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Last night I tried some supercropping to keep my plants below my SCROG and this moring they are bent but look alive and happy so I guess it was a success!! Thanks for the tip TriangleCheese, it worked out great!! :high-five:I am getting pretty good coverage and think within a week I should flip to 12/12?

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I suggest doing this on flowering because plants recover better and faster on veg. period so you might observe no effect after all. After a couple of days, if you observe the supercropped branch would recover like this one, than it is a success;


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Since I promised, I am preparing a mini-tutorial on supercropping. You can visit my journal on Pineapple Chunk to check. It will be ready in 10 minutes.
 
MrSauga said:
Supercropping job Homer... :thumb:
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Thank you MrSauga....:thumb:

TriangleCheese said:
I suggest doing this on flowering because plants recover better and faster on veg. period so you might observe no effect after all. After a couple of days, if you observe the supercropped branch would recover like this one, than it is a success;
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Thanks for the tip. I will check to see how effective my supercropping is in veg. stage and will use it more in flower.

TriangleCheese said:
Since I promised, I am preparing a mini-tutorial on supercropping. You can visit my journal on Pineapple Chunk to check. It will be ready in 10 minutes.
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Great, looking forward to checking it out!!:bravo:
 
TriangleCheese said:
Since I promised, I am preparing a mini-tutorial on supercropping. You can visit my journal on Pineapple Chunk to check. It will be ready in 10 minutes.
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Good job :thumb: but make it a thread on its own
 
I seem to have my first real problem with some sort of discoloration on a few leaves. I was reading about causes and nute deficiency can be a culprit but since it is only one plant getting the same nutrients as the others I suspect it might be something else.

I did read that excessive humidity can cause leaves to discolor and it has been very humid here lately with an outside humidity of 70% today so my grow room has been over 70% for the last couple weeks and I wonder if that could be the culprit because most sites suggest under 60% for vegetative state and under 50% for flowering?

To get good root growth I have been letting the soil really dry out between waterings so maybe I went too far with that?
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The leaf I posted is from the fourth node which is about mid plant and all above that seem ok but below that quite a few are going like that one but not as bad yet so I would say it is worse on the bottom. I read pH can be the culprit but I have been keeping it between 6-6.5 ph.
 
Pennywise said:
Usually potassium is the culprit down low on the plant.
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That does make sense because I transplanted into my 5 gallon container two weeks and five days ago and the guy at the grow shop told me that after three weeks I would probably have to start top dressing my soil with the nutes he gave me because what I mixed in the soil would be exhausted by then.

I am using Coco with worm castings and perlite with the Gaia Green he recommended. So I will take your advice and do some top dressing since I just happened to be watering today and hopefully that will solve my potassium problem. Again, thanks a lot.
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Pennywise said:
Yep get some nutes in them, my mix is 9-3-7 npk
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I am going to get some nutes on them in the next few minutes with the stuff I have but next time I will definitely try a mix with the proportions you are using. From my reading most people just use liquid nutes that they add to their water; would you recommend that or do you think topdressing with a powdered natural mix that I am using is just as good? I asked the guy at the growshop what the easiest method would be and this is what he gave me so it’s not like I am devoted to this system.
 
Pennywise said:
I would use liquid with coco.
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I think I would feel more comfortable with liquid because with top dressing it seems like I don’t know how much leaches down. I assume you use 9-3-7 npk for veg so I was wondering what you use for budding since I think I am going to flip pretty soon. Do you have any brands you recommend?
 
I use the same thing through veg and bloom. Dyna-gro Protekt and Foliage Pro and I add calmag once I start flowering.
 
Pennywise said:
I use the same thing through veg and bloom. Dyna-gro Protekt and Foliage Pro and I add calmag once I start flowering.
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Great, thanks a lot; I will check that out and see if I can get some. I really appreciate the help because on my own I would have no idea what my problem was and would have probably made things worse by trying to fix the wrong problem. :thumb: :adore:
 
Pennywise said:
Just keep everything as simple as possible and you'll be fine.
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That is very sage advice because I admit I went into full panic mode when I saw my damage, lol...:oops:
 
The trick is to correct issues quickly, coco is very forgiving because only what you put in is available to the plant. You can correct issues quickly.
 
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