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Seeing some major issues, most likely related to humidity. Would appreciate some recommendations, I feel like the humidity needs to be fixed immediately and possibly calmag, but not sure what is going on as its my first grow. Would greatly appreciate any recommendations. Raised the RH up to 70 has been 79/70 consistently after a good watering, believe I was perhaps being too stingy with the water and not getting it down into the pot, water that went in today was at 280ppm compared to 200 ph'd at 6.2. Hoping I can keep the humidity up so I can have a healthy watering schedule. Will be looking into a good humidifier. Appreciate the advice will be taking some more pictures in the morning to see how they respond. I did add a tsp of calmag to the 1.25 gal water. Smell is actually very strong when the humidity is up.
See some curled tips, discoloring, odd growth on the smaller plants and the discolored curled tips on skywalker #2 are concerning. Would appreciate any advice.
Wow your VPD is crazy high. That means your plant is transpiring at a massive rate. VPD is the measurement of vapor pressure in the leaf, as it relates to the vapor pressure in the air (air humidity) With a 78F temp coupled with 30% humidity, your plants Stomata are wide open and cranking up the water and nutrients at a rate that is too fast and can cause excessive nutrient uptake which can lead to toxicity in your plants, and can deplete nutrients in the soil much faster than necessary.
Your relative humidity in your space at this stage of growth and at the room temp of 78F your humidity should be up around 70% NOT 30% Get yourself a humidifier, or dump water on the floor of your space. You can roll up a towel and lay it along the edge of your tent and soak it. You can leave a tray in there with water, like a baking sheet or something. The more water surface exposed to the air the high the evaporation rate.
Next feed i would do a 400ppm mix at a 6.2 pH
The other thing is the plant in question looks like it's suffering from light stress. Back off your light a bit with a dimmer, or just raise it a foot. There is such a thing as too much light and it can cause your plants to bleach white and yellow.
Plants seem to be recovering with the humidity corrected, watering properly and placing some water in a container at the bottom of the tent has sufficed for now. After doing some more research looks like I walked myself into a boron def but could be wrong. Am wondering what foods would be good to give the plant in the 1/3 happy frog 2/3 ocean forest mix. The Forum Stomper x 3 Bears OG seems to be taking off and is also growing leaning towards the TS600, may have to get a better light setup for this tent for flowering. Will post some more pictures as the week progresses. Tent has mostly been at 79/70 with a couple drops to 55ish that were temporary.
Plants seem to be recovering from the issues they had earlier, the FS x 3 Bears OG is growing massive but can't seem to make the plant happy as the leaves are consistently drooping, maybe have overwatered plants as well in an effort to keep the humidity up but overall they seem to be doing alright.
Seems like possibly some overwatering or maybe a def of some sort, will keep an eye on it. Temperatures have dropped quite low so may need to adjust the ambient temperature as the plants seem to be sustaining there own humidity level am now having an issue keeping it stable but all things considered plants seem to be growing well and smell good. Not as many bud sites as I had hoped there would be but still overall am happy with it. Would like to maybe transplant the Strawberry Nuggets but really might not make a difference at this point, figured I would get a bit more growth out of that small pot but I guess not.
Seem to be having some issues week 1 of flowering, red stems breaking down the middle, Skywalker #1 has lines developing on the stalk, the runoff PH's are all in range, temps have been a bit lower but 74-75f seems reasonable. Am worried I may have botched this.
Cold temps,
Wrong or lack of right food
Light burn
Genetics.
Last two impossible, genetics goes gradually, light burn effects stems of leaf not plant itself.
That leaves you with most probably for me from look - cold temps. But you need at least 18 cel or less, you are far from that range.
That leaves you with food issues.
You been offered 3 versions
Sulphur - bleaching of leaves, going pale , colour from green change to lime. I had once, heavy, you are not in that boat 99.999%
Magnesium - yeah, if progressed heavy, stems of plant will get pinky red, but leaves will be way earlier tiger stripy ... Not that case.
Potash - most likely if feed was issue, light paling of leaves, red stems of leaves, can progress to plant.
Overwatering and lack of oxygen can play such tricks too, but again then you look at stage of leaves and plant, think its not the case too.
From look i would say cold night spell, from info - most prob potash.
Plants seem to be having some issues due to poor watering habits but we will see if we can turn it around, the red stems and leafs should give off some clues as to what it is. I have tried to remedy the situation with some cal-mag and consistent watering habits. Saw some good growth from the last feeding however plants are somewhat unhappy. Growing closer to the lights as well may have to make an upgrade to a 4x4 tent with a higher ppfd light. We shall see how the plants look in a couple days. Seems like the red stems are getting much worse and cracking in the middle, flowering is still moving along nicely not really sure how the plants are doing this well even with what is an obvious serious issue. Hoping one of the OG growers can steer me in the right direction in potentially saving some of my first grow.
May have overreacted a bit to the coloring of the stems but plants definitely have multiple issues and am just hoping to see this out until the finish and apply what I've learned to the next go around. The Strawberry Nuggets was moved out of the tent and is a house plant at this point living off sunlight, perhaps if the Skywalkers finish up I could throw it back in the tent but the FS/3 Bog is massive and would easily fill the entire tent if it could. I currently have it tied to prevent it from taking so much light from the Skywalkers. I will try to take some better photos that can show the situation I am talking about better but its interesting that a plant that started a week later and never truly looked healthy is outgrowing the others by so much.
