate and feel very comfortable knowing my plants are doing ok. Have you found a better way of growing that is easier for you?
Also I have been measuring ppm and ph. At the very beginning of planting it comes out around 3000 or higher because of the soil. Ph has been off entire grow (not 100% sure if is off but the vivosun ph pen I had was definitely a little wonky with the readings, it’ll get better with the apera). Thanks for all the helpful information my guy!
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Greetings,
I use 5 gallon pots and mix up 1 gallon of nutes fed to them using the fox farm feeding guide lineschart on line.The big three are good to start with and in that gallon of mixed nutrients i add1 to 1 1/2 teaspoon of cal/ mag per feeding. Along with the stump tea veg 1 teaspoon powder. Then ph 6.2 to 6.5.
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I started with FF liquid nutes, Cultivation Nation, but got to be too much mixing for me. My time is very limited. Others on this forum will be able to help you where the FF nutes are concerned.
I’ve been working with organic dry ammendments to where I only have to use water with a little calmag. Sometimes a root treatment, micro-organism booster, etc. but mostly just water. Thinking about a self watering system but that an investment I’m still tossing around.
That’s a nice pH pen! It’ll do you right. I used similar cheapies on my first couple grows, they worked fine once I (finally) calibrated them. I (ignorantly) thought they came calibrated and the two little packets of cal crystals was for re-cal in the future. One of my first of many mistakes. Be sure to calibrate any of the pens you use.
pH of what has been off? the soil?
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Yea so I have a soil ph tester and it’s read pretty low at like 5.3-5.8 and the water I make sure is above 6 before watering to get ph right. Should I make the water a higher ph to get the soil ph up?
Okay! So I’m my case I just recently added nutes for the first time. And growing in the 50/50 mix of happy frog and ocean forest. And I’m already In flower and they have just gotten nutes for the first time. Where would you go from here? Appreciate all the advice and time you took to respond!
Greetings,
From where you are at as far as weeks lookat the chart and start using it and follow the amount of weeks you are. Also adding 1 1/2 teaspoons of cal/ mag. Nutrients and cal/ mag per gallon. Are you in 5 gallon pots if so water 1 gallon of mixture to 5 gallons. If you get in the veg stump tea you can add that until the middle of rippen. Enjoy
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You want the pH of your liquid going in to be 6.3 to 6.8 when your medium is soil. The soil has pH buffers in it to keep the soil pH between 6 & 7. If your soil pH meter is one of those with the prongs you stick in the soil, the general consensus with those is to put it in the box labeled “useless tools I’ve bought along the way”. The best way to test the pH of your soil is with a soil slurry test. Bluelab also makes a soil pH probe (which I wound up buying - I just don’t like trying to dig enough soil out of the middle of a root ball in 3 different places to get enough soil for a slurry test). Since you’re using FF Trio nutes, you’ll be watering to 15% (give or take)run-off you can to monitor the run-off pH along with the PPMs.
I started writing my reply and realized it was getting rather lengthy (I tend to babble). So I’ll just say, from my experience, it is important to stay within the recommended range of the pH going in. I was and still am fighting an opposite problem with high pH. I was trying to drive it down with lower pH but that caused more issues, at least in my case. I still haven’t narrowed down my problem - still have a high pH issue. But they are much happier. Like eveyone says, if the plants like it, then keep doing it. Be careful if you choose this method. I’ve read other options are out there.
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Look at the chart to read any run off for E.C. and PPM and ph. Ph anything you mix together to 6.2 to 6.5.
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The fox farm chart tells you what your run off of E.C.or PPM should be at.