Dick23rk's Fresh Start: Mantis Nutrients Featuring MedicGrow's New Spectrum X+ 880w Light Panel

Happy Tuesday everyone! Hey @Bud love total shot in the dark from a newbie but maybe just confirm the meter is working properly. I know low batteries can be a beach. Just throwing it out there in a halilmary fashion.
Thank you @Modest Grower all input, really appreciated.. I was also thinking that could be the case, hope not though.:), got a few things to try out later, see if anything helps before I throw it. :)
Thanks again an peace to ya
 
Thank you @Modest Grower all input, really appreciated.. I was also thinking that could be the case, hope not though.:), got a few things to try out later, see if anything helps before I throw it. :)
Thanks again an peace to ya
There's always a solution to the problem. So that means there's a way this will work, you won't need to throw it. Like you said there's still a couple ways you can try. Is RO water available in your area if these other methods don't work out? I'm sure they will though
 
There's always a solution to the problem. So that means there's a way this will work, you won't need to throw it. Like you said there's still a couple ways you can try. Is RO water available in your area if these other methods don't work out? I'm sure they will though
Not the nutes matey.. no doubt we’ll get it sorted. The pen.
Im not going to use it for the diesel, going to try it on one of the moonrocks I’ll be popping presently. I’m thinking of doing run with 3 different nutes over 3 strains. Moonrocks, triple cheese and do-si-dos autos.
3 at a time with a month between them
Using mantis, and 2 Dutch brands.
If I can get hold of some prescription blend. I’ll give that a roll too at some point.
And yes @dick23rk I can get RO water here I’m pretty sure.
Thanks again mate
 
Oh ok I gotcha, didn't realize you meant the pen lol.

You'll be a busy man running 3 different nutrient brands along with that many plants. I'll get back over to your journal tonight when I get some time, I seen you made a post.

Good that you have lots of water options to try. Hoping you find the balance right quick!
 
**Mini Update**Day 5 Flower**

Hello again everyone, hope you all had a decent day out there. I'm just going to stop in with a quick update for tonight on what's going on. Glad to see the help in here earlier as well, that's greatly appreciated. I try to reply often even when I'm at work but sometimes I get busy of course.

Today when I got home from work and walked into the garden I couldn't believe the smells that were starting already. I could faintly smell them prior, just that nice green plant smell. But now those nice cannabis aromas are slowly starting to peek their way into our lives. :cheesygrinsmiley:





Starting to show some more deficiency on the Big Bang plants in the DWC, a little bit of a calcium deficiency possibly but there's something else mixed in here. I'll be looking it up here this even during relax time and will report back on it. Also getting clawed leaves now but no real sign of N toxicity and everything looks good in the res, something has just been out of balance with these 2. Hiccups, nothing serious yet. I'll just drop the pictures for tonight of what I'm seeing.






I was able to get some more LST done to all the plants while I was in there this evening. I got down to their level and sat my arse on the floor ( thankfully I have mats ) with them so I could get a better visual on my canopy while doing my training to get everything fairly even, somewhat compensating for branches turning back upwards. Also got those hooks mounted on the DWC lids so I could tie those branches down, works great, and made it easier to get them more level with everything as well even though the 1 plant is a little stubby.






Only other thing I did was moved the light up some and turned it up to 75%. We were sitting between 16-18 inches with the last weeks growth and I wouldn't mind just a little more stretch. The light now sits at 22-24" above the canopy and hoping for another 4-6" of growth at least and then the light wont need to be moved again. Branches will be allowed to just grow upwards now where they are.

 
**Mini Update**Day 5 Flower**

Hello again everyone, hope you all had a decent day out there. I'm just going to stop in with a quick update for tonight on what's going on. Glad to see the help in here earlier as well, that's greatly appreciated. I try to reply often even when I'm at work but sometimes I get busy of course.

Today when I got home from work and walked into the garden I couldn't believe the smells that were starting already. I could faintly smell them prior, just that nice green plant smell. But now those nice cannabis aromas are slowly starting to peek their way into our lives. :cheesygrinsmiley:





Starting to show some more deficiency on the Big Bang plants in the DWC, a little bit of a calcium deficiency possibly but there's something else mixed in here. I'll be looking it up here this even during relax time and will report back on it. Also getting clawed leaves now but no real sign of N toxicity and everything looks good in the res, something has just been out of balance with these 2. Hiccups, nothing serious yet. I'll just drop the pictures for tonight of what I'm seeing.






