alaskanbudz
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Not sure what happened over like a 10 day period. Any ideas? They were growing super fast then the 2 haunted a lot in growth.
TIA
TIA
Everything was going good and then... please help
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Budzbuddha
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Lets get the breakdown on your grow.
Lights
strains
autos / reg
light cycle
temps
rh
nutes
medium
Water / PH
I notice some signs of magnesium deficiency and probably feed.
Lights
strains
autos / reg
light cycle
temps
rh
nutes
medium
Water / PH
I notice some signs of magnesium deficiency and probably feed.
alaskanbudz
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alaskanbudz
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Lights are cheap full spectrum with one 4ft t8 bloom. Around 220w actual watts in tent.
Strains are critical fem auto 2.0, critical fem auto 2.0, northern lights fem auto, Gelato fem auto, and a random maple kush.
18/6 lights.
Temps: daytime 78-85 rh 55%-65% ,night 61-63 rh 58%-68%
Nutes: mix of bud candy, floragrow, bloomboost, Terra booster. Names are rough guess. Little stoned and buzzed with some friends for the night. Lol
Water is tap and ph generally is at 5.8-6.5 (soil tested)
Medium is soil- foxfarms soil and perlite, spgmum moss. Also used black gold on some with perlite and sphagnum moss. Don't recall which for which.
I have suspected magnesium before on 2 of my other photos in flower but just wasn't sure. Got a little to crazy with to many plants and different strains just getting back into growing after maybe 15 years of not growing.
The yellowing and sad looking leaves is probably a nutrient imbalance from all the stuff your using. Also 5.8 is a little low for soil. And get some better light when you get a chance. Those buds will thank you.
Nutty sKunK
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Are they getting the same amount of water/frequency?
Might be overwatering the smaller plant
Might be overwatering the smaller plant
Budzbuddha
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Beat me to it.
The mish mash of this and that caused your problems.
When all you had to do is run the soil medium alone then …… when needed a bloom style feed.
Fox farm soil is prebuffered and would run on tap - without checking. Then as plant exhausts some of it as it grows …. You add more soil on top for a top dressing and water in.
That simple. NO Cartoon candy bottles or witches brew of nutes. Combining all of those different things will cause antagonism with available elements
Mantra is always keep things simple
alaskanbudz
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Thank you all greatly. So yes in short I believe it was a mixture of issues ranging from heat, too much nutes, over/under watering but mostly on the over at times. I gave just plain tap -not a drench but half gallon per 3 gallon and all seem to have perked up. I did have a much worse knat issue then I knew as when I moved the plants around they started flying everywhere- only thought there were a handful originally. Took out- disinfected tent- switched to a much better light- added top soil-treated with 1 to 4 ratio hydrogen peroxide to kill larva in soil and used a 1 to 5 ratio of 70% alcohol foliar spray for the leaves. Will update with pictures tomorrow
Thank you all again!! Amazing people
Thank you all again!! Amazing people
alaskanbudz
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Mayne a dumb question- I tried to add ph up to my water but all it seemed to do was bring it down. Is it ph down what I actually need?
Billy the Mountain
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pH up is alkaline and will most certainly not lower the pH.
Check your bottle or check your measurement.
pH down is acidic and will lower the pH.
In addition to what the other guys said, I suspect a ph problem. Tap water is over 7 ph, why are you trying to raise it? Are you doing so based on soil ph?
alaskanbudz
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Yes soil ph seems to come in low every now and again. Haven't been able to put any connection to it as far as what else is going on around same time to cause it to drop .
Phytoplankton
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I think you biggest problem is the mish-mash of nutes, you've created"Frankenfertilizer!" FFOF is buffered, so unless you put in a lot of moss, I wouldn't wory about the soil PH. When you say "it comes in low now and again", what are you measuring, the soil, the runoff or the nutewater? If the soil, let the test sit for a few hours before reading it, so the buffers can do their job. If you're chasing runoff, well, good luckt o you!
alaskanbudz
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Checking soil but hadn't been waiting.
Modern Selections
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Forget soil pH. Adjust the pH of the water you are using to water the plants to 6.3-6.5 after everything is added.
Your temps have the possibility of a 20 degree swing it seems. If you can tighten that up some by lowering the daytime temps I think that will help your plants balance out. Nighttime temps are fine.
I would give them a 3/4 strength feed of the flora series veg 3,2,1 and pH that solution to 6.3. I would forget boosters or sugar additives until the plants bounce back.
Your temps have the possibility of a 20 degree swing it seems. If you can tighten that up some by lowering the daytime temps I think that will help your plants balance out. Nighttime temps are fine.
I would give them a 3/4 strength feed of the flora series veg 3,2,1 and pH that solution to 6.3. I would forget boosters or sugar additives until the plants bounce back.