DC's First Indoor Multi-Strain

[Pennywise]

Plant Abuse Chart

Heat Stress : Look closely below, and you'll see the brown leaf edges that are indicative of heat stress. This damage looks alot like nutrient burn, except it occurs only at the tops of the plants closest to the lamps. There's only one cure for this...get the heat away from the plants, either...

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[DeeCee112]

TO1

 

[DeeCee112]

Plant Abuse Chart

Heat Stress : Look closely below, and you'll see the brown leaf edges that are indicative of heat stress. This damage looks alot like nutrient burn, except it occurs only at the tops of the plants closest to the lamps. There's only one cure for this...get the heat away from the plants, either...

www.420magazine.com

Temps have been stable at 23 to 25 degrees celsius and my light is up at 30" from canopy! Well at least the lights out period will cool as well if heat is somehow at factor.

 

[Pennywise]

Looks more like they are slightly under fed.

 

[DeeCee112]

After watering this morning and 4hrs of darkness today - some improvement to posture. Noticed more weird brown spots on a fan leaf on another plant though...ugh they almost look like shiny like a coppery bronze. Reminds me of a brand of never seize lubricant paste I've used at work in the past lol

Can't help but feel pretty discouraged tonight! I've put a lot of work in and it feels like just spinning my wheels...I'm running out of variables to change. I'll switch over to using the jug of RO water next feed and see if it does anything. Until then I might just leave them alone in the tent for a few days - maybe theyll work it out on their own lol!

Lineup - Temps with a dark period, TO #1, TO #2 and lastly Blue Dream

 

[Pennywise]

Sounds like phosphorus deficiency

 

[DeeCee112]

Sounds like phosphorus deficiency

Tomorrow I decided I'm going to flush with RO water 5 gal each followed by 1g 4ml grow, 4ml micro, 1ml bloom, 5ml CalMag. Thinking about taking them out of the pots and refilling with fresh medium and putting them back in too.. Idk is that crazy? And then I'm not even gonna touch them for a week and see how they do.

Heres a gallery of my issues lmao the first one after the lux reading is blue dream growing nodes every 1/2" lol

 

[Pennywise]

What medium are you using?

 

[DeeCee112]

Promix HP soil less

 

[DeeCee112]

If you check out page 7 I was looking back and it was the first time they went droopy on me. I flushed them in the bath and they were much better the next day.
Maybe my tap water is too high in minerals and whatnot and causing the good stuff to get locked out, or salt buildup in the medium?

 

[Pennywise]

Do you have the hydro check list?

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• Pennywise
• Jun 22, 2018

DWC Tables

 

[DeeCee112]

I'm not in a hydro setup so I'm not sure how to utilize that chart. Promix HP is a soil less medium it's peat moss, perlite and some added lime
I did just pull the trigger on a PPM pen on Amazon.

 

[Pennywise]

Ok cool that will help you a lot
Let's get an old HP user over here. @InTheShed

 

[HippyCanuck]

No offense but DeeCee's plants look better than InTheSheds. Lol

 

[dynamo1]

Shed been mentoring DC.

 

[Pennywise]

Ok good deal.

 

[InTheShed]

No offense but DeeCee's plants look better than InTheSheds. Lol

I'm just coming to my own defense here! Summer grow:

 

[InTheShed]

TO1

They look underfed and overwatered at first glance.

 

[DeeCee112]

They look underfed and overwatered at first glance.

I just fed them yesterday morning and only 2L, not even enough for runoff. It was half the full strength that I backed off of when I was getting clawed tips. Prior to yesterday they went 5 days without water and were pretty dry!

 

[DeeCee112]

OKAY...

So I kept my word and left them alone this morning. Just a quick peek and a picture. Their posture looks much better I think which was absolutely delightful to see. I had trouble sleeping last night to tell you the truth...
It's funny how attached you become when you grow something from a little seed. I've always had a knack for gardening but then again it's always been in well amended raised garden beds. I've never grown anything in a pot much less inside a tent in a soil less medium! Seeing some improvement today was nice.

BEFORE

AFTER

Here is what changed over the last couple days to possibly have brought on the less droopy posture:

Raised the light, it's actually at 30-32". My phones lux meter read 28993. No idea if that's good or not but whatever lol!

Watered only 2L instead of 4 at half strength nutes and 5.8PH.

Sent them back to a 20/4 light schedule. I think this may have been the ticket. I traced the initial droop back to when I went to 24/0. Maybe this strain needs some rest everyday. Blue dream seems unaffected posture wise but she is a weird ass looking plant anyway so who cares lol.

I put some PL premium around the outlet of my new 5gal watering jug filled with RO (with added trace minerals and calcium) from Canadian tire last night. This morning I threw a big bead of waterproof silicone caulk over the PL for added leak protection. On the way home I'm going to grab another barbed 1/2 fitting to plug my 1/2 hose into and another ball valve on the end of the hose so I can drain the line when I'm done watering.

Tonight I will put this puppy to use and flush out TO1 in the tub with a couple gallons and then feed 1 gallon of 3/4 strength nutes. Hopefully this will hit the reset button for me and combined with the new light schedule get us back on track. If it works TO2 will be next after a couple days of seeing how TO1 reacts. Blue Dream... Well I'm not sure what's up with that mutant! For a sativa Im not sure how to manage 1/2 spaced nodes and wispy scraggly leaves lol, maybe she'll get the same spa treatment this weekend.