1st closet grow - Indica - 400w HPS

[indicloset]

Just a quick update...plants seem to be doing fine, they perked up the day after I transplanted, but then didn't perk up any further, the tips of the leaves are curling down a bit, but maybe its just from transplanting. I'm going to switch to feeding them like this : feed, water, water, feed, water, water, etc...

day 28 pics...(the purple isn't there in person, a little bit on old stems, but I think its the camera flash and the lighting). Anyways, I hope the new watering schedule fixes them.

[indicloset]

Here's the pics...

[indicloset]

day 33 update...

Two of the plants are over 1 ft. tall, and the other one is a bit smaller. Cant start to flower until after I move on Dec. 1, I hope they dont get too big in that time...I would hate to have to transplant them again.

I think I have been giving the nutes too often without adjusting the pH of the water, so I got a pH test kit (the test drops...I'll get the pH pen sometime after christmas) and some "Bumper Up" and "Bumper Down." The water that comes out of the tap is at the 6.5 - 6.9 range, so I watered with tap water with no nutes (that has sat for 24 hrs.) and the water that ran out of the bottom of the pot is around the 5.0 - 5.4 range. So...what I plan to do is water with only tap water until the pH of the run off water is at 6.5 - 6.9, then continue with the schedule of, water, water, feed...But, this time with the water/nutes mixture adjusted back to 6.5 - 6.9. Hopefully that will solve the problem. What do you think? Good plan?

One thing I have noticed since the first watering with straight tap water is that the nute burn started progressing again in all plants up the fan leaves and into a couple of the tips of the secondary leaves. Should I give them a good flush or should I just continue to water with normal water?

[indicloset]

Here's the day 33 pics (I dont know why I always forget them :stoned: )...

[indicloset]

Alright, well here they are at day 37...still giving ph'd water only and I'm misting them quite often.

The two big plants are about 16-17 inches and the other one is about 12 inches...the small one was in a 6x5" pot to start and the others were in a 6x7" pot to start. They are growing like crazy almost an inch a day or a little less.

Now, I'm not sure what to do, I was going to switch them to 12/12 on day 40. I am not using nutes right now in order to get the run off's ph back to normal. Should I buy the bloom nutes and start feeding them right after I switch them over or wait until the run off is back to normal and then start feeding? I just need some sort of basic schedule of what to do, I'm kinda lost since I messed up the feeding and then overfed, etc... The doses for the nutes are gonna be another thing, but I guess I'll just do a quarter of what it says on the bottle. What's everyone think?

day 37 pics...

[CANABIZNIS]

Im asuming your misting them after the light goes off right? just makin sure..i was gone for the weekend and i needed to mist the top of my soil from one of the plants i transplanted so like a dumbass i had my sister do it and it was obviouse she misted alot more than the soil when i saw it lol..i ended up killing the plant and transplanting one of my more healthier plants..i did the transplant about a hour ago im about to update my grow log in a min ..so yeah dont mist when lights are on unless you want a big stem to smoke :thumbsup: ..

[indicloset]

Really? Whats wrong with misting with the lights on? I know of quite a few people who do it. My lights are on 24 hrs. for this grow. I mist the leaves every chance I get, not the soil, the soil stays moist for really long as it is, I only have to water about every 4 days with the 3 gal. pots.

Here's one more pic from day 37 that wouldn't fit in the update I just posted...its the small one (12 inch), she's getting a little left behind since I have to raise the light for the other two every day.

[CANABIZNIS]

hmm i dunno maybe my light was to close, i moved it up some ..all i know is i came home and my bottom leafs were burnt, i was assuming she sprayed them heavy with the lights on ..and thats what caused it ..i have a experamental plant that is almost as old as my other one and i started to spray it with the lights on today so well see how it works..

[seedbare]

Hey indicloset nice documentation there, with the red stems and with the originally deformed growth I think you have a phosphorous deficiency possibly magnesium but I doubt it.

[Psycho4Bud]

I read somewhere they advised NOT to mist the plant. It said that it actually washed off the some of the trichomes. Whether thats true or not I don't know but why take the risk destroying the lil' babies!!! Good Luck!!! :thumbsup: