It's been a great week for the Gypsy Widow. She is proving to be one strong plant. I'm only finding a couple minor problems along the way, some of which i should have already knew.
1st using a 1 gallon smart pot is very convenient for its compact size if you're planning a small grow/plant but they just dry so fast, so you have to be vigilant about watering twice as often.
2nd the plant has some minor color problems on the tips of maybe 5 leaves. It looks like nutrient burn, but i thought I'd been going pretty easy on nutrients. The feeding this week was only once.
3rd I had pinched the top just before the flowering flip and it seemed clean, but now I've noticed not only a nice split into 2 new branches but in the middle there's 3 tiny pieces growing out of the center and knots from the dominant branches. I guess we'll maybe need to mark this one down as my first FIM.
Her flowers are starting, and had it's small stretch of several inches. I'm not positive its finished growing but it's slowing down. Since flowering is so early still I thought about a quick transplant into a 3 gallon pot but uncertain if it'll be a good thing or bad.
The 1 clone i took is doing great. It made decent roots after about 4-5 days of being in a very moist, warm, low light area. I just put some soil into it's cup and will watch for progress.
Happy growing everyone ✌️
@BigDaddyK, thanks Daddy i appreciate your input. I decided to pluck the most damaged leaves and watered with the evaporated water today. With EC would that be the same as using my tds meter..or much different?
Nice frosty buds, did you harvest ? You are very good at cloning, I am going to try your technique because my results are not so good.
I think your leaf problems may be caused by over feeding. Seems like it got much worse after week 7, which had a dose higher than recommended on the Fox Farms feed chart. Usually even the recommended doses on the feed charts are too much unless you are outdoors or running really big lights. 1/2 to 3/4 of the recommended dose should be enough on a smaller setup.
Also not sure if your meter measures PPM or EC. If PPM, try EC instead. PPM has 2 scales, if the feed chart has one scale but your meter has the other scale you could accidentally have a lot higher PPM than expected. I go for a max of about 0.5-1.0 early veg, 1.5 late veg, 1.7 flower, gradually increasing the dose and monitoring how the leaves look.
@@smokenhike, thank you for saying so.... i love cloning, propagation and early veg are probably my most successful times. Flowering....meh not so much lol.
Thanks so much for the advice. I did harvest and it wasnt much but thats to be expected when you use a 1 gallon pot. My most recent grow i started giving more calmag and that's kept the symptoms much lower, and i started to do lower more frequent feeds and i think that's probably helping too. I think i have a ppm meter...but never tried to calc the ec ill try to figure it out.😊✌️
@EastOregonGrower, thank you. This ones stayed nice and green like it should. Lol i had a rogue diary going on and the poor plants are just hideous.
Definitely classic indica...which is funny cause they call this one a 50/50 split. Maybe the taste or high will be cause the plant itself definitely isn't. ✌️
@Puffer_Bill, i was thinking it may have blown in the open window...or it could have been in the soil. I probably should've let it go and then do a plant I'd on it...could've been a ground cover and stop the algae possibly.