and I know that I enjoy checking in on them.I haven’t set up the probes yet but I can almost guarantee that the soil temp is dropping below 65° as the ambient temp in the tent last night was 68°. With the moisture in the soil and fans blowing across the surface of the soil it’s going to be lower. I might pick up some heating mats for the next grow but will probably let this one ride the storm out.
In a word, "no".
Hey now! That’s the second best news I’ve heard all day! I don’t have to do anything! HahaIn a word, "no".
My practice is to remove mature fan leaves that have reached senescence and in mid-flower, I remove any stems that are smaller than a pencil. The latter point is because I only use the colas and I'd rather get rid of the "ash and trash" before harvest time.
The reason to remove very old fan leaves - as fan leaves age, they get less photosynthetically efficient and, at some point, become a net photosynthetic loss. The plant will allow the mature leaves to die off but the old leaves are a source of nutrients that are used by the flowers. For that reason, I leave them on on the plant until they're "fairly yellow" (that color being in the eye of the beholder) and then remove them.
I've never been convinced of the value of "stripping" plants or even heavily defoliating them. Lots of anecdotes but no data and it certainly doesn't jive with anything I've read about plant biology.
"stopping nutes" - same line of thinking for me re. removing healthy tissue. I haven't seen any data to support the theory and it's contrary to everything that the grower has done for months to make the plant healthy. As soon as the lights go out, photosynthesis stops so the plant is now living on stored sugar. Once that runs out, tissue death starts. Does it invoke a "stress response"? Perhaps but until there's data or an outcome that is explained by plant biology, I'll stick to continuing to feed.
The graphic below is a good guide. Figure out how to optimize each area and you'll have a lot of cannabis.
Yeh, for now. But then you'll get to harvest all of this fine weed. That can be a
Yeah we did a few hydro grows 20+ years ago and had what we thought we had good results. Looking back at it, I would say it was mediocre at best. Also was much more expensive to get the set up going and we had to worry about smell and power consumption and all that fun stuff
things are much easier now, way more refined and there are great communities out there like this one for newbs like myself to bounce ideas off of and ask for help. It’s really pretty amazing actually.
Good that you rehydrated the plant .
If your water is similar to mine,you shouldn't have to mess around with the pH adjusters.
well when the lights are on it’s closer to 80° - 83°. It’s only while their lights are off that it cools down. Either way I’ve added in heat control to the tent so if it gets below 70° the heater will kick on.
Tap water ph: 7.63
How long between feedings is she going? 24 hrs?
I usually stay under 5.5 but yea full strength. FFOF is great for a few weeks on its own and then it needs MC fairly regularly.
feeding with every watering, every other day or so
