No, Stinky...I sure didn't see that thread! LOL. What a coincidence. I've been thinking of doing that for a week or so. HA. Well, I hope she picks one soon! :(
The Fog :rastasmoke:
Printable View
No, Stinky...I sure didn't see that thread! LOL. What a coincidence. I've been thinking of doing that for a week or so. HA. Well, I hope she picks one soon! :(
The Fog :rastasmoke:
Hey Mark, hope you're going to show a new pic tonight. Here''s my little russian thing 15 days in......short, squat, all indica-looking. No chance for lst here. OMG I see a new smiley.....going to put it here....:beatdeadhorse:
looking great weedhound..bet that's gonna be a heavy smoke :) here are some newer pics..don't know if you've seen them yet...from last nightQuote:
Originally Posted by Weedhound
Starting to crystal up there.....looking good. See some swelling in the calyxes too. :thumbsup: I wondered if your avatar was from your own stuff.
...what was the question again?...Oh yea...hum..ditty....:rasta:
...HPS LOWERS HUMIDITY...and I prefer 24/0...so when you go into 12/12...no mold...:thumbsup:...plus A/C pumped into grow room/closet is best... in my opinion...(which don't mean shit)....No Way Jose'...:smokin:
yeah, looking beautiful :D last night we got up to around 85 in there, didn't cool off in there until early this morning...ended up seeing a couple little male nanners come out, no worries for me though, I'd rather have a couple seeds over high humidity and mold. When temps are higher humidity is much lower. Not the best, but almost my option at this point. pluck em..I've now got a fan near my window sucking some cool air in for meQuote:
Originally Posted by Weedhound
You could take the plant out of the closet at the beginning of its next light cycle, clean and disinfect the room with bleach-water then put the plant back in to finish its day in the "sunshine"; that would greatly reduce the chance of mold.
Mark....what the latest on your RH issue? Update........:stoned:
Received petite dehumidifier today and started running it after I got out of school. I noticed it bringing the humidity down, so we'll see what it does from morning until evening tomorrow during lights out for the humidity..buds are continuing, I added some koolbloom to their water last night, no bad response so far, so I think they'll like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weedhound
here's a pic I took a few minutes ago, calyxes are swelling and bursting with even more of them, I hope me and these girls make it through the next 6 weeks or so, it should be wonderful. about 3/4 hairs on all plants are orange now. I believe that shows that they're starting to mature more? the fact that I'm not seeing bud rot or bad physical signs gives me hope that I may have my problem contained for the time being. thanks so much, weedhound.
here's a couple more.
Sweeeeeeett!!! Yeah my camera bit it so was looking at the poloaroids you and X-C have ....found it on Amazon.com but only in PINK!! Sorry, no can deal with pink.
They do look good there Mark, even in the last few days some fair changes despite the issues. Good job! ;)
the countdown begins......to this..... :jointsmile:
yeah, I plan on getting down to the plant store to see if they have fungicide...baking soda and water isn't doing enough for me. If I can't get it here in town I'll probably order off the internet. Friend's coming to town this weekend, but I may be able to have something by then. I've got dehumidifier now, I might as well take another step..it may save me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weedhound
weedhound...Amazon.com: Polaroid 5 Mp I533: Electronics
eh?
Mark, you sly devil you. I did see those but upon checking out the sellers I was not impressed and one or two of them were used but condition "acceptable" so I ran like the wind. Plus X-C was cruising around bragging about the price he got his for so I wanted to see if I could find something along the same price (but not used.)It's a keeping up with the joneses thing. :D
If you have a CHOICE...I know your options are limited....may I suggest serenade for a spray. Recommended by you know who but I agree with you that a regular spray instead of homemade is better so get what you can. . :thumbsup:
Very glad to hear your humidity issue is under control. This won't make any difference to you right now but having gone through the mill on this grow has given you a jam-packed education on growing....all in a few months. Your next grow will be a breeze. ;)
for 7.99 I got something called 'hi-yield maneb garden fungicide' I mixed up a gallon of spray and doused my plants down with it. I'll apply again in a few days I'm sure depending on how the problem's going. it may come down that I order some of that serenade off of the net or something, but this was a quick option that I figured would be of maybe a bit more benefit than my water and baking soda. got it from 'grandma's' btw, weedhound...lol..this was about the best thing that was there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weedhound
Ahhh, I figured Grandma might have something in her pantry, lol. We have a 'general store" like that as well and to find stuff first you have to brush all the dust off. Small towns....sigh.
