Molybdenum (Mo), maybe?
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Chrissy, how did the mites get into your plants?
After all the crap I've gone through with these things, I am now afraid of bugs.
I went to your pics page. Fabulous. I love the idea of using a dryer, that is so tight! When we move to our new house (please god let it be soon) I'm going to follow your growroom plans. This growing in a little closet shit is for the birds. I have a hard time taking care of my plants cuz I have to bend and squish myself into a pretzel to fit in the closet.
I'm so happy. Jaz's top finally has a little root nub! now I need to wait for Bella. I've decided that the purpling stopped, so maybe they were a little short on Phousphorus and sulfer but the were just fed so that should fix it. The ph is fine so if it happens close to the next feed I'll increase my nutes.
A few of my rooted clones leaves have contorted as they grew since I put them under the MH bulb, and have a little yellowing so I think maybe they had used up all their nutes growing roots. My nute system suggests a 250ppm solution once they develope roots and I've stared that with no ill signs. I also pulled the humidity dome off after cracking it a few days. They seem to be doing fine, they're slowly growing.
With all the clones I plan to top them once I have 4 nice branch sites. Then I'll have 4 mainstems growing out and up like a cup. I'll snip the branches out of the inside of the cup and try to LST the outside branches. That way I have the chance to convert a vegging clone to a mom if I really like this harvest.
Thanks everyone for stopping by, I watch my veiw number climb so I know you're lookin out for me.
Chrissy,
When you top and then lst, do you tie all the outside branches down? Cause if so, I need to go back in my room and commence to tyin'.
I am just full of questions today!
What I did when my plants were 4 weeks I started to pull the top horizotal by shaping the plant like an S. then I pulled all the large branches out to the side almost horizontal so the secondary branches took off. Once they reached the edge of the pot and started growing up I cut the lines. I only topped by accident with my ties. But once the tops came off the top 3-4 branches(the mainstalk is horizontal remember to allow equal light) They took off. So I have 3-5 main colas now and lots of side colas. Very bushy plants, almost too bushy, I'm running out of floor space now, but don't regret it. I would spend hours tying each day, but I was also trying to slowly bend a tree trunk like stem so I had to do it gradual, otherwise I would have kinks, braches pulled down too much can split from the main stalk, and fine ties(like fishing line) can slice through. Even tiny nicks with that line would cause it to cleanly snap when pressure was pul on it. Next time I'll use yarn for sure. Kp said she would put a screw in the outside of the rim and just wrap it around. Sounds like alot less work.
I used that real soft nylon rope for tying boats to a dock. Got it at Wal-Mart, goddess bless 'em. I FIMmed 3 of my 4 plants, and now they're all lsted in one way or another. Two of them have all 4 mains tied, and two of them are just bent at the one main stalk. One of those is untouched by FIM or topping, it's just LSTed. The other one was FIMmed, but the two branches don't want to let me tie them separately, so I just tied them down together.
I swear, my next grow I'll be more organized.;)
At least this way you'll knowwhat works better for you. My FIMming was a bust, but next crop I'll try again. I'll know alot more by then.
OK I am having a problem with some of my clones. On some I had yellowing, leaves and branches growing scrunched and a few brown crispy spots. Some hade only one sign, some had a few and others are totally fine. I have many variables such as adding very lite nutes as recommended by the product, moving them under the 400MH, and losing a timer so not having nighttime heat stability that they were used too. With so many variables I didn't know what was going on. So I set it up like a lab experiment and charted all my information and made some connections and identified clusters. I noticed that my early clones were more affected and the occurances became less as I cloned more. I did some research and found that when left in rockwool cubes then planted strait into soil there were a few unconsistant variables. So I would periodically gently pull them out and check for nubs. The two clones that are the worst were the first to grow roots, but in the etra day it took to get everything ready they grew into the cube. So I pulled the cubes apart carefully around the roots then planted them. So I have come to the concusion that most of my clone problem is the result of stress to the roots system. The yellowing on some is consistent with nute def from directing energy towards rooting. And the two that have slight burns are probaly the result of the root systems of a few not being quite ready when I started with the recommended very light nutes. I don't think the nutes caused the contorting because most of the plants new growth appears to be growing properly, and the ones that have contorted new growth are a little newer. So all I can really do is wait and see if my theory holds true. Luckily I have enough healthy clones to keep my strains alive, and a few clones just now rooting to watch and observe.
But hey this is my first grow and I'd rather play now so I know for later. As time goes on I'll have more oppertunities to experiment once I have my bonsai moms going that I'll have to take clippings I don't need off anyways.
Any theories, thoughs, questions or suggestions, feel free to shoot, cause I'm here to learn.
Thanks as always for popping in for the visit.:D
I'm really interested in the whole bonsai thing, both on cannabis and on trees. I'm off to run a search on the forums and see what I can find on it.
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