What is your experience level? (first timer, novice, experienced...)
Been growing since April of 09

Your Equipment:
.1) Type and wattage of lights: 400 HPS/MH
.2) Distance from tops? 12" - 18"
.3) Reflector type? Bat Wing, open bulb
.4) Is there a consistent fresh air supply? Yes, 8" exhaust opening/intake with 12" furnace blower motor... outdoor fresh air intake to room
.5) Do you have an exhaust fan and a circulation fan? (see #4)
.6) What are the bulb wattages, kelvin ratings, and schedule? 400 watt - Kelvin MH=6,000 HPS=55,000 lumens? 12/12 Flower - 24/7 Veg

Your medium:
.7) Specific brand and type of soil, Sunshine #4, GH Flora 3 part for Veg and Bloom supplements: Cool bloom, Flourolicious, Cool Bloom liquid.
.8) Size of container: 5 & 7 gallon - depending on the plant size at time of repotting. Plants in question are in 7 gallon.
.9) Did you use: I cloned these myself with Rapid Rooter medium in a cloning dome (black tray with clear dome lid)

Your nutrients and water:
10) Source of water? (tap, bottled or filtered) What's it's ph before adjusting?
Well water - 7.8 out of tap - 6.4 after nute are added at full strength, then I add same amount of water at 6.4 to end up with 50% nute strength.
11) Method of checking water ph: Ph/temp/TDS pen
12) Method of adjusting water ph. PH down only.
13) Specific brand and N-P-K ratio for each bottle: GH Grow: 2-1-6 Micro: 5-0-1 Bloom: 0-5-4 FloraGrow: 1-.7 -.6 FloraBloom: 1-1-7 Kool Bloom liquid: 0-10-10 Have fed nutes once a week - one half gallon per plant with equal amount of water (to give me 1/2 strength nutes)
14) How often are you watering between feedings, and how much per watering?: I gallon of water per plant (1/2 nute water/1/2 water) and only watering once a week.
15) Any additives or tea's? NO
16) Are your ph levels stable, or do they fluctuate? Unknown... never done a run off test...
17) What is your ingoing water's ph? ...your runoff ph?: Ingowing was 7.8 for the plants first 2 months of these plants life - then realized my error and started ph'ing my water down to 6.4 (per GH recommendations) No idea on run off PH... never done it.
18) Do you foliar feed? NO

Your growroom:
19) Indoors or outdoors? Indoor
20) What size of closet, room or hut: Veg room open area 3'x6'x 8' ceiling
Bloom room enclosed - absolute light tight - sealed door - 3x6x8 with massive exhaust system for air movement and to keep heat down.
21) What are the temps and humidity levels while lights are on?: Running 2 400 HPS for Bloom Room - consistent 76 degrees wiht lights on... 65 for lows at night with lights off but fan on (to keep warm air moving through room) All my fricken heat from the house is getting sucked into the bloom room and out the wall.... AAAArrrrggggghhhh) Humidity is at best 20%... typically it's at 16% unless I water downn the room and leave a half-inch of water on the floor of the Bloom room... then humidity rises, but air movement is so huge that whatever moisture is in the air or in the plant is sucked outside. I really thought I was dealing with an underwatering/drying out issue? Hmmmm.
22) Have you seen signs of insects in the growroom?: Just wiped out Spider Mites with Azamax... 1 treatment - let sit on plants for 15 minutes, then washed. Second application 4 days later - applied azamax (good coverage, but not so heavy a coating) and left on plants, no rinse.... NO MITES!

Your strain:
23) What strain are you growing?: the plants in question are NYCD and Train Wreck... both indica/sativa blends?
24) From seeds or clones?: Originally clones from Dispensary, these two are clones from those clones. (after they were mature)
25) Is this an autoflower strain? Unknown


NOTES: They started showing signs of stress at about 2 months... like I said I had been feeding water with too high a ph (7.8) then about 2 weeks ago I started feeding with ph water at 6.4 and nutes at the same ph of 6.4

Tips started hooking about a week ago... perhaps my ph adjustment was too late in the game.

I did a major flush yesterday (twice the amount of water as the pot size). I flushed initiall with well water at 7.8. Ran it good through the pots. Took a bit to get enough water to soak into the soil. They were ALL dry.

Then, I ran twice the amount of water at 6.4 as a final flush to get all the higher ph water out of the soil. So, I really flushed with 4 times the amount of water as the pot size. WOW!. Hope that was OK to use the higher PH water initally for the flush.. then reflush with 6.4.

I use a soil moisture tester and have counted on it to tell me when the soil is dry... I let the soil meter register at half-way before I watered; not bone dry, but close. Watched for leaf wilt... then watered. They always perked up within a day after watering.

Again, dry conditions - Colorado mountains at 7,500 feet elevation. DRY! especially winter.

So now they still have the hooks as shown... but everybody else looks perky and happy... good color.

So, with all this info... what's your diagnosis doc.
Many thanks for all the help.

GodofGraphics


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