Alaskan1 - First Grow in 2 Years

So I'm going to come clean on a few things. Over the last few years my dedication to grow or even just do around the house stuff dwindled to no energy at all.
Then the now ex and I were on shaky ground at best.
I basically snapped one day. I was in serious trouble. I'm 5"7 and my weight had dropped to 124 pounds and I didn't eat anything hardly at all. I didn't care about anything including my growing and it showed. I finally got all the medical attention that I needed.
It has taken me a long time to get back to where I was before and I'm still not there yet. I'm a ton better but not 100%.
My growing tells a big tale on where I am. I haven't been going into the grow rooms daily and the plants haven't gotten the attention they deserve.
My last grow produced a whopping 1/2 pound from 8 plants in a 12x10 room. I'm better than that. I'm better than this.
So now. I go into the rooms every day. The plants are getting all the attention they deserve. I also have 2 plants outside growing in soil which I've never done.
Yes, things are looking up. Also I'd like to add that if anyone suffers from depression feel free to shoot me a PM. Been there done that!
 
Just like last time I saw one plant drying out. Exactly like last time. So I got pissed and just sat in my flower room.
All my flo n grow settings were the same when I lived in my other house.
So while sitting there I was just thinking about shit and what it could be.
I could hear the flo n grow pump starting.
I watched the water as the buckets started to take on nutes. Behold my eyes I found the problem. The amount of water getting to the plants was not enough!! Just as the buckets got filled the system started to drain. Plants were dying of lack of water and nutes. Made the time 45 minutes now and no more dying plants!!!!
 
Hey AK1! I"ll try to get a drawing together about what I'm thinking.

Sorry for the late reply, I also suffer from the same with migraines on top of it. So not only do I get down in the dumps, but I get pain so sharp it causes nausea when it hits. So I know exactly what horrible place you look out from. Just know that we're here for you, and that no matter how bad it seems, at least you don't have an elephant shitting on you.
 
This guy's walking down the street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep he can't get out.
A doctor passes by and the guy shouts up, "Hey you. Can you help me out?"

The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down in the hole and moves on.

Then a priest comes along and the guy shouts up, "Father, I'm down in this hole can you help me out?"

The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on.

Then a friend walks by, "Hey, Joe, it's me can you help me out?"

And the friend jumps in the hole. Our guy says, "Are you stupid? Now we're both down here."

The friend says, "Yeah, but I've been down here before and I know the way out."
 
Hey Alaskan1

You dont know me but i know about you, you had great grows in the past and I was subbed to those and thats why im here. Life gets rough sometimes but its how you pick yourself back up that defines you, glad to hear youre getting into your room more and i hope that also brings you some relief. Take it easy man, i will be checking in.
 
Sigh, my design suite isn't working right, and my sub to the maker site is expired. Gimme a few to work it out.

okay.. back up and rolling again.

Okay, the box is the freezer, the container is the polygon sitting in it, and the worm is the spiraled line into, through, and then back out. This is a basic heat exchanger. The freezer removes the heat from the big bucket, the copper worm runs your chosen coolant (regular radiator fluid will do) through the heat exchanger, and out to your different reservoirs, where this same copper tubing is again coiled, to take heat out of the res. Big pump to run it all and you've got a cheap chiller that you can expand to include as many reservoirs as you have space in the freezer to run tubing. If it's 1/2" tubing, that's a lot of reservoirs.

 
I'm having some issues in flower once again. Seems like veg goes smooth and fine but like the 3rd week of flower shit starts going sideways
Check these pics out. Wtf is going on
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Using RO water, you are adding Cal/Mag, correct?

Thought 2: you flush your system with regular water before switching to flower nutes.

Missing N, or maybe N lockout. yeah, plants still need N in flower, just not as much.

Thought 3: Check underside of older leaves with magnifying glass, or loupe. thrips/mites slight maybe.




Thought 4: Come camping with us some time. We're heading out tomorrow.
 
Thank you Jandre, your too kind
I asked the cal mag question to he who shall not be named lol
He said there was more than enough in the nutes I was using.

The leaves are loosing the dark green color and are more of a yellow on the lower leaves. I do have mites but I've been battling them and winning. Using azamax
On the top picture you fixed the green was a little darker and the yellow was much more yellow
I just don't get what the fuck is going on
 
Alaskan1 said:
Thank you Jandre, your too kind
I asked the cal mag question to he who shall not be named lol
He said there was more than enough in the nutes I was using.

The leaves are loosing the dark green color and are more of a yellow on the lower leaves. I do have mites but I've been battling them and winning. Using azamax
On the top picture you fixed the green was a little darker and the yellow was much more yellow
I just don't get what the fuck is going on
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yeah, I quit using those nutes, and a lot of frustration went away. Check out Cutting Edge Solutions. Are you anywhere near Olympia?
 
Well yeah, I use to live there. My parents still do and I visit them once a week
wanna hear some funky shit??
So I go to use the vitablue and I heard shit rattling at the bottom of the jug. It's like part of it solidified
Know what he told me to do?!? Heat it on the stove and that should get it back to a liquid lol
Now then the early bloomer had shit growing in it when I was getting ready to use it. Guess what his answer was?? I probably somehow contaminated the gallon but it shod be fine to use. Yeah right
 
Alaskan1 said:
Well yeah, I use to live there. My parents still do and I visit them once a week
wanna hear some funky shit??
So I go to use the vitablue and I heard shit rattling at the bottom of the jug. It's like part of it solidified
Know what he told me to do?!? Heat it on the stove and that should get it back to a liquid lol
Now then the early bloomer had shit growing in it when I was getting ready to use it. Guess what his answer was?? I probably somehow contaminated the gallon but it shod be fine to use. Yeah right
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I kept getting mold in my "Grow", slime in my "Bloom", and my vitablue did the same thing. It's a crystallization of the super-concentrated minerals. Heating it, will dissolve them again., however, you'll have to replace the water lost during the boil. Check your mail... I can't say anymore about what I found.
 

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