SOIL New grow

[KeifWellington]

Ok here we are 10 weeks from seed. One of the plants looks like it’s ready to flip to flower, while the other one is still lagging far behind. Same nutes, same space, same everything.
I’m inclined to just switch to 12/12 now and let it run its course.

 

[Mr.furley]

It is always best to have a healthy plant before flowering it.

 

[Mr.furley]

The one plant is show improvement! The other, not so much. How is it coming with the PH?

Is there anyway you can get a wire rack under the potsin between it and the sauce? So air can flow under them. Here is a example, same idea
https://forum.growweedeasy.com/filedata/fetch?id=268562&d=1542603375

Have you got your temperatures up?

The one that is looking better does the damage seem to have stopped? If so cut the couple leaves off that look like crap.

 

[KeifWellington]

I watered to overflow with a little vinegar added and the runoff is in the low 6.
Ill get some racks under them today. I have just the thing.
The heating pad has the space up to 70
All the new growth looks healthy. I’ll defoliate the ugliest leaves.

Should I switch to flower now or wait to see if the smaller one improves?

 

[Mr.furley]

The one that is struggling could have problems down the road if you do. The biggest factor for when to start flowering is plant size, they will double and even triple in size so it a matter of how much room you have left. Container+plant+spacing+light. Like I said it's best if the one is healthy but sometime you got to do what you got to do.
Can you set up another space for the sick looking one? Or is this your only choice?

 

[KeifWellington]

I can wait to flower, this is all about learning.
Is there anything I should be doing differently for the sick one? It’s all the same soil and schedule. PH is right.

 

[Mr.furley]

If you think your soil in depleted of nutrients a good Flush can fix alot of problems. Kelp can aid in stressed plants, and a little calmag is all I can think of for suggestions. Out of all of them the flush would be big one

 

[KeifWellington]

Ok I did the flush on my sicko. Zero nutes, some molasses (cap mag), and 6.2 water.

 

[Mr.furley]

Sounds good and hope it helps your girl out, after this it will be important to feed regular schedule nutrients. Keep us posted on the progress.

 

[KeifWellington]

Here we are 5 weeks into 12/12. Can you give me an idea of my next steps? Been doing nutes every other watering.

 

[Mr.furley]

Great job! Looks like they have pulled though and are budding out nice, you're next step is to hold her steady nutes, water, repeat.
You look to be 2 to 4 weeks from finish and will need to taper off any nutrients at about two weeks out, starting with any nitrogen and silica, then any potassium and phosphorus till they are getting just plain Ph'ed water the last couple weeks(some peeps will add a little unsulphured molasses at this time)..
Can you snap a close up of the buds next time.

 

[KeifWellington]

Here are closeups of the buds. Just zooms
on iPhone pix really.

 

[Mr.furley]

I'd say 3 to 4 at least they're going to really fatten up somemore, then ripen, when you can notice please see the pistils turning red start cutting nitrogen.
Good luck

 

[KeifWellington]

I’m getting a lot of new brown growth. 7 weeks into flower. Am I still on track? I reduced nutes on my last water.

 

[PhantomSulker]

From the looks of those I would say Light Burn a bit or PH issue but would lean towards Light because it looks like more on top leaves from your pictures.

https://www.growweedeasy.com/cannabis-light-burn

https://www.growweedeasy.com/molybdenum-deficiency-cannabis

 

[Mr.furley]

Yeah I agree. How close is your light?

 

[KeifWellington]

20” away from the tops

 

[Mr.furley]

Doesn't look like you can raise it up to around 26"?
You got the claw look to your Leafs I'd think about cutting out nitrogen if you can. Have you check up on your ph?
https://www.growweedeasy.com/nitrogen-toxicity-cannabis

 

[KeifWellington]

Im using FF Bloom nutes and I’m bringing the ph to low 6s, sometimes lower. I just use white vinegar. I can’t really do anything as far as raising the light, should I block some of the light with a reflector?

 

[Mr.furley]

Just ride out the light, tiger bloom? Alternating Water only and feeding?