1st timer, w/Hydroton, could use a little help...

I don't give a fuck about your english...and ... prick or not, you've still given sound advice and the plants can prove it. Thanks again.

no, the leaves aren't yellowing, just the few that are closest to the bottom, its just the hps light on the rest. There is about 1 cm between the top of the hydroton and the lowest set of leaves, and about 2 cm between each new growth on the main stem, is this normal? They seem really compact.

For watering, I'm using a timer with 15min increments, so i have to increase it to 30 mins, is this ok? ppm is at about 1000. ph is rising higher and more frequently with stronger nutes, but I try to adjust it to 5.5-6.0 at least 2 times a day. I just changed this tank of water on sunday and it got cloudy by monday afternoon, smelled bad again.

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Originally Posted by TMusic

I don't give a fuck about your english...and ... prick or not, you've still given sound advice and the plants can prove it. Thanks again.

no, the leaves aren't yellowing, just the few that are closest to the bottom, its just the hps light on the rest. There is about 1 cm between the top of the hydroton and the lowest set of leaves, and about 2 cm between each new growth on the main stem, is this normal? They seem really compact.

For watering, I'm using a timer with 15min increments, so i have to increase it to 30 mins, is this ok? ppm is at about 1000. ph is rising higher and more frequently with stronger nutes, but I try to adjust it to 5.5-6.0 at least 2 times a day. I just changed this tank of water on sunday and it got cloudy by monday afternoon, smelled bad again.

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the bottom leafs that are burnt are prob touching the clay balls from time to time, if so thats why as it sits on the wet hydroton and the nutes burn the leafs, i would cut them back so they don't touch the bucket or hydroton. and if ur wanting to trim ur plants up nows the time to do it.i would'nt do much but sum to clean things up.

and from what i've read, sum strains have tight nodes and that can be a good thing, so i would'nt worry bout that and i'd say 30mins is fine, there getting bigger now and as they do they want more food as well.with all the growth i see i think u will have sum good thick growth when u go 12/12, so there lookin nice keep it up and i would 'nt go higher than 1000ppm right now and that might be alil much as it is so watch them. and the bad smell can be from dead plant matter in the res im guessing as it happened to me as well.

Day 36 from seeds. Pics just before the light came on today. the tallest point is 11 inches tall, grew about an inch yesterday.

would any other trimming help? ...probably should leave them alone.

now would be a perfect time to fimm them it's great i fimmed my plants and man can i say it works bigggggg time put it this way i had 1 plant that had 20 tops to it, no lie it's hard for me to explain it but i'll try if u don't understand it look it up on here it's real easy to do and u will love the results believe me what u do is u see in ur picc the very last growth coming out the top the lil leafs sprouting out the top u cut about 80% of them off leaving the stem that there growing from and about 20% of the leafs left look it up on here i think theres sum pics on it to to show just how much to cut but it's really worth it if ur not sure do just 1or2 and leave the rest and u can see the diffrence fo sho....

but only if u have the room cause they will slow down upwards growth for about a week or less but it will start growing outwards u will def yeild alot more by fimming

I had considered this and if these were clones I would do it, but they're not. I don't want to waste the time not knowing which ones are female.

But can a take a cutting or two from each plant? If I keep track of them I can only grow out the females and do something different next time.

i started all mine from seed too and i fimmed half of them i got lucky and 2 turned out to be fem if u have the space i'd go ahead with it it won't hurt and if they turn out to be males just toss them anyways so no harm but u will be able to see the extra growth just to see what and how it all works

If you don't want to stress them at all just bend them down into the right shape for max light penetration....if you dont know how a strain will react to FIM or topping I wouldn't do it.

Have any shown sex yet? Should be soon....look very close on the nodes.

They look really good by the way....I only use a 80watt for veg mine are way more lanky than yours then on to the 600 digital HPS for flower.

Nut sure if your doing any bene. bacteria but your res should not smell bad....add some hydrogen peroxide to clear it up. You dont want to pump festering nutes to your plants, its bad news.

Hydrogen peroxide will kill good and bad bacteria, mostly bad since most good bacteria are aerobic but add enough and you kill them all. try 8ml 3% H2O2 per gallon....do it for a few days and see how they react, you might be pleasantly surprised.

When I switch the lights to 12/12, do I still cut the water for the whole dark cycle? If not, how many time should I water them?