Alert - Two of the tallest plants have clawed leaves near their tops - they are dark green and look healthy for now.
Been reading again
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could be over-watering, nitrogen toxicity or wind-burn. I raised the little fans in the tent, raised the lights again (been raising them about 2inch every week for a month now). I did notice that the girls are taking longer now to drink up their 3L waterings than 2 weeks ago - and there was more run-off than before. I'm gonna either increase the days between waterings or reduce quantity to 2.5L -
wait - just remembered
PGR saying "can't water too much, just too often" so gonna keep to 3L (20% pot size) and water every 5 days for now. Can't imagine that it could be nitrogen toxicity?
Don't worry about a little clawing and taco'ing, as long as the plants are healthy. If you start doing something drastically you're probably just gonna mess something up and still be non the wiser why it happened in the first place.
As long as it's just some tiips bendingm it's no biggie, however I think that you have your HPS a little too close, or slightly under/over water.
HID hand trick: Hold your hand with the back facing towards the light for 30 seconds if your skin starts to tingle you're too close.
Pots should be light to lift when they're ready for water - and - stick a finger in the soil close to the center and if it's dry 2-3 cm down.
If you get too much run-off it's fine to back down to 2,5L.
Don't expect plants to have the same drinking pattern throughout their cycle, or different plants to have the same drinking pattern at the same stage.
With the little amount of nutes you give, I think you should give the same next watering, with autos at this stage I usually give 2ml/L Grow/Bloom/Alc/TopMax, but your plants look green and helthy so no need to increase right now.
Basically my best advice is to worry less, we've all been there thinking we need to do sometihing and then after it's done we found out that it was too much and suddenly have to run in the opposite direction.
Howzit
PGR - saw this post yesterday afternoon and been pondering what you said since - very intriguing suggestion.
My initial plan was to just have the 6 DP plants for my first journal. But then you got me thinking. Been warned about thinking.
What kind of genetics are we talking about; are they available on the open market?
Well of course only if you have the room, it's just a good way to get ahead on the next grow
If you're able to wake up the guy at Urban Green Birmingham he has nice selection of exclusive genetics, check out his website for inspiration.
Attitude seeds is also a good site with great selection, and because it's a big seedbank they get up in the morning to do business, and send a shitload of freebies with your order
Also look at Sour Patch, Neptune, Annunaki and firestax - these seedbanks have a great selection and are good for inspiration but might not be worthwhile ordering from to Europe.
I really really like In House Genetics, quite expensive gear though, and I've been looking at Dank Genetics, just haven't seen many grows with them.
You should of course choose the stuff that caters to your needs, if you want cheap seeds and big yields it's in another alley
Too right dude - it's because I don't want to get complacent just because it's going well. The little tweaks I made yesterday seem to have relaxed their fingers a little today.
