some advise please
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aladdin2685
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if the lights are too close it can result in slower budding on the tips. below the tops it is budding fine right? new leaves will form with the new buds. they wont be big fan leaves, but they will be sufficient in time.
Brick Top
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If the problem was heat from his light the leaves that were damaged enough already will die off and those that are not damaged all that much will rejuvenate but will not totally return to a perfect condition. The dried damaged ends and edges will not come back but the rest of the leaf/leaves will do its/their job.
As far as your friend is in flowering I would not expect a whole bunch of new leaves to start sprouting out. If some do it is unlikely that they will reach a size to really help the plant all that much before it is time to harvest.
The next part is a pure guess, total speculation. I have never grown in rockwool so I cannot say if your friend can pull them out and add perlite under them or not. I am not so sure that would really help even if he did but if he can do it I would suggest that he tried. When you said your friend is growing in three-gallon pots and the plants are drying up the first thing I thought was he doesnt have enough water retention capability and the plants are not getting enough water. When you said the rockwool is down about half way that made me think it even more likely that he has a lack of moisture problem. Many people think that perlite is mostly or mainly for loosening the soil and allowing air flow and some think it does not have much water retention capability but it does so if he can add perlite and if his problem is lack of water retention that could help a great deal.
What you need is someone who grows like that or has grown like that to say if he can yank the plants to then add perlite or not and since I never grew that way I do not want to tell him that he can or cannot because if I tell him wrong my pure guess might mean the death of his plants instead of helping his plants and I want to help if I can and not make things worse.
Again this is just a total guess but if he can pull his plants out why couldnt he then place more rockwool underneath where the perlite would be added? Wouldnt the roost grow into it pretty much the same as they would in perlite? I am not saying that would be a better way to go since I have never grow that way but it just seems that if one thing could be added something else could be added too/instead. Right? Wrong? Someone tell me because I do not know but was just thinking it made sense.
aladdin2685
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get some fans blowing on those tops too.
