Couldn’t be a light leak. Tent isn’t top notch, but it’s in my basement with the windows covered with cardboard and gorilla tape. It is completely dark down there when lights are off. Up to the point that I noticed the cal deficiency, my grow was going awesome. The only nutes I used were grow big in veg and big bloom for first 4 weeks of flower. After week 4 I started adding tiger bloom and sweet and dandy (recommended you me).
Two things I did wrong:
-whenever I fed/watered, I always went light. I was worried about over watering. I had a 16oz water bottle with the top cut off and used that to dump 2 scoops in each pot. Plants were happy as could be. Never droopy. I came to learn that even if I pHed the mixture, there was still a buildup of salts from the nutes over the course of the grow. The fox farm tiger bloom tanked my pH though. My fault for being ignorant, but that stuff is straight acid. Combine that with the stingy watering and there’s my acid soil causing nute lock.
- When I tested the soil and found the pH out of whack, I went into panic mode. I flushed the hell out of these things. It took so long to get the runoff to 6.5 that I would soak one plant in a bucket of water while I was flushing the other. It took me 5 hours! Not sure if the cold tap water could cause that problem, but each plant got soaked in cold water for a long time.
Next time around I will probably use different nutes or no nutes and just rock the soil. I veged the plants for about 3 or 4 weeks before switching to 12/12. The plants were only about 10” tall or so in 3 gal cloth pots. Stretched to 18-20” in flower. Pretty sure there was plenty of fertile soil in those to yield decent results. I was better off with underfed plants than these herms. I am getting over the self pity now and looking forward to the next grow🤓 I’m actually pretty stoked if these seeds turn out to work. I could shelf this strain and try another. Saves me from keeping clones all year long.
Two things I did wrong:
-whenever I fed/watered, I always went light. I was worried about over watering. I had a 16oz water bottle with the top cut off and used that to dump 2 scoops in each pot. Plants were happy as could be. Never droopy. I came to learn that even if I pHed the mixture, there was still a buildup of salts from the nutes over the course of the grow. The fox farm tiger bloom tanked my pH though. My fault for being ignorant, but that stuff is straight acid. Combine that with the stingy watering and there’s my acid soil causing nute lock.
- When I tested the soil and found the pH out of whack, I went into panic mode. I flushed the hell out of these things. It took so long to get the runoff to 6.5 that I would soak one plant in a bucket of water while I was flushing the other. It took me 5 hours! Not sure if the cold tap water could cause that problem, but each plant got soaked in cold water for a long time.
Next time around I will probably use different nutes or no nutes and just rock the soil. I veged the plants for about 3 or 4 weeks before switching to 12/12. The plants were only about 10” tall or so in 3 gal cloth pots. Stretched to 18-20” in flower. Pretty sure there was plenty of fertile soil in those to yield decent results. I was better off with underfed plants than these herms. I am getting over the self pity now and looking forward to the next grow🤓 I’m actually pretty stoked if these seeds turn out to work. I could shelf this strain and try another. Saves me from keeping clones all year long.
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