[MEGA]Growing advice, tips, tricks and experience: Mark 3

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Well, Still having the same problem , I believe the larger plant is root bound, it was hailing 2 days ago so Im going to wait to put it out for a few more days.

My seedling is looking pretty well, the leaves are surprisingly large compared to past plants Ive had that were Northern Lights , Dunno why though...

So , if I'm giving the plant enough water/Nitrogen etc , it should be fine, and if it continues to do what its been doing then its probably root bound and ready to go outside?

Looking good AE, you gonna be growing those outdoors or in?

And wise, that plant turned out very nicely

Looking good Gurner

Those are going outdoors. I plan to grow them in my greenhouse until they're large enough to harden off outside in the open.

I'm just trying to seal up my greenhouse by putting on the doors so I can move my fan heater in there keep the temps up at night.

As for the peat thing, I would suggest have a look at the different conditions ericaceous plants and non-ericaceous plants require and the pH of peat. I'm sure cannabis would grow in peat, but it's far too acidic to thrive. I'm sure you'll do what you see fit, but hopefully you'll discover how much of a difference it makes. Just make sure you add the correct amount of dolomite lime (adding too much is almost as bad as not having enough).

I just think that with the all the problems you've been having over the months (deficiencies and all sorts of problems), you need to maybe consider the fact that you need to fundamentally change what you're doing. In all that time I don't think I've really had one deficiency problem at all, so it does beg the question of what you could be doing differently.

But anyway, I don't mean to overly criticize and please don't take it personally. I wish you all the best.

 

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^two plants magically started gorwing in my closet under a few large 200W CFL bulbs and with little ventilation to boot, and the smell wasnt too bad at all. matter of fact, have had bags of weed that stunk more than the two live plants did. plus it is fun to come home every day to see how much they have grown in the past day. there were a few times when i was like holy shit! it must have grown and inch in 24 hours.

i have a question....

somehow a seed sprouted and planted itself. its about 4 weeks old and seems to not be growing as much as it should. today i noticed that the tips of two of the leaves are dry and crumbly almost. no discoloration, and plenty of water so i know that isnt the problem. it also started eating 20-20-20 food, in VERY small amounts.

any ideas on why the tips of the leaves on the bottom of this baby plant are kinda crispy? it looks healthy besides that.

I'll try and help you if you want, but you're going to have to back up a bit and start from the beginning.

What setup are you using? i.e. what ventilation system etc. are you using? What sort of medium (aka potting soil) are you using? Can you post a photo of your setup and your plant? A picture speaks a thousand words.

I wouldn't use that fertilizer, as you can get better nutrients with a more suitable npk value.

edit: also the burnt tips on your leaves are probably nutrient burn i.e. they've had too much fertilizer given to them and this has scorched them. I would imagine your medium already has nutrients in it and your adding even more nutrients has caused an overdose, which causes the burnt tips on your leaves.

A photo would help though, as well as the info I asked for.

 

[Wise420]

Those are going outdoors. I plan to grow them in my greenhouse until they're large enough to harden off outside in the open.

I'm just trying to seal up my greenhouse by putting on the doors so I can move my fan heater in there keep the temps up at night.

As for the peat thing, I would suggest have a look at the different conditions ericaceous plants and non-ericaceous plants require and the pH of peat. I'm sure cannabis would grow in peat, but it's far too acidic to thrive. I'm sure you'll do what you see fit, but hopefully you'll discover how much of a difference it makes. Just make sure you add the correct amount of dolomite lime (adding too much is almost as bad as not having enough).

I just think that with the all the problems you've been having over the months (deficiencies and all sorts of problems), you need to maybe consider the fact that you need to fundamentally change what you're doing. In all that time I don't think I've really had one deficiency problem at all, so it does beg the question of what you could be doing differently.

But anyway, I don't mean to overly criticize and please don't take it personally. I wish you all the best.

I agree with AE, prelude. You've tryed a few diff things and they havnt worked for you, time to move on and find something that does.

I would recommend using root's organic (if it hasnt already been mentioned) It has a nuetral pH and has different organics in the soil which means u wont need to hand feed often. Ive seen a few Yank's use it the past year with nothing but top results.

