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📆 Week 8, 30 November - 6 December 2023 1 December - Bent all major branches about 45 degrees outward in order to spread and fill scrog. This is my last bend. From here out she will just grow with minor defoliations. 2-6 December - Minor defoliations and simple adjustment of branches to receive maximum light. 📑 This week I want to talk about a beautiful plant with little Brown Leaf Tips. I’m going to try to put my take on it. First off, nobody likes them, they are easy to get, don’t look good, and once you get them the damage is permanent. So the question is, are they degrading or cause less potency to the end product? Here are the basic grower errors that will cause this in an *otherwise healthy plant; 1) giving more nutrients than the plant can use - disrupting the flow of water, 2) underwatering, 3) overwatering, 4) low light, 5) sunburn and 6) PH is off. I am not even talking nutrient deficiencies. Lets stick with the basics. Of these 6, the number one problem will be giving too much nutrients - causing a chemical burn essentially. I am guilty of this (see picture). Even though I do my best to lower nutrient where needed and tweak schedules during and after each grow, it seems this correction is the hardest - it’s minor and can differ the slightest from strain to strain. Most of my nutrients are not organic and probably the main contributing factor. So changing over to an organic solution hydroponically could help, will be trial and error, may or may not solve the problem. Can I replace everything I use organically? Raises some questions that may be worth looking in to. So the other real question, does it hurt to have this problem? Well, as long as it is corrected when it happens and doesn’t effect anything but the tips, the answer is no. You don’t want it to destroy much of the leaf surface - effecting photosyntesis. After all, leaf are beautiful but who smokes them? I think I can safely assume we all smoke/use flower. Leaves lost in a vegetative state can be replaced by the plant. In the long term, most leaves are simply used by the plant to generate energy until they turn yellow, or block light to a bud and are cut off by the grower. The leaf is a solar panel, be careful “when” you remove them. If it is closer to a harvest, this becomes a problem because the focus will be on flowering, large leaf will be fewer and not replaceable. Bottom line, brown tips are avoidable because it is usually caused by overfeeding. But as along as it is addressed and corrected, they have no unfavorable outcome to the finished product of the cannabis flower. The earlier you catch, correct, and keep it under control the greater appearance your plant will be maintained throughout its life cycle. What cannabis can do is hyperaccumulate heavy metals if not properly flushed out of its system. Brown tips or not. Heavy metals can accumulate over time no matter what nutrients your using, organic or chemical, the plant cannot distinguish between the two. There is little to no debate over flushing a mature plant prior to harvest for this reason alone. In practice growers should strive to perfect a master grower status and consistently produce that perfect harvest! I guess having no brown tips in some opinion is one way of gauging and achieving that perfect grow. But by no means if you have them does it say your product is less than its genetic potential. 🍽️ Nutrient change on 30 November 🐲 Feeding schedule updated 30 November 🌊 Using reverse osmosis water with EC/TDS at 0 🐉 Nutrient Solution EC 2.2 at 65 degrees F 💡 Light power at 50% That is it for this week. Thanks for the look, read and stopping by.