First timer cloest grow any tips?

arson420 · Jan 19, 2014

600 watt HPS
Light rail
Foxfarm soil
Botanicare 3-2-4 for vegging
Botanicare 1-4-5 for bloom
Grand daddy purp strain

Well into flowering about 2-3 weeks I think. Some mistakes I know I made.

I didn't prune or top at all I did tie the shoots over tho but thats it.
I am a lil worried about pot size I got 5 gal pots but wide and short. Not sure if its affecting them or if they have enough room to grow. They are about 4 feet tall and super wide/bushy

Some concerns I have.

Am I using enough nutes with the organic botanicare 1-4-5? Do I need anything else? The bud production seems slow... I could just be impatient and inexperienced on how long it takes them to bud and fatten.

A few of the older bigger leaves on the bottom turn yellow every once in awhile and fall off. I think this is normal but not sure its just 1 or two and its always super old leaves this could also be because I have a real big canopy from not pruning?

Everything seems to be going well. Just not sure about the nutes and slight yellowing.
Thanks for any tips and info.

tiny roach · Jan 19, 2014

WOW..........I'm a closet grower , too, and your plants look a lot better, and you have more of them, than me.

You must be doing something right!!!! Grow on , dude......... :leaf:

arson420 · Jan 19, 2014

Well to be fair the cloest is 6 feet long 2 feet wide. 4 plants they are a little bit bigger then I wanted I vegged them too long. tieing the tops over also gave me alot of branches

joe macclennan · Jan 19, 2014

for 2-3 weeks of flower they look pretty damn good to me.

maybe add a little more N to stop the yellowing of the lower leaves from progressing but don't over do it.

Maybe like 10% more nitrogen next time.

keep on keepin on

justugh · Jan 20, 2014

nice grow

buddy i see a issuse ..........u have red stem long before it should be that deep of a color your plants are telling u they needs more of one of the basic blocks
NPK ...........rem it is a photo so u are going to be flowering for almost 2 months those stems should not look that red 2 weeks in

arson420 · Jan 20, 2014

I think the camera might be changing the color of it a bit. They are more purple then red. they have been this way since the beginning its just a few of them maybe 2-3 on each plantI looked it up during the time I was vegging it and was given the impression that this may be just genetics?

are these organic nutes enough? should I boost them up or maybe go chemical if my ph checks out? I have been rather light on adding nutes always using 1/2 strength and only evry other watering. now im all worried lol

TonightYou · Jan 20, 2014

Just make sure you exhaust that 600. Heat can be an issue other wise. My entire closet is dedicated to growing, I exhaust into an empty utility closet, or my room with the window opened from fall to spring.

BSD0621 · Jan 20, 2014

Purple stems are natural. Red stems are lack of P. Looks good and I wouldn't worry. You got the green thumbs

puffdatchronic · Jan 20, 2014

I agree with the red stem issue, it does mean something, what, i'm not sure yet. But I stumbled upon something my last grow. I was using biobizz grow and bloom, which are very basic npk applications, almost just molasses type stuff. Was getting yellow leaves and red stems. I started giving it some "chilli focus " chilli food, which is a 4:1:4 food, but with ALL the micros like mag and cal etc.. the leaves greened up and the red stems disappeared...this leads me to believe it may be a N or micro nutrient issue. Not lack of P as the chilli food is a low P application , yet it cured the red stems.

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