17.08.18 - Transplanted the ladies into 3 Gallon smart pots on the first day of the third week. I wanted to do that in the middle of the second week but due to some work, it got delayed. I still have around 2 weeks of veg left and hopefully, they will pick up the speed.
Oh, next time I am not going to smoke a blunt before transplanting and preparing the substrate since I accidentally dropped heavy clay pebbles on GS Cookies and Green Cack. They were buried under the pebbles for about 20 secs. I skipped a heartbeat when it happened but I am sure these girls are strong.
@GreenZone 1/2 dosage on nutes is fine, but I really hope you are keeping an eye on the ph levels. It looks like you keep posting 6ph every week. Ideal ph is 5.8 for soiless/hydro grows. Keep an eye on your ph an adjust when needed. (I've been adjusting mine every day lately). Good luck with your grow.
@GreenZone, not sure, but def have nitrogen deficiency. Up the nutes a bit, toss in some cal mag supplement, and add some hydroguard for your roots, get ph to 5.8. How does the roots of that plant look.
@BeefWellingtons, Do you think the recent brown spotting on leaves is caused by ph problem? I think it is Cal deficiency but I do not see that on any other plants (yet)?
@GreenZone, You are in luck! For organics, you can use lime, lemon, or apple cider vinegar for ph down. For ph up you can use baking soda. There is also a product called earth juice natural (both ph up and ph down) for organic grows. I use apple cider vinegar for my ph down on my soil grow. If I add too much I just dump it out and start over. PH Test drops work fine imo, but the pen just makes things easier especially for hydro/soilless grows cause you end up testing a lot more often.
@CRiSPrGrow, Yes I am adding a custom enzyme (my grow shop guy gave it to me in a small ziplock bag) with alternate feeding.
I shall stop feeding the enzymes that regularly and probably stick to twice a week schedule.
Not sure what is causing that or I am not sure even I could see the problem. It is definitely not under/over watering and light is more than 24 inches away from the top of the plants.
Shall I go light on nutrients? I am giving them half of the recommended dosage. Perhaps, I will follow water - nutes - water - nutes schedule.
It could be the transplanting shock as well. Oh man, so many things can happen with these beauties.
I did not think that allmix was so powerful ... I used cannaprofessionalplus and I found myself very well ... no problem during the whole vegetative phase ... have fun ...
Perhaps it was my mistake (I can’t be sure). However, I saw nutes stress sign in the other 3 strains but they started to grow just fine. I have also seen the note in BioBizz feed chat which suggests “do not use all mix for seedlings”. I will upload a picture of that for future reference.
@MurderMidz, I have never grown photos yet. I am planning to run the next batch of autos again in the coming week. I love growing autos and since my stash of the last harvest won't last me 3 months I am going run autos again :)
The PH is on spot (5.8 - 5.9) and I am feeding them every alternate day with half a strength. Light to canopy distance is also sufficient. Maybe I will do a flush with Subculture and no nutrients for a day or two. Also, I am preparing the same batch of water + nutrients for all of them and perhaps they want to be fed differently. It is easier to run less number of different strains in a single grow tent to rectify the problem. One thing I will include in the future grows is to add a Cal-Mag supplement.
Good luck with your grow. I have more room in my tent now since I have harvest 2 other plants (another diary) thus giving more room to these 4 ladies. I will upload even better pictures starting today.
yeah, I have been considering cal-mag supplement in my other grow too, However, my tap water should have a sufficient amount of these micro nutes. Will keep an eye for the next few days.
Good luck on the grow! I’m just finishing up on Royal dwarf and boy she is a beauty for her size! Some nice dense nugs 😍 I’ve just ordered amnesia haze from RQS! Can’t wait to see how yours turn out 😁👌🏻