Yikes! The bottom set of leaves are folding under and twisting!

[karmaxul]

My friend I believe those are mecury bulbs.

http://feixinlighting.en.alibaba.com...cury_Lamp.html

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Those do look a lot like my bulbs. In fact, I went ahead and turned my lights off for a quick second to go investigate..

(the reason they're emitting yellow light is because they're still in the process of warming up in the picture)

I don't know if you can make out the letters "HPS" but what it reads, is "HPS 250 Watt Made in Belgium"

[karmaxul]

Your biggest plant looks a bit droopy is she drying out every 2 to 3 days? Seeing how a flouro is filled with mercury, would a mercury vapor be a flouro only much less effecient? Humm G Nome do you know?
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Nice color your ph looks fine.

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Karm - <3

The night before I transferred her she was watered, but I knew she needed to be moved to her bigger pot so I did it anyway.

Of course as we all know, everytime you transplant you have to water so I poured about a gallon through her.

I'm waiting for the soil to dry out, the top is still moist so they're just adjusting to their new home/overwatering

I hate when problems cause you to overwater but there's not much I can do besides wait for the pots to dry out. Any suggestions?

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Also, the bigger one (if you're talking about the bushy one), it's always had droopy leaves with a small curl, is this something to worry about or should I chalk it up to strain?

I'm assuming strain since it doesn't even look like the leaves would straighten out if they wanted to, she's definitely not suppose to be drooping that much though. (as I said, overwatered on purpose)

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Hey Karm, also a question for you. On that Alaska fertilizer, they say to fertilize every 3 weeks. Since I'm using such low dosages, should I heed their instructions? How often did you use the fert?

I believe I used a quarter teaspoon last time. (per 1 gallon)

[karmaxul]

Genetics do not make plants droopy it is 99% of the time from over watering. I would take off the wet soil added with the transplant and replace it with dry soil. If the inside is wet the outter soil will absorb moisture and be great to expand the new roots as they will reach for the air if it is there.

Alaska grow...
Total Nitrogen is 5%
0.50 % Ammoniacal Nitrogen
0.75 % Water Insoluble Nitrogen
3.75 % Other Water Soluble Nitrogen
Available Phosphate 1 %
Soluble Potash 1 %
Primary Nutrients Derived form Seagoing Fish.
Chlorine 4 %

Lets say the directions say 3 tablespoons of the fertilizer with a gallon of water, and used this every 10 to 14 days. I believe 1 ml of Alaska is 85 microseimens or 42 ppm with a .5 convertion in a gallon of water. I water every two days as with the garden sprayer and level of water I give them that is when they are dry. I use in terms of ppm 50ppm every two days for the life of the plant. So 14 days divided by 2 is 7. Since 5 ml is a teaspoon and they recomend 45ml I use 15% of the recommended dose. It is best to water with the same ion (salt) or tds (total disolved solids) every time to minimize stress and maximize growth and yield. So if you water every.....
Two days use 1ml per gallon
Four days use 2ml per gallon
Six days use 3ml per gallon

I use maxi crop with Alaska at the same amount 1ml to 1ml as maxicrop does not raise the tds that much.

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[karmaxul]

I have used the maxicrop alaka before with much success. very tasty nugs. I would not switch numbers in bud at all and ad one drop of thrivealive green per gallon. You will never have a burned tip or yellow leaf if you dont over water.

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[karmaxul]

Are you making them into mothers?
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Karm - <3

You're fantastic bro.

The plants are perking up as the soil is drying out like I suspected, still not all the way there though. There's still an issue with the very tips curling under, I'm wondering if I overdid it with the serving of Alaska (even though the bottle says it doesn't burn, I don't doubt it) maybe you can give me a heads up?

The info you gave me is 100% perfect. I'll see if I can't get my hands on some maxicrop within the next few days.

As far as a mother plant, hell yes I'll be using one of them! I bet you wouldn't be able to guess that all of those plants are the same age except the two smallest ones (I'm going to have mini trees. long story)

What do you recommend as far as flowering? (nute wise)

I'd like to get them about 2 foot tall and healthy as hell before I even considering changing the lighting to 12/12.

Anyway, I'm mostly concerned about the tips of the new growth (and some old) curling under a bit.

Any and all info appreciated as always my ape friend.