dochickory
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This example is a White Widow leaf sample. Short history of plant started in rock wool from seed 9/7 was stunted by lack of nutrients first 2-3 weeks, since I've been using Botanicare 3-2-4, with supplements of Cal-Mag, Aquashield and Pro-Tekt, in recommended Hydro amounts and less.
Another view looking up under a leaf on the plant, the roots are beautiful and fully developing, that's the problem absorbing anything I throw at them LOL
There was one major issue other than lack of nutes early on. I occasionally would mist the plants with pH'd water and noticed they liked that. I thought running a branch for a mister in the compartment would be good, for humidity and foliar feeding. I gave little thought to the fact that the mist would be foliar feeding the same nutrients, since I only have one solution delivery system. I ran the branch with the mister anyway.
The results were momentarily explosive, after about a day and a half the plants grew too fast! thinking this was not good, I disconnected that mister nozzle while the plants looked like new green leaf lettuce leaves wet, fresh and tender, however the perimeters of all the leaves were turning yellow-brown, I watched them slowly get better, I thought, this is when I added the Pro-Tekt as a supplement. Things steadily improved for all three plants, until 2-3 days ago I noticed some of the leaves on WW seemed odd, bumpy, with light brown splotches.
This morning it was worse. The other 2 plants aren't showing this issue. They are in separate compartments though, they share the same nutrient solution. My guess is it might be Mag deficiency from looking at a chart example lots of people use on this site.
I also thought maybe the LED panels were too close for the young plant Hans recommends 15-40 cm I had them at 15 and raised them to 20-25, but WW has since grown it's 15cm again.
Anyway this is my first and experimental HPA grow, I never expected WW to grow as vigorously as it has, with the new HPA system, LED panels and other challenges with this makes for quite a learning curve. I really didn't care much about WW it was a free regular seed, so I figured experimenting was in order and didn't care if I lost WW, but after the time and effort and the progress WW has made, I'd hate to lose it now.
any constructive information would be appreciated. I even considered the individual diode colors of the LED panel being too concentrated and not blended, I took a picture of a leaf with the color defined like a kaleidoscope shinning on the leaf, wondering it if would effect the plant somehow, maybe it did?
This will be a miracle if anyone even reads this let alone responds. This whole adventure is a scream
Another view looking up under a leaf on the plant, the roots are beautiful and fully developing, that's the problem absorbing anything I throw at them LOL
There was one major issue other than lack of nutes early on. I occasionally would mist the plants with pH'd water and noticed they liked that. I thought running a branch for a mister in the compartment would be good, for humidity and foliar feeding. I gave little thought to the fact that the mist would be foliar feeding the same nutrients, since I only have one solution delivery system. I ran the branch with the mister anyway.
The results were momentarily explosive, after about a day and a half the plants grew too fast! thinking this was not good, I disconnected that mister nozzle while the plants looked like new green leaf lettuce leaves wet, fresh and tender, however the perimeters of all the leaves were turning yellow-brown, I watched them slowly get better, I thought, this is when I added the Pro-Tekt as a supplement. Things steadily improved for all three plants, until 2-3 days ago I noticed some of the leaves on WW seemed odd, bumpy, with light brown splotches.
This morning it was worse. The other 2 plants aren't showing this issue. They are in separate compartments though, they share the same nutrient solution. My guess is it might be Mag deficiency from looking at a chart example lots of people use on this site.
I also thought maybe the LED panels were too close for the young plant Hans recommends 15-40 cm I had them at 15 and raised them to 20-25, but WW has since grown it's 15cm again.
Anyway this is my first and experimental HPA grow, I never expected WW to grow as vigorously as it has, with the new HPA system, LED panels and other challenges with this makes for quite a learning curve. I really didn't care much about WW it was a free regular seed, so I figured experimenting was in order and didn't care if I lost WW, but after the time and effort and the progress WW has made, I'd hate to lose it now.
any constructive information would be appreciated. I even considered the individual diode colors of the LED panel being too concentrated and not blended, I took a picture of a leaf with the color defined like a kaleidoscope shinning on the leaf, wondering it if would effect the plant somehow, maybe it did?This will be a miracle if anyone even reads this let alone responds. This whole adventure is a scream
