Hit some obstacles this week.
Plants started to show signs of phosphorus deficiency mid last week, and it accelerated very quickly!
Started to see a lot of leaves impacted.
I've been adding flower fuel which is like (1-32-34) ; Did a flush as I hadn't done before, thinking ph was getting low in the soil (Been watering at 6.3, but runoff around 5.9.) perhaps locking out as read phosophours uptake needs a little higher ph than the overall plant.
Flushed, and then watered with the flower fuel.
Went to just 11 hours light to try to slow her down a bit and time to recover.
Looks like it worked as it hasn't gotten any worse and they seem overall OK.
I've trimmed off the most impacted leaves but left the ones that were just showing a little deficiency.
For the larger girl, she doesn't have a lot of fan leaves so don't want to take too many away!
So seems like back on track here.
Thinking another 2 weeks for these.
The larger plant is starting to show yellowing leaves down low but seems roughly right for the last few weeks.
Going to keep feeding them nutrients for another week here, and then cut it off for the finish.
Other than above, just keeping them in the light, humidity down.
Trying to give them some colder nights to stress a bit.
Buds aren't quite as fat as I hoped but happy overall and we'll see what happens next two weeks.
All previous grows were Auto's, so learning with my current photo plants.... Question on flipping to flower... I'm at 18/6 now. Do I just make the change in one swoop to 12/12, or is it better to progress there (taking 30:minutes of light out of each day until 12/12?).
Great advice all; That why I love this place - tons of experience and perspective.
So my take is that I can do either, just jump to 12/12, or progress.
Different perspectives but knowing that either is OK is what I needed.
I'll probably split the difference (progress over like 3 days)..
Thanks all.
@DoDrugs420,
Thank you!
Ended up being a pretty intense smoke.
Sativa heavy supposedly, but damn it hits hard. Not one for the workday for sure.!
Peace!
I'm growing some gelato using leds for first time.I have different genetics,and my girls look nothing at all like these ones..I'm also growing Jack Herer.They're 19 days old from seedlings and so far the led light has made a ton of difference and my girls had to be put in 8 litre pots already as their roots we're getting tangled in the bottom of the 1litre pots I use for babies.I'm using sensi grow a&b @ 1ml per litre of cool,not cold, water.Slight nute burn but will half food to 0.5ml per litre water (pH 6.5), til burns gone..Mine take 8-9 weeks flowering too,not 14..It's so weird how the same strains are so different from different seed banks.I used seedsman seeds this time,as recommended on ILGM forum..Happy Growing!Hoping mine will look just as nice as yours!!
@pompeysalz29,
Thanks for the kind words, friend!
For sure - even my two girls seem totally different (one 44", the other 32") - and I treated them the same, rotated them around the lights, etc.
Crazy!
Sounds like you off to a good start!
Post them so we can see too!
