Hey all, first time grow and first time post.
Now before you all go tits and tell me everything I'm doing wrong, let me explain. I know my plants aren't perfect and I know all the mistakes I've made during my grow, I've spent a lot of time researching and doing my best to correct problems I've had. My set up is a joke, it's just thrown together and not had any real time or effort put in, this started as a test really, just to see if it would be worth doing more in the future. I am on a really short time frame because I'm leaving the country for 4 months soon and pretty much have to harvest in the next week or two and leave the curing to a trusted friend.
I'm growing Mexican Sativa, HPS, no controlled environment (just a basement), I used veg nutes along with cal/mag and rooter a while in the veg stage, but during flowering and also leading up to it the plants have just been on Ph balanced water that has been left out for a few days to hopefully let go of chlorine ect. They've pretty much had no nutes in the flowering stage, I kinda liked the idea of no chemicals, I knew this would hurt my yield and lead to all sorts of deficiencies ect. ect. My soil was a garden center bag that had nutes, this was a big mistake, and made when I didn't know much and was aiming to plant outdoors (time dragged on and I missed my window).
That's the short version, in summary it's a sketchy grow, with no real money expended on products, and a lot of the growing left up to the plants to just get on with it. This hasn't been a super serious grow, and my time is taken up with lots of other things so go easy on me, if I had the time, money and space I'm sure I could nail it. as time went on I got kind of attached to my plants and seeing them now, I'll definitely do it properly next time.
Basically I've got plants that are budding alright, but the bud leaves are drying and curling to the point of death, I'm worried the plants are going to deteriorate and hurt the quality (if there is any) of my final product. I know I've over pruned them, and I know they have deficiencies....... My question is, will they mature and ripen from this point? Or will they start to die? have I pushed it as far as I can go without nutes and additives? Or can I let them carry on and let the trichomes cloud up more and let the pistils darken and curl?
For some reason 3 of the plants are more progressed than the other 3. The ones that aren't as progressed I've kept more leaves on and am comparing progress to the others. The ones I pruned a lot seem to have pushed faster into flower which is what I needed, but at sacrifice of the nutrients contained within those leaves, which is why I think that they are sucking the remaining leaves literally dry.
Thank you for reading and please be constructive, like I said, I know what they are deficient of and I just haven't had the time, resources, and space to do it properly. I know the decision to stop nutes has been an issue, and the soil I used has been too.
Now before you all go tits and tell me everything I'm doing wrong, let me explain. I know my plants aren't perfect and I know all the mistakes I've made during my grow, I've spent a lot of time researching and doing my best to correct problems I've had. My set up is a joke, it's just thrown together and not had any real time or effort put in, this started as a test really, just to see if it would be worth doing more in the future. I am on a really short time frame because I'm leaving the country for 4 months soon and pretty much have to harvest in the next week or two and leave the curing to a trusted friend.
I'm growing Mexican Sativa, HPS, no controlled environment (just a basement), I used veg nutes along with cal/mag and rooter a while in the veg stage, but during flowering and also leading up to it the plants have just been on Ph balanced water that has been left out for a few days to hopefully let go of chlorine ect. They've pretty much had no nutes in the flowering stage, I kinda liked the idea of no chemicals, I knew this would hurt my yield and lead to all sorts of deficiencies ect. ect. My soil was a garden center bag that had nutes, this was a big mistake, and made when I didn't know much and was aiming to plant outdoors (time dragged on and I missed my window).
That's the short version, in summary it's a sketchy grow, with no real money expended on products, and a lot of the growing left up to the plants to just get on with it. This hasn't been a super serious grow, and my time is taken up with lots of other things so go easy on me, if I had the time, money and space I'm sure I could nail it. as time went on I got kind of attached to my plants and seeing them now, I'll definitely do it properly next time.
Basically I've got plants that are budding alright, but the bud leaves are drying and curling to the point of death, I'm worried the plants are going to deteriorate and hurt the quality (if there is any) of my final product. I know I've over pruned them, and I know they have deficiencies....... My question is, will they mature and ripen from this point? Or will they start to die? have I pushed it as far as I can go without nutes and additives? Or can I let them carry on and let the trichomes cloud up more and let the pistils darken and curl?
For some reason 3 of the plants are more progressed than the other 3. The ones that aren't as progressed I've kept more leaves on and am comparing progress to the others. The ones I pruned a lot seem to have pushed faster into flower which is what I needed, but at sacrifice of the nutrients contained within those leaves, which is why I think that they are sucking the remaining leaves literally dry.
Thank you for reading and please be constructive, like I said, I know what they are deficient of and I just haven't had the time, resources, and space to do it properly. I know the decision to stop nutes has been an issue, and the soil I used has been too.
