Not a lot happened during week 7. Ended week 6 with nutrient watering of week 7 schedule on Saturday, 3/4 gallon per plant. Sunday and Monday were pretty lazy days with the girls. I was busy adding in a sub panel in the attic and extra outlets into the ceiling of the grow room for more lights and expanding the growing potential of the room. I pruned just a few yellowing, dead fan leaves. On Tuesday I watered, again with the week 7 schedule of nutrients and 3/4 gallon water per plant. After that, I left them alone for the next few days. On Saturday I did a flush with Sledgehammer according to the schedule. I used a full 1 gallon per plant, and I got plenty of runoff, filling the trays under the pots. I also took the time to trim all the fully dead fan leaves off the plants. I did wonder if they should be yellowing and dying, but after pruning them all off I realized that it really wasn't that many. The buds are looking pretty good. I would like them to grow at a faster rate, but I know my humidity gets pretty dry at 40% when lights are on. Maybe that's why I'm not really sure. It goes back up to 57-62% when lights are off. I've seen a pattern with the humidity levels when lights are out. Usually, if the humidity is down as far as 50% with lights off, then the dirt is fairly dry and it's time for me to water. I'm gonna keep an eye on that and see if that pattern continues. Could help give me a good clue for future grows. I have put down "defoliation" for a growing technique this week, but really I'm only taking what is dead or very yellow already. I'm trying to let them grow without too much training, I still want a base to judge my future training off of. Want to see if the training really pays off or not.
I think these have nitrogen toxicity, wondering what others think? Yellowing of some leaves, I noticed the clawing in some upper leaves. Buds don't seem to be growing much. Any thoughts?
It's hard to say when the pictures are under that light, try to take pictures under normal lighting for better diagnosis.
From what I can tell in these pictures there's actually a Nitrogen (N) abundance and some Phosphorous(P)/Potassium (K) deficiencies which may also be the cause of your buds' poor development (a picture showing where the leaves yellowing is the worst would really help!)
Hope this helps! Good luck and happy growing :)
Nitrogen Toxicity/Abundance, I believe is my problem. As suggested by BluntZilla in my other question it could be lacking P and K as well. Here are pictures under normal lighting in hopes that someone can help out.
Theyre not showing any signs of other deficiencies/toxicities at the moment just the Nitrogen abundance mentioned.
Yes lower the "Grow" or the Nitrogen source in your fertilizer by about 50% but never stop it completely since it may cause a shock and unnecessary stress!
Keep a close eye at your plants and adjust the fertilizing accordingly! if the color goes back to normal then stay at that diet with a slow increase, and if they start showing deficiencies then increase the nutrients accordingly!
Hope this helps! Good luck and happy growing :)
Great job bro the only thing id change is I would definitely look into getting your self an LEP lamp it would replace all those leds be cheaper to run not as hot as HID but gives you super lumens with the spectrum of led it would have doubled your yield easy and you'd only need one from GAVITA 1930lep
@EasyRaider, definitely man PH and sanitation and pest control are the things that are usually overlooked but stillgreatly important to the plants health almost as much as the light lmao happy growing man keep it
@GACiNATI, That would be great, and probably a great upgrade in the future. I would need two for the coverage space that I would need. Actually, four of them for how I plan to set the room up. As things progress, lights will definitely be upgraded.
Learned a lot from this grow. The nutrient problem was probably more of a pH problem. I just found that my pH meter was a full point off. The buds have been stalled since halfway through flower, and I'm pretty sure pH and nutrient issues were a big problem. Need to make sure to fix those problems for the next grow. Also trying autos for the next run, and a different nutrient line. But yes, lights are a must upgrade.