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5 little beans
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thank you green. things really seem to be smooth right now. too smooth. like theres another lesson coming... lol. probly why i sweat the defol so much. HAHAHA!!! happy sunday man
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week 6.5 bloom
i knew there was gonna be a new lesson! mid- late bloom root rot !!!!!!
hardest fkn thing to pinpoint yet in my grow. signs are sooooo obscure in the beginning. looked like heat, humidity and wind were issues. affected plant areas trichomes fading, hairs browning, sugar leaves dark and droopy but not the fan leaves. also a wierd funky smell in the tent, starting so gradually, but getting much stronger over the week. like a swampish locker room smellin of stinky feet and musty ass farts. truly suspect. but couldnt smell it on the flowers, plants, or even in the res itself directly.
luckily, tbanks to the forum, over tbe last few weeks i was seeing a few folks here having the same issues and was already looking to PREVENT as ive never paid too much mind to res temps cuz my plants been fine up til now sitting in water up to 83° at times. fkn new guy.
remedial process: light was a factor in the center. located the zones with the best bud and trichome formation and noted lux levels. then raised my light until the center was no more than 5k lux above that mark. in 2 days i was getting some trichomes back and better bud development, but otber symptoms persist.
got the ac going early this week. brought temps under the light down from 82°+ down to 78°. and by luck of things, the intake fan blows right on the res bringing those temps down to 75°. 6 ice bottles every 12 hrs keeping it at 66° now!
after being convinced of root rot yesterday, i immediately dropped 2 more airstones in the dead zone near the reservoir access hole. i did this after noticing that the 3 affected plants were surrounding that particular area, kinda narrowing it down there, hmmm? lol.
and the humidity... man, with so much plant material crowded in there like that, they put out sooo much moisture. i put 2 oscillators blowing full blast thru the undergrowth, and a big 20" blowing across the tops. gave a good 20% increase in trichs n resin overnight! general rh in the tent is running about 40%, but at plant level even with all that air movment they still pumpin it out up to 50%! jesus 5 gallon jug of top off nutes per week aint enough anymore, gotta mix up 7 now! even more once they get on track again. the worse this gets the less they drinkin.
so here we are, a few days of lower temps all around, and massive airflow, there is already much improvement. burnt brown brittle hairs almost covered up by new white ones, buds resuming fast development, smell is fading a bit but still present. should see huge improvent over the weekend with those new bubbles down below too! i think im beating this! god i hope im beating this.
now i gotta get the otber 2 reservoirs under control....
these shots are all flowers from affected plants. you can see some brown n crispy hairs still, but they about halfway back from where tbey were! new hairs n trichs covering up the damage quickly.
week 6.5 bloom
i knew there was gonna be a new lesson! mid- late bloom root rot !!!!!!
hardest fkn thing to pinpoint yet in my grow. signs are sooooo obscure in the beginning. looked like heat, humidity and wind were issues. affected plant areas trichomes fading, hairs browning, sugar leaves dark and droopy but not the fan leaves. also a wierd funky smell in the tent, starting so gradually, but getting much stronger over the week. like a swampish locker room smellin of stinky feet and musty ass farts. truly suspect. but couldnt smell it on the flowers, plants, or even in the res itself directly.
luckily, tbanks to the forum, over tbe last few weeks i was seeing a few folks here having the same issues and was already looking to PREVENT as ive never paid too much mind to res temps cuz my plants been fine up til now sitting in water up to 83° at times. fkn new guy.
remedial process: light was a factor in the center. located the zones with the best bud and trichome formation and noted lux levels. then raised my light until the center was no more than 5k lux above that mark. in 2 days i was getting some trichomes back and better bud development, but otber symptoms persist.
got the ac going early this week. brought temps under the light down from 82°+ down to 78°. and by luck of things, the intake fan blows right on the res bringing those temps down to 75°. 6 ice bottles every 12 hrs keeping it at 66° now!
after being convinced of root rot yesterday, i immediately dropped 2 more airstones in the dead zone near the reservoir access hole. i did this after noticing that the 3 affected plants were surrounding that particular area, kinda narrowing it down there, hmmm? lol.
and the humidity... man, with so much plant material crowded in there like that, they put out sooo much moisture. i put 2 oscillators blowing full blast thru the undergrowth, and a big 20" blowing across the tops. gave a good 20% increase in trichs n resin overnight! general rh in the tent is running about 40%, but at plant level even with all that air movment they still pumpin it out up to 50%! jesus 5 gallon jug of top off nutes per week aint enough anymore, gotta mix up 7 now! even more once they get on track again. the worse this gets the less they drinkin.
so here we are, a few days of lower temps all around, and massive airflow, there is already much improvement. burnt brown brittle hairs almost covered up by new white ones, buds resuming fast development, smell is fading a bit but still present. should see huge improvent over the weekend with those new bubbles down below too! i think im beating this! god i hope im beating this.
now i gotta get the otber 2 reservoirs under control....
these shots are all flowers from affected plants. you can see some brown n crispy hairs still, but they about halfway back from where tbey were! new hairs n trichs covering up the damage quickly.
