Ripening with deficiencies

[Ziggaro]

I have a couple females and I've been having pH troubles. This is causing a variety of nutrient troubles.
I'm on 7 weeks of flower and one of my plants has only started to show red hairs maybe a week ago (although it took longer than the others to show flowers). The strain is northernberry and its supposed to take 8-9 weeks.
I'd like to know if nutrient troubles will lengthen the time it normally takes to ripen a plant.

Thanx!

 

[MynameStitch]

You are not saying what is exactly wrong with your plants...... You have pics? Depending on the issue and what is causing it and if it's not fixed.

Can you tell us more about your grow?
More information the better......

I would say yes to your question though; to much or to little of nutrients will delay blooming of the plants, also causes stress and can hermie where the plant turns male and female and pollinates itself.

 

[Ziggaro]

SOIL:
What STRAIN are you growing? Northernberry
What was the establishing technique? seed
What is the age of your plants? 3.5 months
What PHASE (seedling, vegetative or flower) are the plants in? flower
What Technique are you using? (SOG, SCROG etc) none
What size pots are you using? (Include how many subjects to pot) went from dixie cup to 5 gallon pot
What substrate/medium are you using? FFOF
What Nutrient's are you using?How much of each? How Often? Earth juice grow, bloom, meta-k, catalyst, microblast in mild to normal doses. Liquidlime (dolomite), Epsom salts, and about 1 TBS sulfur to lower pH. Haven't fed for a while until now trying to fix pH.
What is the TDS/EC/PPM of your nutrients used? don't know
What is the pH of the "RUN-OFF"? no matter what i put in from 4.0 to 6.5 pH runoff is always 7.2 or so
What method of pH test was administered? Using pH drops
How often are you watering? About once a week
When was your last feeding and how often are you feeding? 2 days ago with a bit of bloom, meta-k, microblast, and catalyst.
What size bulb are you using? 600watthps
What is the distance to the canopy? 20inches
What is your RH Factor? (Relative Humidity) 40
What is the canopy temperature? 70-80
What is the Day/Night Temp? 65-80
What is the current Air Flow? (cfm etc.) 400cfm
Is the fan blowing directly at plants? a small one at the base
Is the grow substrate constantly wet or moist? i let it dry a good bit between waterings
Is your water HARD or SOFT? soft..? 11 mg/l sodium, alkalinity 23 mg/l, 4.9 mg/l hardness, 11 mg/l sodium
Has plant been recently pruned, cloned or pinched? no
Have any pest chemicals been used? If so what and when? no
Are plant's infected with pest's? no


but no pics for a couple days till my girl comes back w/the camera :/

 

[Ziggaro]

btw symptoms are like this
lower fans- black tips and fringe spots, rusty or red before that. progressive necrosis starting at the leaf tip, followed by yellow, and finally green. Leaf stems and petioles red/purple. Interveinal chlorosis/necrosis on bottom and top fans. Some leaves folding in a claw, some leaf tips folding up. top leaves have purple blotches between the veins, and the leaf edges have an overall rough look. leaf undersides are also purple.

 

[MynameStitch]

Earth juice grow, bloom, meta-k, catalyst, microblast in mild to normal doses. Liquidlime (dolomite), Epsom salts, and about 1 TBS sulfur to lower pH. Haven't fed for a while until now trying to fix pH.

Dude that's crazy; are you using normal dosage for every nutrient?

Dude your PPMs have got to be insane...... dolomite lime is supossed to go into the soil, not in water.......

What is pH drops?

I can tell you right now you have a complete upset balance in your plants using all that... you have doubled up a lot of bloom......

 

[bergerbuddy]

The short answer is yes it can.. it can cause em to mature early too... its weird what diff def. or nutes or weather can doo..

 

[HeadyPete]

Don't believe what they say about when a plant is supposed to finish. They exaggerate for marketing. The plant will tell you when it's done, they are all different. Depends on lighting, environment, strain and even pheno within same strain.

I have 3 phenos of LUI and the first is flowering day 89 still, some has been ready to harvest, but not till yesterday. The Legends site says 7-8 weeks. Not even close. If I harvested at 49 days I might as well throw that whole crop in the fire, cuz no one is getting stoned. Another pheno I have appears to be getting ready to harvest 2 weeks ahead of the first pheno.

I agree, too much nutes and additives. Your plants are winding down now and will require less and less food.