Lowlife AK47 Automatic - Page 2

jayzero · #11 06-11-2008, 05:22 PM

Bottom leaves are still getting worse - I'm starting to think that she's maybe just hungry and it's time to step from 1/4 strength nutes. Gave a feed of 3/4 strength just now and we'll see how things fare.

That said, growth is still strong and this plant is making SO many branches it's not even funny. For a tiny little sucker it's sure got moxie! I count eight large secondary branches which are all starting to bud (see like the photo below) and at least four medium sized secondary-secondary branches which are budding and even more still on the way. It's hardly a foot tall and is pushing ten nodes on the main cola

I wasn't expecting a puny little auto-flower strain to do anything remotely this vigorous. I'm just hoping she'll pull through this little rough patch with those bottom leaves. Top growth looks good and healthy - a little pale compared to what it was earlier, which is another reason I'm thinking this girl just needs food enough for a big lass.

jayzero · #12 06-12-2008, 12:22 AM

Decided to tie down some of the branches today - foliage was getting too crowded so I opened things up a bit, hopefully to get more light into the deeper leaves.

ledgic13 · #13 06-12-2008, 01:01 AM

yeah beautiful.

lookin good man...
i hope to have my journal up once they hit at least 17 to 20 days.

jayzero · #14 06-15-2008, 04:21 AM

Day 23

Veg has definitely come to a halt - not much growth over the past few days and buds are now really starting to take off - there must be 12-16 branches which are all blooming!

Feeding now at 3/4 strength, every two days and no sign of burn so the earlier leaf damage, which seems to have slowed or stopped, seems to have been just underfeeding. Today was the first feeding of pure bloom nutes - previous two were half grow half bloom. Few more pics for you all.

Snookster · #15 06-15-2008, 05:12 AM

Nice little grow there....my experience has been that the yellowing is a tell-tale sign of something not good. I'm on my first grow with a large Sativa that I';ve been growing for 5 months now. She was def. really green until I started giving her nutes. BE CAREFUL! Use your nutes. LIGHTLY. She may not really need much. BEST OF LUCK!

jayzero · #16 06-15-2008, 05:28 AM

Yeah, I was being very light on feedings, though, and all was well until she started getting a fair bit bigger and drinking up lots of water. Since then I've started feeding more and the damage seems to have slowed rather than having gotten worse, which is why I thought it may have been a bit starved. I think it may have been a bit of a pH issue as well as I've got really hard water - my nutes are hard water nutes, mind you (extra nitric acid) but I've started boiling the water as well to crash out some of the calcium carbonate - softening the water a bit without adding salts. That seems to be helping too. The yellowing doesn't look like anything characteristic of nute burn either (at least not from the pics I've found in grow guides, etc), so that's what's been leading me to think it was some sort of underfeed or lockout from all the calcium. I'm keeping an eye on it for now, at any rate, and I'll post news as it comes. Only one plant, unfortunately, otherwise I'd experiment a bit more - feed one more and feed one less : see which one fares better, etc. Starting a new grow with some of dr. chronic's mixed autos soon so this one is going to be more of a learning grow, I think.

I dunno, have you seen nute burn look like what was happening on those yellowed leaves up there? Any guesses as to what exactly may be excess/deficient?

Snookster · #17 06-15-2008, 05:34 AM

Yes....I've got nute burn on my big one now, but have to chope her this Friday anyway. BIG LESSON there....I will never force feed them again. Careful Mate!

ledgic13 · #18 06-15-2008, 07:47 AM

beautiful man

General Tso · #19 06-16-2008, 09:11 AM

great job keep us posted
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frisby888 · #20 06-16-2008, 10:05 AM

lookin good, carnt beleive the rate it grows, thats seriously fast