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What are causes for thin buds and clawing sugar leafs in Living Soil?
Aircoholicstarted grow question 10 days ago
She seems very healthy, with pretty dark green leafs, actually. Growin in living soil and I only feed CalMag every other watering and Silica only a few times in total. I also fed her ACT twice. Her buds grew tall, but stayed very thin, and more than half sugar leafs are clawing.
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Ninjabudsanswered grow question 10 days ago
Hey there don’t worry most of the bid structure is genetics your plant has very old school genetics
The curling of the tips of the leaves is most likely some root damage or possible heat stress also durring flower to much nitrogen can do that
I assure you the buds will fatten up they prob won’t get to the size your imaging it take awhile to get it down where you have some massive buds but I promise the buds will fill it they normally fill in a lot after week 6 and 7 of flower so don’t chop them early the last week or 2 they put on a lot of weight and then buds tighten up
I think your donning well so far
Spike_KCanGanswered grow question 10 days ago
HI bud.
I don't see any clawing but maybe that's just me.
She is definitely getting enough nitrogen, that is clear.
How are your watering habits? Are you letting the top 2-3 cm of soil dry out before watering again? Are you getting all of the soil moist and leaving no dry pockets?
That's about the only thing that comes to mind at the moment.
Hope that helps, even just a little.
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TruTraTrianswered grow question 10 days ago
Dark green + clawing + skinny buds sounds like too much nitrogen during flower.
Living soil is great, but if N stays high and you don’t supplement PK, bud growth can stall.
You might still get some weight if she's got time left – consider a mild PK boost and ease up on anything N-rich (like ACT if it had compost).
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UnkleSkunkanswered grow question 10 days ago
a me sembra un eccesso di azoto, probabilmente causato dal cal mag che devi dare solo quando serve ...dovresti aumentare fosforo e potassio per dare spessore a quelle cime
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All_our_small_plantsanswered grow question 10 days ago
Es sieht so aus als würde sie foxtails bilden und das könnte einmal an lichtress liegen entweder die Lampe zu nahe oder zu intensiv, stelle. Diese auf maximal 45 DLI ein um das zu kontrollieren kannst du dir die App Photone runterladen und es mit ihr messen.
Oder zu viel stickstoff, Messe deinen runoff ob der PH und EC wert stimmt. Der solte zwischen 6 und 6.5 under EC unter 2 liegen.
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DaddyPrime2answered grow question 10 days ago
Looks like shes trying to reveg or is revegging at the moment.
also looks like wind burn/stress.
do you have strong fans blowing on these specific spots?
it could also just be a genetic
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