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GANJA MONSTA

GANJA MONSTA

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Alright let me start by saying thank you for your time and help in advance!

I am a beginner grower with a small CFL DIY grow. I have 4x 23watt/2700k and 4x 23watt/5000k screw in CFL bulbs. For soil I use Roots Organics Original Potting Soil. for nutrients I use Fox Farms Grow Big, Big Bloom & Tiger Bloom as well as General Organics CaMg+

I just finished a flush week on Sunday and I am switching to flower tomorrow 5/17 but I have noticed some spots on my plants and would appreciate any help or advice you can offer! The spots look like a papery color/substance the spots start out soft but after some time they get crisp and will crumble or turn to dust between your fingers. I first noticed spots on 1 plant about 3 weeks ago. Then about a week ago I noticed some similar spots on 2 more plants. I will provide some pictures below please take a look and tell me what you think, thanks!









If you have any questions about my garden don't hesitate to ask!

Happy Growing Ladies & Gentlemen!

-GANJA MONSTA
 
dankesthours182

dankesthours182

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GANJA MONSTA said:
Alright let me start by saying thank you for your time and help in advance!

I am a beginner grower with a small CFL DIY grow. I have 4x 23watt/2700k and 4x 23watt/5000k screw in CFL bulbs. For soil I use Roots Organics Original Potting Soil. for nutrients I use Fox Farms Grow Big, Big Bloom & Tiger Bloom as well as General Organics CaMg+

I just finished a flush week on Sunday and I am switching to flower tomorrow 5/17 but I have noticed some spots on my plants and would appreciate any help or advice you can offer! The spots look like a papery color/substance the spots start out soft but after some time they get crisp and will crumble or turn to dust between your fingers. I first noticed spots on 1 plant about 3 weeks ago. Then about a week ago I noticed some similar spots on 2 more plants. I will provide some pictures below please take a look and tell me what you think, thanks!









If you have any questions about my garden don't hesitate to ask!

Happy Growing Ladies & Gentlemen!

-GANJA MONSTA
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Hey man mine are looking the same for ocean and happy F mixed with extra perlite for drainage, and one of my seedlings is just dried up to all hell, totally green still tho, and my plants have damage similar to yours. I think it's heat stress it's just odd cause I picked up the light a few inches just the other day
 
GANJA MONSTA

GANJA MONSTA

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dankesthours182 said:
Hey man mine are looking the same for ocean and happy F mixed with extra perlite for drainage, and one of my seedlings is just dried up to all hell, totally green still tho, and my plants have damage similar to yours. I think it's heat stress it's just odd cause I picked up the light a few inches just the other day
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I'm really not sure what it is with mine. because I think if it was heat stress it would only be at the tops for the most part anyways..
 
dankesthours182

dankesthours182

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GANJA MONSTA said:
I'm really not sure what it is with mine. because I think if it was heat stress it would only be at the tops for the most part anyways..
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I'm guessing my lights are creating hotspots, if I move my plants they are fine, and I've lowered the humidity to around 30 percent and that isn't making it worse, and for the time being they are bushy enough, so I raised my light 3 inches, and moved all the girls to new spots, I'm fifteen or sixteen days after transplant and they have all grown around around 8x the "budding sites" they had 2 weeks ago. I think I'll keep putting the light closer and further away periodically, it seems to invigorate growth, at least until I can afford a mover, and along with invigorating growth, it seems to be very prominently affecting the node lengths, giving me a lot of control over where heavy budding or cloning is likely to occur
 
GANJA MONSTA

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That's interesting. My DIY light setup is far too difficult to move that often.. One more reason why I can't wait til I can afford to upgrade to an LED
 
dankesthours182

dankesthours182

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GANJA MONSTA said:
That's interesting. My DIY light setup is far too difficult to move that often.. One more reason why I can't wait til I can afford to upgrade to an LED
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Yeah it's rough when your budget won't fit your aspirations. I guess I need a couple more grows under my belt before I set my sights on #s anyhow. Just trying to veg efficiently for now so I can get a good strong clone army going that I will likely stagger under my 400 and 1-2 cheap 600 w ipower ballasts or one my Htg magnetic hps 400 and a perfect sun led dwarf star or two
 
GANJA MONSTA

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Ok so one of my plants seems to be having a major issue and I have no idea what's causing it please take a look at the pictures below and tell me what you think. I'm a very new grower so any helpful info is much appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your time!!
 

