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I know I have a ways to go, but can anybody give me a guesstimate how about much longer until I will have something??? these are about 14 or 15 weeks old, and seem to be happy and growing fairly quickly.
I would also like to know what the rusty colored spots are that are appearing on some (not all) of the larger middle leaves, and if I let go for a couple days, seems to dry up the leaves like they're burned from heat or something.
Thanks!
I'd say you have anywhere from 25-50 more days. You need to give some more information also. How long were you vegetating before you switched to flowering? What is the PH kept at?
Are these indoor or outdoor?
To be honest, I have had these in just regular daylight except for the first 2 weeks, which they were under a flourescent tube gro light. These are only the third batch I have ever tried growing, (just seeds acquired over time) and didn't know anything about growing except what I have learned from reading in this forum recently. What I'm saying is, I was ignorant of the fact that they required an actual light schedule. (Actually, to be honest, I didn't think there was this much info available on the internet)
Prior to this, I had just taken seeds and mixed into the soil in my backyard in California, never fertilized, just watered with the hose, and they would grow to 4 or 5 feet tall, but I always had to cut them down for one reason or another, so never got any results from them.
The plants are about 15 weeks old, and I have no idea what the PH is, but I have them in Miracle Grow soil, and used to fertilize them every few days with MG powdered stuff (12-12-12 I think) but have within the last month, switched to MG plant stakes (6-12-6) .
They are outside plants, in light from about 7 A.M. till 7 P.M., temp during the day reaching mid-high 80's during the day, and lows to 70's at night, with humidity usually around 60%
Mine (five-net!) are also in week 14! very similiar except my smaller 3 are flowering more as of the last two weeks. Are you using Sodium (HPS/SPS) or;
MH Bulb? Should be the red wavelength now;SPS rather than the MH, eh? Not to worry about those leaves; typical from what i've seen.
Is your 'time' cycle 12/12? that's what's pretty standard at this stage.
Not really an outside guy at all but easy on the feeding. My guess is that the spots could be from getting water on the larger leaves but hard to say. If u r using tap water then It's not cal/mg.
They are outdoors plants with natural sun light, about 12/12, maybe leaning closer to 13/11.
Mine too have really grown significantly in the past couple weeks, not so much in height, but they have filled out some more, and the flowers are starting to get some shape to them, not just the white hairs anymore :)
Glad to hear the leaves are somewhat ok, I was getting worried, because if I leave them and don't clip them off, they will actually dry up and shrivel as though sun or heat burned.I'm still going to try and get a PH tester and check the soil to see what I have though.
Strange part is, it is only the largest plant, and only the largest leaves midway up the stalk, not the upper or lower leaves.
Thanks for the help again, these are the same 3 plants I had in the first pictures back at the beginning of last month-nice improvement, huh?
Hm. OK, but I never get the leaves wet, I always pour water directly into the soil, and before we give the tap water the approval, the water here in my state is pretty full of crud, requires the scrubbing of toilet every third day so the ring at the water line doesn't build up.
I do take a bucket, fill it, (not with toilet water LOL) and let it sit for a day before using though, to hopefully let some of the chlorine breathe (I don't know if it's an old wives tail or what, but that's what a friend told/suggested I do)
Do you see any advantage to distilled or bottled water?
Like I said. Outdoors is French to me. Luckily where I live the tap is perfect and comes out at 6.5. Some swear by letting the chlorine evaporate. I don't. It does not hurt the plant. Just supposedly the microbes in the dirt but I can say since I switched to tap my plants have never done better. If u use distilled u will need to supplement cal/mg I would think.
Great! Thanks :)