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timber03
timber03started grow question 2 years ago
More defoliation? I’ve done some pretty serious (to me anyhow) defoliation to this beautiful lady and would like a more experienced eye to let me know if I should stop? Thanks to lots of great advice from here she’s already looking much better.
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Techniques. Defoliation
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GrowingGrannie
GrowingGrannieanswered grow question 2 years ago
Well, you've done a lot of lollipopping - but that's about it. I wouldn't actually say you've done a lot of defoliation but I haven't gone back in your diaries to see what she was.... I hope you read that article I suggested before - that should tell you what to do for her. But besides that, there are three things that are going a little wrong here that I want to point out.... one is the temperature as Mazgoth rightly pointed out - that temperature is going to cook your plants. The other is that I'm seeing either a bad pH problem or a hunger issue... I'm talking about the yellow leaf tips. To figure out which, you need to water your plants until there's about 10-20% runoff and check the pH of that runoff.... I would, in any event, get the pH down to 6.0-6.4 max... You don't tell us what you've been feeding them so I can't comment on whether they're hungry - but a PK booster would not go amiss. Finally, I see you seem to have a fairly decent population of fungus gnats (on the yellow stickies) ... Just had someone whose plant had to be pitched because the fungus gnats ate all the roots and caused the plant to become mush.... Now, that was an extreme result of fungus gnats - they usually just eat the decaying material in the soil, but if that runs out, they start in on the roots. So get yourself some Mosquito Bits and follow the directions... they work a treat on fungus gnats. Fungus gnats, btw, like wet soil... so if you have a problem with them, it's because you're keeping the soil too wet... always let the soil dry out completely before giving them something more... Good luck!
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ChamiChumi
ChamiChumianswered grow question 2 years ago
You have done a good job, but it still needs a lot of leaves, remove those leaves that are very yellow.
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Mazgoth
Mazgothanswered grow question 2 years ago
Hello,i think you can defoliate a little bit but the most important is to increase the power of the lamp to the limit,i see in your grow dairy that the temprature is 50C that is TOO HOT,they will die easy in this temprature or maybe you got confused and want to put fahrenheit instead of celsius witch still too COLD,i dont like the light schedule i prefer 18/6 or 20/4 but this is personal preferences. Good Luck Brother!
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