Starting my second battle soon. Questions + tips? advice?

[realhuuuman420]

Gotcha, thanks, Bluey! Super happy it's nothing to worry about too much. I'll keep up the... patience

[Bluey]

Your plants look perfectly fine. Really good.

Droopy leaves during this stage is not unusual. Sure they may be a fraction overwatered (minor mottling, well thats what I call it anyway)but I wouldn't go changing anything because it won't be long until they burst forward and pick up.

This is the period I think plants show growing pains of this type and everything I am seeing is consistent with a plant at this stage. You could add a small amount of calmag (seeing a fraction pigment loss) but it is so minimal I would just keep monitoring.

Good job.

Edit. The mottling is where you tend to see like elongated bubbles or blisters on the leaf surface, a raised area. I'm pretty sure it is related to watering but it could also be genetics or just growing pains during this period.. I often get it growing in coco but it doesn't seem to cause any problems and it only seems to happen when they are drooping.

[realhuuuman420]

Hello, I am back with some fresh porn. The plant is now 23 days old.

Two questions:

1. Are the drooping leaves + slight discoloration becoming an issue? The drooping just happened last night, and I'm not sure why. Temps and rH are acceptable (23-25C and 44-55%) and so far I've watered around every 3 days, using a scale to determine if it needs water or not yet. At first I only gave it around 350ml, now increased to 550ml. Should I now begin to give it a really good watering until I get some good runoff?
   The discoloration is barely visible on the photos, but it is much more pronounced in real life. You can see it best on the lowest fan leaves on pic 4.
2. Watering concern: so if you look at my pants, the opening is smaller than the rest of them. I am not sure if when I water, does the water get everywhere, or only in the middle where the opening is? Should I be pouring water all over my pants so it goes through the textile? Is that a thing?

Otherwise, looks okay, growing rather rapidly. I am starting to worry a bit also about needing to cut some of the big leaves/branches, since they are starting to block the lower ones from receiving light. I did not want to do any LST as it would just add another layer of difficulty and didn't want to worry about that too, and if possible, I wouldn't like to cut anything either. But I'll follow whatever advice I get here.

Also, like one or two of the upper branches are having some reddening in the stems - seems to be coming from the leaves and towards the main stem. Cause for concern?

[Rootsruler]

Looks good

[Gingerbeard]

No problems with pant leaves. They'll grow. Just keep them off the soil.
Aside from the harvest frequency, my biggest advantage to growing autos is I don't have to worry about 100% darkness. I zip my tent up for their six hours, but that's more tradition than anything else.

[realhuuuman420]

So that power outage actually helped with syncing the light with the temps - now they're on during the night.

I took the advice and got some relaxing stuff to help with the anxiety. Taking it slow and steady. Here's some fresh porn - I don't see any issues, just sharing. So beautiful. Little over 2 weeks and already more than double in size compared to my Speedy Rambo Gonzales

Are the leaves slightly touching my pants a problem? I could try and stretch them a bit with some strings, but it's impractical for when I might need to move the pants.
EDIT: I meant stretch the pants, not the leaves. Lol

[Rootsruler]

The only thing that will happen is that your plant will get 8 hrs less of photosynthesis. As Gingerbeard mentioned, they're autos so they don't signal for flower in the same way as photos.

Also, as Bluey said try and set your lights on and off to coincide with the ambient temperatures outside. If your tent is running hot on lights on then have them come on during the coolest part of the day. Usually at night. This will help you to be able to keep them within a temp range that you want.

[Gingerbeard]

They're autos. Don't worry about the light thing stressing your plants.

[Bluey]

Typically its best to manage for heat. Do your light schedule to suit ambient conditions. In my experience flipping from veg to flower requires much more than one extended dark period.

[realhuuuman420]

This is Afghan Kush (auto). Purple stems I did not ask about, because I had that on the last one, and it seems in most cases it is simply genetics.
This one is supposed to be purple too, and according to the seeds seller website, it should be bushy and should theoretically go from seed to harvest in 2 months.

And yes I was talking about that stripe, and you can see the same kind of light-ish color on the other leaf, just.. not as visible.

[Gingerbeard]

Is that the same plant from your last post? You haven't changed your pants, so I guess it is.
If you are talking about that light colored stripe in picture 4, don't worry about it.
You did not ask about the purple stems. Probably because you intuitively know not to worry about purple stems.

I'll ask again. What are you growing?

[realhuuuman420]

Good evening!

Just a quick update and some porn - I think we're doing fine! Slightly concerned about some discoloration (check the close-up pic of one of the big leaves) but not worrying about it too much just yet.

Got a question, though. Today, we had an electricity outage, and because of it, the plant missed 8 hours of light. How should I deal with this?

I thought that, since these were the last 8 hours, and next the light would be turned off, that it would be dark for too long (16h in total) before it would resume its usual 18/6 schedule. So I turned it upside down - now the light turns on instead of off, and the schedule is reversed. Is this the best solution? Or should I simply keep it on the usual schedule, even if it means 18h of darkness? No idea how much stress can this cause - it probably will not happen again during this grow.

Anyway, here it is. Day 16. Ready for harvest yet?

EDIT: Forgot to mention I watered 3 days ago with ~350ml of water, hence why it may seem somewhat damp.

[realhuuuman420]

I'm not smoking anything currently. That's the issue
Alright, I'll take it easy. Thanks, both of you! <3

[Rootsruler]

Agreed. They look fine. Your RH and Temp are within acceptable ranges. If you can smooth out the temp and humidity swings even better but if not don't sweat it. You're close enough that you'll be able to pull some decent weight out of her. Try and get used to using the light pot method to know when to water your plants. Seedlings and sprouts usually only require about a watering a week due to their small root system.

[Gingerbeard]

Are you smoking Sativa? You need to switch to a nice, relaxing Indica.
You are looking good. Even the white (I hope) beard hair is typical around here. The spots from posts #8 and #9 have grown out and nothing new has emerged. Whatever that was is taken care of.
If there is nothing you can do about temperature and humidity, don't worry about them. Keep a mental note for the future, yes. Don't stress what you can't do anything about.
Did I miss it? What are you growing?