Grow #2

Welp, today was a heart breaking day.

Last night the plant was recovering well. Leaves even looked nice a perky. But again as soon as the dun came out, lifeless in that branch.

So I did what I felt was needed and it hurt inside so much. I took off the whole branch :( it hurt to yank the branch off just for it to be as big as me from my waist to my head :(

The only pattern I can associate between the two branches that both started to die off is that with the LST they had, both the branches that died were coming off the main stem and a sharper angle than 45 to 40°. Im Thinking that perhaps as the plant grew and the brnaches thickened they maybe managed to pinch off their water supply. I have no set answers yet. But as of now I'm watering ever 24 to 36 hours, and keeping a close eye on this one plant.

Hoping the rest of the plant makes it to flower still. Even though I have no answers yet. Hopefully this article helps somebody else with a similar issue to diagnose it.

15956152055481214160822041148712.jpg

The most painful image so far :(

But as you can see there is still plenty of plant to go around (my finger pointing to where the branch was), still just hurts to remove such big branches. But if the plant continue as they are with no more hiccups im hoping for half a pound a plant each.
15956152575467088153538530326710.jpg


Thanks for reading and happy growing

-Zach
 
Grow update: Day 87

So my plants just showed me some signs of early flowering!!! :) im so excited! So I've got a decision to make now, do I want to lollipop or just let them grow wild and go for some extra popcorn buds. I lolipopped my plants last year but my plant still didn't produce that much nor where they super large buds (but I made a lot of mistakes and was my first grow last year)

So with that being said im looking for opinions on weather or not you believe lollipopping outdoor plants is worth the time and effort this year or if i should let them grow naturally and have some extra popcorn buds.

@Emilya




Here's some pictures for reference.

20200726_123827.jpg
20200726_123830.jpg
20200726_123823.jpg
20200726_123811.jpg
20200726_123750.jpg
20200726_123721.jpg


Thank you for your opinions!!

Thanks for reading and happy growing!
 
Grow update: Day 102 (I think)(planted April 20th)

So after doing a lot of research and reading on lollipopping, I've decided to do a mild lollipop in my plants this year again. I went a lot more mild than last year and only really cleaned up the middle section of the plant since it already has pretty good light penetration.

Gonna give my plants a healthy coating of neem seed meal tonight aswell when it cools down cause I've seen some light signs of mights having a little feast lol.

I now have to resort to daily waterings sometimes twice a day waterings. By day 2 or even the evening time of day 1 the plants are showing signs of wilt, which isn't bad, just shows that my root ball is pretty big :) they drink that water up like nobodies business. (Slunds crazy but after harvest im excited to see how big my roots got)

But here are some pictures of my lollipopping.

Im always open to tips, advice, questions, friendly criticism, or to just say hi! :)

20200730_201930.jpg
20200730_202008.jpg
20200730_202003.jpg
20200730_201956.jpg
20200730_201943.jpg


Thanks for reading and happy growing! :)

-Zach
 
Well i kinda got over excited and bought more fertalizer for my plants. I figured since they are starting to flower, I should go get my bloom fertalizer.
I originally went out to my local grow store here in California "Green Aceres" looking for fox farms happy frog bulb food, however they didn't have anything of that nature.
So I then went to my local hydroponics stores that also carries organic soil fertalizers "Grow Biz" looking for the same product but nothing.

HOWEVER Grow Biz did have this stuff called Mr. B's Green Trees Bloom Food and they employee insisted that it was even better than the happyfrog stuff I was previously looking for. So I picked it up, for a 8 lb bucket it was just shy of 50 bucks. Im excited to try it. I'll keep everyone posted on how this fertalizer works :)

Here some pictures of the in depth info on this fertalizer. Check it out! :)

20200731_150548.jpg
20200731_150543.jpg
20200731_150538.jpg


Thanks for reading and happy growing!

-Zach
 
Grow update day 108.

I added that bloom fertalizer about a week ago and it seems to be doing alright as a bloom fertalizer. On my mistake, k think I added it a bit early into the flowering stage and the plant still needed a little boost of nitrogen to help with its stretch phase. So to fix this I finally got to use some of the fertalizers I bought in the beginning of the grow!

I wanted to add a bit of nitrogen to the plant because it was showing signs of mobile nutrient deficinecy and yellowing so nitrogen it is. I decided to add blood meal to the soil and water it in!

Funny enough the recomended use for the blood meal was either 1 stb per 4 inches (my diameter is 26" or just over 6 tsb) of pot diameter OR 1 tsb per 1 gallon of soil. . . . .being i had 60 gallons and I just fed them bloom food about a week ago, i decided to go with only 4 tsb total per pot instead of 60 lol (just enough to hold over their nitrogen needs until it hits heavy flowering stage, my guess another week or so)

Here's some pictrues of the yellowing leaves on the inside of the plant and an over view of how they're holding up as a whole. All in all these plants are still doing amazing with this being the first gardener based problem. If I can even concider this a problem lol.

20200806_160231.jpg
20200806_160218.jpg
20200806_160202.jpg


But thanks for reading and happy growing!! :)
-Zach
 
Good morning from California to all cannabis growers and enthusiasts alike :)

This morning marks day number 2 of spraying my plant with their new all organic pestacide. Its called Lost Coast Plant Therapy. Its an all organic pestacide and mildew wash. With 5+ natural ingredients (isopropyl alcohol being the only thing thats not natural)

I thought that I added the bloom food to early last week but I think I did it right on time, and am happy I gave an extra boost of nitrogen too. I noticed last night however early signs of "potassium" defficincy (margins going light, mobile on the plant, and its occurring during the second and a half week of flowering) so i fertalized again with my bloom fertalizer last night before bed (I know it seems so soon between feedings to some, However even the package even says to feed weekly so thats what im doing.)

