My First Grow

This is my First grow. I am quite a bit into it but thought that it would be good to get some ideas and suggestions to make myself more organized and successful. Please let me know what you think of my setup. I am not able to put up and pictures yet but will do so tonight when I am home.

400W HPS light for veggin
400W HPS light for Flowering
Home-made Drip system watering 3X/Day for about 30 minutes each.
All Bagseed collected over the years
Vented 4X daily for about an hour each time
Temp stays around 83 day and 68-70 at night
Right now I have 3 different strains, since they are all from bagseed I named them SS, Lucy, and Orecal. My avatar picture is Orecal, she is about 4 1/2 weeks into flowering.

All of Orecal's fan leaves are starting to turn yellow and die, I'm not sure if this is completely normal at this stage of growth. The nutes I use are DynaGrow and DynaBloom. I use storebought filtered water and try to keep the PH around 5.5 to 5.8
I follow the directions on the bottle but I don't think that I should be loosing the fan leaves like this. When I first noticed, I re-adjusted the PH and that seamed to help, also I cleaned the tub and replaced the water but I am still loosing leaves. Should I be worried?

I am not sure how to resize my pictures so they meet the requirements, can anyone explain how?

Here is a photo of my grow room. I will add more photo's when I get back from school tonight, or tomorrow night since it's valentine's day. please tell me what you think.

thats a descent little set up youve got there oracal....

ORECAL said:

All of Orecal's fan leaves are starting to turn yellow and die, I'm not sure if this is completely normal at this stage of growth. The nutes I use are DynaGrow and DynaBloom. I use storebought filtered water and try to keep the PH around 5.5 to 5.8
I follow the directions on the bottle but I don't think that I should be loosing the fan leaves like this. When I first noticed, I re-adjusted the PH and that seamed to help, also I cleaned the tub and replaced the water but I am still loosing leaves. Should I be worried?

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orecal run your ph at 6.0-6.3 and check the ph in your blocks,when the plants use up the nutes the ph tends to lower so what you'll want to do is raise the ph in the res a little...if you need to, but I keep mine about 6-6.3 and it worked out..you might have to experiment a little..good luck

Here are a few pics of the girls in the flowering room.

blackdog said:

orecal run your ph at 6.0-6.3 and check the ph in your blocks,when the plants use up the nutes the ph tends to lower so what you'll want to do is raise the ph in the res a little...if you need to, but I keep mine about 6-6.3 and it worked out..you might have to experiment a little..good luck

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Thank you for the advise, I'll try that out.

Here are a few more pics of the ladies. please let me know what you think.

Orecal is now 6w flowering and I am wondering if i should start to flush her. or if I am even suppossed to flush it. most of the hairs are starting to brown and the leaves are almost all dieing. I'm not sure if it is something that I am doing wrong or if the plant is just almost done. I have only been able to find one tric that is turning amber (and I've extensivly searched). I use DYNAGROW and DYNABLOOM nutes. I did not notice any of these issues during veggin. I use the recommended 2 tsp./gallon but all the leafs seam to be suffering from nute burn and are dying off. I will post a pic as soon as I get home from work today so you guys can see what the plant looks like.

I am wondering if anyone knows how I can add some manganese to my res. My plants are showing signs of manganese definiancy but I don't know how to fix it. the only thing I can find only has directions for a per acre application as it's for professional farmers. does anyone have any ideas as to how I can fix the deficiency? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I wish I could put up some more photo's, but my girl would kick my ass. she's pissed and paranoid enough that I just look at this site, she doesn't know that I've already posted pictures on the site. so again I'm sorry to disappoint people with no pics.... but if anyone knows how to add some manganese I'd really appreciate it. I am keeping my ph between 5.2 and 5.8 again as the problem got WAY worse when I let the ph get over 6, (should have figured since manganese is no longer available above 6.0.)