plant trouble

my 1 week old plants dont look right. the edges of the leaves are curling down. there growing under lamps in bubbler buckets. they are indicas which ive not grown before. can anyone please help?????

overwatering or N toxicity

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pics r worth a gajillion words

Dude if you are gonna use a bubble bucket or any hydroponic sytem of any sort make sure that the roots are well through the bottom or say a rock wool cube or the media that you are useing.Put the plants in some kind of tray if you are only doing a few plants cat litter trays are perrrrfect for this just keep your eye on them so they don't dry out if so add more water i only use water till the plants have a good root mass but i have been known to use plants start either work good.But make sure if you do after water the plants by hand till they go into the sytem to squeeze any excess water out leaveing you with a damp not wet through cube.Once the bottom of the cube is nice and white with roots then put it into the sytem with some clay pebbles balls around the base this will do two thing allow the plant to get some water but not too much and hold a little moisture for the plants.Good grow keep green peace tyke............

cheers dude. my plants have settled down now. there growing really fast, all the side branches are turning up and growing towards the light. i wish i had a digital camera so i could post some pics. theyre almost a month old now and are about 2 foot tall.. when do you think i should start flowering them???

jeffgordon24 said:

cheers dude. my plants have settled down now. there growing really fast, all the side branches are turning up and growing towards the light. i wish i had a digital camera so i could post some pics. theyre almost a month old now and are about 2 foot tall.. when do you think i should start flowering them???

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supercrop it and start now

sorry for sounding dumb, but what do you mean by super cropping???

that is when u crimp the stalk of the plant making it lay over
u will want to tie it down also or it will try to straighten back out

Im not sure ive got enough room to super crop. my grow room is 4 feet x 4 feet x 6 feet high. all my side branches are growing straight up towards the light and they all look like the main stem at the top. do you still think i should super crop?

jeffgordon24 said:

Im not sure ive got enough room to super crop. my grow room is 4 feet x 4 feet x 6 feet high. all my side branches are growing straight up towards the light and they all look like the main stem at the top. do you still think i should super crop?

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yes
supercrop the main stem so the whole plant lays over, secure the lateral branches and the main tip
u should have plenty of room...if u dont supercrop or do some other kind of management,u wont have enough or itll be pretty close

thanks for the advice.. do you think i'll run out of room if i dont supercrop? is this why people supercrop, or does it improve your yield? the main stems are an inch thick.. im just worried i'll do more damage than good

It improve plants yield

jeffgordon24 said:

thanks for the advice.. do you think i'll run out of room if i dont supercrop? is this why people supercrop, or does it improve your yield? the main stems are an inch thick.. im just worried i'll do more damage than good

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yes i do think u will run out of room,if not,itll be close
supercropping will get the light to the lower part of the plant(parts that normally wont produce much)
so it should increase ur yeild
if ur stem is too big,move up the plant until it is breakable

thanks for all your advice. Ive done as you said and tied down all the branches. ive also taken a lot of the big leaves off. I did have one problem, one of the tops i was bending it split. what should i do will it be ok? how long should i now wait before i start to flower them..

itll be fine,i wouldnt have touched the fan leaves though
continue as planned

hello again.. well its been a few days now and my plants have recovered nicely. theres now plenty of fan leaves and the splits in the stem dont seem to have affected the plants at all.. im 3 days into the flowering stage, is there anymore advice you can give me. should i trim any leaves off during flowering? or is it a case of leave well alone now and just let them grow uninterupted until they finish?

jeffgordon24 said:

hello again.. well its been a few days now and my plants have recovered nicely. theres now plenty of fan leaves and the splits in the stem dont seem to have affected the plants at all.. im 3 days into the flowering stage, is there anymore advice you can give me. should i trim any leaves off during flowering? or is it a case of leave well alone now and just let them grow uninterupted until they finish?

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u can take off any suckers that are shaded at the bottom
but other than that...let it grow

thanks again for all your advice. you've been a great help. im looking forward to enjoying this crop and starting the next. do you have a favorite strain that you like to grow?

jeffgordon24 said:

do you have a favorite strain that you like to grow?

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all of them

hello there.. im now into my 5th week of flowering and all is going well. the only thing is ive noticed that a lot of leaves are going yellow right at the tips. is this nutrient burn?