Problem with 3 RQS northern light autos

Hi there ppl! i'm new to rollitup and i need your expertise in this one cause i'm not very exprierienced with growing autos.
So i'm arround day 34 of my grow and my plants are doing all sorts of weird stuff.

But before we begin i'll give you some info first.
-this is a closet grow
-this is pretty much a low cost grow not too many fancy stuff.
-soil is biobizz lightmix
-the nutes i have available are biobizz-rootjuice,grow,heaven,top max, and bloom. and also an advanced nutriends cal mag.
-light is a Mars Hydro reflector 144x5
-pot size are 3gallon feltpots (something like a smartpot but i choose them cause i wanted a more vertical pot)
-and a small fan to circulate the air.

So everything started and progressed pretty fine while in veg, plants were growing, leaves looked fine, and all of them started becoming bushy and nice.
When the plant had 4-5 nodes i thought it would be a good time to tie it down, it was also about the time to start some feeding. So mainly after the lst the plant started to look "sad" and the leaves drooped, it had some better days after that but in general and until now the plants haven't fully recovered. also they started showing some weird leaf twisting, yellowing, rust spots etc. which led me to believe that it may be a ph problem (haven't tested it yet but as far as i know from last time its within the range it needs to be) last time i grown 2 autos they never had this problem and i'm doing exactly the same workflow as fas as water goes. The other thing i'm thinking is that it may be some sort of nute lock out but i really haven't fed it that much. also as far as overwatering-underwatering goes this too seems weird cause i mainly water it now every 3-4 days depending the needs.



Now as you can see in the pictures they started flowering but the plants seem lifeless and i can't put my finger on what exaclty goes wrong.Growth seems to continue and side branches now formed a pretty much even canopy

i know that i should probably photograph my plants in natural light but i'll try this tomorow if it helps!

so anyway thanks in advance and i hope you will help me save my plants

When was the last time u watered they look as though they have not been watered in a wile

Antgotaclue said:

When was the last time u watered they look as though they have not been watered in a wile

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actually i watered them that very morning and some hours later i thought i grab some pics and make this thread. today the plants actually stood up after some days and they seem better, but it shows some defs that it shouldn't have (dark spots on the newer leaves and some yellowing here and there) i'll try to take some new photos under normal lighting

Ok dude

Antman15, this seems interesting thanks for the link. even though most of these cases wouldn't apply so easily when using smartpots or something similar, but there are some things to look out for that i didn't think before, like the water temperature

So new pics time.



today it was a better day for my plants, as you can see from the group shot they seem much more lively than yesterday.
In the next pic its something that affected only one of my plants and as you can see there are brown spots on some of the younger leaves and also some yellowing here and there
on the other 2 plants i had some young yellowing leaves and also the death of 1-2 large base leafs, which could have happened anyway since they don't really get too much light.

Anyway drop an eye and tell my what you think

Well they look a little better, but that curl on the new growth says root problems to me. Make sure that you aren't over watering.

They might be coming out of it though. Proceed with optimistic caution. Good luck.

How close are they to the leds?

yeah i'm trying to be super carefull with my next steps, tomorrow will probably be the next watering. i water them every 3-4 days 750-1L per plant at this stage.
it's kinda hard to overwater with smartpot style pots but yea it's stil a possibility.
The leds are arround 12-14 inches away from the top of the plants, you think i should give them a bit more room?

also another question. how often you guys feed your autos? right now i'm going every other watering but i don't really put full strength yet

So, wanted to give an update on my grow. Again sorry for the Led pictures, i'm going to shot some more at some point with normal lighting

all of them are at day 102(?) yeah i know the went way too long but i think it must be that at some point the temperatures and humidity where not the ideal ones (or it may be that i had them to close to the led? but i gave them some space later on) so they must have gone slow.

Actually the middle one is almost ready for the chop, super frosty and few amber trichs started making their appearance. So it's a matter of days i guess, im keeping an eye on it everyday but i think in 3-4 days it's gonna meet its fate

The other two seem to need 2 weeks for sure and i hope for no more, but no matter what happens i will be patient
the first one has big fat buds but its not so frosty and the pistils are mostly white and some orange
the third one is quite at the same phase as the first one but with less foxtailing, but still to many white pistlis and immature trichs.



is it normal for this strain to go for this long? i hope at least to get some decent yield

Time for some close ups in a more natural light of the one that seems to be almost ready (the middle one from the previous post).
Leaves have started some heavy yellowing/dying
trichs are almost all cloudy with a touch of amber here and there. but i think due to some new growth there maybe a very small percentance of clear
so i know that is difficult to estimate, but do you think i should chop it down in the next 2-3 days?
there are some white pistils here and there and the calyxes got bigger in general, but i'm thinking if there is any reason yield wise to let it live a bit more

guys common i know nobody has to answer but i could really use your opinion, sure this isn't the section for feedback but i hoped i didn't have to start a new thread
thanks in advance

Good end result in my opinion

Thanks man, i chopped it yesterday and left it to dry. Im curious about the dry weight cant wait.
I guess i could keep it a bit more but it seemed ready enough.
The other 2plants probably will take a bit more. Too bad this grow took so much, but i dont really have too much expierience in growing yet so its understandable. Learned so much to apply better next time.

tehdansauce said:

Good end result in my opinion

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I agree. While you're growing buds like that, we should be coming to you for an opinion. Nice job.

Thanks, well it was a bumpy ride, its not like i know what im doing. But fortunate enough theres a lot good info from other folks around the web. But im pretty happy with the overall result, i expected worse from my first proper grow.

So these just keep on fattening. I gave the chop to one of them (the one ine the center from the previous posts) came at 78grams dry. So i estimate it will be about the same if not more from the rest.

Kinda happy i managed to pull of this much from 40cm (with lst) plants