Your little ones are coming up nicely AE Look's like you'll have a couple of fat lush, indica girls in no time mate

 

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I agree with AE, prelude. You've tryed a few diff things and they havnt worked for you, time to move on and find something that does.

I would recommend using root's organic (if it hasnt already been mentioned) It has a nuetral pH and has different organics in the soil which means u wont need to hand feed often. Ive seen a few Yank's use it the past year with nothing but top results.

I agree, I think a commercial ready made medium is the best for him rather than trying a diy medium, since in order for a diy medium to work well, you do ideally need a good working knowledge of the fundamentals of soil science and how the ingredients interact.

Your little ones are coming up nicely AE Look's like you'll have a couple of fat lush, indica girls in no time mate

Thanks wise I just moved all my plants into the greenhouse tonight, so they'll be living there day and night before being moved to their permanent guerrilla location.

 

[chronic bubonic]

Hi folks... havnt posted on here for a while hope everything is cool and groovy

Prelude this link http://how-to-grow-cannabis.info/grow/growing/1382.html has a pic of Mg deficiency which looks similar to yours.... there's also photo of Fe deficiency which reminds me of some of your past travails. My guess is that your suffering lock-out as a result of too high a ph caused by either dodgy water or underwatering (I remember a past post of urs when you noted your soil was compacted) - the liquid evaporates before the nutrients are absorbed causing nute build up in the soil........ I agree with AE and Wise, start simple, master the basics first and allow your knowledge to evolve. Here in the UK its possible to grow excellent cannabis using only general purpose mediums and fertilisers available at any garden centre and in fact i personally believe that many specific cannabis mediums/nutes are over rated and over priced. I fact I would suggest for your next grow you try growing a couple of plants using general purpose medium/nutes just because it would enable some good diagnosi should you start running into problems again...But, if you hav't done already I seriously suggest some sort of water purification system should be top of your shopping list (I recall a previous post where you commented on the smell of sulphur from your water)... Anyway Keep your chin up, keep going and good luck!!

 

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^ instead of a water purification system these days, unless it's a hydro system, I'm all for rainwater harvesting (sounds complicated but all it involves is connecting a water butt to the guttering on your house).

I decided to get yet more seeds. I've bought 4 Females seeds Purple Power seeds (this one's been improved recently, after being off the market for a while, probably due to popular demand) and 5 more feminized Female Seeds Purple Maroc seeds.

The Purple Maroc strain is quite interesting, in that it's a semi-automatic flowering strain (not a straight auto), meaning it starts flowering in about June, in low light conditions and finishes early to avoid mould in the UK climate.

I got two freebies: 1 buddha seeds Red Dwarf Feminized and Buddha Seeds Syrup Automatic Feminized.

I think that for value for money, Female Seeds is probably one of the best brands. Their seeds are so reasonably priced, and it's not because the quality is inferior - far from it actually.

On an unrelated note, I bought 3 potted Stevia plants (the plant who's leaves can be used as a sugar free sweetener) and a fig plant from *a garden centre* online and a Jumbo propagator (absolutely huge, and quite expensive), which has a thermostat built in, as well as 100 more Root Riots.

The greenhouse is getting to above 50 fucking degrees centigrade during the day, if you can believe it!! I'm really going to have to figure out how to set up the shading/canvas that blocks out sunlight. I wish it was warmer at night, because even with a 1kW electric fan heater I can't get above 12 odd degrees centigrade after dark (I'm sure the horticultural fleece is helping them quite a bit). It's crazy! This weekend I'll have to set up the inline fan I think.

Tomorrow I'm planning on buying a cloche to move to a secret guerrilla location, so that I can move my plants out of the greenhouse (the larger ones at least), as I'm getting paranoid about them being in there so exposed to prying eyes. The long term solution will be privacy hedging to prevent nosey twats from being able to see into my land, the fuckers.

 

[Prelude2TragedyII]

Maybe molybdenum?

Fits the nectrotic, leafs curling down, yellowing.

Also looks like a lack of dissolved oxygen, as someone mentioned

And Ph problems.