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GANJA MONSTA

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So its been 3 days since I posted the first 5 pics of my dying plant, and things have gotten much worse. I think its too late to save her but I am a beginner so I really don't know.

Below is a questionnaire I found on another growing forum, I've answered each question and provided pictures. If you have the time & the knowledge PLEASE let me know what is wrong with my plant. I have 3 other plants in the grow space and I'm absolutely terrified I might lose them too. Thank you so much for your time & help I really do appreciate any help/info!!

1. Are you growing from seed or clone?
A) Seed.

2. How old is your plant?
A) 15 weeks old - Vegged for 13 weeks & today's the start of week 3 Flower.

3. How tall is your plant?
A) The plant that's dying is 1ft tall & about 20" wide. The others are bigger and fuller.

4. What size container are you using?
A) I believe it is a 3 or 4 gallon container.

5. What is your soil mix?
A) I'm using Roots Organics Original Potting Soil.

6. How often do you water & what kind of water are you using?
A) I water when the top inch or two is totally dry (about every other day) and I'm just using tap water.

7. What is the pH of your water?
A) between 6.0 and 7.0 unfortunately I can only afford paper test strips so I can't be more precise.

8. What kind of nutrients do you use and what are the NPK ratios?
A) I'm using Fox Farms Grow Big (6-4-4), Big Bloom (0- 0.5- 0.7) & Tiger Bloom
(2-8-4) as well as General Organics CaMg+ (0-0-0).

9. Do you foliar feed or spray your plants with anything?
A) Nope.

10. What kind of lights do you use and how many watts combined?
A) I'm using CFL's. 4x 23watt 5000k & 4x 23watt 2700k. Combined Watts = 184.

11. How close are your lights to the plants?
A) the closest they ever get is about 3" away. But most of the plants most of the time are 6" - 12" away.

12. What size is your grow space in square feet?
A) About 4' x 3'

13. What is the temperature and humidity in your grow space?
A) Without a thermometer it's hard to tell. I try to keep the temp around 70° F unfortunately I don't know what the RH is.

14. What is the pH of the soil?
A) When I've tested the runoff it's always in the 6.0 - 7.0 range.

15. Have you noticed any insect activity in your grow space?
A) Yes. I've had Gnats ever since I bought Roots Organics Original Potting Soil. I use sticky paper to keep them under control.

16. How much experience do you have growing?
A) Basically none. I tried growing once before but I think one of the plants was a male and it either pollinated or hermaphrodited my other plant.


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Javadog

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Honestly, it looks like your plant is nutrient shocked.

Little to do but to give it only water and then only after it fully dried out.
You might want to start with a flush. The length of veg ought to have made
for more plant anyway.....less nutes until you see hunger. Good luck.
 
GANJA MONSTA

GANJA MONSTA

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Javadog said:
Honestly, it looks like your plant is nutrient shocked.

Little to do but to give it only water and then only after it fully dried out.
You might want to start with a flush. The length of veg ought to have made
for more plant anyway.....less nutes until you see hunger. Good luck.
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Thank you for the input. I figured it should only get water too and that's all I've given it the last 2 waterings (4days) and yesterday I thought it might need more oxygen at the roots so I poked holes in the dirt with a clean thin skewer but this morning I went to check on the plants and that dying one was looking even worse so I moved it away from the light a bit.. I dont think it will survive much longer.
 
Javadog

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I would wait for a sign of hunger...the first touch of pale, lower-down, before I fed them.

Honestly, the aim is to do nothing-at-all otherwise.

You remind me of me, when I am reminding myself of "Tommy Boy" in the scene where
he pets an imaginary animal....to death. I had to learn to do less. It is not easy for me. :0)
 
GANJA MONSTA

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Javadog said:
I would wait for a sign of hunger...the first touch of pale, lower-down, before I fed them.

Honestly, the aim is to do nothing-at-all otherwise.

