Hey everyone, I'm new to posting on here but I've been hanging out for a while. Nice to finally have something to post about! Anyway, this is my first solo grow and I'm growing outdoors in my backyard.
I have pretty much only fed them twice. The first time was organic chicken manure (3-2-2) which I top dressed them with along with some partially composted leaves for mulch, and just a few days ago I gave them a very light topdressing of Nectar of the Gods One-Shot organic granules (3-10-2).
After I had the leaves on for a while I realized they were soaking up water and preventing it from penetrating well so I pulled most of them off after the compost had time to make it's way down.
I've been giving them straight tap water but our water here is really, really clean.
I have 4 plants. 1 plushberry, 2 super skunks, and 1 bay dream and they've all been flowering for a little while now.
The bay dream is the most sativa out of all of them, and also the one I've been having the most issues with, which is funny because at first it was doing way better than the rest.
Here's the Plushberry with a super skunk to the left of it:
Super skunk next to my tomatoes and tomatillos:
Super skunk with plushberry to the right:
Bay dream:
I've been having a few issues I want to ask you guys about though. The bay dream started looking like it was getting too much nitrogen at least a month ago or more and I tried to flush it out a bit, but that only seemed like it helped for maybe 3 or 4 weeks.
After that lot of leaves in the middle of the plant and some near the top started getting really burnt looking tips. And maybe 3 days ago or so a lot of leaves fairly close to the tops started turning pale and then yellow and now the ones above those are starting to turn yellow from the veins out and it's happening really quickly.
My friend says he thinks it looks like the bay dream is having a ph issue. He said he thought it was probably too low and for a sativa like that it should probably be 8 but I checked the ph and it read 8 so I don't know what to think at this point…
Also, some of the older fan leaves on all the plants have been yellowing and dying for a while and in the past few days it's starting to move up to the very middle of the plants, so I think they might be nitrogen deficient?
All the plants got flushed when the bay dream did, like maybe a month and a half ago I'm not sure, maybe less. They seemed like they were getting a little burnt so I overwatered them a bit. I didn't flush them out completely or anything, I gave the bay dream more water than anything else because it was the only one really having issues.
I didn't feed them much this last time so I'm thinking I'm going to give them some more one-shot tomorrow. I'm sprouting barley seeds for my first batch of sprouted seed tea so I was thinking I'm going to give them food when I give them the tea.
I'm also wondering why some stems on the leaves are purpling on all the plants. I know it can be from either cold or phosphorous deficiency but I'm just not sure which, it has been getting noticeably colder at night but the purple stems also appeared as soon as the buds were actually forming and I hadn't given them any high P food until after the stems were purple, but I also didn't give them very much because I wanted to see how they reacted and if the purpling would get worse and so far it's definitely slowed down, it might even be getting a bit better, so I'm thinking it could be P deficiency.
Sorry I know that this was a huge post I'm just trying not to leave a bunch out. There's actually a few more things I could still add haha. Thanks for reading!
I have pretty much only fed them twice. The first time was organic chicken manure (3-2-2) which I top dressed them with along with some partially composted leaves for mulch, and just a few days ago I gave them a very light topdressing of Nectar of the Gods One-Shot organic granules (3-10-2).
After I had the leaves on for a while I realized they were soaking up water and preventing it from penetrating well so I pulled most of them off after the compost had time to make it's way down.
I've been giving them straight tap water but our water here is really, really clean.
I have 4 plants. 1 plushberry, 2 super skunks, and 1 bay dream and they've all been flowering for a little while now.
The bay dream is the most sativa out of all of them, and also the one I've been having the most issues with, which is funny because at first it was doing way better than the rest.
Here's the Plushberry with a super skunk to the left of it:
Super skunk next to my tomatoes and tomatillos:
Super skunk with plushberry to the right:
Bay dream:
I've been having a few issues I want to ask you guys about though. The bay dream started looking like it was getting too much nitrogen at least a month ago or more and I tried to flush it out a bit, but that only seemed like it helped for maybe 3 or 4 weeks.
After that lot of leaves in the middle of the plant and some near the top started getting really burnt looking tips. And maybe 3 days ago or so a lot of leaves fairly close to the tops started turning pale and then yellow and now the ones above those are starting to turn yellow from the veins out and it's happening really quickly.
My friend says he thinks it looks like the bay dream is having a ph issue. He said he thought it was probably too low and for a sativa like that it should probably be 8 but I checked the ph and it read 8 so I don't know what to think at this point…
Also, some of the older fan leaves on all the plants have been yellowing and dying for a while and in the past few days it's starting to move up to the very middle of the plants, so I think they might be nitrogen deficient?
All the plants got flushed when the bay dream did, like maybe a month and a half ago I'm not sure, maybe less. They seemed like they were getting a little burnt so I overwatered them a bit. I didn't flush them out completely or anything, I gave the bay dream more water than anything else because it was the only one really having issues.
I didn't feed them much this last time so I'm thinking I'm going to give them some more one-shot tomorrow. I'm sprouting barley seeds for my first batch of sprouted seed tea so I was thinking I'm going to give them food when I give them the tea.
I'm also wondering why some stems on the leaves are purpling on all the plants. I know it can be from either cold or phosphorous deficiency but I'm just not sure which, it has been getting noticeably colder at night but the purple stems also appeared as soon as the buds were actually forming and I hadn't given them any high P food until after the stems were purple, but I also didn't give them very much because I wanted to see how they reacted and if the purpling would get worse and so far it's definitely slowed down, it might even be getting a bit better, so I'm thinking it could be P deficiency.
Sorry I know that this was a huge post I'm just trying not to leave a bunch out. There's actually a few more things I could still add haha. Thanks for reading!
