Week 9 Big problems need advice

Hey guys so week 9 with a strain I was told was crinkle kush. First time using nutes for me so noobed out and bought pH perfect advanced nutrients stuff. Iv grown 3 times and usually get crispy leaves second half of flower, but never dealt with testing my pH. Bought this line of nutrients to avoid having to buy pH test kits but either my pH is wack or I have no idea how to feed plants. Nugs have barely grown since week 5 and leaves just keep getting more crispy.

I have flushed with distilled water till I got 15%-20% runoff to get all my built up nutes out. Tried using foxfarm big bloom at 1/4 dosage and ditched all the advanced nutes to keep things basic.

I'm out of ideas in week 9 just started noticed a few ambers on the most developed colas. Anyways pics below and what would you guys continue to do at this point?

Only thing you have left to do is harvest, they're done imo.

Some strains just produce flowers like that when grown without training as you have done.

Next time (if you run that strain again) scrog it. It will make a big differance. I've grown some colorful kushes that looked exactly like that one run, then the next run I scrogged it and it was a night and day differance in the buds

Fuck yeah OP you got problems! You have a lot of chopping and trimming work to do.

Ha! After reading your post and looking at the pics, I'm wondering to my self...WTF, just chop em down they look great.

By the way OP, part of your problem is probably light burn, I am guessing you are using LED of some sort? Lots of them in a small space? If not then it is some sort of nutrient burn, P toxicity maybe? They look frosty, but pretty crispy to be sure. Very pretty, but beat up. May have been a light feeder and wanted a little less juice.

growingforfun said:

Some strains just produce flowers like that when grown without training as you have done.

Next time (if you run that strain again) scrog it. It will make a big differance. I've grown some colorful kushes that looked exactly like that one run, then the next run I scrogged it and it was a night and day differance in the buds

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Ya eh well scrogg will definitely be happening on the next grow, and way more veg defoliation below canopy. Thanks for advice.

Michael Huntherz said:

By the way OP, part of your problem is probably light burn, I am guessing you are using LED of some sort? Lots of them in a small space? If not then it is some sort of nutrient burn, P toxicity maybe? They look frosty, but pretty crispy to be sure. Very pretty, but beat up. May have been a light feeder and wanted a little less juice.

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Yup got some new cob LEDs and they produce next to no heat so I had them set fairly close.. dang. Was also thinking P toxicity myself. So gotta just harvest em and hope for a good smoke at this point.

GBAUTO said:

Ha! After reading your post and looking at the pics, I'm wondering to my self...WTF, just chop em down they look great.

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Haha thanks man thats all that's left to do at this point it really seems like. Gonna chop n hope for a clean smoke. I'll give them one last watering and chop in 5 days on the weekend.

letstry said:

Ya eh well scrogg will definitely be happening on the next grow, and way more veg defoliation below canopy. Thanks for advice.


Yup got some new cob LEDs and they produce next to no heat so I had them set fairly close.. dang. Was also thinking P toxicity myself. So gotta just harvest em and hope for a good smoke at this point.

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If you back those COBs back next run you I bet you will get much happier plants and bigger yields. They cause hot spots of shit tons of PAR when set close, backing them off will spread it out and still be plenty, probably. You just PAR’d the shit out of them in spite of the lack of heat, hence the pretty colors and stunted growth but no taco-shaped leaves like heat damage does. P could be an issue too, but I think it is mostly too many photons. I almost killed some young plants with too much light only a run ago. Good problem to have, I have mine as high as I can get them now and everyone is happy.

Michael Huntherz said:

If you back those COBs back next run you I bet you will get much happier pllants and bigger yields, they cause hot spots of shit tons of PAR when set close, backing them off will spread it out and still be plenty, probably. You just PAR’d the shit out of them in spite of the lack of heat, hence the pretty colors and stunted growth but no taco leaves like heat damage does. P could be an issue too, but I think it is mostly too many photons. I almost killed some young plants with too much light only a run ago. Good problem to have!

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Concur

Michael Huntherz said:

If you back those COBs back next run you I bet you will get much happier plants and bigger yields. They cause hot spots of shit tons of PAR when set close, backing them off will spread it out and still be plenty, probably. You just PAR’d the shit out of them in spite of the lack of heat, hence the pretty colors and stunted growth but no taco-shaped leaves like heat damage does. P could be an issue too, but I think it is mostly too many photons. I almost killed some young plants with too much light only a run ago. Good problem to have, I have mine as high as I can get them now and everyone is happy.

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How many inches away from the canopy do you think is best? Anything over a foot and a half seems crazy to me but hell do I know about leds. My firs run with an hps was easy as putting my hand on the closest cola and feeling if it was too hot. also what does Par'd stand for haha trying to do a little research

Binge watch your favorite show .... that’s some trimming to do.

Those are some nice flowers to my eyes, might cramp your hands a little but it's nothing excessive imo, Nice job op.