Sun & Fun in FL

whoreable said:

You dont seem to have any type of Nutrient Deficeincy. If anything, a small dosage of Nitrogen will make them a little darker color.

If you can get more lights, two CFL's wont cut it for flowering. Doin good so far, dont do anything with nutes until you see Definate signs of deficiencys.

Lots of noob growers overdose the nutes, you will know when you need to give them nutes. They look a little heat stressed possibly.

You could take off the reflectors and make the sides of the CFLs facing the plant, the sides give off much more surface area and Lumens than head on. Especially when only using two bulbs.

Keep veggging for another 1.5 months

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Well, it's in about a gallon of Scott's Potting Soil (0.07-0.01-0.03) and I added a cup of Earthgrow Cow Manure and Organic Compost (0.5-0.5-0.5) to the surface, then watered with about 250mL of water that had been treated with 3 eggshells to raise the pH a little (just as a precaution).

I think you're right about the heat stress. Would heat stress cause the leaves to become more rigid from drying out?

I was thinking about taking the reflectors off, but I wasn't sure. Wouldn't the light that's shooting out sideways off the bulb be reflected down to the plant? Here's an example of what I mean:

Okay, assuming that just as much light comes off the left side as does the right side of the bulb, wouldn't it make more sense to harness as much light coming off the side of the bulb as possible (via a reflecor) than to just accept the light coming from the one face of the bulb?

I renamed her Chloe (which is Greek for "green shoot"). She had a phosphorus deficiency (I was asking for it by giving her .07-.01-.03 Scott's Potting Soil), but I transplanted her into a big pot and filled it with "Earthgrow Cow Manure and Organic Compost" (0.5-0.5-0.5) and she's been happier than a ( insert something VERY happy here ).

So far, purpling hasn't occured on anything that grew after the transplant, but the leaves that were affected have big necrotic patches in them. Would these be good to use for cloning (just to check if it's a male or female) since I'm going to have to cut half the leaves (including the necrotic patches) off anyway?

leaves? no
branches are what yo clone..
Lookin good tho bra

Here's a few pics of the problem I was having...

damn idk whats goin on right there.
you been watering alot?

it could be a ph problem causing lockout etc.
doesnt look like Nburn tho

I JUST bought a pH tester to make sure it wasn't a pH problem, and my pH is reading around 6.7.

I still think the deficiency had a lot to do with the fact that my soil was .07-.01-.03...what do you think?

you should get some nutes that have micro nutes in them.
Lowe's got peters all purpose plant food..
Good shit used it a long time ago..
got at 1/4 strength with it and if you got micro deficiencies they'll be corrected.

Flush the soil first tho cause it could still be a lockout

Scranny420 said:

Here's a few pics of the problem I was having...

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i am having the same problem someone told me to add a teaspoon of hydrogen peroxide to a gallon pot so i added a 1/2 so hopefully it works

I'll try that when I water it today.

I used to have to water every 3 or 4 days, but I watered Chloe 2 nights ago (to the point that the water catcher underneath the pot almost filled up...so I know it was plenty wet), and she was thirsty this morning!

Just felt like bragging a little bit...

Does anyone have any suggestions about what to do with my decrepit lower fan leaves? A friend of mine said I should prune them, but I want to get a second opinion. If you can't see the leaves in the previous picture, here are some more:

Hey Scranny I was ust on the other thread where you had posted pics talking about the leaves and showing where you want to cut clones. You can't cut off a leaf and clone it. You need to wait until the plant is quite a bit bigger and is growing branches out of the nodes and then you clone one of those.

If it's just the ends being dead, then I just tear the dead parts off and leave the green part there.

Thanks MissHesterMoffitt. I actually spent quite some time chatting with mane2008 about the specifics of cloning, and he said the same thing...all this time I had it all wrong! lol

I've heard of "cutting the fingers in half"...would you suggest that?

I just take off the dead ends. Sometimes I just pinch them hard with my fingers from the side and let the dead crumble away.

Okay. Does that help the overall health of the plant or just make it look pretty?

My friend told me that removing the dead allows the nutrients that would've been wasted on the dead to be used on the living. Is this true?

yes it is. If the dead part is left on, the plant uses resources trying to revive that part.


Just don't get crazy and take too much off at once (I don't know how bad the dead spots are) keep in mind that the plant needs some leaves to be able to grow new leaves.

Oh, don't worry...I have more good leaves than bad...it's just that the bad leaves are on the first few nodes, and I was afraid that removing them would be bad for the branches that are coming out of the node.

So I guess the question now is:

Where do I cut the petiole if I'm cutting off an entire decrepit leaf?

If I remove an entire leaf, will it adversely effect the branch growing out of the same node?

close to the stem as possible without disturbing any other growth

Is there any reason for this, or is it just to minimize the amount of "wasted nutes"?

I guess I'm a lot more mean to my plants. I just get ahold of the leaf at the base where it meets the stem and pull it either straight outward away from the plant, or downward so it pops off. Most of the time when a leaf is in that bad of shape it lets go pretty easily.

The branches will still grow there even without the leaf. They may be a little bit slower to come out, but it won't be by much.

My plant that is flowering now had some really bad shit happen to her leaves. I stripped a bunch of them off and repotted her burying the naked part of the stem. She's all good and looking kind of frosty these days.