Good, your plants look nice, come to the right soil ph and they'll be in hog heaven! You're going at it a little different by mixing foxfarm and coco and I think the ph issue is the result. You already troubleshot your own issue I'm pretty sure.
Ya, I can relate and going on 74 it is getting harder to lift and carry pots filled with soil.
Like the others this caught my attention. Fox Farm is the name of the company and they have several different soil mixes. The two popular ones are Happy Frog and Ocean Forest. The important difference is the Happy Frog uses a lighter fertilizer mix making that soil better for seedlings, cuttings and younger plants. The Ocean Forest has a higher level of fertilizer and is often preferred for more mature plants.
sorry for not answering sooner, been a little busy in my basement, i topped all my plants, two days ago and trimmed off some lower leaves, finally got my dehumidifier and finally got it working, 2 days of emails back and forth between support, i can shut off my exhaust fan and add co2 now, finally, hoping the added co2 helps, 43 days into the grow, wondering when i should go to flowering stage, plants are anywhere from 12 inches to 20 inches tall, i still have about 30 inches of room between the canopy and the lights. any suggestions ? my flood table is 48 inches by 96 inches with 10 plants in 5 gallon fabric buckets so i have enough room to accommodate the added foot print as the plants grow. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks george, P.s. THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP ON THE SOIL ,
CO2 is only going to help if you get your temps up.
Your plants will typically at least double after you flip them so the 20 inchers are probably too tall already. Can you bend them over to reduce the height? You light should have come with instructions, one of which is how much distance you should leave between it and the top of your plants.
lights are 24 inches from top of plant, and i can raise them maybe another 8 to 10 inches, my grow tent is 80 inches high, temp is running around 80 degrees in the tent with 76 actually temp on the leaves measured with infrared temp meter and humidity is running 68 %
It’s just the strain
thats my flood table for my runoff water, its only 11 inches in height, i was going to buy one but they wanted $300 and up , built this bad baby for under $100, thanks for the compliments, what a job setting it up in my basement only space big enough was 10x10 and tent is 8x8, rest of basement has furnace , water heater , washer and dryer and several block support walls, lucky i got smaller in my old age, space between tent and basement walls is 11 inches, have to crab walk sideways to get to the controller and wires and cablesIt’s just the strain
Nothing you did wrong.
Some strains are short and thick.
Some are tall and stretchy.
Looks great, nice setup.
That bench is lovely but will probably need removed for extra height eventually.
Stay safe
Bill284
Nice ladies and buddyhi everybody, been busy in my basement, my plants are 44 days old and i topped them 4 days ago. im thinking about going to the next stage (flowering) and would like some input, thanks
what kind of info did you need? Just on weather to flip them? If that was my teint I would re arrange them so not all the bigger ladies are together and maybe go another week.. will you be doing any training on them or be putting a net up?hi, no problem on the questions, LOL. being a 1st time grower i welcome them, just on whether to flip them didnt want to wait or flip too early. no idea about training or putting up a net. water feed pipes just laying on top of plants halfway between plant and edge of bucket. when i water i just run pump for maybe 10 to 15 minutes long enough to empty 5 gallon bucket and until water runs out bottom, if it dosent i add more using a big cup. ive been putting nutrients in the water every other watering, usually watering every 3 or 4 days, when the top 2 to 3 inches of soil is dry. i use vivosun nutrients part a base and part b base, mixed at 9 ml per gallon of water according to instructions, adjusted ph to 6.5, yes i have a catch tray under bench to catch runoff and have been measuring ph and ec so i have some idea what the plants are doing and i dump runoff down floor drain. if you have read my introduction you know i have all the meters and i check daily for moisture content and ec levels, both at the top of bucket and also three inches from bottom of bucket, i also check leaf tempature with a infared meter , what else, let me think, oh, the piece of white foam you see in pictures is temp probe, and the wire with the black thing is co2 sensor, ive been keeping the temp of tent somewhere between 75 to 80 degrees and humidity between 60 to 62-65 % , running 18 hrs on and 6 hrs off on lights, if ive fogotton anything let me know, thanks georgeNice ladies and buddy
Your set up is quite similar to mine.. and I have a couple of questions if you don't mind me asking.
When your feed pipes go into your soil is it just a single hose or do you have some sort of ring or drippers in there?
Do you feed from some sort of resovoir with a pump?
when feeding your ladies what do you put in your nutrient mix and in what order?
Underneath your bench is there some kind of catch tray? Or what happens with your plants run off water?
Sorry for all the questions just trying to fully understand your system.
Cheers bud just getting the picture, it's very important that the feed line covers the majority of the pot. If waters only entering the pot from one side of the pot it can cause all kinds of problems.
hi, i just looked and theres 20 different kinds of cal-mag, which one in particler are you refering to?
also can you tell me what the difference is between cal-mag and the 2 part vivosun nutrients, ? thanks george
hi, just wanted to show off my plants and get some feedback. changed lighting schedule to flowering 5 days ago 12 on 12 off, i had move plants around to get the right ppfd (right now at 450 ) for both sides, had to lower left side light to get same light intensity. humidity 55% , temp a little high at 82 degrees, ec roughly .23 to .35, soil ph still low at 5.4 , runoff water at .75 ec,, ph of runoff is 6.2,, thanks georgeYour vivosun nutrients will have all the nutrients your plants need bud but only a small amount of calcium & magnesium (C&M) which is fine in soil but in Coco the Coco will steal some before your plants get it.. also when using RO water it will Grab nutrients as it's pure 0ppm so adding C&M buffers it so all the nutrients you add get to the plants. Lastly LED lights make plants more demanding of calcium especially in flower so another reason you'll need to add more.
So keep using your nutrients you have but give it a little extra C&M to make sure a sufficient amount gets to the plants.
As for there being 20 different types. Id recommend one lower in nitrogen. I use terra aquatica GHE calcium magnesium myself and used to use Shogun calmag before which is good stuff too
82F sounds beautiful 
I get higher then that in flower.. what's your goal PPFD? 