Mark please let me know how well that dehumidifier works. It is the same one I ordered for myself. ;)
that's what I had to do to read the top to see how to open it...lol..
depending on the size of your room, you may want either a bigger one or maybe another one of these...it's keeping it 55-60% during the day..not climbing to 75-80 like it had done a few days so it's doing something. However, if you have a bigger space you may want more dehumidifieing power..it's absorbing all the water it can out of the air though, it works. I think it'll take a trial run at your house to see how effective it is given your conditions. The outside humidity here has been nuts..air conditioner isn't ran here until the end of may or so though, so the humidity in the house is that of outside...that's playing against me a lot there too..
here are pics weedhound..buds are still appearing to be in good condition, only leaves being affected..mainly big fan leaves..like this one. hopefully my fungicide if anything will at least give me protection on the buds..
Thanks for the photos Mark, they were excellent. I would love to have them as some sort of sticky on fungus....so many photos show you after the whole plant is gone so you have no idea how something looks early on.
God that bud looks so lovely.
You're doing all you can with the humidity. Are you using those little mini things too? My issue seems more related to the little space itself. The temp in the space was 65 degrees this am so not a big shift in temp but the humidity went nuts. The part of the room that wasn't closed off was fine but inside with the lights off......just not ok.
I want to do some more studying on this fungus thing......maybe Scarlet or X-C knows but I believe you want to cut and remove all those damaged lower leaves. I'm not positive though, so don't do it based on what I say. I think the idea is to remove as many of the fungal spores as possible from the enviroment. I will go read.....
Weehound, I was using the mini's yesterday...Says that they normally can take around 60 days to become full and need recharged, I filled them both up in around 24 hours, they definitely soaked up water, but I don't think it contributed much to my humidity level decreasing..I let him go ahead and take them to his house to put them in the cellar.
I can tell you that with warmer temps the humidity lowers. Lights on @ 80 degree room temp and 40% humidity. If you have a way to maybe keep it a bit warmer at night time you may even be able to lower your humidity more..
fucking camera fell from the top of my desk and broke my bong earlier...:( what great luck I'm having...
Not your bong!!!! Those things are sacred!!! :(
Mark I studied several books etc and they all strongly recommend cutting off any diseased sections and removing them carefully from the grow room. Also as someone said...perhaps spraying down your walls at some point when your lights are on and plants removed for a few hours with the fungal spray.
Jorge's book also said (in a seperate section) that fungal spores do not grow well in a humidity of 40-50% so if you can even get down to 49 it would be good. I know you are doing the best you can. ;)
I can't remember if I told you to click on the link in my sig to check out some good info on fungus....could be that I was just stoned and thinking about it instead.
between fungicide, lights on humidity being lower, and me doing everything I can is probably what's keeping my flowers going...plants won't be coming out...no way jose..I've got several branches tied to different buckets and stuff now, and even if I did untie to remove them carefully I don't think I'd be able to get them back in there the way they are now..yeah, I've been to that page several times for various reasons..I've been pulling away leaves that are dying off due to mold on them, but it would be hard for me to bring myself to just cutting off something...Quote:
Originally Posted by Weedhound
right now we're at 40%, lights go off at 7am, and it'll get up around 60..maybe it'll stop being so damn high outside soon..
Lol, I know exactly what you mean. In my job what I can not do is create an incision into the skin (cut the skin w/scalpel) That absolutely goes against every grain I have. It doesn't bother me at all to watch the doctor do it (during surgery) but I just CANT do it....when I think of all the time I spend making wounds better. (....even when its for the best...!)
And the lst thing is the same I came up with in my second grow. I had shit tied everywhere to everything. I really hated it although I did get some NICE buds after all was said and done.
yeah, lst was definitely a must for me this time, I really just hope that my buds keep progressing as they are without taking damage really..those trichs are gonna be crazy once these girls are done..Quote:
Originally Posted by Weedhound
you don't want your humidity above 40-45% 60% will definitely promote powdery mildew, and mold...possibly budrot
Jorge teaches on the side of caution, and also they don't want tyou to give up...LOL, because you cannot get % to 40.
when they say 40-60...they mean 60% is as high as you can go without stopping production. I would never run my flower room at 55-60 % NEVER!!!
