Tom Smith's First Indoor Grow With Autos 2017

[EastCoastGhost]

I appreciate the info, that gives me something i can go by.✌

 

[Robbo94]

No problem as I new grower it feel good to finally be able to advise and offer help I learnt thru a grower friend md these forums keep up with what your doing now see what that ppm Is and then you got some more figures to go by for a functioning garden il drop my yield and if my ppm changes il hill you in the journal, out of each 1 out the 4 for you in a couple of month

 

[farside05]

My PPM's never go over 600 and that includes 90 PPM for my water. I'm glad I don't have to pour 1800 PPM at my plants. You all must be spending a fortune on nutes.

 

[Robbo94]

What's you average yields per plant and light and nutes do you use as me and tom are looking for the knowledge a guy I learnt off used 1000ppm and his grew nice but fluctuated on yields on each plant of the same strain running on auto pots

 

[Robbo94]

My PPM's never go over 600 and that includes 90 PPM for my water. I'm glad I don't have to pour 1800 PPM at my plants. You all must be spending a fortune on nutes.

Comment above a for you btw? Mines 712 and I only use ionic bloom and tap water and ionic bloom is only £20

 

[farside05]

What's you average yields per plant and light and nutes do you use as me and tom are looking for the knowledge a guy I learnt off used 1000ppm and his grew nice but fluctuated on yields on each plant of the same strain running on auto pots

On my OG and Sour D grow I pulled 369.7 grams in a 7 sq foot space. 7sq ft is .650321 of a square meter. So that would be 568 gr per square meter. The seed specs were 475-525 per square meter for the Sour D and 550 a square meter for the OG. So I outpaced the projected yield. The other specs are at the beginning of my journals. Links in my signature.

 

[Robbo94]

On my OG and Sour D grow I pulled 369.7 grams in a 7 sq foot space. 7sq ft is .650321 of a square meter. So that would be 568 gr per square meter. The seed specs were 475-525 per square meter for the Sour D and 550 a square meter for the OG. So I outpaced the projected yield. The other specs are at the beginning of my journals. Links in my signature.

Thank you al check it later on

 

[EastCoastGhost]

Check out Dyna-Gro. Just don't use their feed schedule. It's super concentrated stuff and their chart will make your plants crispy. In my latest journal, on page 3, post 40, I have my feed schedule that works for me in Pro-Mix. If you're on a budget, you can use just their Foliage Pro and Pro-Tekt and still have excellent results. The Bloom and Mag-Pro are optional. Only reason I use them is because my pH seems more stable with it. In my side by side just the Foliage Pro and Pro Tekt plants did just as well. You can get little 8 oz bottles on Amazon that will pretty much get you through a whole grow or maybe more. A cheap way to experiment with a different nute line.

Thanks farside, im going to try another line of nutes next time, don't get me wrong fox farm has done great for me so far, i am really wanting to try advanced nutes, it is ph perfect and they have alot of other stuff like bud candy, overdrive and some more. The main thing i like about it is the ph perfect part, i am going to get me a good ppm meter for my next grow also. I like your feeding style, i kinda believe the same thing, i don't think you really have to add a big bunch of nutes, just enough for what plants need, i will stay at a lower ppm (around 600 or so) and see how they like it. I can't wait to harvest a few of these girls so i can get some cash together and buy some things i really need, im working on a tight budget till then lol.✌

 

[Jay233]

Sorry Tom I fell asleep while eating dinner lol (long hour at a very difficult job)

Because we don't know your ppm levels or ph it's a little difficult but it is clear that you have not overfed (no tip burn), great job. If you are locking out a nutrient it is either ph or your water. You said you use rain water and that is very good. Better than well water or tap.
If you are lacking in a nutrient it is not Calcium. You may have a slight Magnesium deficiency. If you add more CalMag there is a slight chance that you could give too much Ca and that will lockout Mg. Like I said, slight chance.
It looks to me like you may be lacking in Phosphorus, which your plant is using a great amount of right now, and a couple of micro nutrients. If it was me I would raise the amount of bloom nutrients you are feeding and maybe just a touch more CalMag but not much more.
This is just my opinion but hopefully it may steer you in the right direction. Having a ppm meter will help you a lot because you will know the exact strength of your nutrient solution. I have used for the past five or six years every day a $30 one and its worked fine, just had to replace the battery.
Your plants look great. You are doing an excellent job and its clear you are putting in the effort to do a great job. Whatever you decide to do try to do one thing at a time so you can notice improvement and so you will know what the exact problem was.
Don't stress your harvest will be fine. I've grown plants with those exact same symptoms and they still finished amazing. My problem was Ca locking out Mg and extra CalMag made it worse. You case is different most likely tho. I was using well water.

