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week 3 day 3
have a big problem with no 2 , iv read on the forums about potassium deficiency , and epsom salts was the fix .
gave half teaspoon in to 1 ltr water , problem is i feed it yesterday and i dont wont to over water it , i wonder can i sprinkle some over the soil ?
week 3 day 7
no 2. is haveing a hard time :( fan leaves are almost gone and there is a lockout of k , i think ?.
no 1. is looking great , grew about 4" in week 3 , but have some lighting of the fan leaves ,
feeding mix. 1 ltr each , cannaflora 1 ml + 1/4 teaspoon, every second day ,
both plants are on the same feed and no1 is loving it . i think no2 will die if i can find a cure fast :(
pls comment ,
this no 1 .
Looks like you were feeding to much. You don't need to flush. You just add water when the soil is dry. Exactly how often to feed is a bit of a mystery and to solve it, people in these anonymous forums keep making up answers like, "feed like this schedule," or "feed and flush rotating the weeks and that will work." We can that this info doesn't work. Don't treat these plants much different than the average houseplant. There's been alot of bad info roaming around the web for years. Here's an example: in the 1990's, it was said that you should stick your plant's stem with a tack. The reasons were because it would stress the plant and make it grow better (not true), and that the steel of the pin would add necessary metals, also improving the health of the plant (not true either). Then there was the idea of making your plants female by using human birth control pills. The idea here was to steal your sister's or girlfriend's birth control pills, crush them into pieces and sprinkle this on the plant. The reason being that since it was female hormone, it would make your plants female. Plants have hormones but not like people. Following that feeding schedule you have overferted that one plant. Only fert if the plant looks a little light green. Only water when the soil is dry. Or try hydro. Build a bubble bucket or oxypot, same thing. Pretty easy to do and get a pH/TDS meter. This will give you a little more control and involvement. pH around 5.9 and TDS (PPM) around 700 to start a clone and take it some from there as the plant grows. Check out the youtube videos on how to do this and make this stuff. Some great videos out there. Mr Green How to Build a Basic Indoor Weed Grow Room - Step by Step Construction Guide (1 of 9) - YouTube
Week 4 day 7 sunday ,
gave them a mild flush 16ltr to 10lrt pot , have only feed water and molasses (last ltr of flush) .
no1 is having good growth and many bud sites , it is not a tall plant but very bushy and dense .
no2 is having a hard time , not sure what to do , there are alot of dead roots in that pot ,
hey polish , yeh iv all but abandoned the feed chart , i figured it might be to much , so i went on the side on caution and just let the plants do there thing with the least input from a noob like me , all iv tryed to do is tuck as many of the fan leaves out of the way , its is responding fine and im very happy with no1 .
pls comment .
im trying to upload some very nice pics , but it wont let me :(
The problem with using a fert like Canna is you never really know how often to feed. There's alot of bad info on the web and I'm not sure how all this stuff got started but the feed/flush idea has been around for along time, but it's bad info. You don't need to do anything special to grow this plant but for some reason growers always think that the plant has special needs and if you do certain things, the plant will give the best results. All that needs to happen is just feed once in a great while, or when the plant appears to be deficient in something. Then you just water when the soil is dry. Flushing so frequently does not guarantee that you flushing the ferts out of the soil, if that's what you're trying to do. All it does is keep the soil wet, which really isn't good for them, staying wet all the time. This could be the reason why you're seeing dead roots. There are bette ways to fertilize for people that really don't know what they're doing, which is to use some powder ferts - one half cup of powder (not crystalized but powder) for every three or four liters of potting soil. For some reason, powder ferts don't seem to be popular at Ireland grow shops from what I can find on the web. There are at least two companies in America that sell this kind of fert. On this page Foxfarm has theirs and I would recommend the Fruit and Flower one in the yellow containter. FoxFarm Soil & Fertilizer Company
It wouldn't be cheap, but I bet you could order this stuff and have it shipped to you but just be careful that you only order one box or bag, not more than that. If you don't want to try this, you don't really need to, that's fine, but just be careful in the future of how much Canna you give. It should be a very good fert but you've used to much on that one plant. The powder ferts are pretty complete with nutrition and shouldn't need anything else. Canna's the same. You could go ahead and use a little seaweed but not much because it's strong.
How are things looking now?
Sometimes you can give to much water and the yellowingon the tips of leaves can be caused from lack of phos and calcium
i cant upload any pics ? , is there a limit to how many a member can have ?
week 5 day 1 flower .
no 1. is bulking up real nice , its a small plant with many bud sites , the tips of the leaves are drying out ? is this normal ?, i think it is ? . i have been tucking the fan leaves behind the colas and some of the lower inside leaves are falling off , these are light green in color ? i have not given any ferts , only tap water , about a Ltr everyday when its hot and the pot is light in weight .
no 2. this plant is dying , it looks terrible , all the fan leaves are almost brown , and the buds are looking sad , i can not kill this plant , everything has been the same as no1. feeding etc, other then it was in a pot with another plant that i had to cull because it was it turned hermi .
this needs photos to explain :(
If you have lower leaves that are yellow, that plant needs a shot of fert. After that let the soil dry out some before you water again.