Being my first grow I didn’t fully understand the nutrient needs when I started 01 October.
I planted in 3 gallons of plain organic soil, some weeks later I found out about Nature’s Living Soil and moved the content to 7 gallon pots surrounded by NLS mix (hindsight: I should have done their super soil mix).
They’ve looked pretty good after dialing in the environment and using compost tea every couple weeks.
I switched to 12/12 on 01 December and in the past few days noticed some yellowing. I added some NLS into the first couple inches per their top dressing directions and covered that with a new layer (1-2”) of some living soil mix I had leftover from the transplant. The soil had settled providing this room.
I’m not sure if this will be enough nutrients to take me to the flower 60-67 day mark.
At flowering time I did the following;
Moved the light dimmer up from 80% to 100% (per SF’s new chart)
Lowered the light from 30” to about 18-20” (per SF’s new chart)
Lowered the temp range per GWE’s chart
Lowered the temp range per GWE’s chart
This was Sunday. It’s easier to see the change in real life. The yellowing is mostly up high, but oddly on the rear left plant, half of it remains darker green (the half to the right). The smallest of the 3 plants is at rear right and has the most yellowing. It seems I have 2 phenos and that yellower one is twin to the one I moved indoors to be a mother and that one has never changed in color (beautiful dark green) with all 4 getting the same soil treatment.
So is it all the environment changes listed above (stressing the plants) or is the plants eating up all my supplemental nutrients due to flowering?
If I need more powerful nutrients what would you recommend for soil?
I planted in 3 gallons of plain organic soil, some weeks later I found out about Nature’s Living Soil and moved the content to 7 gallon pots surrounded by NLS mix (hindsight: I should have done their super soil mix).
They’ve looked pretty good after dialing in the environment and using compost tea every couple weeks.
I switched to 12/12 on 01 December and in the past few days noticed some yellowing. I added some NLS into the first couple inches per their top dressing directions and covered that with a new layer (1-2”) of some living soil mix I had leftover from the transplant. The soil had settled providing this room.
I’m not sure if this will be enough nutrients to take me to the flower 60-67 day mark.
At flowering time I did the following;
Moved the light dimmer up from 80% to 100% (per SF’s new chart)
Lowered the light from 30” to about 18-20” (per SF’s new chart)
Lowered the temp range per GWE’s chart
Lowered the temp range per GWE’s chart
This was Sunday. It’s easier to see the change in real life. The yellowing is mostly up high, but oddly on the rear left plant, half of it remains darker green (the half to the right). The smallest of the 3 plants is at rear right and has the most yellowing. It seems I have 2 phenos and that yellower one is twin to the one I moved indoors to be a mother and that one has never changed in color (beautiful dark green) with all 4 getting the same soil treatment.
So is it all the environment changes listed above (stressing the plants) or is the plants eating up all my supplemental nutrients due to flowering?
If I need more powerful nutrients what would you recommend for soil?
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