ganjanoob536
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This is only my second grow - both in soil in individual pots. First went well, not perfect but good results - a seed and its clone.
This one was from three seeds of unknown types donated by three friends. All three plants were doing excellent until about the middle of week 10, when they first started developing buds.
Plant 1 , from the beginning was different from the others. Its leaves were ten times as plentiful (more than I had ever seen on a plant) but smaller and somewhat cupped with the center of the leaves raised higher than the edges, but beautifully green and seemingly healthy. Its stalk, however, was super thin. Nonetheless, it seemed to be thriving prior to week ten and a half. Then it began to develop buds, and it was as if that was too much strain for it. It suddenly drooped badly and the leaves drooped visibly as well. The other two plants were still doing ok at this point. There was no discoloration of this plants leaves. I did a quick lookup and mistakenly followed advice I did not understand and poisoned that plant with too much Epsom salts and it died in under six hours. I understand what killed it but not what happened initially to it.
Plant 2 was still doing good and also just begun to show buds on the day Plant 1 began showing signs of problems, but a day later began to show some yellowing starting at the outer tips of the leaves, which seemed to me to match pictures of a calcium deficiency, so I carefully boosted that in the nutrients. Its leaves began to dry up and fall off and the plant got very thin, leaf-wise. The stalk had always been a bit 'leggy' but now it was 2/3 leg. I have tried several things, and nothing had any effect on it whatsoever. There is some new growth, smaller leaves showing budding, but it has been stalled at that level for two weeks. I have three types of testers. The digital soil probe shows 7.0 ph so clearly I wonder if it even works. The other testers show ph ranges from 6.8 to 7.2 depending on where I test. Moisture is mid-range. 'Nutrients' a little low, but not much.
Plant 3 was healthy looking longer than the others. Its stalk was healthy looking, not too leggy, and its leaves generally good. It had started budding fairly plentifully. Then about week 11 it just seems to have stopped. Some of the leaves look a bit droopy/dried (some thinning of leaves occurring), and there is a little bit of yellowing on some leaves in all ranges of the plant. The buds stopped at the stage they were at and in two weeks, no change. Tester reading the same as plant two.
I tried to take pictures of Plants 2 and 3 but I am not good with a digital camera. I have a good one with too many settings and can rarely get a good picture. (I used to have a 35mm SLR with BTL meter and did magazine quality photos, but do not understand the settings on the digital). Here are the best photos I could get.
I appreciate any help offered.
This one was from three seeds of unknown types donated by three friends. All three plants were doing excellent until about the middle of week 10, when they first started developing buds.
Plant 1 , from the beginning was different from the others. Its leaves were ten times as plentiful (more than I had ever seen on a plant) but smaller and somewhat cupped with the center of the leaves raised higher than the edges, but beautifully green and seemingly healthy. Its stalk, however, was super thin. Nonetheless, it seemed to be thriving prior to week ten and a half. Then it began to develop buds, and it was as if that was too much strain for it. It suddenly drooped badly and the leaves drooped visibly as well. The other two plants were still doing ok at this point. There was no discoloration of this plants leaves. I did a quick lookup and mistakenly followed advice I did not understand and poisoned that plant with too much Epsom salts and it died in under six hours. I understand what killed it but not what happened initially to it.
Plant 2 was still doing good and also just begun to show buds on the day Plant 1 began showing signs of problems, but a day later began to show some yellowing starting at the outer tips of the leaves, which seemed to me to match pictures of a calcium deficiency, so I carefully boosted that in the nutrients. Its leaves began to dry up and fall off and the plant got very thin, leaf-wise. The stalk had always been a bit 'leggy' but now it was 2/3 leg. I have tried several things, and nothing had any effect on it whatsoever. There is some new growth, smaller leaves showing budding, but it has been stalled at that level for two weeks. I have three types of testers. The digital soil probe shows 7.0 ph so clearly I wonder if it even works. The other testers show ph ranges from 6.8 to 7.2 depending on where I test. Moisture is mid-range. 'Nutrients' a little low, but not much.
Plant 3 was healthy looking longer than the others. Its stalk was healthy looking, not too leggy, and its leaves generally good. It had started budding fairly plentifully. Then about week 11 it just seems to have stopped. Some of the leaves look a bit droopy/dried (some thinning of leaves occurring), and there is a little bit of yellowing on some leaves in all ranges of the plant. The buds stopped at the stage they were at and in two weeks, no change. Tester reading the same as plant two.
I tried to take pictures of Plants 2 and 3 but I am not good with a digital camera. I have a good one with too many settings and can rarely get a good picture. (I used to have a 35mm SLR with BTL meter and did magazine quality photos, but do not understand the settings on the digital). Here are the best photos I could get.
I appreciate any help offered.
