First time grow, advice/feedback greatly appreciated!
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fred flintstoned
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Still looking good. Might be time start thinking about supports. Bamboo stakes and twist ties work well and are available most anywhere.
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Ace Yonder
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She just keeps chuggin' along nicely, some of her leaves have these tiny holes in them, I checked through magnification for mites and there are none on her anywhere, so I'm guessing that it is either from early nute burn or some sorta fly taking chunks and leaving. There is yellowing around the holes so I am guessing nute burn but honestly I have no clue. Doesn't seem to be hurting her so I'm not gonna worry for now. This is day 19 of 12/12 cycle
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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I am a firm believer in giving the gals some sunshine when available.
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Nothing like the outdoors to bring home a few spider mites and/or other nasty parasites.
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Nothing like the outdoors to bring home a few spider mites and/or other nasty parasites.
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Ace Yonder
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I think she likes the sun, but I didn't really have a choice anyways, I can't water her indoors cuz I ain't gots no shop-vac. My secret to keeping her pest free is I set her on the fence right above a giant spiders web, so if they want to get to my baby they have to go through the spiders first. They are like my little Cerberus. Not to mention the Ladybugs that keep aphids off the rest of the plants for me. If anything else becomes a problem I'll just unleash the Preying Mantises and Neem Oil. I don't have a grow room or other cannabis plants to contaminate so I'm not too worried about her picking up one or two hitch hikers, I doubt it will be anything I can't deal with. On the other hand I could be inviting destruction and disaster.... WHAT HAVE I DONE TO MY BABY!?>!?!!!?!?!?>!?!>?!>?!
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Coming to the end of week 4 of flower, and other than some minor issues everything is going swimmingly. Definitely learned my lesson by using FFOF out of the bag, the most pesky issue I am dealing with right now is soil compaction. Next time I will be sure to add extra perlite to prevent this. All things considered I think she's doing well, here are a couple pics from today. (She is not actually as yellow as she looks, I forgot and left the 2700Ks on for the pictures this time)
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fir3dragon
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Looks like you need to feed her. Lots of yellow leafs
Ace Yonder
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Yeah? I have been feeding her every other watering, and watering about once per 3 days (When topsoil is dry and pot feels light) which I thought was alot, but I'm mainly just using tea from Bat Guano (Indonesian 0.5-13-0.2)@3tbl/gal, Blackstrap Molasses@1tbl/gal, Kelp Meal@1tbl/gal, and a 4-6-2+myco organic fert@1tbl/gal. Maybe I have been feeding her too lightly because I'm using organics instead of other nutes? I have a 150g sample of Veg+Bloom Dirty on its way but I was gonna hold off since I've gone all organic so far, think maybe I should give her a dose when it gets here? Til then, should I give her another watering with the tea? And should I use more of the ingredients than I have been using or just feed it to her more often? Sorry for asking so many questions I'm just a total newbie, used to growing fruits and veggies from compost so I've never really needed to feed anything except water and occasionally fish/kelp emulsion.
fir3dragon
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Yellow is usually nitrogen so give it more of whatever has that in it. I'm not a expert either, but yellowing for me was always nitrogen
Ace Yonder
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Awesome Possum, will do. The kelp, molasses, and the 4-6-2+myco all have a good bit of nitrogen, I can also throw in some 2-1-1 EarthJuice Grow I have from when she was in veg to make sure there's enough soluble nitrogen, and see if she perks up. I just watered her today but I just gave her spring water, think I should give her a drench with the food tomorrow or wait til she's due for her next watering?
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fir3dragon
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Yeah that's still pretty yellow. You can do a quick google search to confirm if you want, but yellow for me has always been nitrogen and if she's dry now, go ahead and feed but if she's fine don't I don't want you to kill her.
Ace Yonder
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I trust your judgement, I noticed the same thing I just thought it was normal hahaha my source http://www.growweedeasy.com/nitrogen-deficiency-cannabis said that it was normal for it to start doing this in the last month of flowering, and since I'm about 4 weeks from harvest (According to TGA/Subcool's strain description at least) I figured it was just normal for this stage. I am glad you chimed in or else I mighta starved her thinkin' it was normal hahaha
fir3dragon
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I don't go by what they say. They will say anything just to get you to buy it. It's a marketing scheme to me.. I look at trichomes. When I see cloudy I would start the flushing phase. You feed all the way up to that phase. I flush for 2 weeks and it's usually enough time for some amber to show. It depends on you though. Trichs are the only true way to tell though. But I wait until I see cloudy a good bit of cloudy cause then once the two week flush u just continue to give water until done... That's what I do anyways lol. I'd rather have a overly flushed plant then one that isn't flushed
Ace Yonder
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We'll see, I am probably going to harvest early due to personal disagreements over the whole "Trichs need to be cloudy" thing, all my research, including actual testing by Mahlberg (naihc.org/MahlbergArticles.html for overview and http://www.hempreport.com/issues/17/malbody17.html for the specific study‎
, indicates that THC is at it's highest concentration in clear trichomes (Average 57ng THC per gland) as opposed to cloudy (35ng THC per gland) or amber (only 9ng THC per gland), so I am inclined to follow Subcool's advice on the short flowering time of this particular strain.
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Dyslexic Growers of the World Untie!
Ace Yonder
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So I fed her a good dose of nitrogen containing nutes, gave her 1tbl BSM, 1tbl Kelp Meal, 2tbl Indonesian Bat Guano, 1.5tbl EJ Grow, and a little Azomite. I also noticed what I believe to be a mild fungal infection on some of they yellower fan leafs, so I did some trimming and removed the ones that looked to be affected or dead. Hope I didn't go overboard. Here are some pics from today. Feeling a little bit down about the whole thing, I know these are all problems I could have prevented. Trying not to get discouraged. 
