8 Ball Kush

Thanks so much for the help guys! Amazing community here :) I've never even thought about solution temperature- so I'll check that. I'll put a damp towel in and decrease the pH. I'll aim for 6.2-6.5. I've just bought some pH down, I assume thats the simplest for the job? As for watering schedule, have you a rough volume of water to be feeding? I read you re water when the top inch is dry and water til it starts to run out the bottom. Is this correct? Thanks again!

ph needs to be around 6 . it will help trying to raise humidity also but dosnt look too bad should see a difference with correct ph

It could be the lights. I just started week 4 of an 8BK grow with a fan and heatsink cooled 300-watt-equivalent LED setup in a 2x2x5 Secret Jardin DS60, have a 189 CFM fan with a rheostat set all the way to minimum that provides more than enough air flow. Have two plants packed in the tent and even being 2 feet away from the LEDs was too much. I took them off the upside down buckets I had them sitting on top of, and now they are 3.5 feet away from the light which seems great! I'm sure they will be able to handle more light once they grow that high naturally. I also find that 8BK likes temps more down around high 60s / low 70s with lower amounts of humidity! (I have an air conditioner running all day that keeps the room around 69, and I find that the environment inside stays around 71 because of the small amount of heat generated by the LEDs, then I turn on a heater at night, which isn't even kicking on at the moment, to keep it from dropping below 68. Remember, it has lineage that comes from the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and does fantastic with colder temps and lower humidity than normal, and a little more distance from the light. One of my plants is a weird phenotype, it's growing extremely asymmetrically and "has some personality". The other one is gorgeous and perfectly symmetrical. I'd post a pic to show ya since we're growing the same strain, but there's no option to do that! Anyway, they are pretty stoic plants. If you're sure your pH is fine, I'd get them away from the light and keep them from going above 75 or below 65. (My humidity is pretty low during the day, around 40% because of the air conditioning - but then at night it bumps up to around 60%). Wish I had known about this site before I started this grow, I would've logged it all on here! Also, buy some CaliMagic... put half a teaspoon in a gallon of distilled water, shake it around, and water with that next time. 8BK always seems SUPER hungry for calcium, magnesium, and iron. I don't know why but my 8BK plants need that way more often than the standard NPK fertilizer.

Here I just started a diary for mine, today is either the final day of week 3 or the first day of week 4 depending on how you want to look at it, so I've posted for week 3 as up to the end of week 3. Will post week 4 at the end of this upcoming week. growdiaries.com/diaries/36546-8-ball-kush (Edit: I just realized I'm posting these comments like a year after this person's grow.. oops!)

@Saryis Hi there! Indeed, she looks small, but she also looks very wet! I think over-watering + basic pH (too high) led to this situation, the plant cannot absorb any nutrients. In coco, it's all about the feeding schedule, since the substrate does not contain anything, the growth relies on your ability to feed correctly. Now as an emergency move, I'd try to give her a good meal (when the coco is dry) with RootJuice+BioGrow, pH 6.2, and see how she reacts. You may want to stop spraying anything onto her, let the roots search for water and nutrients, spraying is good for nutrients lockout or extreme dryness, in your scenario it's not helping. I'll be around, keep us up-to-date so we can help you adjusting your parameters, and happy growing! 👊

@kindbuds sorry to be a pain mate but if what I said is incorrect due to the point you made about calcium then how is it taken up in hydro? I'm not trying to start a debate I am just curious as I have been reading into coco to make the switch from soil and what I said about ph is advice from cannauk

Nice strain ;) Good luck with the grow ;)

Please help! What are the white spots on the leaves?