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One last note--I would not spray those leaves with an hps light 1 1/2 feet away unless you raised it quite a bit or turned it off until they were dry. I have a 1kw hps and remember reading not to let it get closer than 2 feet to my plants. I know you can go closer to the plants with lesser wattage but I don't know how close is too close for your kids.
thanks again pal. i will start that new thread. tbh i wouldnt really say that my babies have ever stopped growing the whole time. temperemental but strong little buggers all the same, i guess. thanks for your help and as always, if anyone else has anything to throw into the pot....................
Has anyone asked about the temps and humidity levels in your grow area? at 1st glance, looks like heat exhaustion. sounds like a nice system. you are right to have ph at 5.8 and you were right to flush with water after seeing problem...can't hurt. it looks like heat stress to me. check ya later, peace
well bugger me backwards. cracked it!!
as i said earlier i bought everything of a guy i knew for an absolute bargain price but didnt ask how old it all was. turns out its all 3 yrs old. just taking up space in his garage. that includes the vitalink a/b!!!!
lent it to one of my amigo's to have a shot with and fuck me sideways. a day later and his leaves are curling up!!!! kinda feel bad for him but at least i know i wasnt doing anything directly wrong myself. probably locking out some nutes to my poor little babies. so its a flush for 18hrs and onto the new.
one last question and then i'll stop:)
as these pictures show, tallest is 14 inches@2 weeks. but only a few. should i top these to slow 'em and get two colas? give the others chance to catch up? can this be done to good results with white widow? is the growth good for age and do the tall ones look ok or a bit spindly? i'm happy but what the fukk do i know?
thanks guys for your continued help
I would seperate the biggest from the smallest and build a partition and make it light tight. Flower the big ones to sex them. the little ones I would take cuttings and root them to find a mother plant. Then in a couple weeks I would flower them. goodluck.
Or just take 2 cuttings form each strong plant...root for 2 weeks and veg for 2 weeks then flower just to determine sex of plants still in veg...this will allow you to weed out the males. right about the time the sex shows on the young clones and you weed out the males. It will be time to flower your females. you just kill the young clones. they were sexed too young to yield enough to be worth the trouble of growing them out to finish.
as these pictures show, tallest is 14 inches@2 weeks. but only a few. should i top these to slow 'em and get two colas? give the others chance to catch up?
I just finished one that started bloom stage at 20 in and it went ape shit taking over a lot of space causing me to take extreme measures to reign it in. The other one was about 12 in and stunted because of a caterpillar infestation delaying growth. If they are getting too tall and lanky, wouldn't hurt to top them and get the other buds to fill out equally. I like to see equal size growth instead of a few spindly-ass tops chasing the light with no growth in between.
I think your plants look fine. Perfect grows are rare. I know a 20-30 plant grower that always has yellow tipped plants. The tips are the most sensitive to imbalances. Old sun leaves will turn yellow and die as the plant deems necessary. The thing I noticed the most is how orange/red your lighting is. Are you using the bulb that came with the light set? I switched to a hortilux metal ace after my clones were doing really shitty under a 15 dollar stock phillips bulb. The orange/red is used in construction, and while it still works to grow under, a bulb with more blue light would guarantee you better growth. It's worth the 100 bucks.
Like GK said, temps may be playing a part, and def the nutes. Most nutes have about a 1 year shelf life and after that they under go changes that do things like what you are experiencing right now.
If your lights are not MH they will cause your lights to stretch durring the veg period and also, you want to get those 600w lights about 1FT away from the plants if heat permits. At 2FT away you can lose up to 20% of light penatration if not more. Closer than 12 inches you can lose out on your lights foot print and bleach the top coalas. I keep my 1K Hortilux about 10 to 12 inches away and with my 400W I have it about 6 to 8 inches away.
Good luck.
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