3mg silica, 3mg calmag, and nutes. The 14'x4' room I built in the attic is working well so far. I use a dual hose portable AC unit and a 9 liter humidifier. Able to keep good temp and humidity conditions.
I think I'm overfeeding. 42 days since sprouting. I feel like her bud growth has slowed a bit. No other signs of overfeeding except kinda dark leaves, maybe? I followed the feeding schedule on the back of the bottles. Now realize that autos don't require as much as phhotos.
Possibly to much nitrogen, your giving 3ml/L of a calmag product, if thats the recomended dose then fine but I haven't seen a calmag product say give that much, quite a lot of calmag products contain nitrogen so you may be over doing it.
No need to flush, its just border line N tox, nothing to worry about, do as others said and cut back the N a bit.
Plants still need N in flower just not as much.
Eg, if your giving a feed that's 4-4-4 in veg maybe alter that back to 2.5-5-8 or something like it in terms of NPK content.
Good Luck!
It looks fine. 42 days is only six weeks and with four of them for veg she is only week two or three of flower. You can back off a bit if she looks dark but you will know when you over feed as the leaf tips will burn. As you are entering the bloom stage now you will slowly want to reduce nitrogen and increase phosphorus and potassium. The N is what will be making her look dark. Follow your schedule but you want to be introducing your ok boost and reducing the base soon.
You still have roughly 3 weeks to go, so don't get too excited yet.
There is no need to drown your plants with gallons of water to "flush" them, this does nothing special.
Just stop all nutrients/fertilizers 10-14 days before harvest and give plain water in normal amounts and at normal intervals, and the plant will "flush" itself naturally.
For me, this means stopping feeding when there are about 95% brown pistils and harvesting when there are about 98-99% brown pistils.
you should just give them water from now on but actual "flushing" is not needed in my opinion
sure you may be removing excess salts from the medium but its not doing anything to the plant itself
people believe that flushing will strip excess salts etc from the plant itself however it does not work like that .
if you want the plant to use up extra nutrients then just feed water and the plant will take what it requires via mobile nutrients from the leaves themselves
Thank you all for the answers. I'm going discontinue using calmag on this grow. I'm aslo going to increase nutrient solution pH to 6-6.2 and lower the nutrient amount I'm feeding by at least half or 3/4.
Im currently growing a couple of these, ones almost ready to harvest (cant wait!!). Mine were the same as yours at this point, very short and bushy but once they started flowering they stretched a lot. Id highly recommend LST (tie down). Done it on my 2nd grow and its made a massive difference. Good luck! 👍
@Ashlp666, yeah she is definitely sprinting for the finish now that she is flowering. I'm excited to see what 3 more weeks will bring. I thought about doing LST and/or defoliation but decided against it just so I could ensure no ill affects from fiddling with as a neophyte. I need to do more research on both techniques. I actually bought tie wire but obviously haven't committed to using it yet lol.