1st Grow in a while

The plant in the above foto has been the weakly ugly duckling throughout this grow. Named Jane, she has been deformed and stunted since very early on. Had a friend of mine tell me not to give up on her, not because she knows anything about mj cultivation, but because she is a softie for those less fortunate than most. Anyway- I kept Jane around and last night she was the biggest individual recipient of supercropping. Her foliage is sparse, but her stems are thick, and her flowers are above average... Or maybe it just looks like it because her foliage is sparce. She stretched more than any individual, but had not been cloned or pinched or topped ... At any rate...I guess she made it I'm surprised at how I'm continually surprised with the resiliency and diversity of this incredible plant.

Here's the 4 x 8 footprint... Got a few spaces to fill yet

Damn, that's gonna be a lotta nugs

Alotta guacamole

K so after seeing the salts condensing on the side of the pot, I watered with 6.3 adjusted solution of Molasses, GH kool bloom, and mitochondria. They seem to have lightened a bit in hue which I like. I pHed the runoff of one of the plants and it came out a bit low for comfort... 5.9, which surprised me. So then tonight I put on a bit of algae, squid, GH micro, GH humic acid, and GH KB at pH 6.6. It fealt good doing it, so I hope they feel the same.

So I mixed organic with synthetic that last feeding just because I had the organics laying around. Before I do things to my girls I test it out on other plants, tomatoes and other greens and fruiting plants first.
The tomatoes responded well so I gave it a go...they were praying the next morning.

found a bit of bleaching on a few of the tops :-/ no bueno. Also I decided to quit testing nutes mid grow. I mean im all for experimentation, but I think I'll save it for my tomatoes.

Alright. The humidity has arrived, and my fans are working overtime to exchange the air. With RH in the solid 50%-60% range ink longer need that humidifier and am now looking at dehumidifiers. Spendy little devils ya? Think I'm gonna try a couple of things before I drop the wad....

Obviously, I'm still working out the kinks of this first grow in a while. The Relative Humidity now is settling into the mid to high forty percent range during lights on, and 51% at lights out. I just recently have been upgrading my watering methods by installing a water sphigot in the basement. I have a 25 gal resivoir that I plummed with a small water pump and a hose connection. . .It's a heck of a lot better than carrying 5 gallon buckets from upstairs and siphoning it into a watering can. . .not to mention more uniform of nutrients application. However, being able to apply more water also created much more runoff. The floor being concrete, I didn't feel it was a big deal, and it could just evaporate off. Well, that worked when the runoff was minimal, but now. . .So after the first time using the new resivoir, the humidity spiked way high. . .71%. I since installed large saucers and vaccuum out the runoff. Relative Humidity is now where it should be without having to drop a bunch of cash on a dehumidifier. . .whew!

Dealing with run off is a right pain in the arse I pull my plants out of the tent, water them, and leave them half an hour before putting them back in, otherwise, like you say, the humdity levels freak
One of the reasons I'm trying to go for fewer, but larger, plants...

Maat Aatack said:

Having a bit of a scare with N-tox. . .hyper-green color and the dreaded "claw". . .i've leeched them twice in the past 2 cycles. . .lights just came on. . ..

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Wow! I was just browsing through this thread, and I almost lost an SFV clone 4 days ago through some issue that I couldn't pin down. Apparently it was nitrogen toxicity.

The way it went down was: I planted the clone in normal potting soil in a small (1 quart) sized pot with about 1/3 of the block of moss sticking out the top to prevent rot. Watered like all the other clones, everything exactly like the rest. Two days later and the the thing clawed up, and the ends just started withering. All 5 other clones are perfectly fine, doing great. Same conditions, inches apart. I immediately washed down the soil to hopefully allow it to recover, I thought I might have somehow used my other soil that has perlite in it and maybe it drained too fast, and was out of water... but the block was still a bit moist. I couldn't pin it down.

Now I know what it was. Thanks!

touchstone said:

Wow! I was just browsing through this thread, and I almost lost an SFV clone 4 days ago through some issue that I couldn't pin down. Apparently it was nitrogen toxicity.

The way it went down was: I planted the clone in normal potting soil in a small (1 quart) sized pot with about 1/3 of the block of moss sticking out the top to prevent rot. Watered like all the other clones, everything exactly like the rest. Two days later and the the thing clawed up, and the ends just started withering. All 5 other clones are perfectly fine, doing great. Same conditions, inches apart. I immediately washed down the soil to hopefully allow it to recover, I thought I might have somehow used my other soil that has perlite in it and maybe it drained too fast, and was out of water... but the block was still a bit moist. I couldn't pin it down.

Now I know what it was. Thanks!

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Glad to help?

sworth said:

Dealing with run off is a right pain in the arse I pull my plants out of the tent, water them, and leave them half an hour before putting them back in, otherwise, like you say, the humdity levels freak
One of the reasons I'm trying to go for fewer, but larger, plants...

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Ya the pots are 15 gallon, and I'm not young (they get a wee bit weighty when they are wet) so I adapt to their needs instead of make them adapt to mine. Runoff is key ... Gotta leech those salts, but at the same time you gotta take that moisture out of the environment.

This is the veg room... 9 individuals with potential mums at the top right and left. Pheno right is heavy indica dominant, and pheno left is vigorous indica. Supposing the one on the right takes after her mom and pheno left is more of a true mix. Don't know how they smoke yet...

Day 25 of flowering and the buds are already starting to fall over... especially the smaller stemmed ones, but also some of the bigger stems.. Never had to deal with this before. Any advice?

. . .bump. Should i be trying to tie them up or will they be affected at all if i just leave them alone?

Alright- moving right along, but not without concern. One month by day-count to go, I had to do a leech the other day because I suspected some pH lockout. Just ran regular old well water through at pH 7.5. Runoff tested at 6-6.4. I think I'm going to stick with straight well water now between feelings and build some dollies for crap sake! Those soaking wet 15gallon pots are not light! The girls responded almost immediately by a nice bit of bud swell.
Also having to tie the buds up as a friend said it was necessary, and now that i think about it, it makes perfect sense... Gotta maintain that canopy level so the flowering auxins are evenly distributed.

Beginning to see some ambering of pistils on a couple of plants ... Same pheno actually. Most of the others are all still white or not noticeably amber.
Got the house a/c fixed and temps are in the low to mid 70's. RH at lights on was 60% but I had watered at lights out today.
Entering the final phase of flowering now... Two to three weeks and then i gotta figure out the whole drying/curing thing.

So many variables. Just when I get used to the environment, it changes. Got the main house ac fixed and now temps are running about 10°F lower. Soil temp has dropped as well, and it looks like nutrient solution uptake has slowed down. Gotta keep reminding myself to not react ... Be patient ...