LSDPlant5. One of the most vigorous of the 5 plants. Seems to be recovering from
LSD25Plant2. Has always been smaller but is now stretching very early flowering. Might end up being ok.
LSD25Plant3. Bit of a surprise package I think, has always looked sickly but seems to be taking off now, Good side branching stems thickening up and showing signs of early flowering.
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LSDPlant5. One of the most vigorous of the 5 plants. Seems to be recovering from
LSD25Plant2. Has always been smaller but is now stretching very early flowering. Might end up being ok.
LSD25Plant3. Bit of a surprise package I think, has always looked sickly but seems to be taking off now, Good side branching stems thickening up and showing signs of early flowering.
If anything this grow being my first one has been a learning curve. The plants are in very early flowering mode now and are stretching. I think the biggest mistake I made was to believe the nutrients manufacturers directions. I've never been able to get to the nutrient levels they recommend without the plants going toxic from nitrogen overdose. So cutting back on the nutrients to avoid nitrogen toxicity has resulted in smaller doses of other essential nutrients. I think I have figured out that I have had a calmag problem the entire time so have some on the way which should get here this week. I am still hopefull that by adding that that the flowering stage will result in some good buds. We shall see. I've started new plants, couple more LSD, 2 Crystal Meth, 2 Red Poison, 3 black cream plus a Northern Lights.....all autos. Already they are growing better than these guys were at week 2. I also added another 600w LED so basically have one light per 4 plants at the present time. Still have the CFL's but have cut back to using only two which I am moving around to the slower plants. I will have to move them to be over new tubs that have the new babies in them veging. It's hard working around not having a large work area. With summer approaching the room temperature will go beyond what I can control with the portable air con so trying to get two quick grows in before that extreme temperature gets here. Will probably have to shut down for 3 months when it gets here because no use trying to grow in 120 degree heat or more. In the meantime I am anxious for the CalMag to get here because I am certain it will make a difference.
@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.
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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.