I will say the top dressing instructions are a bit confusing cause I'm using planters, and instructions say 1 cup per 10 square feet of surface area (after nerdy math on my end, my grow spay surface area comes to about 5.2 give or take so I give about a 10th of a cup to each planter per instructions, but now I've upped the dose on second feeding week and gave each plant about 2/10ths of a cup this time and see how they do. (cause i think they're bigger than their average recomended plants lol)

Background info, supersoil PH around 7 flat, water ph from hose about 7.8, i water daily, and the plants are over 5 feet tall.

Here's some pictures of the "potassium (K) deficiency" I've diagnosed her with. Feel free to give your opinion on what you think it is if you believe my diagnosis is incorrect. Always open to comments and friendly critisism :)

(Despite a deficincey. These babies are still looking pretty healthy if i do say so myself)

20200808_102234.jpg
20200808_102153.jpg
20200808_102128.jpg
20200807_194118.jpg
20200807_194102.jpg
20200808_102207.jpg


Thanks For Reading and Happy Growing!!
-Zach
 
Sooo im running into my first set of issues, oy on my 1 blue dream.

Its showing massive signs of potassium and/magnesium deficiency. I just fertalized less than a week ago, however the symptoms are accelerating quicker than im comfortable with And idk what to do anymore (new grower problems). I know just blindly adding nutrients will burn them or cause lockout. And my soil PH is steady at 7-7.2 on my meter. I don't have a PPM meter on hand and I really struggle to think its not enough potassium in the soil still considering how frequently I fertalize.

But please I need some advice from you professionals. I really did hit a wall here.
@Emilya I know youre pretty smart when it comes to these kinds of things :) please i need your advice.

Here's my pictures for refrence.

20200810_163524.jpg
20200810_163511.jpg
20200810_163507.jpg
20200810_164836.jpg
20200810_164833.jpg
20200810_164813.jpg
 
Sad day I might be loosing one of my blue dreams. I genuinely don't know what's wrong now. Its showing major signs of mag deficiencey and I've been feeding cal mag sup with plain water ever 2 days. The whole plant is going yellow with interveinal Chlorosis and then the edges going yellow and brown. Ive refused to give more bloom food cause i think that might of burned and locked out the magnesium. But I just don't know. I even gave them a light flush and ran the hose a little lo get than normal incase it was to much (P) or (K), its hard to say if the signs have slowed or not. I want to think they have but its hard to tell. All I knwk is my whole plant js being outlined by yellow and its very depressing and killing me slowly.

Idk, please i need help. Anybody please.
@Emilya Anybody? I really don't want to chop down and throw away this plant after this much effort. Just somebody, anybody to bounce ideas back off of? :(

20200814_143329.jpg
20200814_143316.jpg
20200814_143103.jpg
20200814_143059.jpg
20200814_143320.jpg



Thanks for reading and happy growing.
-Zach
 
OmittedGrower said:
Sad day I might be loosing one of my blue dreams. I genuinely don't know what's wrong now. Its showing major signs of mag deficiencey and I've been feeding cal mag sup with plain water ever 2 days. The whole plant is going yellow with interveinal Chlorosis and then the edges going yellow and brown. Ive refused to give more bloom food cause i think that might of burned and locked out the magnesium. But I just don't know. I even gave them a light flush and ran the hose a little lo get than normal incase it was to much (P) or (K), its hard to say if the signs have slowed or not. I want to think they have but its hard to tell. All I knwk is my whole plant js being outlined by yellow and its very depressing and killing me slowly.

Idk, please i need help. Anybody please.
@Emilya Anybody? I really don't want to chop down and throw away this plant after this much effort. Just somebody, anybody to bounce ideas back off of? :(

20200814_143329.jpg
20200814_143316.jpg
20200814_143103.jpg
20200814_143059.jpg
20200814_143320.jpg



Thanks for reading and happy growing.
-Zach
Click to expand...
I'd also like to add an important bit of info. I went out and got a rapitest soil ph kit and got a reading closer to 6-6.5 which is odea for soil ph in cannabis, therefor thats why im struggling to believe I have out of PH soil. But idk what test is the most accurate, but you guys can help me decide. I need someone to bouncw back and forth ideas with, please!
 

Attachments

  • 20200811_142117.jpg
    20200811_142117.jpg
    561.2 KB · Views: 31
BeanTownFan420 said:
The yellowing from the edge is potassium uptake issue now lets see your ph is fine so you need a higher potassium fert with no nitrogen in it.
Click to expand...
That's what I was originally thinking but was scared to give more fertalizer as I didn't want to burn the plant or lock it out.

So the plant is trying to tell me to use more bloom fertalizer with little to no nitrogen levels? I can refertalize tomorrow morning and see, ive just been scared cause I didn't want to burn or kill the plant from to much fertalizer.

Thank you for the reply!!!! :D
 
BeanTownFan420 said:
It could be locked out!Already that is why it's yellowing.but it is not your ph it is salt lockout from to many other nutrients.you might want to flush then feed again.
Click to expand...
okay ima flush them rn then and give them another feeding tomorrow. Lucky for me they recomend to feed every week and I fed last Friday so this is kind of perfect timing.
 
Back
Top Bottom