You remind me of me, when I am reminding myself of "Tommy Boy" in the scene where
he pets an imaginary animal....to death. I had to learn to do less. It is not easy for me. :0)
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Alright I will try just giving them water until they get light green or pale..

That was a damn good movie! And a pretty good analogy too, I must say.

I have one more question. Why is it that my plants aren't showing signs of sex? I'm in week 3 of flower 12/12 light cycle and I vegged for 12 weeks before switching to flower. Is there anything I can do?

Any help / info appreciated! Thank you!
 
Scaccia450

Scaccia450

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GANJA MONSTA said:
So its been 3 days since I posted the first 5 pics of my dying plant, and things have gotten much worse. I think its too late to save her but I am a beginner so I really don't know.

Below is a questionnaire I found on another growing forum, I've answered each question and provided pictures. If you have the time & the knowledge PLEASE let me know what is wrong with my plant. I have 3 other plants in the grow space and I'm absolutely terrified I might lose them too. Thank you so much for your time & help I really do appreciate any help/info!!

1. Are you growing from seed or clone?
A) Seed.

2. How old is your plant?
A) 15 weeks old - Vegged for 13 weeks & today's the start of week 3 Flower.

3. How tall is your plant?
A) The plant that's dying is 1ft tall & about 20" wide. The others are bigger and fuller.

4. What size container are you using?
A) I believe it is a 3 or 4 gallon container.

5. What is your soil mix?
A) I'm using Roots Organics Original Potting Soil.

6. How often do you water & what kind of water are you using?
A) I water when the top inch or two is totally dry (about every other day) and I'm just using tap water.

7. What is the pH of your water?
A) between 6.0 and 7.0 unfortunately I can only afford paper test strips so I can't be more precise.

8. What kind of nutrients do you use and what are the NPK ratios?
A) I'm using Fox Farms Grow Big (6-4-4), Big Bloom (0- 0.5- 0.7) & Tiger Bloom
(2-8-4) as well as General Organics CaMg+ (0-0-0).

9. Do you foliar feed or spray your plants with anything?
A) Nope.

10. What kind of lights do you use and how many watts combined?
A) I'm using CFL's. 4x 23watt 5000k & 4x 23watt 2700k. Combined Watts = 184.

11. How close are your lights to the plants?
A) the closest they ever get is about 3" away. But most of the plants most of the time are 6" - 12" away.

12. What size is your grow space in square feet?
A) About 4' x 3'

13. What is the temperature and humidity in your grow space?
A) Without a thermometer it's hard to tell. I try to keep the temp around 70° F unfortunately I don't know what the RH is.

14. What is the pH of the soil?
A) When I've tested the runoff it's always in the 6.0 - 7.0 range.

15. Have you noticed any insect activity in your grow space?
A) Yes. I've had Gnats ever since I bought Roots Organics Original Potting Soil. I use sticky paper to keep them under control.

16. How much experience do you have growing?
A) Basically none. I tried growing once before but I think one of the plants was a male and it either pollinated or hermaphrodited my other plant.


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omg no no dude the ph is to high. You need acidic water, should be lowest at ph 5.8 highest at ph 6.8. Never ph 7 or god ph 8 is to much holly fuck. And two on the second picture ,near the roots is that a worm?!!!!?
 
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Scaccia450 said:
omg no no dude the ph is to high. You need acidic water, should be lowest at ph 5.8 highest at ph 6.8. Never ph 7 or god ph 8 is to much holly fuck. And two on the second picture ,near the roots is that a worm?!!!!?
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I know I said my Ph is in the 6.0 - 7.0 range, but to be honest I've never had my Ph get up to 7.0 nevermind 8.0

I use the paper test strips which indicate the Ph by color; I haven't had a test strip change to a solid 7.0 color yet. However I have seen it change slightly from the 6.0 color and that is why I say it's between 6.0 - 7.0

For Soil Grows the Ph you want to have is between 6.1 - 6.9

But for Hydro & Soiless Grows you would want 5.5 - 6.5

That's my understanding from what I've read and seen online in forums as well as YouTube vids.

And no, not a worm.. Just a pipe cleaner lol!!
 
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