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15 days today since I put the seed to grow. I am still kind of worried about the development. Color is light green and growth rate seems slower when compared with other diaries using the same strain.
I am worried about the light green color and slower growth rate.
-seeds were new.
-ph seems ok
-temperature is a little bit high but within range. Actually the tips of the leaves show some purple edges..
any guess?
Imma keep it real with you growmie.
The strain is called dwarf but its not expected to be this little by this point, i know the feel of being stuck with the midget and watching it not grow everyday without knowing the reason.
My best guess would be that the soil is causing this problem, and im affraid this ain't no guess.
Go to a grow shop's website and order some top quality soil, imagine you are going to the dealer and now is the time to decide, do you want high or low quality, and you only get to pick once cause he will deliver the ounces of the quality you picked at first and you won't be able to change it after, you can use nutrients if the soil is light, but if its low quality overall then you can't fix.
I suggest you get a 50l bag of a "complete mix" not the heavy one nor the light one, go with the "Complete mix", there is almost always a "Complete" option.
place the seed straight in the soil, and then watch her grow fast, fast like sanic.
If you do just this and you grow outdoors, you only need to ph the water after this and you can still reach a medium harvest, if you keep on that soil, you may have issues even getting 20g in 3/4 months. If you are indoors you have to make sure the other aspects like temperature being synchronized with humidity, and relatively stable, so you dont want temps going from 40ºC to 17º in a day, but if its 25ºday 20ºnight the its ok, even if its 35º during the day and 30º at night you can still grow. The higher the temperature the higher humidity she can take, altho you can't go to huge levels, just follow this chart to try and keep it at the correct transpiration rate. (link bellow is a picture, i suggest you download it)
growdiaries.com/diaries/55942-fastbuds-purple-lemonade-grow-journal-by-pmal027/week/294074
If indoors don't keep the light too close, don't take the plant outside during the day for sun light and then back indoors for artificial light at night its doesn't work like that.
And... be patient, idk.
If you need anything just dm me.
Best of luck and Stay lit growmie.
They are starting ti recover and speeding up. Unfortunatelly during the first week I am afraid I stressed them too much. I would say it took the 10 days to recover. I hope it also delays the start of flowering. I am going to give them one week to see how it goes.. I do not expect miracles but if I am not convinced I will restart. For the next time, more distance between lamp and plants, less watering and better substrate.
Day 27 update: the small one did not recover. Now only one left, but this one is speeding up and recovering well.
So far, recover is going well. Unfortunately stress did not delay the start of flowering, and first female flower stems are visible.
I also started UV lighting this week. Every day adding 30 min so the plant gets used to it. In total 11 watt UV-B
Just got a Spider Farmer tent. Before I was using an IKEA cabinet adapted. Much better temperature control now. Plant adapted great, although it decided to start growing tall and eat a lot. I have to correct a lil bit nitrogen.
Excess of nutrients.. Like weeks ago. and you have locked out your plant.. This is why she looks so yellow. She is not taking in very much nutrients at all. Regardless of being organic and chemical if the salts in your soil exceed 2000+ ppm then your plant will be "locked out". There is much nutrients in the soil that the osmotic pressure of the salts actually attracts the other salts. Feeding plants nutrients in Soil has a a lot of considerations and is not so easy as "start feeding at 2 weeks". I wish I could be a little more helpful but your plant is speaking to you, learn to listen :).
Since it is not clear for me yet what is the cause of the current spots on the leaves, and it might be an excess of nutrients in combination with bad soil, I am taking it easy when it comes to nutes for a few days and see if the plant stabilizes. Just rain water, corrected ph, and some enzymes to help cleaning. I believe within a couple of days it should show some results (for good or bad). So far, after two days of diet, the plant does not look worse and even slightly better. (Color in the pics is yellowish than reality due to led light)
I kept feeding just water and some enzymes and adjusted ph, since very likely the plant had a nutrient lock down. For the rest flowers keep growing. It will not be a very large harvest, but I am definitely learning a lot.
I think it is a great strain, but unfortunately a cumulative of mistakes ruined this grow.
Nevertheless, I learned and for next grow it seems results I'll be way better 😉
Trufero