Go to ebay and spend 80-90 bucks on a used or refurbished model. I did, and my humidity is a constant low 40's. get a 30 pint, with an external connection...so you can plumb drainage. If you cannot afford this then you cannot afford to grow. I am not being mean...I am saying in the end yield and quality will really take a beating, if you do not get your humidity under control. You will end up losing time and $$$ well above the cost of a de-humidifier. Peace
PS...For those of you who need Zandor to confirm this...He did...to me.
I almost forgot. you will continue to have problems if you don't get better ventilation. Something I didn't mention about dehumidifiers...They cause heat, just like the back of an AC unit, or a "frig". Peace
Well that doesn't sounds good. Good point about the heat in the growroom.....I wouldn't mind it going up about 10 degrees in that little space but certainly no more than that. My hydro guy totally concurs with you and Zandor Latewood, he said to try to keep it in the 30s.
I'll be getting a 30 pint off of ebay maybe within the next week. I've only got $40 left from my check yesterday..beginning of the month, it was going to purchase me a new bong but will now go to dehumidifier instead. I'm going to have to wait another week until I can get about $40 or so to pay for one with shipping. I get my check next wednesday, so it wont be untili thenQuote:
Originally Posted by latewood
Good for you Mark. Sounds like you need something meaner than what you have. I don't think my issue is nearly as bad as yours since things seem confined strictly to the grow space....not my entire corner of the world as yours is. ;)
Awesome. The best thing is you are moving in a positive direction.
I put off de-humidifier for months, but couldn't get humidity out of the 60's...It only took one bout with powdery mildew for me to put that machine at the top of my "desperate needs list" LOL
Glad you found the info useful. I use a 8" cheap vent booster fan from hopot to suck the extra hot air out of the area using an 8' to 6" adapter, and 6" flexduct. cheap and does the job of removinh hot compressor air.
Goodluck
Latewood, don't supposed you have any quick fixes for covering the tops of the waterfarms at night.....something easy to put on and take off. Thinking it could help w/my humidity issues after lights off.
I checked my other paper references and the BOG also says 45% is the highest you should really expect to run and have no mold problems.
He goes on to point out that encouraging more, but smaller buds through pinching is actually beneficial in an environment that you are concerned about bud rot, as the smaller buds are less likely to develop mold deep inside them than huge, thick colas are.
I found that interesting.
Stinky I just read something along exactly the same line.....the bigger the colas the more dense they are and easier to hold more moisture and encourage budrot. AGGGGGGGGGG. Yes....no. Big....small....i'm going to go have a toke now....:stoned:
humm im beginning to wonder if this is a humidity problem...
I was wondering that as well. But after those good pics of Mark's I'm pretty convinced. But since you mention it Tom, Mark you've been checking your ph right?
yea i think its mostly likely the ph and over feeding. BB is so sesative to over fert - i recently had to flush mine and now iv stoped all bloom feed as they just didnt need it.
Heres one plant over fed with N and the others fine.
Yeah definitely a LOT of N in that first pic but the second looks a little rich too.
ph may be slightly above 7, my tap water is slightly above 7 and soil tester says about the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomthehippie
Over nute = no way. if anything, they would be underfed. Getting medium strength koolbloom and schultz 5-30-5 about 1 time a week..I burned them when I first started nutes some, but since then I've made sure not to give them such a high amount..
30 is a REALLY high P number. And your P:K ratio is very high for cannabis.
yeh man i would think either ph or overfert leaning more to the over fert one of the pics up there look just like a ph prob i had with b52 and it had the exact charicteristics that that leave shows pic 3 i think. how far you into flower now mark.the postman.
sorry didnt get to read your last post mark blueberry can be ultra sensative to nutes and salt build up can lead to overfert issues i found hope you get it sorted mate
yea! i agree! they really need so sooo soooo little feeding!Quote:
Originally Posted by stinkyattic
Man! i would stop all feeding flush the lot out and just feed with distilled water! do what i did and get some pk 13/14, has no N in at all so u can still fatten up your buds 2-3 weeks from harvest! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Markass