Tempting Fate ................

Hello Kush :) , Oh dear love I hope you're right, I'm affraid I'm having one of my "This growing lark is just too much hassel" days to day :o
I'm not at work today but I've so much to do at around the house and with growroom troubles as well, makes me feel like having a smoke and putting my feet up and saying "stuff it all" :o



Ah Marc :), I have wondered about every possible thing that could be causing recent troubles :confused:
Anyway since being on these boards I have done one perfectly average grow, when I had the new bulbs, then the next one was bellow average in quantity due to me keep fiddling around with the lights because of droopy leaves. Then the last grow was abandoned due to circumstances outside my control.
Yes Marc everything is the same so they should grow the same ............ but their not, they are being very "awkward little monkeys" :( .
As for the compost, I think it is ok, however when re-potting I did run out, so rather than mess about with a soggy wet compost heap the three at the back are actually in some Levingtons compost from the garden centre, so I'm keeping my eye on any differences.

Oh the fumes from the heater were quite "nasty", if I went in there with the door closed it made me feel quite "dizzy" after a few mins :o . However it's off at the moment because the weather has gone really very mild.
I don't know Marc, last week it was "Brass monkey weather" and this week it's really quite tropical in the growroom :rolleyes:



Anyway I'm really "up to the neck in work here today" (just posting whilst having tea), so I'll just upload a few pics of the worst affected plants ;)

Hmmm I never know if it's affected or effected :o


Thanks guys ........................... love mand xxx:)

Hey mand, hmm I cant really help you with the rusty leaves... although I have had something that looked similar on Fiona, and a quick water with some Epsom salts cleared it up. You can get them from any chemist (I dont think a Tesco/Sainsburys etc chemist would do them though) for a couple of quid, and its quite a large tub. They clear up constipation aswell, if that interests you :p :D
Anyway, Ive been thinking about leaving the males in with the female Lows because I wanna stockpile some seeds up... and if I manage to get some males and females outta this grow, would you like some seeds? The potency wont be anything like that of... er... whatever strain it is youre growing now, but its a fun dinky little plant. Also gives you the opportunity to make some crosses if you want, although LR crosses do have a tendency to turn hermie pretty easily...
Anyways, just say if youre interested in some seeds and Ill pop some in the post when they develop. Dont worry about p+p, ittl be all of 50 pence anyway!
Good luck with the grow, although I really dont think you need it... and about the toyboy idea, what about the old man with the camera fetish? :p

Hiya mand :)
Thanks for putting the root pics up, nice camera work very clear :smokin:
Looks to be a nice soil mix you've got there, good healthy looking roots :thumbsup:
Just to join in on the nagging :o i wish you would invest in a little fan soon.
Take care mand & keep up the good growing :)

Hey alchemiser, she did invest in a fan due to our persistent nagging!
Next on the list mand... HYDRO!!!

Hi Mand,

I'm doing well. I've been enjoying some very good homegrown lately. :stoned:

Been reading your posts and looking at you pictures. Plants seem to be growing well except for the discoloration in the leaves. I will be interested in seeing how they progress over the next several weeks. If it was because of the light being to close and you've adjusted it the new growth should not show the same effect. This would be good. Hope this is the case.

Cool fan Mand, way to go. ;) You'll be able to use it to keep the light and the tops of your plants cool during flowering.

Since your still using a heater, I'm wondering what the over night temperature is? Come on, you've posted the obvious ones.

Hope your day is going well.

Hello Swizzy :), Firstly thankyou for the very kind offer of seeds but I'm ok for them, I have a couple of new packets of my usual Skunk#1 .................. however I really do appreciate the offer :)

As for the Epsom salts, I might as well give them a go if there isn't any improvment soon. Don't need them for constipation though, there's no problem there ;)


Hello alchemiser :) The pics ................ I took them :eek:. I'm very hit and miss when it comes to taking photo's, I delete more than I keep I'm affraid :o
The compost was prehaps a little damper than I would have liked, but it has been a struggle to dry it out with all the rain we have been having. Also I ran short and three of the pots have got a bit of Levingtons from the garden centre in them, mind you that is a good thing really because I have two types of compost and the "rusty" problem is on plants in all pots, so I can prehaps eliminate compost deficancies ?.



