socalrican
Active Member
So there has been a lot of stuff going on with the plants. Dont even know where to start..1. Spider mite: I set off a fogger a couple days back and that slowed them down. But as of a few days ago I seen them moving around on a few plants. So I need to re-fog the room again. I looked into many different ways of fighting them. foggers,foilar sprays.. ect.. Kind of strapped for cash so I after looking on the net for hours I just went with the alcohol water mix in a spray bottle.. About 1/4 alcohol in a normal water bottle. I was nervous to give the girls the spray so i started real lite misting 2 days ago and just sprayed on the bottom of the leaves and some tops. Checked them the next morning and they didn't seem to mind the spray. So i will continue with that every few days till these non-paying rent assholes die.
2.Yellowing Leafs and Drooping Leafs:
I have searched on the net for days to try and diagnose these problems.. But its kind of hard to tell what they really are. Im using Botanicare cns17 and that was it for the first 2 weeks. But looking into the mg deficiency I figured I could use some cal and mag. So I went 2 days ago and picked some up. I wanted to flush them again but I had done a rez change a few days before so I didnt want to waste the nutes. So i just added the Cal-max straight to the rez with about 4 tsp in each planter. Which is under the recommended dosage but I wanted to be cautions with adding anything straight into the res. Prior to adding it the leaves werent all looking yellow but you could see the yellow spreading from the stem out toward the tips of the leafs. Put me in panic mode lol.
But the cal-max stuff must have done something because color is returning to the leaves that were being affected. And it's at night that the leaves were drooping. Is this a normal thing ? They always pick back up when the lights are back on. 18/6 by the way.3. PH problems:
The ph on my tanks for some reason were hoping around. I would ph the water with the nutes and when adding the babes back in the water I would check my ph and it would be in the 7's. Ph down'd the water and for whatever reason they went back to 5.9-6.2 so thats good.
So thats pretty much it for now. I will be doing another res change on the 9th. And will be adding the nutes plus cal-max. The snowcaps are huge (damn sativas) and the purple kush are still pretty small. I hope they pick back up. the master kush is doing great. For whatever reason the bugs are on the bottom leaves but never go to the top. So thats good. All the roots look really healthy and white. They are drinking about half a gallon every 3 days. I still want to get a ppm meter and a ph meter. Im using drops still which blow but i guess i got to make due. The temps stay around 78-79 in the day. and 72 with lights off. Humidity always is around 32-44. Anyone have any input or ideas let me know.. !!
So on to the pics..
Oh and a few of my leafs are curling up like a boat.. I have looked for the answer to this problem but seems hard to find.. Please let me know if you have any idea to what it could be.. I dont think heat stress because my hand is not hot above the plant.. so im lost but help would be nice.. ! Thanks
kiss-ass
I really want to know what you guys think my yeild will be ? If anything i will start a new post just to get a answer if anything. but im open to anyones opinion on it. Cuz i dont have a clue to what the out come will be. But i do understand how your first grow is trial and error. Next time i will not do to different strains in one rez. Snow caps are to damn big and cover my purp kush to the point where they are fighting for light. But anyone have a guess on how much the harvest will be ! let me know. Heres the PIcs.
