From Novice To Expert, a Journey through the Green

Just got a couple of pictures before my camera battery died again. First two are of the 3 cotyledon seedling. Next two are some 1.5-2 week old HK. Last is just of a few seedlings.

Got my tent set up today. Absolutely hate flex ducting at this point, but got it all set up. Definitely going to replace it with some solid ductwork as soon as I can.

Noticed some yellow spots on the lower leaves of my oldest plant the other day. Pretty sure if was a magnesium deficiency so started with 1/4 dose of veg nutes(including micronutes) and haven't noticed any new spotting.

Set up my 600w mh in the grow tent and moved my older more established plants into that. Seedlings needed the closet room anyways. Going to run 18/6 light schedule on the MH for now. Might go back to 24/7 but giving my younger plants a chance to catch up some, plus savings on electricity wont hurt :thumbsup:

I'll get some pics tomorrow, had to work all day, and spent the last 3 hours setting up my room/watering/transplanting or id have some now.

I've noticed the HK seedlings tend to droop quite a bit for the first week or so. Is this normal? Id blame over or under watering but all the other seedlings of the four other strains look fine. My older HK did the same thing when they were starting and ended up just fine.

Noticed a bit of yellow spotting on the fan leaves of my upper plant. Fan leaves were also starting to curl up slightly. Think my water pH may have been high so flushed with some plain water pHed to 6.3-6.5. Few pictures of the spotting below. They are pretty faint right now, but just starting to appear.

Any ideas, or does a high ph seem like the culprit? Have only been watering with plain water so far, except one watering where I added a magnesium supplement(about a week ago). Anyone have a recommendation for a good digital pH meter?

Heres a pic of the spotting. Had a better one but was too big to upload, hopefully you can see it on this one.

Few pics. First is of a WW seedling, second is a side shot of one of my oldest plants. I took a bunch more but they were too big. Have to turn down the quality on my camera I guess and take a few more.

Just a quick question. Havnt been able to find much information on it, but are light leaks during veg something to worry about if your running an 18/6 light schedule. Haven't been closing the vents in my tent during the dark period, should I? Been easier to keep it cool with the exhaust fan running all of the time with the vents open.

Leaves on one of my older plants are starting to curl up. Just the top two sets of leaves. Canopy temps are 78-83 degrees. Checked runoff ph and it was in the 6.3-6.7 range(only have the color test atm, digital meter otw). I'll post some pics in a few minutes. Any ideas? Most of the things I've ready point to heat stress, but its a good 2 inches shorter them my tallest plant who is showing no signs of this.

First pic is of the leaf curling. Also noticed a few yellowing veins on this and a few other plants. Is this normal? Think my tap water may be low on mag and cal, anyone have experience using MagiCal from techniflora instead of Calmag+ as a supplement? Few other pics of my older plants, and finally replaced my flex ducting with sheet metal ducts. Plan to just attack a short piece of flex ducting so I can raise and lower the light as needed. Any comments, concerns? Have some more pics I'll be posting in a few minutes had to resize.

Few more pics, first is of the sick plant. Then another of my oldest plant, and a few of the Mandala Seedlings. Last is of the three leaf seedlings(pic was taken a few days ago.

My older plants have definitly been overwatered a bit since I put them into the tent, trying to get that under control now. Could that cause the curling?

Also one of my seedlings is starting to develop some yellow tips. Time to start feeding? Or could this be caused by something else. Ill post a picture in a minute.

And a few pictures of the seedling with yellow tips.

On another note, the plant with the curled leaves has been slightly mutant from birth. It is the one with the deformed cotyledon and has grown strangely the entire time. Lots of four leaf sets/non serrated leaf edges ect.

mine did the curling thing too when i over watered.. also did it before i needed to transplant. so maybe it could be one of those two things.