tburton12345
Active Member
This post is mostly venting but any tips are appreciated.
This is my first real grow. I started about 20 plants back in jan. and I burned all but 3 plants so bad they withered away and died. I decided to buy a book on growing and read that and I got the whole fertilizer thing figured out and got my soil plans figured out. I started new seeds and the whole veg cycle went pretty well. My plants are now close to 7 weeks into flowering and get really starting to piss me off cuz im having several issues and having a lot of trouble fixing them. My plants were doing great during flowering but until about 3 weeks ago. My plants started showing signs of a nitrogen deficiency so I added some fish emulsions to my fert regimen and that seemed to help a little but then they just got worse. I added some bone meal (6-9-0) to the soil and that didnt help either. Last week the plants started getting really yellow all over, some leaves have crispy tips and burn spots, the leaves started curling under like with fert burn and started cupping downward and some leaves started turning a purple/reddish color. Now these are bag seed plants so maybe some purpling is supposed to be there but I think its a iron deficiency. Basically the plants looked like shit and were showing signs of a lack of overall nutrition so I concluded that I have a salt build up from the fertilizer. I carried all 9 plants outside and tried to flush them the best I could. Its hard to run 9 gallons of water through each of the 9 plants. I flushed them twice the best I could with the hose and some of the plants seem to be looking better. I think they just need a good dose of N to get back into good shape. 4-5 other plants look worse than ever. I flushed all my plants out really really well again yesterday and I feel that I got rid of any left over salt build up. I watered all the plants with hygrozyme and molasses but am afraid to add any more fertilizer so I tried foliar feeding. Today my flora kleen flushing solution came in so I watered with that just to be safe. I started plucking the dead leaves off my plants today and notice some of the buds looked like they were growing seeds. I split one bud open and out popped a big ass seed. Now, I removed all males over a month ago so I started checked all my plants and Id say pretty much all the biggest buds on the tops of the plants have been pollinated and are growing seeds. I started looking for a hermi and found one plant that hermied on me from the stress. Now it didnt grow one or 2 male parts, this plant had balls all over it but they were hard to see through the leaves and buds. I removed that plant and it will be chopped down tomorrow to start drying cuz I dont want the rest of my crop getting fucked, pun intended. After I removed that plant I went back in looking for more hermies and I saw gnats flying around the base of several plants. I check my plants daily so I think they just moved in today but now I get to deal with fucking fungus gnats also found one other plant that had one male pollen sac on it and I just removed the polled sac with a razor.
I think I made it through the worst of it, but if it isnt one thing its another. Im really learning a lot from all this but Im about to pull my fucking hair out, but on the bright side, I get to take my frustration out on those little fucking gnats that want to eat my hard work.
Now, the plants that are still really wilted and show a total lack of nutrition, should I just foliar feed them or should I fertilize them like normal? Do I start off with a high dose of fertilizer or a low dose or a normal dose? I know they need food bad!
Thanks for listening to my venting, I feel better now lol.
Oh, oh, oh....I almost forgot, the hermie that i removed was foilar fed fertilizer yesterday, will misting with water wash off the fertilizer? i really dont want to smoke fertilizer.
This is my first real grow. I started about 20 plants back in jan. and I burned all but 3 plants so bad they withered away and died. I decided to buy a book on growing and read that and I got the whole fertilizer thing figured out and got my soil plans figured out. I started new seeds and the whole veg cycle went pretty well. My plants are now close to 7 weeks into flowering and get really starting to piss me off cuz im having several issues and having a lot of trouble fixing them. My plants were doing great during flowering but until about 3 weeks ago. My plants started showing signs of a nitrogen deficiency so I added some fish emulsions to my fert regimen and that seemed to help a little but then they just got worse. I added some bone meal (6-9-0) to the soil and that didnt help either. Last week the plants started getting really yellow all over, some leaves have crispy tips and burn spots, the leaves started curling under like with fert burn and started cupping downward and some leaves started turning a purple/reddish color. Now these are bag seed plants so maybe some purpling is supposed to be there but I think its a iron deficiency. Basically the plants looked like shit and were showing signs of a lack of overall nutrition so I concluded that I have a salt build up from the fertilizer. I carried all 9 plants outside and tried to flush them the best I could. Its hard to run 9 gallons of water through each of the 9 plants. I flushed them twice the best I could with the hose and some of the plants seem to be looking better. I think they just need a good dose of N to get back into good shape. 4-5 other plants look worse than ever. I flushed all my plants out really really well again yesterday and I feel that I got rid of any left over salt build up. I watered all the plants with hygrozyme and molasses but am afraid to add any more fertilizer so I tried foliar feeding. Today my flora kleen flushing solution came in so I watered with that just to be safe. I started plucking the dead leaves off my plants today and notice some of the buds looked like they were growing seeds. I split one bud open and out popped a big ass seed. Now, I removed all males over a month ago so I started checked all my plants and Id say pretty much all the biggest buds on the tops of the plants have been pollinated and are growing seeds. I started looking for a hermi and found one plant that hermied on me from the stress. Now it didnt grow one or 2 male parts, this plant had balls all over it but they were hard to see through the leaves and buds. I removed that plant and it will be chopped down tomorrow to start drying cuz I dont want the rest of my crop getting fucked, pun intended. After I removed that plant I went back in looking for more hermies and I saw gnats flying around the base of several plants. I check my plants daily so I think they just moved in today but now I get to deal with fucking fungus gnats also found one other plant that had one male pollen sac on it and I just removed the polled sac with a razor.
I think I made it through the worst of it, but if it isnt one thing its another. Im really learning a lot from all this but Im about to pull my fucking hair out, but on the bright side, I get to take my frustration out on those little fucking gnats that want to eat my hard work.
Now, the plants that are still really wilted and show a total lack of nutrition, should I just foliar feed them or should I fertilize them like normal? Do I start off with a high dose of fertilizer or a low dose or a normal dose? I know they need food bad!
Thanks for listening to my venting, I feel better now lol.
Oh, oh, oh....I almost forgot, the hermie that i removed was foilar fed fertilizer yesterday, will misting with water wash off the fertilizer? i really dont want to smoke fertilizer.