 

[EastCoastGhost]

Well i gave her a feeding of some grow at half strength, i also gave her half strength calmagic, that was yesterday and it dont look like its got any worse so hopefully she was just wanting a little bit more nitrogen and she will recover. Today is day 54 i think so she may only have about a month to go, she is supposed to be a 85 day strain but i have learnt you can't go by what breeder says all the time cause it varies with different grows. Her buds seem to be developing nicely though, here are a few pics of her.✌

 

[EastCoastGhost]

Shorty the other ww is forming up nicely also, here are a couple pics of her buds. ✌

 

[Jay233]

Great info Farside.
I never feed above 600 ppm either.

 

[EastCoastGhost]

They look pretty happy today.✌

 

[Agemon]

The most obvious thing to do on a forum like this is use your real name. Lookin good Tommy!

 

[EastCoastGhost]

Sorry Tom I fell asleep while eating dinner lol (long hour at a very difficult job)

Because we don't know your ppm levels or ph it's a little difficult but it is clear that you have not overfed (no tip burn), great job. If you are locking out a nutrient it is either ph or your water. You said you use rain water and that is very good. Better than well water or tap.
If you are lacking in a nutrient it is not Calcium. You may have a slight Magnesium deficiency. If you add more CalMag there is a slight chance that you could give too much Ca and that will lockout Mg. Like I said, slight chance.
It looks to me like you may be lacking in Phosphorus, which your plant is using a great amount of right now, and a couple of micro nutrients. If it was me I would raise the amount of bloom nutrients you are feeding and maybe just a touch more CalMag but not much more.
This is just my opinion but hopefully it may steer you in the right direction. Having a ppm meter will help you a lot because you will know the exact strength of your nutrient solution. I have used for the past five or six years every day a $30 one and its worked fine, just had to replace the battery.
Your plants look great. You are doing an excellent job and its clear you are putting in the effort to do a great job. Whatever you decide to do try to do one thing at a time so you can notice improvement and so you will know what the exact problem was.
Don't stress your harvest will be fine. I've grown plants with those exact same symptoms and they still finished amazing. My problem was Ca locking out Mg and extra CalMag made it worse. You case is different most likely tho. I was using well water.

I really appreciate all the advice Jay, i gave it a little more grow and i raised the calmag from 1/4 strength to 1/2 strength, i have the drops that you check ph with, ive been phing everything as close to 6.5 as i can get by looking at the color chart, i checked the runoff and it looked to be in between 6 and 6.5, i figured from the color chart it looks to be about 6.2, so that not too bad i don't guess. I will take your advice and up the bloom nutes on my next feeding and see how she likes that. I am real interested in learning about ppm, after i get this grow down i will buy me a good ppm meter so i can dial everything in alot better. I will also get a digital ph meter, i hate dealing with the drops and color chart, hell im half blind anyways lol. She doesn't look any worse so maybe she will likes the feeding. Thanks again Jay for all your help and support.✌

 

[EastCoastGhost]

The most obvious thing to do on a forum like this is use your real name. Lookin good Tommy!

Thanks Agemon, yea i didn't want to use my real name so i tried to pic a common name. Lmfao ✌

 

[EastCoastGhost]

Here are the wws, first is Jaimie then Shorty and last is Sherry. ✌

 

[EastCoastGhost]

Today is day 55 by the way, here are the thc bombs, first Dorothy then Rose and last is Blanche, i believe Dorothy is going to yield really good for me, the thc bombs seem to be happy at the moment, can't wait till them buds swell up lol.✌

 

[EastCoastGhost]

Group pic in blurple lol.

 

[EastCoastGhost]

Dorothy the thc bomb is starting to get a little bit of frost. ✌