Just started to give nutrients today, I was slacking this week. Start of week 2 of flower, both plants are starting to flower the gg4 more so. Let two bananas sit in 2 liters of water for 36 hours. I also made a gal of Neptune's fish food 2-4-1. I've been keeping the viparspectra p2000 light at 23" and have been gradually turning up light dimmer which is now at 80%. Plan on leaving the light at this height and allow the plants to grow a little closer to the light. Hopefully all goes well this week.
Hey how you doing? A couple weeks back my plants were struggling and slow to start, I was wondering if you could take a look at my dairy if you don't mind and see what I can do about one of my plants. The leaves are curling slightly and the tips are yellow, didn't know if this is caused by heat stress or the lights being to close or to much nutrients, your thoughts? Much appreciated thankyou.
Hey there friend, I see you have some struggles with your plants being stunted. Would you be okay with me offering you some advice to help out? So cannabis plants LOVE heat and humidity. The buds hate it, In veg we like to use temps of 79-84 MAX with lights on and we want no more than 9 degrees less with lights off. If we allow for too much of a temperature swing between lights on and off our plants will stretch unwantedly. When our plants are small, Our roots are small. Cold temps will really stunt their development, especially during the night cycle as this is when plants do most of their growth. They will photosynthesize with lights on store up energy & when they go to sleep do most of their growth.
I recommend looking into vapor pressure deficit, Otherwise known as VPD. It will give you a much better understanding of how important temperature and humidity play a role in our plant development. Humidity is great early on to suppliment our smaller plants root structures with some foliar intake from the leafs. But when we add in humidity we must do it right to make sure we are optimizing our VPD point. Please read this article and get used to using the chart that it has as well. Log your numbers daily!
https://cerescann.com/importance-of-measuring-vpd/
Next, I would get yourself a thermal laser temp gun like the fluke 64 MAX & a PAR meter to better read your plant's needs and grow to them. This equipment will also help us optimize our light to plant distances. For a 200W LED your light is way to far away. If the plants cannot get a good level of PAR from the lights to photosynthesize they will grow very slowly. Grab some light pulleys like the sun grip light pulleys if you do not have them yet to raise & lower the light as needed. Right now the best thing you could do to get your plants growing is beginning to learn these things and dial them in, Get yourself a very very simple nutrient program, and if you do not have them already get a digital PH pen & PPM pen off amazon to read your feed levels and balance it all off. It is very simple just use the calculations they give you on the packaging. We like to do a cycle of feed/water/feed. When we are in veg we want our plant's soil to dry out before we feed them again as this encourages the roots to stretch out and grow to search for water.
I would suggest getting some basic grow/micro/bloom and some root stimulator. Begin feeding them light levels of food and root stim, Dial in your room with the information I have given you and they will recover if done soon enough. You have the advantage of doing photoperiods, In veg we have all the time in the world to correct mistakes & get the plants ready to go into flower. When we flip that switch and we are in flower every day counts as it is a finite amount of time the plant has at that point.
If you have any questions, Please feel free to follow my profile & shoot me a DM anytime I am always glad to help. If you want to see how important these things are and how much they effect plant development check out our USA rep LegacyMarketFarmUSA & see how his plants are doing at such a young stage. Give him a follow too! Happy growing friend we will get these ladies looking better!
@Justlivin, You have started the flush by now right ? Make sure we talk about the pull down to do it right ! You have done AMAZING Work for your first grow my friend. Very proud, Lets get that PH down to 5.9 for the end of flower to open up more availability of phosphorus and potassium.
Thanks alot man I appreciate it. I think I'm in a nute lockout right now though. Just gonna let them dry out and give them straight water from here on out. ✌️. I'm digging your new setup, looks great
For soil, We generally want to go for a PH of 6.1, 7 is way too high for sure lets dial that back. When we get to alkaline our plants cannot absorb phosphorus or potassium as well as they should & that is really critical for flower.
This website does a GREAT job of illustrating it with a nice graph & very good detailed explanation for soil.
https://autoflowerseedshop.com/cannabis-ph-chart-guide/
Those are looking great now my friend we sure did good work turning them around very good job! Keep up the amazing work you have got yourself set up for a nice flower period now. It is when I get DM's from you guy's asking me to check up on your plants and see the massive turn around's that make me wake up & love doing what I do. It gives me the best feeling when I get to see someone finally getting it and growing some great-looking plants. This is a special healing herb everybody should have the knowledge to grow on their own as the process itself is very therapeutic. Thank you for sharing this opportunity with me!
man, Great work. Absolutely amazing job for your first grow. I love helping people along & seeing them have great results like this. It sounds like you got the plan for the slow dry cure! Its going to be some amazing smoke I cannot wait to see finished dried / cured shots of it! Great job friend.