Flowerinafield
Member
Hi,
First let me thank you for being willing to help me.
I have an entire poorly maintained set up thrown in my lap and I've decided to take it over. So I am a n00b (I am in the middle of reading Ed Rosenthal's book so I know some little somethings [and I've lived with this shit in my house for a few years but now that I see it's about to fall apart I am taking it over, I know I am no expert and need lots of help but ANYWAYS!..])
The system is as follows - 1 600 w - 1 adjustable (600-1,000 watt) - for flowering and then one t5 (6 bulbs but only 3 are plugged in) - for veggie/moms and then there's a "hydro" set-up....I say "hydro" because well...it's basically a 10 gallon res. with a a large container on top that has lines in it (technical terms, right? N00bness!) with an blackstar LED 240w
Firstly, it was ridden with spider mites (to the point where everything in veg had huge webs all over everywhere..) it was gross.
I treated everything (even the stuff that has been budding...[which I know I shouldn't of now]) with Floramite and cleaned and bleached the entire area and vacuumed everything etc. I'm using something called rapid -something or other every 3 days to keep them off (also have mighty wash) the rapid stuff is supposedly catfish oil or something....I know about Azasol/max but right now that stuff is out of my budget.
Secondly, three of nine plants in the hydro system were taken out because they all got too big and 'the other ones couldn't get enough light with that many.' As it stands, they are sitting on my bathroom sink slowly dying...(My bathroom has 4 CFL 60w pointed on them) I put them in a bowl with some water because I really have no fucking clue what to do (besides put them into soil right now which I guess is my best option?) Is putting them in a bowl of water constantly drowning the roots going to kill them? (And to make matters worse I forgot to ph the water...erghhhhh! I guess it's better then letting them just sit on the sink counter like they were previously [I have heard their roots get 'burned' by light so I figured the bowl will shade the roots while giving them some water - I have also read [on here] it's bad if they've been over nutrients to 'starve' them of nuts but I think they've been burned so bad that they could use it.]) Will they do okay if I throw them into soil? As it stands right now, the majority of the leaves are 'clawing' turning yellow and falling off. I want to save them because they are a supposed remake (they are the gdp x cherry pie remake) of the infamous gsc (which I'm sure you're prolly like 'how did these fux get gsc?' *shrugs* we know people, and we live in Frisco...- we did pay a hefty tag for them and I guess they're not real so [which I found out later]! Still.)
Thirdly, I think there's mold in the ones I spoke of above (not sure?) Please diagnosis per the picture below! (if it is mold - what can I do about it? Since it's hydro I have to be more careful about spraying for mites [because yes, the hydro system has mites too..] and I am sure that applies to spraying for mold too...I imagine.)
I have big plastic bins that are clear that I was going to put them in - water them once a day for 10 minutes with ph'd water (is there a certain range I should stay in since they are doing poorly? I read like I should have the PH low since they are hurting [like 5.6]) Is that a good idea or should I just put em in soil? I don't know, ugggh.
I guess I should probably get them the hell out of the bathroom too as that's probably not helping anything...( I have some clip on lights that I could put some CFL ins...I just need to find a spot where my cats won't eat them..)
Fourthly, the plants that are budding have huge yellow leaves falling off...like the leaves that store all the sugar and shit that they need to not detract from budding....YEAH those puppies! My friend told me it's because too much cal/mag was used (by the way I am not mixing the nutrients myself yet...I want/need to read up on all this stuff first before I totalllllllllllly take it over.) I'd like to get a second opinion pointers and I don't mind doing it non-organically.
I know, right now, we are using boogiebrew (which was used in the res in the dro system) which is a totally vegan organic - cha-ching - and -actually that's all I know, for now.
I have attached some pictures of what's going down...
Yellow - clawing leaves hydro -
- more clawing
- Mold? PM?
Yellow leaves in the flowering -
More yellow leaves -
I hope after reading/seeing all this you'll be like 'thank god this girl is taking over because whoever was doing this stuff before did not know what he was doing!' And I totally agree..