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heres some happy pics, they not ALL sick, lol.
ahhh shit, almost forgot some really good stuff! goddam problems hoggin up the spotlight.
i got a very early taste 2 nights ago! diggin around for fan leaves to pluck i found a broken flower down in the canopy that was perfectly slow dried on the plant! sticky as hell, but bag dry. thing was so tiny i bong fired it very gently so i didnt pull it down right away. holy crap its already strong. thru the greenness it was sweet and warm tasting, almost remind me very mildly of holiday spiced sweetbread. once the green zip of the buzz faded some, the indica undertow was wonderfully comfortable and strong, very spacey, a little amnesiatic, lol. felt that tiny hit for 3+ hours! maybe longer, but i was already onto smokin somethin else by then. HAHAHAHA!!! lucky find.
heres some happy pics, they not ALL sick, lol.
ahhh shit, almost forgot some really good stuff! goddam problems hoggin up the spotlight.
i got a very early taste 2 nights ago! diggin around for fan leaves to pluck i found a broken flower down in the canopy that was perfectly slow dried on the plant! sticky as hell, but bag dry. thing was so tiny i bong fired it very gently so i didnt pull it down right away. holy crap its already strong. thru the greenness it was sweet and warm tasting, almost remind me very mildly of holiday spiced sweetbread. once the green zip of the buzz faded some, the indica undertow was wonderfully comfortable and strong, very spacey, a little amnesiatic, lol. felt that tiny hit for 3+ hours! maybe longer, but i was already onto smokin somethin else by then. HAHAHAHA!!! lucky find.
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MY will, not thiers.
thank you green!
thank you green!
intergalactic_harvester
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BAAAHAHAHA! thanks man!
oh hey, whats ur take on bloom progress this far? halfway thru wk 6, strain yield 400-450g/m2, 2nd week koolbloom liquid half strength with gh trio. im also adding 1.5 × strength koolbloom liquid and powder to my top off water, without any other nutes, just started that this week and its already working. bud tops are averaging 1.25" in diameter. hope thats enough info to calibrate ur eye!
oh hey, whats ur take on bloom progress this far? halfway thru wk 6, strain yield 400-450g/m2, 2nd week koolbloom liquid half strength with gh trio. im also adding 1.5 × strength koolbloom liquid and powder to my top off water, without any other nutes, just started that this week and its already working. bud tops are averaging 1.25" in diameter. hope thats enough info to calibrate ur eye!
intergalactic_harvester
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fkn cool man, thanks! doin EVERYTHING for em i can within my budget/knowledge/experience, but i have no PERSPECTIVE!!! found one peppermint kush grow on youtube trying to compare, but differing schools of grow made it hard. left me thinking im a week behind in development in the end.
thanks again for the input man, very encouraging!
thanks again for the input man, very encouraging!
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good morning and happy sunday gwe!
was pleasantly suprised this morning when i opened the tent.
first thing i saw...77°f and 39% humidity. smile #1.
faintly sweet cannabis smell touched my nose for the first time! smile #2.
next i noticed my buds swoll up overnight like a knot on the head. ooooh big grin so early this morning!
heres wbat i did to tbem yesterday:
nute change! tweaked the numbers a lil after checking npk values on the nute bottles. stopped using the grow formula alltogether... realized the enhancers im using make up the differece in nitrogen almost perfectly.
so...micro, bloom, calmag, all full strength gwe style with hydroguard went in. check ppm. tons of room still. koolbloom liquid AND powder at half recommended strength. gotta be careful with that shit, oooooh! check ppm again...hell ya, still got room! i managed to get FULL strength both powder and liquid into this feeding!!! freakin stoked. last week they got the regular gwe strength trio plus half strength liquid koolbloom only. left me room for ph adjusting thru the week plus i added 3/4 strength liquid and powder to the 5 gals top off water, only enhancers. by the end of the week my ppm only raised 200-250 ppm, and ph has been pretty stable at 6-6.1. i figure im safe up to 1500 or so ppm, and im at 1200 now...im happy. and with OBVIOUS results in 18 hours, my girls are happy too! just watching those tips thru the week...
still smell the funk, but its much more faint now, actually letting some of the sweet come thru. god that was scary shit.
k, done for now. lights about to go out and i need to check over everything and get a few shots. hope you can see the difference in the pics compared to yesterday mornings shots i posted!
got the shots, looks pretty noticeable. my wife saw it and got all giggly, lol.
good morning and happy sunday gwe!
was pleasantly suprised this morning when i opened the tent.
first thing i saw...77°f and 39% humidity. smile #1.
faintly sweet cannabis smell touched my nose for the first time! smile #2.
next i noticed my buds swoll up overnight like a knot on the head. ooooh big grin so early this morning!
heres wbat i did to tbem yesterday:
nute change! tweaked the numbers a lil after checking npk values on the nute bottles. stopped using the grow formula alltogether... realized the enhancers im using make up the differece in nitrogen almost perfectly.
