Some concerns I have, with pictures

[SSDIPainGuy]

Some leaves are drooping down, some are very thin, new growth seems very light, do the buds look ok? 3 1/2 weeks into flower, hempy style grow, 400w hps, GH nutes plus calmag, Dutch masters gold silica, super thrive, rapid start root enhancer. Ph nutes to 5.6-5.8. All serious, non sarcastic opinions and advice are very welcome. Thanks guys for looking, take care. Attachment 295664Attachment 295665Attachment 295666Attachment 295667 all pictures were taken with my phone perfectly upright, I don't know why it keeps turning them, so to the guy that needs to treat other people like idiots with his comments, feel free to be quiet.

SSDIPainGuy Reviewed by SSDIPainGuy on 10-19-2013. Some concerns I have, with pictures Some leaves are drooping down, some are very thin, new growth seems very light, do the buds look ok? 3 1/2 weeks into flower, hempy style grow, 400w hps, GH nutes plus calmag, Dutch masters gold silica, super thrive, rapid start root enhancer. Ph nutes to 5.6-5.8. All serious, non sarcastic opinions and advice are very welcome. Thanks guys for looking, take care. 295664295665295666295667 all pictures were taken with my phone perfectly upright, I don't know why it keeps turning them, so to the Rating: 5

[Shovelhandle]

I used to use Superthrive. I damaged plants from using too much. I'm talking about very small amounts. I no longer use it. Use very little just when you transplant.
Your plants actually look good, what does the pot's 'water table' look like? Wet or dry at 4-6" down? Do they perk up after watering or droop after watering?

[catbuds]

I've had new sunleaves curl like that after using a bloom booster, forgot which one. Its not a big deal. As long as the bud isn't affected by it. They look good to me too. Sometimes funky shit happens when you change things, especially nutes. I agree with Shovel, probably the superthrive. But they still look good & I wouldn't sweat it. But hey, better to ask early than to be sorry later. I usually use nutes 1/2 strength when I first change over (or when I first start feeding seedlings). Then gradually increase to recomended dose. But then again, I use rich, but non-burning organics in my soil mix, so I really don't have to worry much about deficiencies. If it makes you feel any better, mine uncurled when I backed off the nutes, & you're doing better than you think you are! ~~~PEACE! ~~~

P.S. Damned! I keep forgetting it's hempy! So what I said about soil doesn't apply. But my statement about nutes still stands.

[polishpollack]

The color looks great and thanks for using white light. If you want, you should have program in your operating system that will allow you to rotate the pics around, like Paint or similar program. It just takes getting used to. Save pics to your desktop and retrieve them from there. The only thing interesting is the overall plant growth. Did you go to 12/12 right away? Personally, I'd think you'd have more plant mass there than you do if you veged for a while, then went to 12/12 lighting. I've never heard of hempy grow so I'll have to look that one up. Other than the plant size, the color looks great. Also, it looks like a sativa kind of plant and these tend to grow long and spindly. I wouldn't worry much right now. I'm curious though. What is you fert and ppm and pH levels like? What do you maintain throughout the day?

[SSDIPainGuy]

Thanks for the advice guys. The one with spindly leaves is a white widow x skunk which I think is sativa dom. The others are ww x big bud and shorter and much broader leaves. I know it doesn't look it, but my smallest plant is about 40" tall, I vegged them about 5 weeks and switched to 12/12 when the pre flowers showed. I switched to the hps bulb about 2 weeks after the switch. I have never checked ppms, I mixed my nutes to 1/4 strength when I started feeding them then increased as they got older. I'm at about 90% of the bottle labels, any more than that they start to burn. If I was on my computer I would rotate the pics but, What I don't get is I take them from my phone, with the phone verticle, not on its side, and they turn when I upload them here, weird. Sorry for the kinked necks lmao.

[Shovelhandle]

even with my cameras if you shoot a photo vertical (portrait) it will be processed landscape (sideways). Then editing it back looses definition. Try to hold the camera in landscape orientation.

[catbuds]

Hey, I don't mind tilting my ph if you don't mind that I keep forgetting you're a hempy grow! LOL! aHave you ever grown in soil? I don't care for hydro, the water chem changes can come on so fast that it can shock the hell out of your plants. Soil is more forgiving & if it fluctuates, it does it slowly. I'm an organics kinda gal myself. But when I had a hydro unit, I found that the recomended dose (nutes) usually burned my grow & I had to adjust the pH like every other day. The expense of it was getting way out of hand & then one night while I was sleeping, a coupling came loose & when the pump came on it flooded the room instead of the plants. So I awoke to a flooded mess & dried out dead plants. I was so pissed I kicked the whole damned thing out the window. Would have been nice if I opened the damned window first, just added to the expense! That was in the mid 1980's. Swore off hydro & haven't regretted it. Now I use milled spaghnum moss (fine grade peat moss), perlite & mix in some really great organics. Its pretty darned stable, hardly ever fluctuates, pH NEVER goes up, sometimes down, but then it gets a little wood ash in the water & its fine.
--- For your pics. Landscape mode is horizontal, portrait mode vertical. Somewhere in settings, you should be able to change it up.
--- Your plants are looking good. Something must have fluctuated pretty fast to have the leaf edges curl under, but it doesn't seem to have effected bud or bud leaf, so I wouldn't worry, just dilute your nutes a little more. Maybe your pH jumped up a little fast. Plants can take a slow change, its that RAPID jump that shocks them. Another reason I prefer soil to hydro... But, to answer your concerns, check you water/nutes, get them back in ballance & everything should work itself out. Since I gave up hydro a long time back, I wouldn't know what test kits are available now, but if you need that advice, one of the guys should be able to recommend something. ~~~PEACE!~~~

[SSDIPainGuy]

This is my second grow, I pulled the first one, it was outside and I rent. That's why I went hydro, to bring it inside. The research I did said I would need huge pots too get a soil grow big enough. Plus the faster growth that was advertised with hydro was a huge turn on. I may try a true hydro setup next grow like ebb and flow.I plan on finding a nice momma and go clone sea of green after that

[polishpollack]

You might consider DWC instead as it's probably simpler. Ebb and flow probably require more attention, timers, etc. The more complicated things get, the more things can go wrong. Just a suggestion. For hydro, you can't get much simpler than DWC and the power of growth can easily take over a small room if done right.