SOIL Disabled, senior female noob > LEDs. Have many questions, made mistakes, need advice

[Puglover1]

It's been 5.5 weeks since I went 12/12. The only plant that gets a few leaf issues is the biggest/oldest girl. Does anyone use Recharge? Seems like the middle plant was better after using it. Anyone use Flower Fuel? What should I do next - remove more leaves? remove inner, smaller stems? leave 'em alone? The only thing for the bugs (gnats?) is using the yellow sticky pads, right? Few are on the canopy-level stickies, most are on the pads on top of the pots. The temp stays around 70F, 67 was the lowest. The RH is 20% after 11 hrs of lights, and the doors open to work on them, highest I've ever seen was 55% in the a.m. before lights on, after watering the night before, while in veg. As always, TYVM! Have a great weekend. Edit: Do I see balls on the first photo, plant in the left corner?? :shock:

 

[Mr.furley]

Plant look good and are on the way. You could take some big leaves off, about a dozen per plant for now, pull them out the thick areas. I don't use recharge but have heard good things about it and if it helped as long as your PH is good add some. Your plants have been in those pots for a long time so they are going to have stress most likely from root bound but you just need to get them to the finish line and you're about half way through flower. Next grow you'll know to flip the light a little sooner so you won't some of the problems you have had to deal with.

 

[Puglover1]

Thanks Mr.furley. I agree, the oldest plant has the most leaf issues. I don't think my next biggest pots would've fit in the closet, and I didn't expect to be finishing this late by myself. What are these?? If you look at the first photo in the post above, enlarge it, left side, top third ... I saw it in the photos but it was too late to go look in person.

 

[Mr.furley]

I can see what your getting at but the pictures is to blurry to really say. Get a clean picture in natural light tomarrow and upload it.

 

[growell]

for your gnats put yellow paper level with pots small fan blowing level top of pots stops them flying also apple cider vinegar just put a bowl of it by plants also layer of sand on top of pot also under pot hope this helps

 

[Puglover1]

I flipped on 9/1. Raised the panels Sunday, the panels' edges are resting on the closet bar ATM, will that distort the lights? The lights are not hidden by the bar but the panel edge is resting on it. I'm in the beginning of week 6, how much higher might they get now? I don't have much more left height to find. The large middle plant: there are two long shoots that are getting top heavy, any like these have been supported by the wall or closet doors - is there when I make "bishop hook' supports out of coated wire and attach to the pot rims? All advice is always welcomed and much appreciated.

 

[Mr.furley]

And such beautiful buds you got forming there. I'd say at this point you are OK with the light, you can expect a little more growth upwards but not much, it's more then likely to just start swelling besides I dont see any signs at the top of the plant to indicate light saturation.

Heavy buds can be supported and are a good problem to have😉 best to look at "yo yo's"(not the toy kind) that drop from the top or add some plant stakes.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Well sister you have a heavy grow going on now. You come along way and you done well. I agree with Mr.furley light distance will be OK. Can you slip a " tension rod " like a small diameter curtain rod in there to suspend twine too?

 

[Puglover1]

With a lot of help from my new friends, thanks. I was just shopping yoyos, trying to figure how I'd hang them. I have the prior shower curtain rod, the spring is wonky at one point but I can put blocks on the ends/walls to make it work, less weight than the panel. Now, besides knowing when to flush, I will also need to take clones right before harvest. I got a few in a couple of water glasses but it's hard to put them anywhere to get natural light, the cat steals them. I need someone stronger than me to remove a few things from the 3rd bdrm closet. I have an Aero-Garden, need to relocate it somewhere, the cat prefers cannabis over homegrown catnip. Maybe I can use the bathroom that's attached to the bedroom w/grow closet? This is a great strain, I need to keep it going. I have 3 dozen Mason qt jars in boxes, they're not wide mouth but they were free, from a little old lady. Will they be OK to use? TY!!

 

[JohnEmad]

You have 2 of the best in Mr furley and SoOrbudgal helping. Looks great. Well done so far.

 

[growell]

dont take clones before harvest its to late u have to take them in veg also jars will work

 

[Puglover1]

I read here about cloning before harvest/in flower, re-veg. Not my ideal but this is a great strain, still my favorite since getting my card 5 years ago. An Iranian landrace, my sleep medicine but also a great buzz. I noticed roots starting today on what's left of the clones in glasses that the cat didn't steal. Guessing I'll plant them in solo cups, put them on a tray across the guest bathroom sink and leave the lights on/door closed, maybe put curly CFL or LED bulbs in the fixture above the medicine cabinet if they're not already in there. I'm not a slacker but life happened and majorly messed up my plans for this grow. I'd like to try a gelato auto, my second favorite for sleep. I've never bought a seed yet, on purpose. I really need Wild Thai, my pain strain, it's sativa and I have to grow indoors. It's hard to find in dispensary here, I'm nursing a gram of bud, I have a third gram of crumble left to convert to vape oil.

 

[Puglover1]

It will be 6 weeks since flip this weekend/Monday. I didn't use CalMag last watering, tonight I used it, used little less of something else, I'm hoping they'll look happier tomorrow. I ran into an 'accidental tourist' big sideways branch in back, buds, good leaf color but it's odd the way some fan leaves are like hugging the stem, flat. I think this was before stuff fell apart here and I was doing things right, I pinched that first plant off at the right time, but not the next two seedlings. Yoyos are on their way. I need to re-read about flushing and molasses, timing.

 

[Puglover1]

So, I've got this long narrow closet with a monster plant in the middle. My plant yoyos arrived. I have the clothes rod that the panels' edges are resting on, I could tie jute twine to that or to the brackets on each end. I have colas needing support near the back wall and near the front/closet door side. Should I put up another tension rod above the door's trim to support colas on that side of the plant? After the yoyos are attached can you still turn the pots? Are there any photos, or links to read about doing this on the site? On a side note, I gave extra CalMag last watering and everything looked better today, any bad-looking leaves were already there. TIA!

 

[Mr.furley]

You will not be able to move your plants once you're hanging yo-yos, here's a little bit about them
https://www.growweedeasy.com/cool-growing-tools
plants are looking good.

 

[Poppa]

You could reveg your grow to get the clones you desire.

 

[lalaland]

Reveg takes a while. Twice as long as regular clones, but can definitely be done to preserve a strain. I’m revenging monster cropped clones right now without any issues for the same reason. Took 3 of each kind just to make sure that 1 lived.
They’re all doing well

 

[lalaland]

Mine are also in a tray on the spare bathroom counter😂 with the bathroom lights on, during lights out in the grow room.
I don’t even have a grow light in there.

 

[lalaland]

Nice turnaround Puglover1

 

[SoOrbudgal]

I'm a big fan of cloning