so...micro, bloom, calmag, all full strength gwe style with hydroguard went in. check ppm. tons of room still. koolbloom liquid AND powder at half recommended strength. gotta be careful with that shit, oooooh! check ppm again...hell ya, still got room! i managed to get FULL strength both powder and liquid into this feeding!!! freakin stoked. last week they got the regular gwe strength trio plus half strength liquid koolbloom only. left me room for ph adjusting thru the week plus i added 3/4 strength liquid and powder to the 5 gals top off water, only enhancers. by the end of the week my ppm only raised 200-250 ppm, and ph has been pretty stable at 6-6.1. i figure im safe up to 1500 or so ppm, and im at 1200 now...im happy. and with OBVIOUS results in 18 hours, my girls are happy too! just watching those tips thru the week...
still smell the funk, but its much more faint now, actually letting some of the sweet come thru. god that was scary shit.
k, done for now. lights about to go out and i need to check over everything and get a few shots. hope you can see the difference in the pics compared to yesterday mornings shots i posted!
got the shots, looks pretty noticeable. my wife saw it and got all giggly, lol.
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thank you sir!
you prophesized boom buds! and holy crap here they come!
you prophesized boom buds! and holy crap here they come!
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back on the rootrot thing...
discovered i made a HUGE oversight when changing nutes yesterday.
found out i let a huge light leak get by me for a while now! the net pot i use for access cover front and center...you know, right over the roots of the 3 affected plants? hmmm... well, over time the hydroton in there settled to a point that light was going right thru the top row of holes. cant believe i never noticed it happening!
rezolved by taping up net pot, and kicking my own ass.
discovered i made a HUGE oversight when changing nutes yesterday.
found out i let a huge light leak get by me for a while now! the net pot i use for access cover front and center...you know, right over the roots of the 3 affected plants? hmmm... well, over time the hydroton in there settled to a point that light was going right thru the top row of holes. cant believe i never noticed it happening!
rezolved by taping up net pot, and kicking my own ass.
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As long as your plants are still healthy I wouldn't worry if there was a small light leak to the roots. I've left a net pot off a dozen of times over the years and plants never seem to react. Obviously long term light would kill roots and should always be avoided, but I'd be more worried if it was a light leak that let the leaves be exposed to light during their dark period 
Your buds look great! The structure reminds me of a Pineapple Chunk plant Sirius grew. It was easily the most flavorful and sweet smelling buds he's ever grown. So whenever I see a similar bud structure I always get excited!
Your buds look great! The structure reminds me of a Pineapple Chunk plant Sirius grew. It was easily the most flavorful and sweet smelling buds he's ever grown. So whenever I see a similar bud structure I always get excited!
intergalactic_harvester
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thank you nebula! me n my wife are already anxious like kids waiting for christmas to come!
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bloom midweek 7
temps range 75°-80°f day, steady 65°f night
rh 36%-41% day, 46%-52% night
ph avg 6.0
ppm range 1200-1500
overall appearance and color are normal and healthy. no signs of rootrot in or out of the reservoir, except for that funky smell that i can not find the source! it is pretty faint now but still present.
trichome production gone crazy with the lowered temps. sugar leaves looking leathery thick with them.
reduced fan speed on all circulators to lowest, and now burnt hairs getting overrun by new white ones.
upward growth is done, so im experimenting with light levels and nute usage. i began lowering my light 3 clicks daily, checking them at the end of each light cycle. day 3 saw the edges of leaves just barely begin to yellow on 2 tops dead center. im taking it 3 more clicks tonight. i want to see 4 or 5 tops slightly touched when i stop. the results im seeing over the entire canopy are exciting for sure! buds are surging again last 2 days, and they look and feel more like a succulent or cactus. hard like fruit. pretty cool first timer stuff, never seen how buds develop before this.
nute change tonight. sticking to same levels as last week since im playing with the lights.
trichomes are still glass clear, not even cloudy yet, lol. still got time.
thanks for lookin in folks, have a great saturday!
bloom midweek 7
temps range 75°-80°f day, steady 65°f night
rh 36%-41% day, 46%-52% night
ph avg 6.0
ppm range 1200-1500
overall appearance and color are normal and healthy. no signs of rootrot in or out of the reservoir, except for that funky smell that i can not find the source! it is pretty faint now but still present.
trichome production gone crazy with the lowered temps. sugar leaves looking leathery thick with them.
reduced fan speed on all circulators to lowest, and now burnt hairs getting overrun by new white ones.
upward growth is done, so im experimenting with light levels and nute usage. i began lowering my light 3 clicks daily, checking them at the end of each light cycle. day 3 saw the edges of leaves just barely begin to yellow on 2 tops dead center. im taking it 3 more clicks tonight. i want to see 4 or 5 tops slightly touched when i stop. the results im seeing over the entire canopy are exciting for sure! buds are surging again last 2 days, and they look and feel more like a succulent or cactus. hard like fruit. pretty cool first timer stuff, never seen how buds develop before this.
nute change tonight. sticking to same levels as last week since im playing with the lights.
trichomes are still glass clear, not even cloudy yet, lol. still got time.
thanks for lookin in folks, have a great saturday!
