This was a pretty good week. To start it off on Sunday I had to tie up more branches. They definitely got heavy from all the water from the flushing the previous week. On Tuesday I wanted to get the plants some more nutrients so I mixed up a small amount since the pots didn't feel totally dry yet. Just a 1/2 gallon per plant. I gave them the week 10 scheduled dose plus added Beastie Bloomz for more phosphorus and also added CaliMagic. Wednesday and Thursday went ok, they looked fine, but still had some leaves dying off. On Friday the pots felt light so I fed them each a full 1 gallon with the same nutrient mix as Tuesday. Trying to get some blooming nutrients into them and just maybe boost their size. On Saturday, still more random leaves. Just fan leaves, sugars are fine. So I decided that I'm far enough along in the grow and tired of pruning a handful of leaves off each plant each day, so I took all of them. I pruned all the fans, for the most part, off the plants. Hoping this will help the buds in final development, don't think it can hurt at this point.
I have to remind myself that the lack of bud size is totally my fault. I didn't want to train them because I wanted to get a baseline for what these could do. I have clones of them that I will grow and clone from as well. Those I will train and see if my yield actually improves.
Also got a little air quality detector. Who knows how accurate it is but it at least gives me the difference between my house and the grow room. The house reads right at 303ppm Co2. In the grow room I added two 5gal buckets, each with 10lbs of sugar, and then yeast. I wanted to see just how much the DIY Co2 actually adds. With both in the room, right at ground level, the detector reads 521. So it doesn't really add enough to actually help with plants, but it does add something. Just a fun experiment.
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.