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Mud868 Mud868
3 years ago
It is beginning of Week 4, day 24 since switch to be exact.lol next update will be in a week:) I really hope I will get a true purple pheno with the purple kush's, there is 2 phenos, one short bushy plant that almost died as a seed... fucked up ph.. but that one grew like a true Kush, short, one phat stem,full indica mode.. but I also topped it, maybe a mistake... but she took it, and grew a few big side branches instead... on one picture you can see it already has purple calyx, which does look good indeed... temps are really high at the moment, lights are on at night so not much of a temp diff, a purple plant that purples in warm conditions, with a nice pink or purple color calyx would be so sick.. most only purple the bud leaves... never had real purple plants indoors, well I did purple some due to temps, but that is not the same. only purplish...a purple pheno clone would be super awesome... I've seen maybe one real nice indoor purple Kush grow diary.. seems to be rare. ... I just realized that the Yellowing may really be Lightburn,so I tried to turn down the LED to approx 75%, don't have a Watt-meter, basically my lamp should put out about min. 180 lumens per watt on max power, which means about 70k lumens on full power.. I've read cannabis only takes up to about 85klux, (lumens per mΒ² ?).. on .72mΒ² this would mean i need about 61klux, I also don't have a lux meter.. the whole situation is kind of weird for me, since hps did not have problems like that:) It was more like: more watts, more yield... and maybe a slight yellowing spot directly where the bulb was... I always identified this as heat issues.. It should be ok to run that lamp at a little less I guess ... on full power this would mean that my lights are about 15 percent too strong ... even though it depends on many things.. like lamp height, etc.. I guess75% should be more than enough though, considering it makes the LEDs more efficient about 200 lumens or something.. 300x200lumens=60000lumens... which would be about 85k per mΒ² and about 75 Watt per board instead of rated 120... but it is all just guesswork:) minimal power with the ELG drivers is 0.7 ma, I measured this when I built the light. it goes all the way up to 2.2amps on full power, at 43 volts. The lower growth is also still dark-green. which really hints to light burn issues. oh and I also have thrips and maybe spider mites.. I've ordered some helper critters a week ago (ambi cali's, and phytos) but I think most of them died during hot transport conditions... ordered these because of the thrips and possible spider mites (balcony had infestation) I've spotted one red mite yesterday, and wasn't sure what that exactly was,friend or foe.. saw some suspect marks on the leaves that did not look like thrips damage... but it is only minor infestation with the thrips. also have minor fungus gnat infestation.. which isn't good since I wasn't so sure of the yellowing cause... I watered nematodes a few weeks ago, which helped alot , but they came back now. I've now reordered ambi calis... I am thinking to remove my net cause stretchin is done mostly and defoliate them a bit next... I don't think defoliating is necessary, or even beneficial.. some plants of growers look riddiculous, both in bud size and without leaves:) it just makes buds leafier when people pluck all fan leaves in my opinion... but In my case with 13 crammed plants I am worried about air circulation and leaf transpiration... powder mildew stuff edit: In case somebody is interested, my lamp is made out of a 4mm aluminium plate as heatsink, cut to 100x45cm to fit the 2x4, thickness is just like the newer kingbrite lamps without heat fins. one side is painted black with acrylic paint, I've had this spray paint lying around and read that black increases IR-radiation=heat, I think that is partly why the LED heatsinks are black, also elox increases surface too. the spraypaint kind of insulates also, which is not that great but it looks neat like this:).. the KB boards I got came super fast (3 days), those are the 3oz copper board versions they use for their 4mm plate versions without real heatsinks, they get pretty warm but not hot on max power, which is only 100w per board, they are rated for 120. they heat up to maybe 60 degree Celsius, but with the fan on they are barely warm on full power. drivers are 2x meanwell 240w 2100c, dimmable from 2.2 amps down to 0.7 amps, 2 boards per driver wired in series. cost was about 130 for the drivers, 170 for the 4 Kingrite boards (mounting screws and lamp cables included by the way) including tax, and like 40 dollars for the plate, minor things like power cable 10 bucks.. oh well a few 3 inch screws to mount the drivers about 2 inches above the plate, 4hanger screws... printed some TPU washers for between the board and screws too:). Always wanted to build my own LED lamp.. so the lamp cost me a total of about 370 dollars.. still HPS cost about half with Electronic ballast, but those LED's are lower energy consumption, more even light distribution and do not degrade like HPS.. so Iam happy so far:) 3000k boards
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Grow Questions
Mud868
Mud868started grow question 3 years ago
what do you guys think about the yellowing? now when I think back, I once did a grow on coco, which had also yellowish growth.. my soil mix is about 10% coco. ph about 6.4 ... I tend to underfeed my plants...
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Leaves. Color - Yellow
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Roberts
Robertsanswered grow question 3 years ago
Honestly I think you have a perfect amount on nitrogen in your leaves. You don't want to be adding hardly any nitrogen. Mainly potassium and phosphorus. Your buds are about to swell. Nitrogen can hinder bud development. Yellowing across the top of a canopy is usually from light being too close but don't see anything to stress about right now. 🌱 good luck
Mud868
Mud868started grow question 3 years ago
do u guys think I should defoliate slightly? I mean can't change the fact that it is leafy aF, but I am kinda worried about leaves sweating on eachother, . thinking bout plucking some of the upper yellow leaves, got plenty healthy ones below.a few each day or so
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Techniques. Defoliation
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Hashy
Hashyanswered grow question 3 years ago
Hi there, in my opinion if a leaf is not in the best of shape, like showing deficiency and the leaves below that look good then I would remove it to let light hit the better growth. Take a look from the top down and calculate what needs going before you remove it because its so easy to get caught up in defoliation and strip the plant before you know it.
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Mud868week 3
hey, thanks for the input... I added N only one watering, when the lower leaves were falling off easily when moving the plants, but it was still during stretch phase in week 2. after that I hit them with a stronger P dose once, when flowers developed , lower N than recommended too. as for the N, I think the lower leaves falling off was also just due to lack of light below and maybe P def. not quite sure... some lower branches were turning purple/brown splotches, I think that could be also just cause these branches get no light though thus the plant feeding on them to provide for the budding.. right now I am just using NPK in line with GHE's schematic, I think about 13/16/20. just updated my fert scheme to the diary. still the yellow-greenish color of them bugs me a bit. I guess I am also just used to hps and DWC where they appear much more dark green during this period..
Ferenc
Ferencweek 10
Enjoy @Mud868
Mud868
Mud868
@Ferenc, thanks man:)
Cannabeast40
Cannabeast40week 3
Wish you best of luck and happy growing πŸ˜€πŸ‘ŒπŸ™
Mud868
Mud868
@Cannabeast40, :) thanks man, need that luck for the purple pheno:)
DoDrugs420
DoDrugs420week 4
Something about this one just makes me hyped.
Hazemaster420
Hazemaster420week 10
NICE BUDD, get your mind outta the hole! LolπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
Hydro_Hiebs
Hydro_Hiebsweek 10
Beautiful Harvest! Happy growing ☺️
Legendaryseedthumb
Legendaryseedthumbweek 10
Happy growing! I hope you get some good results! Take care and stay lit! I will drop by sometimes to check on your process! Say hello if you ever visit my page! Peace & Love - L.S.T πŸ™πŸΌπŸŒŸ