Plants not looking good..

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Dragon888

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Hi guys,

I have a mother aurora indica I have been growing and she has been really good to me, but now I think she has gotten too close to the 400w MH. What do you think? When she was a baby, she was green and happy, until about a month ago where the tips of leaves look as the pic attached. Is this heat stress?

Also, my clones are also curling at the tips it seems, but this is under two fluor tubes (18w x 2) but it's not hot under there at all. What could this issue be?
 

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chemphlegm

chemphlegm

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its not a light issue. if its too hot its a temperature control issue. your lights didnt burn you plants from being too close, possibly from to much heat in an enclosed area with poor air circulation

ask yourself "what changed" before you started seeing issues?
this is a nutrient/watering/temperature/air flow/substrate/root/ph issue. be sure to correct all of those to heal your plant in veg before you flower. I would top the most of that plant as many of those leaves will dry up and die anyways.
 
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Dragon888

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So the only thing that changed, was the season, from summer, to winter , and the plant grew from a small clone, to a mid sized plant, so it was very close to the metal halide, and no airflow at all, it's just in a corner in my garage. I have also started only feeding it plain water in lieu of ruling out any nutrient burn.

What I did after posting this, is put a oscillating fan in the garage, so that should get some good airflow going, getting rid of the old stale air, and also reducing temperatures from the MH.

Is this the right way to go?
 
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cookie master

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what likely changed is the nute concentration or the ph, its fried but not from too close to the light unless by too close you mean it got cooked. it does look like it may have missed a watering and the nute concentration went up in dry soil. Once the soil/soilless is overferted its not easy to get back out. If you have a tds/ec meter you could check the runoff to see if its overferted.
 
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Dragon888

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It could possibly have been the feeding that I had given... I bought new chemical fertiliser and tried it, I can't remember what dosage, but I seem to remember wanting to try full strength when the plant was about mid sized... so I have been watering with plain water since then to try dilute that....
 
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cookie master

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wash the soil, like for 10+ minutes as fast as it can drain. then finish the wash with a light dose of nutes + cal mag. Ill bet if you had a meter it would be off the chart on salts.
 
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cookie master

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I am always being honest and people hate me for saying these things but... Tht plant is kinda fried, itll take 2 weeks to get healthy to flower and by then it will be huge and the final plant is gonna be a monster. You need some space for that bitch, if you get a 1k light you should yeild over one pound off that plant. With a 400 its gonna get ugly with alot of scraggly buds because the plant will be huge.
 
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Dragon888

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I'm gonna put it in the ground after that, I just grew it inside for the meanwhile so that it gets some size, before putting it outside to flower, as it is winter here :)
 
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Dragon888

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cookie master said:
wash the soil, like for 10+ minutes as fast as it can drain. then finish the wash with a light dose of nutes + cal mag. Ill bet if you had a meter it would be off the chart on salts.
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So I have done the wash down with plain water. but I did not add any nutrients after that.

I would like to see if it was that. As mentioned, I just started using chemical nutes instead of Biogrow which is what I used to use, so perhaps that is also why my clones are also curling upwards at the tips!

I will keep this thread active once I see results within a week I suppose.
 
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cookie master

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Maybe not with an indica but sativas grow like trees in Australia, 5 lbs is definitely possible, he has months of veg still.
 
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SPLFreak808

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cookie master said:
Maybe not with an indica but sativas grow like trees in Australia, 5 lbs is definitely possible, he has months of veg still.
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You understand the op is growing indoor under a 400 right? Months of veg time would outgrow that light and a 5lb plant will definitely not fit under a 400.
 
chemphlegm

chemphlegm

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Dragon888 said:
1)It could possibly have been the feeding that I had given...
2)I bought new chemical fertiliser and tried it.................
3)I can't remember what dosage...........
4)but I seem to remember wanting to try full strength ...
5)so I have been watering with plain water since then to try dilute that....
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5x DING DING DING :P

good thing is now that the problems are acknowledged they can be addressed properly.
 
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