I'm going to buy a better pH pen, as Im pretty sure most of the problems are pH and nute related, I think the salts in the nutes are causing problems, Pretty simple really, just a mistake I haven't caught. Guess we will see.

Makes sense to me because my plants turn out beautiful at first but once they start to put out pistils and show signs of flowering and maturing, then they start going down hill

 

[minddetergent.]

AE please check your pm;s asap.

Haze clone ready to flower and Sensi Seed Sensi Skunk circa 1997 back when it was sat dom.

 

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^ nice to hear from you today md Nice photos too!

Just had a peek and my strawberry plants have quadrupled in size, with leaves larger than my hand.

Here's one of the indica-dom plants. It looks so healthy (even if I say so myself), considering temps dip to 8C and below occasionally.

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I'm looking forward to receiving my fig plant tomorrow!!

 

[minddetergent.]

There is manure.... tons of manure.

That indi looks about as healthy as it can get.

 

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^thanks mate. I'll talk to you later tonight if that's all right.

It's a bit quiet here at the mo...

 

[molly897]

i wish i still had pics of my grow op.. 120 plants, 100 clones. beautiful set up in a 4 bedroom home. only got to harvest once cause my husband and i did too many drugs and forgot to water and we got spidermites and shit lol

 

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^ sounds like you would do well with an automatic irrigation system, or a setup like I used for my last grow. It was an NFT system with an auto-topup that filled the tank with water/nutrients from a water butt whenever the level in the main res fell below a certain level. All it involved doing was occasionally filling up the water butt with water and adding nutrients and maybe some pH up/down to get the right pH. It essentially took care of itself, , apart from the need to do some training which was a joy rather than a chore.

Now I'm experimenting with air pots this grow. As you can see in the photo, not in my words:

Root ball shows clearly the superior root system produced by a tree when grown in an Air-Pot. In addition to the lack of root circling, these roots get better aeration than those growing in standard nursery pots. Roots in Air-Pots are less prone to burn due to hot pot sidewalls because of this enhanced aeration.

They work by actually 'air pruning' the roots, as the root tips are exposed to the air through the holes and this potentially could improve yields by a significant amount, since in general healthy roots = healthy plant.

As well as my new 5-1-1 medium, I'm also going to be using fytocell hempy buckets and will use my lovely Amazon quasi-aeroponic system that's made by Nutriculture.

From garden centers here in the UK you can buy Suttons brand 'Turbo' plants. The way they make these plants is by taking the root system from one plant that is resistant to pests and diseases and is also very vigorous and healthy and they chop the whole of the top of the plant off, so only the roots are left. Then they take everything above the root system from another tomato plant that produces tomatoes with an excellent flavor etc and actually graft the plant onto the vigorous roots until it all heals. What results is a plant that fruit sooner and for longer, and gives as much as twice the fruit but doesn't succumb to pests or diseases as easily. What I am planning to do myself is use this technique on cannabis. It's not a gimmick or a panacea, but it will give me excellent results in the right conditions.

Now that I've got my new 'Essentials' pH meter, which by the way is really cool as it can be calibrated as either a one or a two point adjustment. It was really good value for money, considering its quality, I'll be able to get growing! Here's a photo below.

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[molly897]

haha we had two garbage cans filled with RO water and nutrients and we were still too fuckin spun to be responsible. it was seriously the easiest job ever, there were two more people in it with us. i feel bad we killed most of our plants but we were havin' fun lol. we didn't even have to do the bitch work like mixing the bat guano, just watering. what fuck ups we were hahah. seeing what the ph was though was always easy. tbh thinking back i had fun watering the plants i felt like a king pin. imagine the grow house in weeds

^i've never seen that that's cool

 

[minddetergent.]

Just found a mistletoe growing out of one of the apple trees in my back garden.

found some old seeds I made with an awesome Herijuana male, crossed to a nice indica from a mix pack. Also a couple of bag seed from some nice SA import (aniseed aroma) so I will use pollen from all males (separately) against my Haze clone and see if anything worthwhile comes out of it.

Ae check your pm's please.

