Week 6 of flowing clone

[Bamtez]

Hey everyone glade to be part of this club. This is my first clone off my first plant, i took it during week 3 of flower and re-vegged it. I'm Running a 600 mars LED and feeding onece a week with grow big, big bloom and tiger bloom using the schedule on their site. I did notice downward clawing and a few tips of fan leafs burnt why is this happening? Also ph when feeding is 6.5-7.0 and run off ph is 5.5-6.0. Any help or criticism welcome.

[insomniaczzz]

She looks healthy to me. Looks like you have 6 or 7 colas starting. When do you plan on flowering her.

I have been told that taking a clone from a plant that is flowering can be a little more high maintenance than taking the clone before flowering. Though like I said, your clone looks good to me.

[Bamtez]

Thanks! Well I was thinking maybe 3 more weeks. I would like the top branches get a little longer? But I'm new to this game. Very bushy plant One last thing when is it OK to trim some of these fan leafs or should I wait till the switch? And is there any advantage to giving 24 hrs of dark when going to 12-12. Thanks again

[Green75]

I would lower your initial ph to 6.....always
About once a week I discard any fan leaves that are overly big and are blocking a lot of light to others tops.


You need to bend all those tops down and away from center....pull them all down and tie them off to the side.


No need for 24 hr. darkness.....imo

[PuravidaC]

Do you remove fan leaves during flower? I am in week 6 of flower and even after defoliating 4 times I still have bud sites that are shaded. Too afraid to thin more this late in flower. Was going to wait for fan leaves to yellow from old age. What do you think?

[Green75]

Cut them out of there....don't need that many that late in the game

[Bamtez]

Thanks for the advice! I will do that.

[uncleollie]

Are you growing in soil or coco? In coco you want the ph to be between 5.5-6.5 and in soil it should be 6-7 ph. If you're putting it in high, and it keeps coming out low, just keep putting it in high until the ph going in and out are in the right range. It'll fix itself if you do that every watering.

Burnt tips and clawing could mean you gave too much nutrients (burnt tips are often caused by nutrient burn, and clawing is often caused by nitrogen toxicity). But it could also be caused by other things!

Could you post a pic of your plant in normal light? How far away is your LED grow light? Most LEDs need to be kept at least 18" away to start, so they don't burn the babies!

[Bamtez]

So I I'm in soil ocean mix. Just trimmed her up a bit. I have the light 18" and the burnt tips were just a few. It happened over night so kind of shocked me ,but she looks good. I started to clear the center and bent back the branches. Thanks for the advice. Here are some more pics under normal lite.

[Green75]

I would tie down every single branch. Pull them down even with the top of your main trunk line cola top.

To where it's all flat and open

[Canyon Grower]

Im not sure you need to do anything with you feeding and ph. Thsts a healthy lokking plant. You could get a little morecagressive with your training. Get her to spread out a bit more. I think you are not facing any huge issues however.

[Bamtez]

Thanks. I try spreading her out as flat as I can. Need to get some wire.

[gbauto]

I use foam covered wire that you should be able to source at any garden center. Your plant looks pretty good-maybe a tad hot on the nutes. I think that you will get a better yield by spreading out the branches-nice bud clusters are the goal.

[Sonnyhad]

Are you growing in soil or coco? In coco you want the ph to be between 5.5-6.5 and in soil it should be 6-7 ph. If you're putting it in high, and it keeps coming out low, just keep putting it in high until the ph going in and out are in the right range. It'll fix itself if you do that every watering.

Burnt tips and clawing could mean you gave too much nutrients (burnt tips are often caused by nutrient burn, and clawing is often caused by nitrogen toxicity). But it could also be caused by other things!

Could you post a pic of your plant in normal light? How far away is your LED grow light? Most LEDs need to be kept at least 18" away to start, so they don't burn the babies!

What would you call growing in Pro Mix, soil or lump it in with coco? I keep getting confused!! I think its mostly peat.

[Royal Nugs]

Peat is typically referred to as soil. Pro mix is indeed peat based.

[uncleollie]

I think it's tough because it's like a range. There's soil, where there's a lot of nutrients in the potting mix. Then there's coco, which is completely soil-less - it's just an empty growing medium and you add all the nutrients but the medium hold the roots. In hydro the roots just float in water, and you're adding the nutrients. It seems like the closer to a "soil grow" (the more nutrients contained in the soil) the more you treat it like soil. The more it seems like a "soil-less grow" (no nutrients in the potting mix) the more you treat it like coco/hydro.

I'm not sure if that helps, I'm not familiar with growing in peat. From what I understand Pro-Mix is a soilless mix, but I think it contains nutrients, so I think you could go either way with it.

I tried to look it up on the manufacturer website, and it seems to treat Pro-Mix as soilless. But they weren't really tutorials from Pro-Mix as much as random growing articles on their website by random people so I'm not sure it's necessarily Pro-Mix specific. I found three pages (here, here, here) talking about pH. In the first one they say it depends on the plant, but the range for all the plants was 5.5-6.6. In the second page it says between 5.5-6.5. In the third page it's talking about using Pro-Mix in hydroponics, but they say 5.5-6 pH.

Based on those articles, I'd guess it's better to treat Pro-Mix like hydro with a pH in the 5.5-6.5 range, but just to be sure it can't hurt to contact them! I bet they'll get back to you fast!