I was able to get some more LST done to all the plants while I was in there this evening. I got down to their level and sat my arse on the floor ( thankfully I have mats ) with them so I could get a better visual on my canopy while doing my training to get everything fairly even, somewhat compensating for branches turning back upwards. Also got those hooks mounted on the DWC lids so I could tie those branches down, works great, and made it easier to get them more level with everything as well even though the 1 plant is a little stubby.






Only other thing I did was moved the light up some and turned it up to 75%. We were sitting between 16-18 inches with the last weeks growth and I wouldn't mind just a little more stretch. The light now sits at 22-24" above the canopy and hoping for another 4-6" of growth at least and then the light wont need to be moved again. Branches will be allowed to just grow upwards now where they are.

Do you have any ideas on the leaves that have the tips curling down on them? I ask because I had that exact thing on the Jelly Rancher I took out of the photo tent. The ends "clawed" down just exactly like that. Even today outside after two consecutive flushes she continues to curl a little bit like that. Any idea whatsoever on what causes that?
 
Do you have any ideas on the leaves that have the tips curling down on them? I ask because I had that exact thing on the Jelly Rancher I took out of the photo tent. The ends "clawed" down just exactly like that. Even today outside after two consecutive flushes she continues to curl a little bit like that. Any idea whatsoever on what causes that?
That’s usually a result of nitrogen toxicity. Flushing like you did will cure it. Give them time to respond.
 
Do you have any ideas on the leaves that have the tips curling down on them? I ask because I had that exact thing on the Jelly Rancher I took out of the photo tent. The ends "clawed" down just exactly like that. Even today outside after two consecutive flushes she continues to curl a little bit like that. Any idea whatsoever on what causes that?

I've always been told that the clawed leaf tips with dark green leaves was nitrogen toxicity.
Sulfur deficiencywill also cause leaf tips to turn down and claw but sulfur is almost always available as long as there's the right amount in your nutes.

But, not all of the leaves on my 2 plants are very dark green anymore so I'm lead to believe that my issue could either be a phosphorus or a potassium toxicity/excess as both will leave burnt edges like that and both toxicities will also create calcium and magnesium deficiencies appear. There's not much I can do as far as adjusting this with a 1 part nutrient.
 
Hello all, I hope mid week has been good to you. We are nearing the weekend again and supposed to have beautiful weather all week in my parts.

I got a bit of a headache today and I worked quite a bit later than normal, going to relax. So I'm just going to drop some pics tonight to show how all the girls reacted to their training. They seem happy and it looks like flowers will start appearing any day now. See the pics below. Also, see the funny leaf I found. I didn't notice it last night.

Here's those light pics just for GDB again ;)
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Have a great night everyone!







 
Hey again everyone. Sorry I've been so absent here the last few days, it's been a pretty rough week for me. I had to quit my job yesterday with no notice, that's not like me, I couldn't handle it anymore. So many things in life and work piling up at once and stress levels through the roof. It was a combination of the workplace, the equipment and personal life things like covid that brought this on I believe.

Mental health is nothing to mess with, sometimes things bottle up inside when you don't talk about what's going on or what you're feeling. And with this covid world we're living in, things are no better when you don't have your friends to lean on or talk to as much as before. I'd like everyone to take a minute today and reflect on things, talk to a friend you haven't chatted with in a while, get out and see someone if you can. There's lots of people in this world today that are having mental health issues and I happened to be one of them this week, it's not fun and it's a good place to be with your family seeing it happen.

I hope everyone is well. I felt the need to come and get this off my chest, and to help raise some awareness to my fellow 420Mag friends. Today is a new day, tomorrow and the next are as well, time to keep on trucking. I'll get into the garden soon this morning when the lights come on for some much needed time with the plants. I'll need to feed them today so I'll grab pictures as I get through them all. Thank you all for being here! You and my family are what keeps me going.
 
Hey Brother, sorry bout your stresses. Life can gut the strongest. Hang in there brother, today is a new day, and you have new opportunities.

I wouldn't consider nitrogen toxicity at all you get to a dark almost black green before that happens. Id say that curling is a magnesium deficiency, and your right on the calcium. Little calmag should fix it.
Happy growing amigo.
 
Hey again everyone. Sorry I've been so absent here the last few days, it's been a pretty rough week for me. I had to quit my job yesterday with no notice, that's not like me, I couldn't handle it anymore. So many things in life and work piling up at once and stress levels through the roof. It was a combination of the workplace, the equipment and personal life things like covid that brought this on I believe.

