Diggs99 First grow, Lets talk about it!

[diggs99]

Lightbulb! What has your run-off pH been?

If it gets too low or too high, it locks out nutes - even though you are feeding them it can't absorb them.

If this is the issue flush and start new.

ph going in was 6.3-6.5
coming out 6.0

 

[H.A.F.]

If you haven't, you probably should anyway. Salts build up in the soil and start effecting the pH. You can flush anyway and it won't hurt.

(2-3 times what you normally water, and I use 'sledgehammer' as well)​

Start in the middle of the plant so you get 'true' run off at first, and just get enough to test and see where you are. (pH and ppm) then soak-n-drain, soak-n-drain, until the numbers look good. Since this wasn't about major nute burn, you can just add a nute feeding after it has drained real well so it isn't starving until the next feed.

If it was for bad nute issues you would just wait normally then feed when it's due.

 

[H.A.F.]

Mine was 6.0 last check too, which is getting close to "danger will robinson!" I have a flush planned when it dries next.

 

[diggs99]

Mine was 6.0 last check too, which is getting close to "danger will robinson!" I have a flush planned when it dries next.

im day 33 from flip today, journals i have read/followed growing this fruit punch have finished as early as 60 days, most around 65-70 days, that leaves us with anywhere from 27-37 days left, on the higher side, that leaves me 6 more waterings, last 2 will be just plain water. so 4 waterings left, 2 nutes, 2 ph water.

would you still flush next watering? they are due for just ph water next time anyway.

 

[H.A.F.]

im day 33 from flip today, journals i have read/followed growing this fruit punch have finished as early as 60 days, most around 65-70 days, that leaves us with anywhere from 27-37 days left, on the higher side, that leaves me 6 more waterings, last 2 will be just plain water. so 4 waterings left, 2 nutes, 2 ph water.

would you still flush next watering? they are due for just ph water next time anyway.

Yes. It can't hurt, it will restore the pH for the final push, and the next feeding I would go full strength and see what happens.

Also, be ready in case it doesn't take that 27 days.

BEWARE! "I have 6 more waterings"
They drink more now so still go by weight (if you can in a scrog)

 

[diggs99]

Yes. It can't hurt, it will restore the pH for the final push, and the next feeding I would go full strength and see what happens.

Also, be ready in case it doesn't take that 27 days.

BEWARE! "I have 6 more waterings"
They drink more now so still go by weight (if you can in a scrog)

ok now heres something i have found weird

my plants havent increased water intake at all, they have consistantly taken 4-5 days to dry out to where i like watering them.

i see most guys saying every 2 days once late flower etc, i just watered mine yesterday and that was the 5th day again, as usual


I always go by weight , its the only way i know how lol

 

[diggs99]

Yes. It can't hurt, it will restore the pH for the final push, and the next feeding I would go full strength and see what happens.

Also, be ready in case it doesn't take that 27 days.

BEWARE! "I have 6 more waterings"
They drink more now so still go by weight (if you can in a scrog)

so at what point do i start looking for indicators that they are getting close?

 

[Beachwalker]

im day 33 from flip today, journals i have read/followed growing this fruit punch have finished as early as 60 days, most around 65-70 days, that leaves us with anywhere from 27-37 days left, on the higher side, that leaves me 6 more waterings, last 2 will be just plain water. so 4 waterings left, 2 nutes, 2 ph water.

would you still flush next watering? they are due for just ph water next time anyway.

You can't judge by time you've got to get a Jeweler's loupe 60 x and start looking at the trichomes, in about a month. You'll find very little that finishes when the Breeders say it should, breeder estimates are best case scenario, not real world scenario

 

[diggs99]

You can't judge by time you've got to get us Jeweler's loupe 60 x and start looking at the trichomes in about a month

Jewelers loupe is ordered, should be here this week sometime.

Gonna have to start my normal process of reading everything i can, on the stage that im at lol

When to know it time to harvest and all that fun stuff.

 

[Nutzach91]

And read alot about drying and curing. My first time the curing was probably the trickiest part. Without a proper cure the buds won't taste and/or smell as good. But I'm like you I research the hell out of it, so all was good.

 

[simpleleaf]

Day 33 since flip....

They all look good, nice and chunky for 1 month!

 

[diggs99]

And read alot about drying and curing. My first time the curing was probably the trickiest part. Without a proper cure the buds won't taste and/or smell as good. But I'm like you I research the hell out of it, so all was good.

Ya I've already started reading and youtubing lol

 

[diggs99]

Day 33

Frost check

 

[diggs99]

They all look good, nice and chunky for 1 month!

Thanks

it seems everytime i open the tent they have swollen up a little more lol

also the smell, everyday it gets stronger.

 

[H.A.F.]

Just got back from my 15 projects Finished 2 LOL

I posted on my page what I look for at harvest (my preference), and there's hundreds of articles about it.

Here is a good read.
https://bigbudsmag.com/marijuana-bloom-shocker-there-are-four-marijuana-flowering-phases-not-just-one/

The thing I find interesting is that most big-time growers don't mess with trichomes except to double check what their eyes tell them. 70-90% of the hairs should have turned, and this is the naked-eye visual clue that the trichomes are all at least milky, with some ambers showing. Some of growers for the coffee shops in Amsterdam have started legal seed businesses now, and ILGM seeds has a lot of grow guides and such (guaranteed germ or replace on all seeds too) and those guides mainly refer to pistils, with watching the trichomes being a way to "fine tune" it.

Basically, they are both ripening at the same time.

 

[H.A.F.]

https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/content/47-the-last-weeks-of-blooming

 

[Beachwalker]

Ya I've already started reading and youtubing lol

When you're ready I'll point you to a few threads about drying and curing, I think the best one is by Cold$moke called 'show me your drying setups', you'll get ideas and how to about every drying set up from paper bags to entire designated drying rooms

 

[H.A.F.]

When you're ready I'll point you to a few threads about drying and curing, I think the best one is by Cold$moke called 'show me your drying setups', you'll get ideas and how to about every drying set up from paper bags to entire designated drying rooms

Or how to make a makeshift drying room

 

[diggs99]

Day 34 since flip

Fp1 and fp2 look great
FP3 is showing signs of something, I just don't know what. Will have to flush the plant I would imagine, give her some relief.

Atomic is stacking up nice, all those tight nodes are really packing and stacking now. She stinks the best lol

 

[diggs99]

Just watched a video that @StareCase posted for me, i think its bang on my issue. Thanks very much for that.

looks like a Phosphorus deficiency and @H.A.F. , I think this also correlates with K def aswell.

I started using a different ph test kit 2 waterings ago, i must have messed up when i ph`d her water.

Gonna lower my ph and feed this one a little extra pk boost, hoping it fixes the issue.