Philtronics
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Hello everyone, once again trying to figure what I'm doing wrong. Have a Super Lemon Haze plant about 3 feet in diameter, with stems trained to grow horizontally (more or less), pointing radially outward from the center. Should wind up with a footlocker full of bud, but not if the dang thing dies halfway through!
This time I'm using cheap, non-fertilized potting soil with plenty of perlite mixed in, and have been watering with Dyna Gro Foliage Pro at the "maintenance" level, i.e. 1/4 tsp per gallon. Also used 1/4 tsp of Pro Tekt per gallon. Started with very low ppm tap water, about 20ppm, noting that the pH was a bit high, at about 7.7. That's our local tap water - did not bother checking the pH of the mixed-up solution, just watered it every few days and made it through the Grow cycle with spectacular results.
Moved it into the other room, with this gigantic LED light set for 12/12, and switched to Dyna Gro Bloom formula, also at 1/4 tsp per gallon, and discontinued the Pro Tekt (based on something I read on the "internet").
After about 3 weeks things started to run amok. Below are some photos from the time.... by now it's a couple weeks later, and the large shade leaves are also turning brownish-purple, and I've been removing them when they seem too far gone. It's pretty weird - different than when leaves turn "yellow".
Without much to go on, the other day I stated watering with a mix of cal-mag, Pro Tekt, Foliage Pro, Bloom, 1/4 tsp each. The pH of this merry mix was 6.5, so I left it alone. I reckon it had been higher before, like around 7.0.
So far it doesn't seem to be getting any worse (noting that it's worse now than in the pictures), but it's not improving either.
Here's something that might matter - the temp gets up to about 80 during the day, but heads down to about 55 - 60 degrees overnight. Humidity seems fine. (Fyi I attempted a hydroponic grow in the same room, and the floor was soaking wet, as if there was a leak, but it was just condensation! The plants were dumping several gallons of water into this small room every day, and there was no ventilation. Everything got moldy and barely survived. It's nothing like that this time around.)
Would welcome any thoughts as to what could be going on. Not even sure it's really a bad thing, except I hate to start losing too many leaves!
This time I'm using cheap, non-fertilized potting soil with plenty of perlite mixed in, and have been watering with Dyna Gro Foliage Pro at the "maintenance" level, i.e. 1/4 tsp per gallon. Also used 1/4 tsp of Pro Tekt per gallon. Started with very low ppm tap water, about 20ppm, noting that the pH was a bit high, at about 7.7. That's our local tap water - did not bother checking the pH of the mixed-up solution, just watered it every few days and made it through the Grow cycle with spectacular results.
Moved it into the other room, with this gigantic LED light set for 12/12, and switched to Dyna Gro Bloom formula, also at 1/4 tsp per gallon, and discontinued the Pro Tekt (based on something I read on the "internet").
After about 3 weeks things started to run amok. Below are some photos from the time.... by now it's a couple weeks later, and the large shade leaves are also turning brownish-purple, and I've been removing them when they seem too far gone. It's pretty weird - different than when leaves turn "yellow".
Without much to go on, the other day I stated watering with a mix of cal-mag, Pro Tekt, Foliage Pro, Bloom, 1/4 tsp each. The pH of this merry mix was 6.5, so I left it alone. I reckon it had been higher before, like around 7.0.
So far it doesn't seem to be getting any worse (noting that it's worse now than in the pictures), but it's not improving either.
Here's something that might matter - the temp gets up to about 80 during the day, but heads down to about 55 - 60 degrees overnight. Humidity seems fine. (Fyi I attempted a hydroponic grow in the same room, and the floor was soaking wet, as if there was a leak, but it was just condensation! The plants were dumping several gallons of water into this small room every day, and there was no ventilation. Everything got moldy and barely survived. It's nothing like that this time around.)
Would welcome any thoughts as to what could be going on. Not even sure it's really a bad thing, except I hate to start losing too many leaves!
