Are my babies doing ok so far?

[greendream69]

the trick with cfls to see if they will burn the plant is if u could put your hand inbetween the plant and tight without buring your hand or getting it really warm then the plant is good but u just got to be careful because the plant could grow into the light and then burn your plant thats the mistake i made also the reason why his plant nodes are so tight has to do mostly with the strain. his plants look mostly indica whitch are generally more tighter and bushier

 

[pothead6]

ya mine are sativa so that means they grow tall right?

 

[pothead001]

The brown spot (necrosis) on the leaves grew even larger after i watered it with pH adjusted distilled water for over a week. Since no one seems to know the answer, after reading trillions posts i have come to my own conclusion that it was cause by nitrogen toxicity thus causing the lockout of potassium. The reason being, when i mix the blood meal to my soil (hoping high nitrogen would improve my chance of a girl), i didn\'t let it compost with the soil long enough (i think i use the soil after let it sit for about a day). Now that my babies have been under so much stresses, i\'m hoping that this won\'t cause them to change sex. And for the last time i will rant about ordering stuff online during christmas time, almost three weeks now and my damn ph/ppm meter didn\'t come yet.

more updates and pics to come.

how did u get the nodes so tight ? im growing with cfl and i cant figure out how to do that someone told me just to have the lights really close but im scared they might burn

I use 26w daylight 6500K CFL and place it about 5 inches above the canopy.
I have 2 pc case fans, one blowing on the space between the canopy and the light, the other sucking air in from the bottom corner of the box. Plus the soil have lots of nitrogen, but remember let compost with the soil for a while first before use. Don\'t make the same mistake as i did.

btw, it\'s funny how one pothead giving another pothead advices, somehow it seems funny me. maybe it\'s just me being high right now hehehehe

 

[pothead001]

Hi,

I really need help, got my pH meter in today. I after I calibrated and check the run off for the two largest plant i was shock to find that they're very acidic.

the first plant has a run off of 5.3 pH and the second which has all those brown spots (worst now, pics later) has a run off of 4.8 pH

At first i thought the meter is going crazy, but i recalibrate it and check my tap water, it's about 7.7-8 pH, which is correct according to the city report.

I barely feed them anything and i water with pure tap water and later distilled water. sometime i added a little thrive-alive b1 organic.

Could it be the blood meal i mixed in with it? but then i also add dolomite lime. so it should raise the pH.

The only thing left to blame is the potting soil, the brand is CIL all purpose potting soil bought from Rona.


thanks.

 

[mudvaynefan]

Before I got my ph correcter (liquid) my soil was probably around there, due to the fish fert I put in early on, put it on wrong concentration, my fault. It took me along time of water just plain ro water to get them to stop dying.

I did it, but the yield was so greatly affected, from so much stress and nute lock out that it was pointless for me to finish them.

I know that anything you add to the soil\water that is not directly related to correcting ph, can cause more problems at a point where moar problems is not what your harvest needs.

Even little superthrive or whathave you.

I believe lime is more of a time release ph correcter, and it stays in soil for long time, but Im not sure about the ability of lime to correct your problem in an fast enough time frame.

Plain water, ph'd is what you need, it may be past the point it matters, harvest wise though. Need pics.






Im talking maybe a quarter if I stick them under the 150 hps.

But I would rather save my resources for a more successful grow(nutes, water, time, soil, light bulb wear, electricity, noise, risk of growing period) so I culled, and have started over properly with veg.

I have one clone of the bagseed that I killed, so I will know what its like someday, but I had to cut my losses.

 

[pothead001]

Ok, I found my problem, it\'s the damn soil and my dolomite lime seems to have no affect whatsoever. I took some left over unused soil mix and watered with a 8 pH water, i check the run off immediately after and it\'s 4.8 pH. This is the soil with some dolomite lime and blood meal added and has been sitting for about a month. It seems dolomite has no affect at all, i think i might bought the wrong kind. Please confirm the pic below is the ok dolomite lime to use.

Well, i have move my plants to a new home i built. I constructed it using 2x4 beams and black and white poly. I also got a 400W Lumatek purple ballast with GE stand MH lamp (also bought a hortilux eye for use later) and a hydrotek cooltube.

So the last few hrs i been feeding them through their leaves using a spray.

What should i do now? transplant to better soil or/and clone them?

enough words, here are the pics...

1st plant:

2nd plant:

the baby plant:

setup (not done yet):

Dolomite lime:

thanks.

 

[diggity]

ya mine are sativa

hmmm ya sure aout that??? those leaves definitely look very indy-like

 

[pothead001]

hmmm ya sure aout that??? those leaves definitely look very indy-like

I\'m not the same pothead as the one saying that.

 

[Mrpiston38]

wow very bushie indeed very nice if you chose to transplnt maybe go pick up some foxfarms lightwarrior soil and mix it with what you have... may be more balanced for the last part of veh and flowering. if you do trnas continue veg for 3-4 weeks and let them really root up good for flowering... gl

Mr.P