NorthernCosmos' First Indoor Soil Auto Grow: 2019

Here are the leaf shots. Augusta the Amnesia to the left, with clawing but otherwise looking fine. Wilma the White Widow to the right has the yellowing pattern that is consistent with most guides' nitro def. No spots or anything just the green/yellow gradient and pattern It also has distinctly red leaf tips...(!) But I worry not a jot! :cheesygrinsmiley: (well almost...)

BTW, they're on 2/3 nutes, not 2/4 which was a typo.

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If the lowers went yellow first it's N, if the top went yellow first it could be iron. I would bump the feed on it because it looks like the fans won't last as long as it will take to finish.
 
It was the lowers that went yellow first. It's got around 30 days to go, so I'd ideally like to keep the yellowing from creeping into the colas if nothing else. It strikes me that this is almost the opposite of the last Amnesia and Widow pair, where the Amnesia got more yellowing and some red/purple on the leaves.

Will try to up the feeding then - I may even keep separate nute mixes for the two, with a boosted one for the Widow. The Widow being more Indica leaning than the Amnesia makes it logical too, as AFAIK Indicas generally need more nutes.
 
That is the general rule, and if the other one is clawing on the lowers then it's getting too much nitrogen. Separate feeds it may be!
 
At day 60 for the senior Amnesia and White Widow, and I'm thoroughly confused. I did the differentiated feed with more nuites to the yellowing Widow and less to the clawing Amnesia. The White Widow is getting more yellow and more red, but parts of the plant is a nice and fresh green. as can be seen in the picture below (compare to the picture higher up on this page).

Apart from growing up as seedlings with very low RH, all growing parameters are the same as the previous pair of AM and WW, and then it was the Amnesia that took on these colours(!) So a role swap of sorts there, which defies all logic. Just as I thought I was starting to get the very beginnings of something resembling a handle on it, I experience this as an "unlearning" which is a bit disconcerting (but not worrying, I might add, because I no longer do that... :cheesygrinsmiley:)

I have no explanation, apart from that plants are individuals and can perhaps develop quite differently from seed to seed, possibly depending on uniformity/stability of the strain(?) Your therories are welcome!

The Amnesia looks pretty much the same, but at least the new higher-up leaves aren't clawing - I'm not worried about that one.

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NorthernCosmos said:
So a role swap of sorts there, which defies all logic. Just as I thought I was starting to get the very beginnings of something resembling a a handle on it, I experience this as an "unlearning" which is a bit disconcerting (but not worrying, I might add, because I no longer do that... :cheesygrinsmiley:)
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I have been in this stage since I got there a decade ago..... :rofl:

I soooo recognize myself in u right now... but its like this, they all have different lives from each other and sometimes stranger things becomes stranger than things.

But what do I know, I'm just crazy right? :laughtwo:

Keep the feeding you had before the raise you did and let her bloom off and start over again. :)


How is the hording up there? I almost got the last toilet paper in the store the other day, running low now and need to start rationing this hard to come by contraband these strange times...
 
I think I'm going a little crazy too o_O :p

I'm afraid there are no second chances since she's an auto. I'll just let it run, mix some strong feed, see what happens.

As for the supply situation, I haven't been to the shops for a while now, but it was very few people the last time after the border crossings mostly stopped. The only problem was that all shops around here were picked clean of yeast for baking. On the bright side, almost all the groceries I picked in one shop were 50% off. Strange days.
 
Ah don't worry you will never reach down to my level of insanity. :laughtwo:

I think when we have grown 100+ plants we can start thinking of making conclusions about how they behave. :)

Yeah same here, Fresh groceries are much cheaper than canned ones here now. But another crazy thing is the gas and diesel prices... 1L was priced at 12:30kr here today, that must have been like a decade or more ago it was that cheap
 
Is this re-run soil or new?
 
It's a brand new batch of the same soil mix I've been using all along. That's the standard garden-supply peat/sand/nutes "plant soil" with around 20% perlite and 20% compost from my garden added. There are no pests. The temps are a little bit on the high side with the preferred 25-26ºC (77-79ºF) some days and peaking above 28ºC (82ºF) other days. The RH sits a little below 40%.

Although it started out with a yellowing that looked like N deficiency, from loking at numerous diagnostic pictures, the reddening now makes it look like Moybden deficiency. According to Mulder's chart, low Moly may lead to less stimulation for N uptake and vice versa. Suggestions for a cure here. Then again, why would there suddenly be a Mo deficiency, or an N deficiency for that matter, for this one plant? But I'm rambling now - I really don't havce a clue - diagnosing is simply hard as things keep changing and symptoms from various issues seem too overlap.

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I'm a software and embedded systems developer and a science fan; my brain is wired to analyze and conclude to the last bit, not to accept inconsistencies like this... Working on it though - I have a "mantra" or two to help me let go, I already accept lore and some bro-science in this field and I do know that these plants aren't consistent machines, but living entities :laughtwo:
 
I'm from there myself Cosmos but that's the thing with nature there isn't any source code, its all already compiled and running. :)

I don't even know how many plants I killed by trying to save them, but hey there is always more seeds to try out. :)

The other plants you got are still OK?
 
Yeah, natures's already compiled and running - but it's using fuzzy logic and it's not even deterministic! :p

The other plants are looking fine and there's a good selection of seeds to try out, so there's no crisis. I'd take a casualty or euthanasia in the tent in my stride as I know "things" can happen. In any case, I'll see this one through to the end, hoping that at worst there'll just be little usable trimmings, but an otherwise "functioning" plant.
 
Aye! The buds are trichy & sticy. I have no doubt that it'll bring me joy :)

Just back from the second differentiated feeding: took 25% off from the dark green's dose one and gave that to the yellow/red one. In a few days I'll hopefully see some kind of differentiated reaction too...

BTW, the (even more) yellow/red one is now praying to the light and the dark green one is still clawing. By now it's starting to look like a 90s illegal warehouse rave in the tent - I only need to add a few strobe lights and hang a mirror ball from the ceiling!
 
I've never seen a micronutrient deficiency in a synthetic nute grow before!
 
It's day 64 for the seniors. The Widow did not like the increase in nutes. The response to a week of that is several curled up and burnt leaf tips and continued yellowing. So today it got back on the normal nute scheme.

The four youngster Northern Lights had their first round of training today, at day 22. They're all pleasingly uniform - I'm counting on some well behaved girls there :)

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