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happymedicine
04-15-2011, 04:46 PM
What is your experience level? novice-experienced

Your Equipment:
.1) Type and wattage of lights.
fluorescents (around 300w t12 and t8; 4 2bulb fixtures 48")

2) Distance from tops?
around 1.5"-5" depending on size of plant

.3) Reflector type?
48" 2 bulb-white
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4) Is there a consistent fresh air supply?
-not always. In 9x9'x8'h basement. -Door opened to outside 1 per day
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5) Do you have an exhaust fan and a circulation fan?
I have circulation fan underneath the scrog screen, plants are sitting on top of scrog screen

.6) What are the bulb wattages, kelvin ratings, and schedule?
1 daylight (6000 k), 1 Plant/Aquarium (4000k ?), 4@ 3000k

Your medium:
.7) Specific brand and type of soil
Kellog-natural garden soil; added 1/3 perlite, 1/4 peat moss
.8) Size of container
Bubba-10"dx11"h Others:5"dx6"h
.9) Did you use peat pucks (or similar) to root clones or germinate seedlings?
Bubba-rockwool, others-pearlite/peat moss mix

Your nutrients and water:
10) Source of water?
tap-ph=6.8-7 before adj
11) Method of checking water ph
test strips

12) Method of adjusting water ph.
with nutrients

13) Specific brand and N-P-K ratio for each bottle. List dosages (quantity per gallon) and current feeding schedule.
Fox Farm Grow Big (6-4-4) 1-1.5 tsp/gal, Fish emulsion(mainly nitrogen) 4 drops per gallon, Sperthrive 3 drops/gal, Grandma's molasses 1 tsp/gal. Every 3-4 waterings: B-1 1 tbsp/gal, 1/8 tsp/gal Epsom Salts

14) How often are you watering between feedings, and how much per watering?
1 time between feedings, about 1/3 plant's container capacity.

15) Any additives or tea's?
Molasses and Superthrive (amounts stated above)

16) Are your ph levels stable, or do they fluctuate?
Seem to remain stable.

17) What is your ingoing water's ph? ...your runoff ph?
Ingoing is around 6.-7-6.8 with nutrients, 6.9-7 without nutrients. Never checked runoff

18) Do you foliar feed? If so, with what, how often, and at what time do you spray?
No
However I have had to make an alcohol/peroxide/garlic/dish soap (about 1-3% total solution) to spray for mites. Mite problem seems to have abated, but this could be causing some probs? I used this solution before, and it did not damage the plants. I am growing same strains, except for the platinum bubba.

Your growroom:
19) Indoors or outdoors?
indoor
20) What size of closet, room or hut?
Scrog grow, 8'x9'x8'h room, Scrog setup 4'x2' rectangle
21) What are the temps and humidity levels while lights are on? ...With lights off?
lights on temp=68 hum=+or- 70%
22) Have you seen signs of insects in the growroom?
yes
spider mites (what solution was for), some types of flies (not white flies. looked more like nats or fruit flies).

Your strain:
23) What strain are you growing? (Indica dominate or Sativa dom?)
Indica Dom Platinum Bubba (larger containers), Indica Dom GDP (smaller containers), Sativa Dom Blue Dream (smaller container)

24) From seeds or clones?
Bubba=clones that i have not seen a proven final product form, gdp and blue dream that I cultivated last year and were both healthy/hearty producers.

25) Is this an autoflower strain? no

Bubba Fan leaf
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb370/goat67400/IMG-20110414-00126.jpg

Green Crack Lower leaf
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb370/goat67400/IMG-20110414-00127.jpg

GDP Yellow around edges
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb370/goat67400/IMG-20110414-00132.jpg

Blue Dream- Looks a bit weird (disreagard spider mite damage, as I have those bastards taken care of...for now)
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb370/goat67400/IMG-20110414-00133.jpg

Also, if anyone can tell me, what's up with the 3 fingered leaves? This happened to my last batch, in the beginning, but they ended up growing five fingered leaves-when the plant matured- and ended up producing some delicious final product.

Thanks to all who take a stab at this

polishpollack
04-15-2011, 05:09 PM
The bubba is overfert, as the leaf tips are browning. I'd stop the fish emulsion.
The GDP yellow photo shows what looks alot like magnesium deficiency but I'm not sure that's what it is. Mg def can be solved with epsom salt, which you're giving already. Does FF fert have mg in it already?

happymedicine
04-15-2011, 05:54 PM
The fox farm has trace quantities of mg, fe, zn, cu and a couple others. All under .1% though. I was hoping that the Bubba was just a bit over fertilized, considering that is an easy one to remedy. The info is very much appreciated

WashougalWonder
04-16-2011, 12:45 PM
I think it all is over fertilized. Ease up, drop the superthrive