can i cut these bad looking leafs off ?
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Airwalker16
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Very bottom 2 you can. Be sure to ship about 1/2" off the main stem leaving a bit of the leafs petiole still attached though.
TheSadVeryBadMadGrower
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have you corrected your problem?
Darknes01
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What problem?
Darknes01
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Thank you for the advice. I just wanted to get rid of the bad looking ones. I'll be sure to leave 1/2 off the main stem
Wastei
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Your plants are struggling and look like shit tbh. I see a lot of possibilities for what you're doing wrong.
Do you use any rockwool cubes or plugs in the middle of the netpots? How high is the water level in the container? People often make the mistake of running to high water level with rockwool or coir/peat pucks in the middle of the netpots, this will cause stagnant water and low DO and a lot of problems that could be easily corrected by not using any rockwool and or pucks with DWC.
You should also insulate the lid of the container. It look like it will just illuminate the light with the white colour. Use foil tape, good luck!
Darknes01
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I actually just got these clones 3 days ago and thats how i got them. Havent had too much time with them to tell if i have any issues on my side or not.
The clones did come in rockwool cubes. whats wrong with rockwool? im new so any advice is highly appreciated. also i keep hearing about running the water lower than the net pot but my question in that case is , wont the plant die if the roots are not long enough to reach the water? or does the splashing of the air bubbles create a humid environment and they dont need to start off being in water?
When i set the clones in my net pots i just made sure that the pebbles where wet where i placed them, not soaking or floating in water, so basically the bottom of the rockwool is touching a tiny bit of water but the rest is above the water line. I did this to make sure it has access to moisture to avoid the newly formed roots from drying out( i can 100% be wrong about this so again please advise me if possible)
Wastei
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You fix the problem by running lower water levels and hand water every day in the beginning till you have roots established and reaching the water level.
Try not to water directly on the stem/cube, just around the cube so to speak.
You need to dry out the rockwool cube between waterings. When they have reached the water level with roots and you're running water level 1-2 inches under the netpots they can survive by themselves.
TheSadVeryBadMadGrower
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I would leave the leaves on it for a few more days. You'll be fine cutting them but let her grow out a little more so she isn't to stressed in the process.
Darknes01
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Haha, I cut 4 out of 8 and heard my phone go off then saw your message lol. I guess I'll leave 4 cut and 4 uncut and see what happens.
TheSadVeryBadMadGrower
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either way you should be fine. I personally try staying away from stressing a plant out a bit while she's recovering.
Airwalker16
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Clones will always look like Shit at first. Give it 5 days and I bet my left nut they're green, happy, and shooting out lots of nice new growth.
Airwalker16
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You're only helping the plant by cutting off the really dead fucked up leaves.
Do it.
The plant doesn't need to waste it's energy trying to keep them alive or send nutrients to them. Once they're gone, the plant will know and it will distribute oxins up towards the higher, newer and more dominant growth.
TheSadVeryBadMadGrower
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plants also pull nutrients from them too. Like I said, either way it'll be fine. I personally stay away from stressing while recovering from something previous.
Airwalker16
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Let's see that RDWC system in a better more descriptive pic, eh!?
Looks pretty rad. Those are the Home Depot HDX totes with the yellow lids, spray painted white, right?
Airwalker16
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Oh, my bad I see now they're 4gal square buckets. They the ones from Lowe's? They come white like that?
I realize now that you don't use waterfalls and that you basically just built a UC setup right? All connected in a loop with the res, reducing to a smaller line via a Tee between the last 2 buckets, being pumped with an inline pump next to the res, up and waterfalling into it. Right?
I realize now that you don't use waterfalls and that you basically just built a UC setup right? All connected in a loop with the res, reducing to a smaller line via a Tee between the last 2 buckets, being pumped with an inline pump next to the res, up and waterfalling into it. Right?
Darknes01
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They are actually 5 gallon square buckets that lowes sells for like 6 bucks. I spray painted them white to help the light bounce around the tent. Black will absorb more light, aka more heat and thats bad for the res temp. Here are a few pics of the setup, what do you guys think?
Airwalker16
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Really really well done my man.
Darknes01
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Thank you, I looked at the leafs today and they look kinda curled in at the top. Did some research and it could be lights are too close or too much water. i am using fluence spydr 2p and currently they are sitting 10" from the top of the plants @85% dim level ( each light is using about 600 watts )
should i dim the lights down to say about 65% or raise them higher? or lower the water level? sorry for all the nub questions, this is my 1st grow so im panicking lol. Or are they curled up because they are new leafs?
Airwalker16
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Whoa whoa whoa. Raise that fucker to 24" AT THE VERY LEAST, my dude. That's far too close.
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