It's my first grow! Yay!
Doing Mephisto Genetics Sour Crack, because it's smallish and easy to manage. I figured I'll practice all of the simple techniques on her and learn, make mistakes and possibly fail. (Spoiler: Haven't failed!)
Growing in soil, Great Lakes Water Only. It's one of those living soil thingys. Seems to be working great! I topped off the pots with about five inches of potting soil to ease the plants into the hotter stuff. During the first two weeks she was under a "1000w" Blurple from Amazon. It is a 125ish watt from the wall light. Worked fine but then I read a bunch of stuff that made me anxious about Blurples and splurged on a 3x Cree Cob setup that runs 190w and 3500k, which is what she's been under since day 16.
She's going to get leaf tucking, LST, PHed water, and Myco Blast. nothing else. Until flower and I'll hit her with a week of P/K. Keeping it super simple.
As she is my first plant, I didn't know what to expect. I read a whole heaping pile of stuff, learned that there is a whole world of experts, armchair experts, bro-science "experts", and not-at-all experts with lots of words willing to tell a noob many, many things that may or may not be true. I chose to listen to the people who seemed really big on what *not* to do, rather than the people telling me to do 500 different things.
It may have been a conservative decision, but she is alive at the end of week 1 and looks healthy so we'll call it a win.
@@@Kinimod, I was told to use p/k during. The first week of flower. Bad idea? It's the only nutrient I'll be using during the grow apart from Bio Root.
@Budcoin, I was super close to scheduling her chop for tomorrow. Going to give her until Sunday, which will be day 55 exactly. Her leaves are fading and her trichomes are maybe a third amber. Thinking I'm going to remove fan leaves and chop her as one piece. Just hang the whole kit and kaboodle up. Our RH in the house is 20-25% in the winter and I want to slow her dry as much as I can. Pics will of course be incoming. :-D Will take pics, prune all of her fans, take more pics, chop her, hang her, take more pics. :-D Won't be able to get a wet weight with a whole plant hang but I'll weigh her anyway.
By the way yours looks super frosty! Sorry for the mishap. Mine had one, too, last week. Dunno what caused her to go all yellow, but I have suspicions*. A flush fixed her though and her discolored leaves didn't die or shrivel so *Shrug*.
*Her first two doses of P/K were me listening to the dude at the grow shop and not reading the bottle. Gave her 15ml of P/K per gallon for three feedings. She didn't get what you would call a regular nutrient burn, so the symptoms were confusing. Someone else said PH lockout, which it certainly looked like, but I had been measuring PH both in and out of the plant. But hey, as I said, flush fixed her so here we are. I think I'm gonna be hitting the higher end of the yield size for her strain. At least I'm hoping so. If I manage 1.5oz I'll feel like I have hero level first grow and retire forever... Or not. :-D
Happy Growing!
Hey there Hexus, have you tested her runoff? Ph could be too low, if youre using good soil calcium or magnesium or any other secondary nutrient deficiency doesnt happen too often. I usually flush if i have any issues unless im sure my soil ph is correct. I suggest to check your soil on time before its too late :) If indeed your ph is off balance flush with twice the amount of your potsize. Let the soil dry thoroughly and follow with a friendly dose of nutrients. Lets hope this isnt necessary. Looking great for a first grow
@ArucambaAutoflowers297, I really appreciate the help! PH is 6.15 going in, and 6.8 coming back out. Been pretty obsessive on PH. The next time she's dry she's getting a flush either way, and then a 1 tsp/gallon dose of cal mag, which should fix her if that is the problem, and won't hurt her if it isn't.
I kind of have it down to one of two (Four) problems at this point, all of which will be solved by the flush, but it'd be good to know the actual cause.
1. I listened to the dude at the grow store who told me to hit the plant with Canna P/K 13/14 at 12-15ml/Gallon for the first week of flower. I did three waterings this way and stopped after five days. So there may be an overdose of P/K. But it's been a really slow, creeping up symptom so I wasn't as sure about it.
2. It *looks* like symptoms of Cal/Mag. Older leaves are getting paler with brown spots, new growth is fairly pale, and slow.
3. She's right in the middle of her last two/three weeks as well, which might be a contributing factor.
4. I actually am just guessing and making a fool on myself, and have no idea.
Here's a pic in natural light in case it can help.
https://i.imgur.com/n5OMp5d.jpg
Again, really appreciate the feedback!
EDIT - RE: Natural light pic - I do not spray my leaves with water. This is the first time ever, with the folair cal/mag, and it's not in direct light. Just making that clear.