I started my first grow from bag seed. Set up a space bucket with a eight-fixture light top. A little tweaking ph/nutr in the beginning got me going good and healthy all the way through veg. Started 12/12 about a month ago, one of the six started showing male, so bagged it and removed quickly. All fine for three weeks, but suddenly had to leave town last week. I set up auto-watering and hope for the best. I come back and it’s bad. Real bad. The Auto-wayerer failed the first day. There’s Bugs. Big leaves turning brown and falling off all over, reddish stems, some purple leaves, burned tips, I see trichomes on smallish buds for some plants. Some still flowering. Also trichomes on the leaves surrounding the buds. I tried watering to try and bring them back. Now my moisture meter says too wet. I have no idea now what problems to tackle first. Ph was at 7 so I bring it down just a little bit with leaf compost/pine needle mix. Well see tomorrow what’s it landing at.
Setup:
plastic container with airation holes drilled in sides and bottom
bottom layer pebbles/gravel, next layer loose orchid mix (these bottom two for drainage and to get air through.) top layer 6-7 inches soil.
Large (20” diam) bucket top top and bottom with 12” riser in between (plants outgrew original design).
8-fixture combination of CFL and LED special ordered lights. Adjustable height. (About 4” above canopy now) Running combination of 2700 and 9000. Was all 9000’s for veg.
wireless temp monitor, 3-in-1 ph/light/moisture gauge. Digital humidity gauge.
Base of plants is very thick now, maybe .75” in diameter. I trained stems down to keep low canopy but a few got away from me while I was gone. (Before they started dying I suppose).
So frustrated. I don’t want to jump to fixing one problem and make matters worse. Can someone please tell me what to do first? And maybe second third too? Lol.
Setup:
plastic container with airation holes drilled in sides and bottom
bottom layer pebbles/gravel, next layer loose orchid mix (these bottom two for drainage and to get air through.) top layer 6-7 inches soil.
Large (20” diam) bucket top top and bottom with 12” riser in between (plants outgrew original design).
8-fixture combination of CFL and LED special ordered lights. Adjustable height. (About 4” above canopy now) Running combination of 2700 and 9000. Was all 9000’s for veg.
wireless temp monitor, 3-in-1 ph/light/moisture gauge. Digital humidity gauge.
Base of plants is very thick now, maybe .75” in diameter. I trained stems down to keep low canopy but a few got away from me while I was gone. (Before they started dying I suppose).
So frustrated. I don’t want to jump to fixing one problem and make matters worse. Can someone please tell me what to do first? And maybe second third too? Lol.
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