Mental health is nothing to mess with, sometimes things bottle up inside when you don't talk about what's going on or what you're feeling. And with this covid world we're living in, things are no better when you don't have your friends to lean on or talk to as much as before. I'd like everyone to take a minute today and reflect on things, talk to a friend you haven't chatted with in a while, get out and see someone if you can. There's lots of people in this world today that are having mental health issues and I happened to be one of them this week, it's not fun and it's a good place to be with your family seeing it happen.

I hope everyone is well. I felt the need to come and get this off my chest, and to help raise some awareness to my fellow 420Mag friends. Today is a new day, tomorrow and the next are as well, time to keep on trucking. I'll get into the garden soon this morning when the lights come on for some much needed time with the plants. I'll need to feed them today so I'll grab pictures as I get through them all. Thank you all for being here! You and my family are what keeps me going.
I sincerely hope things work out for you, Dick.

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today." - Will Rodgers
 
Hey Brother, sorry bout your stresses. Life can gut the strongest. Hang in there brother, today is a new day, and you have new opportunities.

I wouldn't consider nitrogen toxicity at all you get to a dark almost black green before that happens. Id say that curling is a magnesium deficiency, and your right on the calcium. Little calmag should fix it.
Happy growing amigo.
Thanks dusty, lots of new opportunities. The job bank has been a little more promising lately so I should be ok there.

I'm pretty sure you're referring to the dwc, I'd have to go back and look lol my mind is everywhere. I have been lenient on adding more calmag than I already do due to the extra nitrogen in my calmag supplement. All the plants get 1ml per gallon right now which gets me roughly 120ppm in RO before base nutes are added. That issue seems to have slowed down now, so I'll keep an eye it.
I sincerely hope things work out for you, Dick.

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today." - Will Rodgers
I think things will be ok GDB, I'm just glad I made this decision and caught myself before things got worse. Yesterday was rough, but I won't let it stop me today. Thanks for the kind words sir.
 
YES!!! Only 22 pages behind! Jumping in and playing catch up. Talk to you soon.
:laughtwo: no need to read every little thing, there is some banter in there between updates but the updates should be easy to see with bold letters at the top. Thanks for coming by BA
 
Hey again everyone. Sorry I've been so absent here the last few days, it's been a pretty rough week for me. I had to quit my job yesterday with no notice, that's not like me, I couldn't handle it anymore. So many things in life and work piling up at once and stress levels through the roof. It was a combination of the workplace, the equipment and personal life things like covid that brought this on I believe.

Mental health is nothing to mess with, sometimes things bottle up inside when you don't talk about what's going on or what you're feeling. And with this covid world we're living in, things are no better when you don't have your friends to lean on or talk to as much as before. I'd like everyone to take a minute today and reflect on things, talk to a friend you haven't chatted with in a while, get out and see someone if you can. There's lots of people in this world today that are having mental health issues and I happened to be one of them this week, it's not fun and it's a good place to be with your family seeing it happen.

I hope everyone is well. I felt the need to come and get this off my chest, and to help raise some awareness to my fellow 420Mag friends. Today is a new day, tomorrow and the next are as well, time to keep on trucking. I'll get into the garden soon this morning when the lights come on for some much needed time with the plants. I'll need to feed them today so I'll grab pictures as I get through them all. Thank you all for being here! You and my family are what keeps me going.
Amazing post. Thanks for sharing such personal information with us. You're the man. The job thing will work out.
 
Absolutely jaw dropping light! I love the room and setup. I would love to have that much space. Soon...very soon!

FYI...I love your reefer Canadian flag! I'd love to come up to Canada some day and do a reefer road trip and taste all the amazing bud from our brothers up north.

I also used foam floor tiles to insulate the bottom of my tent. Works wonders! Ok..
Back to page 1. Just finished your first post. Amazing write up. Keeping me inspired amigo!
 
Amazing post. Thanks for sharing such personal information with us. You're the man. The job thing will work out.
Thank you Jon, it was much easier to share here today than it was to share with my wife and boss yesterday. Feels better though now.

The job thing should work out, I have lots of different experience and a bit of a jack of all trades, master of none kind of guy. 12 years heavy truck driving, roofing/siding, oilfield worker, then all the little things I've picked up over the years.
 
'Morning dick!

Hope you're doing OK this morning. You're garden is looking impressive, I love the symmetry of your plants.

Mental health- it's no joke. I've been down, I've thought about the big easy out. But never could put that on my family. Just admitting that you're fighting mental health issues puts you ahead of the pack. You're not alone, and never need be. You've got your family at home, and family on here. Don't be shy to send me a PM anytime. I'm glued to my phone most hours of the day, and that offer is open to anyone, but asking for help can be as hard as admitting you need it.

Spend some time outside in some sun today and feel it's warmth my friend :green_heart:
 
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