HolyAngel
Well-Known Member
so not my first grow but first with these issues and not sure what to do or think on this one.
I've had this girl DWC with bennies in a 10gal tote under two qb288 rspec boards at ~340w. Day temp is ~75, night temps are ~65. Humidity is right around 50%.
Had some root rot issues for a week or so in veg but got past that and got into flower no problem, inches of growth a day, water and ppm's falling, ph slowly rising, everything going smoothly. At day 22 of flower I defoliated her of some of the bigger fan leaves towards the bottom of the plant and ever since then the ppm's have been climbing. I had her around 550 ppm's or 1.1 EC before the trim, and after the trim she was hitting over 600 inside of 12 hours. Every day for two-three weeks I was topping off or replacing water to get the ppm's down and damn near every single day they were rising a good deal and ph was tanking, like in the low 4's from 5.8 inside of 6 hours.. I got burn on the top of two of the branches and eventually on all the leaf tips and its just been a struggle keeping the ph in check. I finally decided to try a sterile res, and after a few whole res changes the ph is finally holding steady with about 300ppm's in the res but they're still going up and not dropping, they go up around 20 ppm's in 24hrs currently.. My tap water is 150-180ppms by itself, like 70% of that is calcium carbonate and the rest is magnesium, according to my water report.
Just kinda not sure what to do here. Keep lowering the nutes until she's on straight tap and hope for the best? Give her like 1+ EC to see if she starts eating again? I had tried 600ppms for a day last week but the ppm's were climbing by 10's every 20minutes or so and ph was tanking quick, so I replaced the water to get it back down where i was.
Freedom of Seeds says it's a 56 day strain. I know that's usually wrong but from looking at the top buds and the trichomes on them, to me, she's lookin like she'll be ready about then, like two weeks or so. Am I wrong and she's gonna pick back up here and grow some more? I was expecting another month of growth or so and some fat buds, not like 10 days and these small buds.. She's now at 48 days, the pics are of days 45-47 or so. Did I totally screw her over and just gonna get crap for yield? or what can I do, if anything, to fix it? Do you think this is just normal on some strains? they just start shutting down from week 3-4 on and need less and less nutes? Usually i'm increasing until at least week 5 or so and then tapering off. This should be start of week 8 and she seems like she just wants plain tap water.
I've had this girl DWC with bennies in a 10gal tote under two qb288 rspec boards at ~340w. Day temp is ~75, night temps are ~65. Humidity is right around 50%.
Had some root rot issues for a week or so in veg but got past that and got into flower no problem, inches of growth a day, water and ppm's falling, ph slowly rising, everything going smoothly. At day 22 of flower I defoliated her of some of the bigger fan leaves towards the bottom of the plant and ever since then the ppm's have been climbing. I had her around 550 ppm's or 1.1 EC before the trim, and after the trim she was hitting over 600 inside of 12 hours. Every day for two-three weeks I was topping off or replacing water to get the ppm's down and damn near every single day they were rising a good deal and ph was tanking, like in the low 4's from 5.8 inside of 6 hours.. I got burn on the top of two of the branches and eventually on all the leaf tips and its just been a struggle keeping the ph in check. I finally decided to try a sterile res, and after a few whole res changes the ph is finally holding steady with about 300ppm's in the res but they're still going up and not dropping, they go up around 20 ppm's in 24hrs currently.. My tap water is 150-180ppms by itself, like 70% of that is calcium carbonate and the rest is magnesium, according to my water report.
Just kinda not sure what to do here. Keep lowering the nutes until she's on straight tap and hope for the best? Give her like 1+ EC to see if she starts eating again? I had tried 600ppms for a day last week but the ppm's were climbing by 10's every 20minutes or so and ph was tanking quick, so I replaced the water to get it back down where i was.
Freedom of Seeds says it's a 56 day strain. I know that's usually wrong but from looking at the top buds and the trichomes on them, to me, she's lookin like she'll be ready about then, like two weeks or so. Am I wrong and she's gonna pick back up here and grow some more? I was expecting another month of growth or so and some fat buds, not like 10 days and these small buds.. She's now at 48 days, the pics are of days 45-47 or so. Did I totally screw her over and just gonna get crap for yield? or what can I do, if anything, to fix it? Do you think this is just normal on some strains? they just start shutting down from week 3-4 on and need less and less nutes? Usually i'm increasing until at least week 5 or so and then tapering off. This should be start of week 8 and she seems like she just wants plain tap water.