Hello Happy :), well there on day nineteen (I think), so the growth is about average, apart from "little runty" ............. but there's always a runt in every grow :o


At first I thought they were just "frazzled" but like you say that wouldn't continue on to new growth once the heat problem had been addressed ...................... to be honest "Happy" I'm absolutely "stumped", I haven't a clue what's wrong :confused: . I even had a look in my little book and that identified a possible cause as "Potassium" deficancy, but I just find that difficult to believe because everything is the same as usual and I have never had this type of problem before :o
The temperature, well it's running about 75f in the day and when the light is off I think it tends to drop to around the mid 60's at night, depending how cold the weather is outside.



I'll just post some pics from this morning (day nineteen) ...................... any help or suggestions as to what is causing the leaf discoloration is very wellcome because I really haven't got a clue ....................... I've been "racking my brains" and I am "totally stumped":o

Oh, the last pic is "little runty", she is still hanging on but struggling :(


love mand xxx:)

Hey Mand. How's it going today?

Your plants look lovely, and the discolorations are nothing to kill yourself over just yet. They could probably be attributed to a magnesium deficiency as Swizzy stated, so some Epsom salt should do the trick. If the leaves start to curl in wards -- maybe twist at the ends -- it's probably just that. Just keep a close eye on them like you've been doing, every thing's going great.

Ok Mand here's the scoop. I think your soil could be suspect. I know you said that you had used some store bought soil for at least 2 plants. How are they doing? Do they show the same discoloration? If not, I would be looking at my compost heap and wondering what was going on.

I use a mixture of a "SuperSoil"+perlite+vermiculite and have always had good results. I use the same mixture with all my house plants. I drains well and is and lets air into the roots well too. I've never been around compost so I don't know what the consistency of it would be like.

As far as water, I just use tap water.

I suppose if I were having a consistant problem I would have to have all of that checked.

Looking at one of your plants with 3 sets of leaves, 2 of the sets have the brown marks on them. The new set doesn't yet and hopefully won't. The plants look healthy, big leaves, ridge stems. There still pretty young.

Mand you might have to get all HighTech on us to figure this one out. I wouldn't put away your thermometer and fan just yet. ;)

If the temperature isn't dropping below the 60's over night, your good there too.

I hope some of this helps.

Hello Kush, Happy :) ............ well I've made one last attept to save the little "buggers" :o http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=58536


It was three plants in different compost "Happy" and I'm affraid to say that all have been affected :(

To be honest I think it's something to do with the growroom, I didn't disinfect it out before this grow :o ......................... I am of the mind that Zandor hit upon something when he mentioned "possible a fungus." ;)

I also think that I'm going to lose this grow, the new growth is coming on but within a short space of time the tips start turnig brown and it just keeps spreading ;)

The only thing I can do at the moment is allow further growth and see what happens. However there on probation now and if there is no inprovement within the next few weeks, I'll abandon yet another grow :rolleyes:
I'm definately moving the growrooms for the next one ;)

Hello Kush, Happy :) ............ well I've made one last attept to save the little "buggers" :o http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=58536


It was three plants in different compost "Happy" and I'm affraid to say that all have been affected :(

To be honest I think it's something to do with the growroom, I didn't disinfect it out before this grow :o ......................... I am of the mind that Zandor hit upon something when he mentioned "possible a fungus." ;)

I also think that I'm going to lose this grow, the new growth is coming on but within a short space of time the tips start turnig brown and it just keeps spreading ;)

The only thing I can do at the moment is allow further growth and see what happens. However there on probation now and if there is no inprovement within the next few weeks, I'll abandon yet another grow :rolleyes:
I'm definately moving the growrooms for the next one ;)