 

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Here's a photo of the Suttons 'Turbo' tomato plant that I bought from a garden centre/home improvement store and the fig plan I was talking about before. The fig plant does look a bit pathetic at the moment but it's healthy and after it's been growing in the greenhouse and looked after, it'll turn into a monster definitely.

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[minddetergent.]

We have some blackberries that are grafted onto the stock of another plant.... a willow I think but yeah its some amazing shit and can be a great tool.

May have to grab one of these turbo toms myself, need two more tom plants to fill the greenhouse.

 

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^ I would definitely recommend them. Some people whine about them being a rip off at just under *NO PRICES*a plant, but really they're a bargain when you consider how well they perform in the end.

And you can learn how to do the same thing yourself without paying, but it does require some skill.

 

[Prelude2TragedyII]

lolol, I got so confused when i came back to this page, everyones icon is almost the same, AE, Wise, And Mind, lol, guess Ill put a leaf too :D then we shall all be brethren! lol, I ended up taking 14 cuttings, and they aren't wilting over within the first hour like the did the last time I cut them, so , looking good IMO, Have one healthy plant Indoor now, but, I think that the other plant I had was diesed. as its showing the same symptoms as the plant I placed outside , yet, Ive been giving them two completely different set of nutrients, No matter what I do, it just keeps coming back.

Starting to think I might have to take everything out of my closet, clean everything inside the closet, and all the items that were in the closet. As I have checked near every leaf, and have found nothing. I guess if the plant I put outdoor ends up getting healthy on its own Ill take blame for what ever it is Im doing wrong, I just dont see how I could be so fucked off when Im not even making things hard,

My last plant I just grew in a pot with Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil, and Fox Farms nutes, the newer plant that Ive been treating differently has been getting bottled water. It has FloraNova nutes and yet Im seeing the same problem. Tips of leafs go yellow/necrotic and crispy and climb up the plant.
Ive given them both micro-nutrients incase the problem was manganese or magnesium or some other micro nute problem.

Temps have been 63-78 degrees. Average from 70-74 , Hitting a high of 78 for about 3 hours a day. Humidity remains around 40%.

When you all tell me to simplify things, I dont know how much more simple I can go. I get soil that is ready to go, I get nutrients that I just mix in water, and Acid & Base to adjust pH as needed.

I understand that maybe going out and buying some soil that holds nutrients or something forever without me having to feed or do much to the plant may be beneficial when it comes to the plants problems, but I enjoy doing it the way Ive been doing it, it's fun. It's a hobby, something to take up my time, and as a recovering opiate addict , Ill take anything to fill in time, as any Idle time I have usually ends up in me wanting or craving drugs. Sorry if I'm being irrational , I just want to have something to do with my plants, I will be ordering seeds soon, So, Ill just have fun, plant two seeds in different mediums and see how it goes,

One will be in FF Ocean Forest. The other I dont know what it will be , what soil could I use that I wouldn't have to mess with much?
(speaking of which, I just saw Black Gold (soil) at the store the other day, and remember someone talking highly about that product. Im wondering what type of Black gold to get, because they had Orchid, Cactus , and alot of other plant specific soils)
Any recommendations for me to try other than Fox Farms?

And sorry for having problems with my plants all the time, lol.
Sorry for the low quality pics too, I need to buy a camera instead of relying on a phone to take pictures (and that of which suck in quality)

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I think the plant looks healthy, but I still don't get whats going on

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Another pic

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the signs starting to show on the largest leaf looks a bit like light bleaching, but, the plants nearly 16 inches away from the light. 600 Watt, MH

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My tomatoes , lol

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My rosemary

 

[misteee]

honestly im on the verge of giving up this hydroponic game,
ive had 3 succesfull grows no worries never a problem, now ive rebuilt my room ive had nothing but problems.
first plant lost cause of a run off block - cooked the roots, most you guys might remember this.
this time i have 2 plants in, they are both in week 8 in veg and have moved less than 1/4 that they should have, first i had problems with the PH, sitting at around 6.8 or around 4.2 now i have a new pen ill check it first off and set it too 5.5 then the next day is 6.0 +

sorry if it sounds like a sooky rant, im just..... absolutely furious, i mean ive never hated my plants b4, but i HATE the ones ive got now. ill get some photos when the lights go on