I do know that FFOF is well aerated to begin with so your baby not drinking is a sign of a lockout or just plain not enough food.
I explained 4 posts back that the big difference between HID and white LED is that HID lights like hps/mh put off radiative heat that is focused down toward the plants. This means that your leaf temp is actually warmer than your air temp. This doesn't happen under LED so you need to keep your room a good bit warmer to get your leaf temps up where they would be under HPS. If you don't it causes the plants to not respirate as well(basically breath). That coupled with the strength of the lights makes it really easy to have too much light, thus you get deficiency because the plants aren't drinking as hard, and your getting light stress as well cause a deficient plant can't handle as bright of light.
got it. I lowered the fan speed so I’m at 82 now and what do you know the plant is drinking water. I’ll feed her again next time I water. Last time I fed her I was giving her 1/3tsp of fish amino acid per 1/2 gallon As per the recommendation of the website (knf . That even seems like nothing.
I raised it all the way to the top about 7”. I also took the straw off as a mulch to further dry the soil out. You were right about the temperatures though, she’s drinking now.
So do you think most of the problems with good growers switching to led has to do with the leaf temp? It took me awhile but i understand that now.
even with HID lights? I think the goal is to stay ahead of the deficiencies. Sometimes I wonder if it’s just the amount of light the plant is getting. She might have to be getting Teas once a week. What kind of organic nutrients were you using? I ask because I use Down to Earth and I’m wondering if I should use more than their recommended dose.
Yes , HID. ive never tried fully organic with leds yet.
funny thing is, is I actually have some synthetic nutes... only because it was given to me. Lol. But I have some micros from earth Juice as well (which I’m pretty sure isn’t organic). Btw do you think it’s the humidity? It’s at 50, but I’m afraid if I bring it up then the temperature will go down.
Alright I gave her Maxicrop 10-5-14 with Silicate and Aloe Vera. Hopefully this should do the trick, I may just have to go synthetic for a while. I also moved the cabinet into another room where I can control the temperature a lot better. It was in our room and was waking me up at night because of temps. It does seem like there is quite a difference between 79 and 81. She drinks a lot more water around 81 degrees.
honestly dude it’s the lights. I remember when I switched to their lower wattage the single like 60 or 75 watt. My plant just went out just like this. I’m going to get rid of it and try and sell it on eBay or something. I don’t think it’s hungry because the bottoms are growing just fine. Nitrogen deficiency would show at the bottom. This maxi crop is definitely the ultimate test. Just pretty shitty that it’s taken me like 2 years to figure this out. I had another plant do well under it, but certain strains I guess can’t take it. I’ll still give it another week.
I’ve grown organically before and just haven’t ran into these problems. Like I’ve grown organically in a PC Case and still haven’t had problems like this. I’m going to email them tonight and see if I can get an answer. Like it has to be 18”-20” or more to not get the burn. I mean it wouldn’t be the seeds right? I’ve grown with these LED’s on another strain and did alright.
