Am new to this. Growing 5 Fastbuds LSD-25 automatics. Living in a very hot house so using a portable air con to try and keep temps down. Made the rookie mistake of too much nutrients but quickly corrected that. Leaves showed a potassium deficiency so raised nutrient levels to 5 ml Part A and Part B Canna per 3 litres new growth seems ok. After flushing all pots with 15 litres of water ph'd at 5.8 I finished the flush with 3 litres per pot of nutrients with rhizotonic 6ml and cannazyn 7ml. At the end of week 3 side branching is appearing so have started bending LST. 3 are not yet ready to bend with LST and one is showing signs of overwatering. Am now in spring outside and temperatures are rising. Will be interesting to see if the portable air con can keep the temps down in the room. Growing in an open closet. Using Coco Noir soil which I washed thoroughly, Was the brick type because I could not get the bagged Coco. 75% coco 25% vermiculite in 12 litre fabric pots. Currently the coco soil is not drying out very quickly so after the big flush I am waiting to see how long that will take. Will probably give a small 500ml per plant feed every 3 days because I am not sure and don't want another deficiency. The lights I am using for veg are photography green screen CFL White lights. There are 4 per light fitting each globe rated at 225 watts but from the wall 75 watts, I have 4 fitting so am running 16 globes. I have a cheap chinese full spectrum to add when they go to flower! My air con broke down so another new one is on the way. This is not a cheap first grow for me but must finish it. Also growing 3 Crystal Meth Autos which I am starting a separate diary for. They, unlike the LSD25 don't seem to have experienced the same problems and are really nice looking plants. The blurb from Fastbuds was that LSD25 strain can withstand ph swings and is a forgiving strain, so far that doesn't seem to be the case. Also I used the Canna Grow schedule that tells you how much nutes to use at each stage but it appears they are wrong their schedule is far too strong if you follow the doses they recommend.
@JUNGLE_B4RNS, Thanks for your input. Yes 3-4 seems about right at the moment, now they are a bit larger they seem to be drinking a bit more so have started doing a water 3 times a week, I gave them a major flush just after they started flowering to get rid of any salts build up and now do a 1.5 litre feed twice til there is just a little run off and once a week a 3 litre feed with loads of run off. I figure the major flush should take care of any salt build up for a month or so. The major flush is 24 litres of plain water ph'd to 6.1 and to finish the flush 3 litres of nuted water. With all the additives I've had to drop the Canna A & B back to 3.5ml per 3 litres otherwise there is nut burn on the tips and some leaf curling. At the lower level of A&B plus the additives shown above those symptoms don't happen. The A&B level is way below what Canna recommends for light feeding and I haven't been able to find any information or a good feeding chart for hand watering in coco. I have found a lot of people who are complaining that the Canna feeding charts are too hot which is exactly what I have found. If anyone knows of a good feeding schedule chart for hand watering in coco I would appreciate you sharing that info. It does seem however that this can vary from strain to strain, it is the LSD-25 that is showing the nut burn and leaf curf....nothing seems to phase the Crystal Meth I am growing alongside the LSD-25! All plants are in flower now but bud growth is still slow!
@420Growerboi, Things seem to be ok now and my plants are beginning to flower so now I am feeding every water, once a week I feed with more water so there is a good flush but with nutrients. Feeding 3 times a week now.
High,
seems that you did something wrong tbh.
Red stems are always a sign for a P-deficiency. I don't think that you ferted not enough. The tips of the leafs are burned which means that you ferted too much. Maybe some nutes were blocked because of an overfeeding from other nutes... That's what I would say.
Stay green. 😊
Just as I said on your other diary the nutrient regiment you are using is paying off nicely. This girl looks like she's ready to shoot out some fat flowering nodes to make some big buds. You've done amazing work growing this girl and I'm excited to see how she finishes up flowering. Cheers.
@DabCrab, I hope you're right, not having done auto's before and being over 30 years since I grew I just don't know what to expect. It all seems to be happening very slowly and well behind what I see in other peoples grows of the same strain. Battling high daytime temps as well. Got a good portable air con but summer is setting in and it's getting harder to keep the temps down in the room. Much hotter days are on the way soon. I tried to up the nutrients by half a ml but saw slight tip burn immediately, growth slowed again and slight clawing, so have decided less is more and will be dropping the main nutrients back to 4ml A&B as of next feed, will keep other additives where they are.
@JUNGLE_B4RNS, Yes I figured it was that or over watering. I bumped up the nutes by 1ml. I've been feeding 4ml of A and B Canna when the schedule says 6.8ml, they are happy at 4ml but I figured as the plant gets bigger it should handle more so I bumped up by 1ml to 5ml and that happened. Have watered again with ph'd water and a small amount of Epsom Salts. Also sprinkled a small amount of powdered egg shells for calcium on to of the medium and watered it all in.