Lights: Mars Hydro Ts1000
Tent: 2.3x2.3x5.3
Medium: Fox Farm Happy Frog with 20% perlite added
Nutrients: Dr Earth 4-6-3 and 3-9-4, blackstrap unsulphured molasses, wormcastings, calmag used for one plant once, flower fuel used for one plant twice
Water: Tap water 450ppm, sits out a day being constantly aerated before using, ph'ing from 6.2-6.8
Flowering Variety: Autoflower
Strain: Candy Kush Auto
PAR/PPFD: 200-300 seedling, 400-600 veg/flower in an 18/6 light schedule
Training: LST with stakes and ties.
Temps: 18c-23c
RH: 45-60%
Plants emerged 3 months ago. I overwatered in the beginning because I tried to keep the soil moist, which must've led to the plants being stunted for around a month. 2 occasions my humidifier wasn't working right and my tent hit 99% humidity. My temps have been cold which sucks for seedlings but I haven't been able to fit a heater in my tent with the plants properly. I'm working on trying to get a light baffle set up as well that a heater from the outside could feed into. After a month had passed I top dressed all plants with 1tbsp of the veg and 1tbsp of the flower mix. Used molasses for 2 separate feedings at a rate of 1/2tbsp per gallon of water. Continued feeding nutrients every 2 weeks, except for one week where I went an extra week without and started noticing deficiencies, which also started after using molasses. The plants were blooming at different rates so the nutrients used were ratio'd differently. I'm not sure if the Dr Earth stuff are complete fertilizers with the necessary secondary and micronutrients which may have led to issues in using it, the nutrients weren't entirely powder. It was mixed with some bigger pieces and powder which formed a crust and hardened layer on my soil. Had some twisted leaf growth, had some pale growth tips that happened for a while then went away.
Soil had become compact after using top dressings, didn't know how to fix that. Gave worm castings a couple times as top dress to help with microbes and soil texture, ranging from 1/4 to 1/2 cup. Added barley straw to maintain some moisture and hopefully microbial life as it seems my plants don't want to uptake nutrients. Gave flower fuel to my one messed up plant twice at a 1/3 of the recommended dose.
I have nutrient tip burn as well as deficiencies (maybe certain nutrients blocking others out). Been having issues with the plants throughout the grow. A slow stunted start, and a pretty long veg time. My grows usually have very slow growth, I'm not sure why, like 1-2 inches of veg growth a week. My curling and browning/yellowing leaves led me to believe phosphorus deficiency.
Current state: one plant is very messed up in appearance, yellow, brown, curled leaves, spots, burnt tips. One plant is getting some orange and purple fading, messed up leaves, deficiencies, and tip burn. One plant is just getting pale overall with some tip burn, spots, deficiencies.
I would like to know what went wrong throughout the grow and what can be done currently and in the future.
For my next grow I'm planning on using ocean forest since I already bought the bag, and am unsure if I should add some stuff to it, like dolomite lime and if issues arise for it throughout a grow like it running out of micronutrients.
Thanks
Tent: 2.3x2.3x5.3
Medium: Fox Farm Happy Frog with 20% perlite added
Nutrients: Dr Earth 4-6-3 and 3-9-4, blackstrap unsulphured molasses, wormcastings, calmag used for one plant once, flower fuel used for one plant twice
Water: Tap water 450ppm, sits out a day being constantly aerated before using, ph'ing from 6.2-6.8
Flowering Variety: Autoflower
Strain: Candy Kush Auto
PAR/PPFD: 200-300 seedling, 400-600 veg/flower in an 18/6 light schedule
Training: LST with stakes and ties.
Temps: 18c-23c
RH: 45-60%
Plants emerged 3 months ago. I overwatered in the beginning because I tried to keep the soil moist, which must've led to the plants being stunted for around a month. 2 occasions my humidifier wasn't working right and my tent hit 99% humidity. My temps have been cold which sucks for seedlings but I haven't been able to fit a heater in my tent with the plants properly. I'm working on trying to get a light baffle set up as well that a heater from the outside could feed into. After a month had passed I top dressed all plants with 1tbsp of the veg and 1tbsp of the flower mix. Used molasses for 2 separate feedings at a rate of 1/2tbsp per gallon of water. Continued feeding nutrients every 2 weeks, except for one week where I went an extra week without and started noticing deficiencies, which also started after using molasses. The plants were blooming at different rates so the nutrients used were ratio'd differently. I'm not sure if the Dr Earth stuff are complete fertilizers with the necessary secondary and micronutrients which may have led to issues in using it, the nutrients weren't entirely powder. It was mixed with some bigger pieces and powder which formed a crust and hardened layer on my soil. Had some twisted leaf growth, had some pale growth tips that happened for a while then went away.
Soil had become compact after using top dressings, didn't know how to fix that. Gave worm castings a couple times as top dress to help with microbes and soil texture, ranging from 1/4 to 1/2 cup. Added barley straw to maintain some moisture and hopefully microbial life as it seems my plants don't want to uptake nutrients. Gave flower fuel to my one messed up plant twice at a 1/3 of the recommended dose.
I have nutrient tip burn as well as deficiencies (maybe certain nutrients blocking others out). Been having issues with the plants throughout the grow. A slow stunted start, and a pretty long veg time. My grows usually have very slow growth, I'm not sure why, like 1-2 inches of veg growth a week. My curling and browning/yellowing leaves led me to believe phosphorus deficiency.
Current state: one plant is very messed up in appearance, yellow, brown, curled leaves, spots, burnt tips. One plant is getting some orange and purple fading, messed up leaves, deficiencies, and tip burn. One plant is just getting pale overall with some tip burn, spots, deficiencies.
I would like to know what went wrong throughout the grow and what can be done currently and in the future.
For my next grow I'm planning on using ocean forest since I already bought the bag, and am unsure if I should add some stuff to it, like dolomite lime and if issues arise for it throughout a grow like it running out of micronutrients.
Thanks
