white rhino grow prob

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hoetreo

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Here is my problem I have a 2 week old white rhino it is smaller than the other three I have growing. THey are afrodite, lemon skunk, and a bagseed plant. I am running a 600hps light fed general organics nutes. The temps are a high of 85 and a low of 74 at night. The light schedule is 24/0. There is plent of air circulating. Now is it that white rhino is a slow grower but thats not what I have found on the net they say it is a fast growing indica. Thanks for any help
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a dog named chico

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my white rhino didn't grow large either, in fact my clones are just as tall as they were when i put them in flower...they will bush out though. Also not all plants grow alike so you cant realy compare them to another strain.
 
luciferateme

luciferateme

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are you growing in a rusty old barrel, someone else might know but myself i would only grow in a clean medium. dont know what rust would do to your roots? personally i would change that container for something plastic-round-clean. it also looks like some kind of algae around the edge of that pot? aswell.
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hellraizer30

hellraizer30

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those are plastic buckets. theres a def in that big one. whats the PH of your water your feeding them?

the big one looks like it needs nutes. as for the small one there isnt and roots protruding from the jiffy
cube. once the roots show and you tranplant it should start growing. If I were you I would just plant
it now.
 
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hoetreo

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They are in 3 gal buckets. The PH of the water is around 8 and the runoff is about the same. Today I added more nutes I added the whole general hydroponics GO line meaning the Biothrive grow,Camg,Bio root, Bio weed, bio Marine, Diamond black , and some shultz 10-15-10plant food. I added the shultz cause it has manganese Mn. One of my friends said it could be lacking Mn. Also I have planted the small one, jiffy cube. It is my Querkle but Im not really concerned with it, atleast for the moment. thanks for the help, I will post more pics on Monday to see if my efforts help in improving the plant also is that the color it is suppose to be. I think it a little light green but this is my first time growing white rhino.
 
luciferateme

luciferateme

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your ph needs to be around 6.5, you can add as much nutes as you like but with your ph being so high the plants will not be able to absorb the nutrients, its lacking nitrogen now because of the ph lockout. if you dont sort it the plants will just dry up and wilt.
you can use vinegar or lemon juice if you have no ph down, then use the ph tester until you get down to the desired level.
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Icyblaze

Icyblaze

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luciferateme said:
your ph needs to be around 6.5, you can add as much nutes as you like but with your ph being so high the plants will not be able to absorb the nutrients, its lacking nitrogen now because of the ph lockout. if you dont sort it the plants will just dry up and wilt.
you can use vinegar or lemon juice if you have no ph down, then use the ph tester until you get down to the desired level.
lu
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yeah man.. u dont want ph 2 fuck ur grow.. it can slap in the last minute as soon as u get hyped up at the end of flowering the ph starts to worsen .

fix the pH now. its the biggest killa.
 
welshsmoker

welshsmoker

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i got one about 10 days from finishing, if you check my threads i will post some more pics 2moro, extremely stunted but full of resin, i dont think the freezing temps with lights out helped mind, but boy is she dank...
 
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hoetreo

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The water ph is 8 and the runnoff is between 7 and 6 but closer to 7.The top of the soil is around 6-5 around the first 2inches of soil, but when I test further down the PH drops dramatically to around 3-1. Here are pics from today, Also after I checked Ph I added some dolomatic lime to help bring the Ph of the lower level of soil up. I am using maricle grow flower and vegatable soil. It's works good for ever plant except this one. I added the lime to the top layer and tried to water stir it in could go too deep didnt want to mess up the new root system thats begininnig to develope. Again thanks for all the help it is much needed. Aslo what could the purple stems to the leaves indicate.

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hoetreo

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I know the soil Ph is way low thats why I dont mind the water ph being high. Should I flush the soil or let it dry out and then flush. Im just confused on how the top layer of soil is at the right ph but the ower level is dangerously low. or should I just replant it I dont want to stress the plant and it hermout on my cuz I only have 1 more white rhino seed left and wan to use it on my next grow.
 
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hoetreo

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Here is a picture of the family as of now being Afrodite, Lemon skunk, the sick rhino, and a bagseed control plant. This will show that the rhino is looking sad but the rest are looking good and they all get treated the same way but this one is the only one that isnt doing well.
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luciferateme

luciferateme

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also when you get your ph under control you want to cut back on the nutes a bit, that mg soil normally has slow release nutes in it. if you start adding lots more nutes they will just collect in the bottom of the pot and thats probably another reason the soil is out so much. also what water are you using, if its tap water make sure that you let it air for 24 hours as tap water contains high levels of chlorine which can also damage the plants. the purple stems can be a sign of root damage or nutrient def, dont need to say why that is again.
do as hellraiser says and ph water before it goes in the soil. lim ewill help buffer your soil to 7ph so in future make sure you put that in your soil.
good luck
lu
 
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hoetreo

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Yeah I start out with hot tap water and let it air out for more than 24 hrs. So how can I get the bottom half of my soil to be the same as the top 2 inches. Thats my new question also will ph up damage the organic nutes since the ph up will be chemical. general hydroponic said I would have to ph with the GO line.
 
Icyblaze

Icyblaze

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nutrients usually bring the ph of your water down. so you gotta test the ph of the water when u add nutrients to it... and also i never heard of ph up and down causing conflicts with nutrients.
 
theinhibitor

theinhibitor

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ur ph of 8 is deadly. Just because you have low soil ph doesnt mean you can counterbalance using the water, in fact, it will prob make things worse. pH is an exponential scale that relates the amount of certain ions per liter of liquid. 8 ph is 10 times higher than 7 which is ten times higher than 6. your about 70 times off the mark for pH and ur hitting the point where your water is poisonous to your plants.
get it down asap. i would suggest letting your water sit for a few days before you use it.
 
hellraizer30

hellraizer30

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stop adding nutes MG has nutes in it already! just add water that is ph 6.5 and flush x3 time the volume thats in your buckets.
this will insure you have a fresh start. wait about three weeks then add nutes.
 
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hoetreo

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pretty sure i have a fresh start now I replanted in new pots ph of 6. hope it all works out but we will see through the night and over the weekend. I have however come to the conclusion that white rhino is a slow grower. If I wait 3 weeks thats when I plan to start flowering but hell I just want great bud
 
hellraizer30

hellraizer30

Rebel From The North
man your slow growth is due to the PH issue you cant judge the speed by what you think its soposed to be
you have made it slow. not trying to be a dick but that is the truth.
 
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