Need expertise on soil/ph and these plant problems please

StonedTony

New Member
Ok so I finally have everything I need pretty much. Just been slowly buying stuff here and there. Started making compost teas and the girls have been responding. Def wasnt giving the proper nutes and what have you. Nitrogen mainly. Was still having some ph probs with my ph runoff reading around 5.5 but added some lime and ph is rising so thats good. I switched to flower a few days ago because they were getting big everytime I fed them, and with my grow tent I got I only have so much height even with scrogging it out there wasnt much room after estimating stretch. Gonna post old to new pics so you can see how they have changed and grown.
 

StonedTony

New Member
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I know I have some nute burn and some heat stress cause it got up to like 85 the other day but I quickly fixed that. They are under a 2'x4' 8 bulb T5HO. Been running veg under just 4 bulbs because a. I only bought 4, and I didn't have the inline fan/filter at the time to keep heat down. Running all 8 now in flower. Also I still have some purp stems. I started giving it a heavy nitrogen tea and it helped but not cleared up completely. Prob cause my ph was still a lil low. The stems were streaky with green and purp like they were getting some nitrogen but not enough obviously. I went ahead and switched to flower because they dont need the nitrogen anyways so I wasnt too concerned about some purp stems because they really were growing fast. The plant I have on the left of the tent was the worst as you can see in some pics. I thought she was going to die. Its funny because she seems to be growing taller and more vigorous then the one on the right. But the one on the right has more leaves so I dunno. This is my first grow so go easy. How am I doing? Trying to focus now on more fungi in my soil. Im happy with them but not fully satisfied. I took some clones that are blowin up right now. Pics below.
 

StonedTony

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Growing every feed. Just been doing compost teas with worm castings, bat shit, and few other nutes, humic acid every 3rd watering or when I think they need it. Last batch was hi p-k with some n still. Otherwise just watering. Top dressed some lime in about a week ago and ph has gone up a little bit but not really where it should be but also the plants dont seem to mind too much. Maybe the compost teas can be absorbed in a broader ph range. Still not optimal and I will be mixing some soil for my clones soon and will make sure enough lime is in there. Im LSTing the clones now.
 

twostrokenut

Well-Known Member
Lime takes a while to work, best to mix it in months in advance to cook in the soil.

Looking way better dude props!
 
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