Some of the dates on the plants may be off a couple days but the sprout date for both Skywalkers is 10/22 and the FS / 3 Bog is 10/29. The Strawberry Nuggets was turned into a house plant as it simply couldn't compete for light with the other plants. The FS/3 Bog despite having a rough start and never really perking up during veg has really taken off and completely taken over the entire 2x4 tent. If it wasn't tied up it would envelop the entire tent. I have a manual loupe that I was using to try to look at the trichomes but its hard for me to focus while holding it but I will attempt to take some photos of the main colas under the loupe. Interestingly enough there is only a few diaries online of the Forum Stompers / 3 Bears OG cross freebie that were seen to completion and they all seem to be beasts of a plant like this one is. There were multiple reports of the strain herming out but seems to be doing well despite all the issues it faced in my first novice grow. I also for some reason didn't see the responses to my last question until it was too late but perhaps using some type of plant food would have been good but I figured the HF/OF would be able to see the autoflowers out til the end. One of the biggest mistakes as well was not filling the 3 gallon pots to the top with soil and just not having a good understanding of the way the roots drink and how important the VPD is. I have sourced a few bottles of nutrients as it appears that the plants will need more nutrients beyond the soil to reach there potential. I have a bottle of Cha Ching, Open Sesame, and Beastie Bloomz, I will also consider ordering the Fox Farms Liquid nutrient mixes after I do some research and figure out what is my best option budget wise and will continue to monitor the trichomes. I am am also going to try to get a better phone for taking some better pictures. Appreciate all the advice and great information from the community couldn't have done this without you guys. Week 9 shall begin tomorrow with some extensive photos to begin the week.
Entering into week 9 on the Skywalker's, week 8 on the FS/3 Bog cross, introduced a low dose of beastie bloomz and hopefully the plants will react well to it, also have some cha ching to add as well but getting close to end of harvest not sure how good of an idea introducing nutrients to plants that will need to be flushed will be, but I guess I will figure it out. I've managed to make it this far with a bit of luck and some good advice on here so hopefully can steer this thing to harvest without any devastating issues. Will post some updates tomorrow and hopefully the reaction to the feeding will be good. Plants seem to be responding well overall to the nutes, added another oscillating fan and temps have been slightly higher with 74F high. Humidity has stayed around 50 and only odd issue is that the runoff from Skywalker 1 was coming out as 5.9. Will be upgrading the light soon and hopefully upgrading the tent height or finding some suitable plant risers. Have started to see a few amber trichomes but its hard for me to tell being a novice. I will attempt to take some photos of the trichomes with the phone & loupe. The FS x 3 Bog continues to explode in growth and has 3 giant stalks as if it has 3 different main colas and am impressed, has like a cookie kind of smell. The Skywalkers are a little more hard to explain the smell but its good. Am going to be upgrading to the EVO 3 Lightframe, perhaps it is a bit too powerful for this tent but we shall see, I do know that with the TS600 and SF1000 my coverage in the tent is somewhat odd, and since I haven't been able to hang them at the exact same height I figure one fixture designed for a 2x4 should work well, however will most likely have to LST to bring out the full potential of that light and perhaps co2 but its a small tent. This concludes the updates for week 9. I should note in total the plants have received a total of 1.5 tsp split between 2.5 gals of ph'd water during the week. If I can verify the amber trichs I will probably feed the Skywalkers some Cha Ching or begin flushing, but I would like to do the best I can as far as maximizing quality, I do understand not trimming the smaller nodes and what not was a mistake but have learned a ton this first grow and will do better about plant management in the future.
Forum Stomper x 3 Bears OG turning a bit yellow might have some issues there maybe a nit deficiency or who knows where I messed up but the buds on it are developing just need her to get some of that green back. Skywalkers still forming tons of trichomes have some spots on leaves and other issues but pretty happy with a first grow so far. Temps have been a bit low as well, not really a way for me to get around that at the moment so will rough it out.
Kind of hard for me to see the trichomes with the 30x, but looks like the Skywalkers may be showing some amber and ready for chop, have been feeding those straight water, but the plants have been drinking a ton of water. Will probably hit the FS/3Bog with some more ChaChing+CalMag as it seemed to provide the best boost for the Skywalkers, wish I would have used the nutrients earlier.
Swapped out the lights, hopefully it doesn't burn the middle plant too bad. I left the driver of the AC Infinity lightframe on it and it seems to give out less heat then the other 2 lights so it may be an issue as temps seem to be a bit lower. Honestly feel like the Skywalkers could be ready to harvest but not seeing any amber aside from on the sugar leaves. I'll try to take some better pictures of the trichomes and due to the SW#1 Fade I will start flushing it. Really impressed with the FS X 3 BOG though the plant is massive and the top colas are massive overall the whole plant is incredible but due to my errors it has some deficiency's for sure with the yellowish. It really looks like some tropical bud or something, the trichomes on it are developing though. I do see a lot of cloudy trichomes on both SW1 & SW2 though so it is possible they are ready.
Wow buddy!! super nice buds forming up
What an amazing grow so far - good job and well done 🤝
Happy Growing & cant wait for your upcoming weeks 🌱
Cheers, Bud Boutique 👩🌾
Honestly for young plants they look quite well to me! Definitely would be good to get humidity up. Humidifier would help or if you can slow you exhaust if temp doesn't rocket it may help some as well.
I wouldn't think at this stage cal/mag would be making a huge issue on the plants.
My personal advice on a first grow is not rushing to fix anything especially this early. If you can definitively identify issues correct them but if you aren't certain, I find waiting to get a better idea of the issue is more often better than throwing solutions at problems till 1 sticks. You will learn alot from your first grow even if it doesn't turn out perfectly.
So far it looks quite well for a first grow imo! Good luck!
You good bro try the wet towel method to raise your humidity to least 58/60 constant they should perk up godbless.maybe try your light cycle to 18/6 22 hours you got now is maybe to much light with your humidity problem just sort humidity out first allbest bro
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