They dont look like the healthiest of plants at all mate. Advanced Nutients most likely culprit.
None of them has had any hydro nutes. Like most you comment before getting to the root of the issue. I only got them as rooted clones a while ago and they are so much better now. I've used AN for almost 20 years and grew my first buds from bagseeds in 1978. you probably weren't even a twinkle in you daddy's eye back then.
I failed bad with organics almost 20 years ago but never stopped reading and learning so recently got some plants going strictly organic and liking what I see. Just ProMix HP with sheep and steer manure and earthworm castings fed with molasses and seaweed ferts. Got nute burn going on but not bad and the plants are growing really well in the 2L pots now. Hindu Kush, Dutch Kush and Ayahuasca Purple. Rooted clones from a buddy. Lots of added myco and molasses seems to be the way to go too.
I have heard DWC is better than regular hydro, I''m stuck in my 20 year NFT habit though lol
Whatever floats yer boat is good with me man!
I've never bitched about what anyone uses to grow but if I think they are on a bad path I'll try to steer them in the right direction. AN isn't for everyone but I met Big Mike in a bar in Abbotsford, BC when he was first starting up the company and played a few rounds of 8-ball with him and the guys he was doing it with.
His mood and vision at that time was true to what he did for years after. Bitched about GH using crap base minerals and denouncing pot growers who they knew were the basis of their fortunes. Said how he was using nothing but pure salts and pointed out a couple guys sitting at his table as PHDs. Swore to advertise his nutes as made for cannabis and that got him nothing but grief from GH and their ilk selling to the same customers but not wanting anyone to know.
I don't push AN onto anyone but I do offer my results after near 20 years of using them and others in side-by-side grows. Just the 3-part base nutes. Cost me $124 for a gallon of each at a hydro sore in Kelowna, BC about 2 years ago. Forget what the same cost me back in '02 but probably the same. $80 for a 500g tub of Big Bud powder and $35 for a liter of Rhino Skin. That's 5 years at least if I use nothing but AN to grow with but as said I'm headed organic so it'll take longer to use them up. Any old CalMag will do and Epsom Salts are cheap like borscht. lol
While I was all into DWC, starting back in '01, I got into AN. No pH Perfect back then and I was very reluctant to use it. I had my pattern working well using the older version. Top up every 3 days with RO. Wait an hour or more then test pH and PPM and adjust as needed. Even in the early days I could see no sense in tossing out perfectly good nutes every week when the clones/plants were small and barely using any of them.
I got into just adding a bit of the nutes in the ratio needed/used and putting in a few drops of conc. sulfuric acid to knock the pH back down to 5.5 or so. It would gradually rise to around 6.3 after 3 days. After a while I knew what they needed and barely checked things at all.
Finally got to running a side-by-side dou-tub grow with Afghani Kush plants where one got 2 changes and the other got none from clone to crop. No real difference and if anything the unchanged one did a bit better. I have a link to the grow at a different site if you want it.
One of my main goals over the years is to grow as much pot as easy as possible. I'm Scottish, cheap, broke, old and lazy as hell. Using the pH perfect nutes in a system that just had an air pump to make it work and now didn't even need pH testing was damn near nirvana! I learned to read my plants and barely checked ppm anymore. If someone sold nutes that grew colas that didn't need trimming I'd be all over those!
This stuff isn't rocket science and way too much is made about it. I helped mom in the garden as a kid but never could keep a house plant alive but totally rocked growing pot in DWC. Mom also taught me how to cook and chem was my best class in school so after dropping out in grade 11 in '71 I went back to tech school in '87 and after 3 years earned a diploma in environmental chemistry. 2 years credit for uni but enough for me. 2 little kids and a bitchy woman at home needed my attention more. She took off a year later but forgot the kids. I was kind of busy with them for the next decade.
Was probably more than needed but I'm a bit buzzed and a little drunk. A month ago I got the news that my MRI showed I had no prostate cancer and my high PSA meant nothing really. Waiting 6 months to get that done was a little unnerving to say the least. Didn't drink then. Last week the wife went to the doc to get the results from her CAT scan. Liver cancer. Needed a drink tonight. Lots of AK47 to wash it down with too!
It just went 4:20!
and you obviously are quite successful with what your doing.