OregonsDank messes up :(

Well around the 20th of October my plants were growing around 1/2 inch a day minimum and zero stretching. Near 14 inches tall on day 20 of growing.

At this point my runt of the 6 passed all the others before I relised my plants were starving :(.


I have always used maybe 20% or less of the recommended amount of food , since I mixed dry food in with soil when planted... Well my plants ate that all up real fast and now are starving. I guess I need to find an all purpose fertilizer to water with during veg?


They are still plenty alive , very green but not really growing =( Using up water a bit slower too. I have never over watered, always let em dry out good and dry.

Well 1 is 5% yellow leaves with big brown spots :( and 1 is really short very very purple stems... not growing up much.

Are you sure they're not just rootbound or maybe have a nutrient lockup due to pH imbalance? Try flushing them thoroughly, a lot of times if you haven't flushed them in awhile, thats what they need, and will take off afterwards. As long as they look nice and green and healthy, they might just need more space for their roots. What size pots you got them in and how tall are they? A general rule is 1 gallon of pot size for every foot of height.

They are in 3 gallon pots, I don't know the exact ph but its like 7.0 or 7.5.

I havnt ever really used fertizer just tiny bits of mollases in the water and a drop of superthrive, I was relying on the mixed in ferts in my pots. ill post some pics

The plants range from my white widow being very short, 9 inches, but tons of very strong thick , branches. The stem and branches are very very purple... to a 14 inch height average. My tallest is the northerlights , 18 or 20 inches.
My northerlights has tons of long growth not many leaves, seems happy still.
The snowbud has brown spots big ones , and lots on 6 or 7 leaves on the top part.
The 4 other are just growing alot slower than before.
Oh and yah the pots are very very full on roots, I can see 75 - 150 small small roots coming out bottom of pots. I didnt really want to transplant, will I have to?


Ill post updated pics in a few minutes.

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Originally Posted by OregonsDank

They are in 3 gallon pots, I don't know the exact ph but its like 7.0 or 7.5.

I havnt ever really used fertizer just tiny bits of mollases in the water and a drop of superthrive, I was relying on the mixed in ferts in my pots. ill post some pics

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7.0-7.5 is too high for pot. 6.5 or so is about right for soil, and a little lower than that for hydro. Once you get up into the 7's nutrients aren't as readily available for the plant, which can cause fert buildups in the soil even though your plants are saying they're hungry.

If you haven't been using other ferts, than I would suggest looking into the whole fox farm line. 1 quart bottle of grow big and 1 quart bottle of big bloom should last you all the way through this grow and maybe a couple others if you don't have a lot of plants. They have an easy to follow chart that shows you what to feed and when. My plants have loved it, nice dark ass green leaves, overall pretty happy.

Also, this is a helpful link for diagnosing plant problems. Its called the plant abuse chart and has pics of leaves with deficiencies so you can compare how your plant looks and also tells you what to do to fix them. Not as complete as the one in jorge's grow bible, but definitely a good resource.

http://www.drugs-forum.com/growfaq/97.htm

But yeah, I don't think its them being root-bound, because you can get a bigger plant than that out of that pot, but it never hurts to have the extra room. Looking great though man.:thumbsup:

Maybe you can help from seeing the pics. Ill post what I took today.

My room, 2000 watts over these 6 now, vegged with 1000 MH till other day now about to bud so got both set up.

Big bud, NL , Rudy, superskunk from right to left, ( I think! ) Cant see tags anymore :P

Here is my worst plant by far, pictures speak for themselves... but the problem is no longer spreading , been on the same leaves for 8 days now.