wreck the train
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Hello everyone! Longtime lurker, new member. I'm getting pretty far into my first grow and now i feel that i need some help. RIU has always been my number one source for good info but i feel that i need direct advice.
a little background:
My two ladies are the remnants of seven seeds that i popped from some bagseed, that i got from some good quality purple nuggets. Looking to be pretty indica dominant to my eye. They are now in Dr Earth's indoor potting mix with about 40-50% perlite. They started out in much lower quality soils before they found their final home in 5 gallon buckets, in a 4x4 grow tent. One lady i LST'd early in veg, the other i only tied back a little bit here and there. I vegged with about 200 watt cfls, oh and by the way i vegged for WAY TOO LONG, hoping i hold off flowering until i had a proper set up. well i got the set up, it just took much longer than expected. Working with a 600 watt switchable ballast running bare bulb mh vertical right now (both my cool-tube and hps bulb were shattered upon arrival, still awaiting replacements.) I have a 400 CFM fan exhausting out the top of the tent through a carbon filter. i understand that this is sub-optimal use of a filter, i just havent found a way to put it at the beginning of my air flow chain without a cooltube. As for nutes, i used FF grow big 1/4 strength every other water throughout veg and am now using FF tiger bloom 1/4 strength every other watering. i wait til soil is dry 2" down and pots feel light. I flushed before i flipped the lights and then starting on Tiger Bloom. This is where i'm having problems. i can't tell if my plants are nute burnt or deficient in something? The big LST'd girl definitely looked burnt but i never went over 1/4 strength every other watering. I clipped some of the worst leaves so i could monitor its progression. Also i use dechlorinated tap water ph'd to about 6.5 to 6.8. Temps are about 65 at lights-off and 75 during lights-on.
27 days flowering in the pictures.
The big LST'd girl is on the left of the tent has a lot of yellowing and browning of tips and down the center of leaves. the other girls just recently, within a week, started showing a def or something on higher leaves that look like darkish patches amongst yellowing.
The big LST'd girl also looks N deficient... but i'm apprehensive to hit her with veg ferts because i've read its easy to burn on N during flowering. i was hoping the Tiger bloom would help but it didnt. in the pictures, they have just had their feed cycle.
Pretty girl just started getting the def-looking leaves, before that she was perfect. it happed after a plain water feeding, so i'm thinking it's a def, but i fed 1/4 strength Tiger Bloom and i'm not sure that it stopped getting worse... maybe it just takes longer to "kick in"
my main worry is that i'm overlooking a micronute that's not present in the FF products or my soil.
would i be ok to mix my next feeding on big girl to include some Grow Big to increase her nitrogen levels? or just stick to Tiger Bloom?
Sorry if the pictures aren't any good. or if anything about the way i posted this is wrong. i'm totally new to forums and growing, so please take it easy on me!
Do you think a flush would be in order? and if i did flush, should i flush with a nutrient mix? or just plain ph'd water? I worry that if i flushed i would leave the soil with insufficient nutrients to hold over til the soil dries and needs fed.
thanks in advance. again, my apologies to the mods if this needs to be moved or anything.
a little background:
My two ladies are the remnants of seven seeds that i popped from some bagseed, that i got from some good quality purple nuggets. Looking to be pretty indica dominant to my eye. They are now in Dr Earth's indoor potting mix with about 40-50% perlite. They started out in much lower quality soils before they found their final home in 5 gallon buckets, in a 4x4 grow tent. One lady i LST'd early in veg, the other i only tied back a little bit here and there. I vegged with about 200 watt cfls, oh and by the way i vegged for WAY TOO LONG, hoping i hold off flowering until i had a proper set up. well i got the set up, it just took much longer than expected. Working with a 600 watt switchable ballast running bare bulb mh vertical right now (both my cool-tube and hps bulb were shattered upon arrival, still awaiting replacements.) I have a 400 CFM fan exhausting out the top of the tent through a carbon filter. i understand that this is sub-optimal use of a filter, i just havent found a way to put it at the beginning of my air flow chain without a cooltube. As for nutes, i used FF grow big 1/4 strength every other water throughout veg and am now using FF tiger bloom 1/4 strength every other watering. i wait til soil is dry 2" down and pots feel light. I flushed before i flipped the lights and then starting on Tiger Bloom. This is where i'm having problems. i can't tell if my plants are nute burnt or deficient in something? The big LST'd girl definitely looked burnt but i never went over 1/4 strength every other watering. I clipped some of the worst leaves so i could monitor its progression. Also i use dechlorinated tap water ph'd to about 6.5 to 6.8. Temps are about 65 at lights-off and 75 during lights-on.
27 days flowering in the pictures.
The big LST'd girl is on the left of the tent has a lot of yellowing and browning of tips and down the center of leaves. the other girls just recently, within a week, started showing a def or something on higher leaves that look like darkish patches amongst yellowing.
The big LST'd girl also looks N deficient... but i'm apprehensive to hit her with veg ferts because i've read its easy to burn on N during flowering. i was hoping the Tiger bloom would help but it didnt. in the pictures, they have just had their feed cycle.
Pretty girl just started getting the def-looking leaves, before that she was perfect. it happed after a plain water feeding, so i'm thinking it's a def, but i fed 1/4 strength Tiger Bloom and i'm not sure that it stopped getting worse... maybe it just takes longer to "kick in"
my main worry is that i'm overlooking a micronute that's not present in the FF products or my soil.
would i be ok to mix my next feeding on big girl to include some Grow Big to increase her nitrogen levels? or just stick to Tiger Bloom?
Sorry if the pictures aren't any good. or if anything about the way i posted this is wrong. i'm totally new to forums and growing, so please take it easy on me!
Do you think a flush would be in order? and if i did flush, should i flush with a nutrient mix? or just plain ph'd water? I worry that if i flushed i would leave the soil with insufficient nutrients to hold over til the soil dries and needs fed.
thanks in advance. again, my apologies to the mods if this needs to be moved or anything.
