Do these plants look fine?
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Beachwalker
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Looking fine as Spring Wine Jimmy! Nice effort for your first grow!
-good luck!
-good luck!
This is gonna be my third harvestLooking fine as Spring Wine Jimmy! Nice effort for your first grow!
-good luck!
I meant first time growing this strain
So the leaves look fine no deficiencies?
OldMedUser
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Buds are pretty small for 6 weeks but the plants look healthy enough.
Considering how dark green the leaves are you likely have too much nitrogen in their feed and that suppresses bud development. I also see some older fan leaves showing signs of toxic salts buildup which is another sign of high nute levels that can be made worse with hard water.
Considering how dark green the leaves are you likely have too much nitrogen in their feed and that suppresses bud development. I also see some older fan leaves showing signs of toxic salts buildup which is another sign of high nute levels that can be made worse with hard water.
So flush them with phd ro waterBuds are pretty small for 6 weeks but the plants look healthy enough.
Considering how dark green the leaves are you likely have too much nitrogen in their feed and that suppresses bud development. I also see some older fan leaves showing signs of toxic salts buildup which is another sign of high nute levels that can be made worse with hard water.
Then 1/4th strength nutes?
Beachwalker
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I would do exactly what the poster above said Jimmy, I would flush first, I would reduce what I was feeding until I saw the new growth, and I would check and calibrate my pH meter for accuracy, but in general looks pretty good!
If you want to put up some more info about what you feed, your medium and such would probably help out
If you want to put up some more info about what you feed, your medium and such would probably help out
There in 5 gal pots in Botanicare coco coir mixed with perlite
I use Botanicare pure blend pro line
I’m going off there feeding chart online
This is week 5
1: silica blast 4ml
2: calmag 5ml
3: pbp bloom 15ml
4: liquid karma 4ml
5: sweet 6ml
6: hydroplex 4ml
When I made the mix ppm came out to 1700 ppm
And around 3.5 ph I adjusted to 5.8 before feeding it
I just switched to this line last week cuz my old line was too much random stuff
If you’d recommend me removing some stuff or giving lesser dosage let me know please
Btw when I first feed these plants I did it at 1/4th strength after that I did full strength now I’m in week 6 today and I’m probably gonna flush with plain ph’d ro water
OldMedUser
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NEVER use the makers nute charts for other than guidance. I use AN and if I followed their chart I'd burn my plants to the ground! They want you to use 4ml/L of everything from sprout to week 7. Then if you're adding all the supplements they sell it's a race to see if the plants all die before your bank account closes for lack of funds.
I rarely feed my soilless plants more than half at 2ml/L unless they indicate to me that that's not enough and they get just RO water with a dash of CalMag between feedings.
Of their stuff I only use the 3-part base nutes that cost the same as GH at any stores I've shopped at. I got gallon jugs of each for $40 a pop so they aren't more expensive than any other. It's the supplements they suck rookies into buying that cost an arm and a leg. I also get their Rhino Skin for the silica and Big Bud for a bloom booster and love that stuff. Got a 500g can of the powder for $80 and that will last for 5 years. The liquid goes bad in a year. They make it in an organic version now too along with some of their other stuff. 17 years now and don't have any complaints. Any old CalMag will do and some epsom salts once in a while.
There is no need to pH RO water. It's neutral and has no pH of it's own until you add something to it. Same with distilled water. Always mix your nutes first then adjust your pH if you feel the need. If those are organic nutes they won't read correctly and it's best to just water them in without messing with the pH. Something's got to be wrong for you to get pH 3.5 after mixing up your nutes. Botanicare is owned by Scott's Miracle-Gro now so who knows what they are doing with that line. Nothing good I suspect.
I'd give them a flush about the same volume your pots. Get it soaked to the point of runoff and let them sit for at least an hour to let the salts mix in good then slowly pour thru the same volume of water as the pot holds. That should reduce the excess salts plenty enough to see you thru to the end now. Try to add it evenly across the surface so you basically have a wall of clean water pushing the salty stuff out the bottom. I used a shop
You can't get rid of the salts already built up in the plant tissues but you can prevent it from getting worse by flushing what you can from the root zone. There will be more than enough mobile nutes stored up for the plant to steal what it needs to finish. With any luck you'll see the buds swell up good the last couple weeks before harvest.
By the end of week 6 of an 8-9 week strain you should just be watering without food. A little bit of CalMag or better yet Epsom salts for the added sulfur which is the 'secret' ingredient in bloom boosters to make more resin but not much else unless you're getting a lot of yellowing with soft, supple leaves. Not the hard, crispy ones yet to come but soft and yellow indicating the plant is stealing nutes from them to keep the buds going.
Good luck!
Ryry94
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Forum GSC (if that is what you have) will usually have small buds, widely know fact about the strain. If you are 6 weeks in, you should probably consider flushing for the next two weeks and harvest at week 8, just my $.02. I flush with PH tap water, about 150ppm at my house
Beachwalker
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Can't help you in Coco (but that's too strong, try 50%) other people can help you with coco. I would do what old med user said above ?
-good luck Jimmy, looks good in general!
-good luck Jimmy, looks good in general!