Thanks again for your help!
First let me thank you for being willing to help me.
I have an entire poorly maintained set up thrown in my lap and I've decided to take it over. So I am a n00b (I am in the middle of reading Ed Rosenthal's book so I know some little somethings [and I've lived with this shit in my house for a few years but now that I see it's about to fall apart I am taking it over, I know I am no expert and need lots of help but ANYWAYS!..])
The system is as follows - 1 600 w - 1 adjustable (600-1,000 watt) - for flowering and then one t5 (6 bulbs but only 3 are plugged in) - for veggie/moms and then there's a "hydro" set-up....I say "hydro" because well...it's basically a 10 gallon res. with a a large container on top that has lines in it (technical terms, right? N00bness!) with an blackstar LED 240w
Firstly, it was ridden with spider mites (to the point where everything in veg had huge webs all over everywhere..) it was gross.
I treated everything (even the stuff that has been budding...[which I know I shouldn't of now]) with Floramite and cleaned and bleached the entire area and vacuumed everything etc. I'm using something called rapid -something or other every 3 days to keep them off (also have mighty wash) the rapid stuff is supposedly catfish oil or something....I know about Azasol/max but right now that stuff is out of my budget. Secondly, three of nine plants in the hydro system were taken out because they all got too big and 'the other ones couldn't get enough light with that many.' As it stands, they are sitting on my bathroom sink slowly dying...(My bathroom has 4 CFL 60w pointed on them) I put them in a bowl with some water because I really have no fucking clue what to do (besides put them into soil right now which I guess is my best option?) Is putting them in a bowl of water constantly drowning the roots going to kill them? (And to make matters worse I forgot to ph the water...erghhhhh! I guess it's better then letting them just sit on the sink counter like they were previously [I have heard their roots get 'burned' by light so I figured the bowl will shade the roots while giving them some water - I have also read [on here] it's bad if they've been over nutrients to 'starve' them of nuts but I think they've been burned so bad that they could use it.]) Will they do okay if I throw them into soil? As it stands right now, the majority of the leaves are 'clawing' turning yellow and falling off. I want to save them because they are a supposed remake (they are the gdp x cherry pie remake) of the infamous gsc (which I'm sure you're prolly like 'how did these fux get gsc?' *shrugs* we know people, and we live in Frisco...- we did pay a hefty tag for them and I guess they're not real so [which I found out later]! Still.)
Thirdly, I think there's mold in the ones I spoke of above (not sure?) Please diagnosis per the picture below! (if it is mold - what can I do about it? Since it's hydro I have to be more careful about spraying for mites [because yes, the hydro system has mites too..] and I am sure that applies to spraying for mold too...I imagine.)
I have big plastic bins that are clear that I was going to put them in - water them once a day for 10 minutes with ph'd water (is there a certain range I should stay in since they are doing poorly? I read like I should have the PH low since they are hurting [like 5.6]) Is that a good idea or should I just put em in soil? I don't know, ugggh.
I guess I should probably get them the hell out of the bathroom too as that's probably not helping anything...( I have some clip on lights that I could put some CFL ins...I just need to find a spot where my cats won't eat them..)
Fourthly, the plants that are budding have huge yellow leaves falling off...like the leaves that store all the sugar and shit that they need to not detract from budding....YEAH those puppies! My friend told me it's because too much cal/mag was used (by the way I am not mixing the nutrients myself yet...I want/need to read up on all this stuff first before I totalllllllllllly take it over.) I'd like to get a second opinion pointers and I don't mind doing it non-organically.
I know, right now, we are using boogiebrew (which was used in the res in the dro system) which is a totally vegan organic - cha-ching - and -actually that's all I know, for now.
I have attached some pictures of what's going down...
Yellow - clawing leaves hydro -
- more clawing
- Mold? PM?
Yellow leaves in the flowering -
More yellow leaves -
I hope after reading/seeing all this you'll be like 'thank god this girl is taking over because whoever was doing this stuff before did not know what he was doing!' And I totally agree..
Thanks again for your help!
