Tee_Aitch_See

A very happy girl. 

Day 22 of flower

On 10/6/2021 at 9:40 AM, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

she's already looking much better remember all the new soil is jam packed with nutes, so keep the water pure till she's settled atleast or even till she starts asking for food. that's much easier to diagnose  and rectify than overfeed.

that's a moerse pot how big is it? you could possibly fill that whole space with just one plant in that size pot! 

I would still recommend checking the EC though, if your ph is in check and you get that EC in the 0.8 - 1.2 range your plant will literally explode with new growth.

It's a 30cm pot. I don't know exact volume but I intend to get the others growing outdoor soon and just have her in there. 

I'll start her scrog soon and probably flip in a 2 or 3 weeks. 

I'll see what I can do about checking the EC. Should probably invest in an EC pen soon

This girl is resilient. 

Thanks again for the help, guys. 

Hi guys, 

Thanks all for the valuable input. I went with the amendments my buddy suggested and just thought I'd try it out. 

I did the repot in plain Orgasoilux yesterday, gave plain water at pH 6.3 after calibrating my pH pen and this evening she is looking much happier. 

12 minutes ago, PsyCLown said:

So I think your issue lies with the amendments you did - the coco and/or worm castings.

 

The coco in brick form needs to be buffered. So you would expand the coco then soak it in a solution of CalMag (higher strength as well - way more than a teaspoon. I recall you want an EC of at least 0.8 if not higher after adding the CalMag).

Let the coco soak overnight to allow for the cation exchange to take place. If the coco is not buffered then it can leach calcium and magnesium from your feed & soil and leave a deficiency and the high amount of salts which get pushed out in the cation exchange will sit in your medium.

At the same time, the worm castings could be throwing things out of whack in terms of nute levels or even PH and could be causing a lockout of some sort.

 

I feel the fact that the other plants in the same soil with less / no amendments is happy and healthy.

 

I am not 100% sure where exactly the issue lies though, is it with the coco or is it more with the worm castings?

If it is the coco, then you would want to add calmag to your feed and pushing a bit of extra feed through to the pots to help get rid of the salts from the coco cation could be good too... This could also help dilute the strength of the worm castings a little in the soil mixture though. 

What colour are the stems of the unhappy plant?

Hey bro,

Stems are green and looks healthy. Just very stocky. I don't want to give up on her because I struggled through an ice cold winter with her and she pulled through so letting her go would be very sad. 

I didn't add any cal mag to my soil mix. I don't know how and why I forgot and I think that could be the issue. 

Do you think that it would have taken this long to show? She's been in the amended soil for atleast a month now. 

3 minutes ago, CreX said:

okay, not terrible by far.

you should have added a calcuim source aswell to the coco for your buff, but that likely isnt your issue in the ratio you used (1:1:4) - just a note for next time

the worm castings should also be fine - where did you source them from? store bought? or home made? if store bought... you went in fairly heavy... but it shouldnt be an issue if it was store bought ... home made tends to be crazy high in nutes and could possibly be causing kak in the pot now.

if the other plants are happy with less, i think you have your answer  

potting up to 30l with only the organic soil should help the most

To be honest, I forgot to add cal mag to my mix. That was my bad. 

The worm castings I usually buy from hydroponic.co.za in brackenfel. 

I'm hoping after the flush she got yesterday that she's recovering but I'll be repotting into just plain Jamie's soil and I think that should help. 

Thanks for the advice bro. Much appreciated. I'll post an update in a week or so.

Below was what she looked like last week. 

I think the issue may be in the medium.

I have a younger plant where I'm using less coco and worm castings. Just Jamie's soil with humigro. 

Different training techniques also applied to this one. High stress training. 

But she's pretty much on the same schedule as the wonky one. 

Both the same strain as well

6 minutes ago, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

Hey bud, hope you are well  

That plant can easily be saved still no worries, let's see what we can do!

Just 3 quick questions, first one, you got a EC or PPM pen? can really save you right now!!

And then explain a bit more the watering regime? The tap water gets bubbled and sits at 6.2 to 6.5 and then you add the nutes? Or do you bubble it untill you mix the nutes and then ph before giving to the plants? 

Last one, what ml/L of those biobizz products you giving?

6.2 to 6.5 ph for living soil is 100%. won't lock out anything in that range.

Although, I do think you might be looking at lockout, but from nutrient toxicity. 

Your medium EC will tell you what to do right now. Living soils are already loaded with food, then you ammended with wormcastings, humigrow and molasses and you're giving all those biobizz products. EC for that size plant should be 0.3 to 0.6 and I think you might have gone a little above that with all those nutes. 

just my guess, but depending on how you ph your water before giving to the plants and how much ml/L you used of the biobizz stuff could possibly change my guess

So I don't have an EC or PPM pen. Just a pH pen. 

I bubble the tap water, then add nutes and allow it to adjust then I adjust the pH and leave it for a few minutes to makes sure it doesn't change. 

In terms of the quantities of nutes, I'm using up to 2ml per litre of each besides the bloom. Just 1ml per litre of the bloom. 

Thanks for the response bro. 

I used 1:1:4 ratio coco:worm castings:living soil 

The coco was in brick form which I soaked and added a teaspoon of espom salt. Mixed it together and left it to stand for about 2 weeks before potting. This was however like a month ago and I haven't had any other issues until now. 

I've tried to follow the freedom farms biobizz feeding chart. A buddy of mine did, and I was impressed with his results. 

I use pH up and pH down solution to adjust and I use a pH pen to check. I use tap water that I aerate with a pump and airstream for roughly 10 to 15 minutes. 

I'll pull back on the foliar spray. 

I noticed roots popping through the fabric pot and the topsoil as well so I'm considering a repot to a 30litre. But I do have some scope to just increase the volume of the 20 litre pot because, as you can see, I've folded the top over twice to help hold the ties. But I no longer need the fold so I can increase the volume to give it the full 20 litre. 

Hey growmies, 

Been quiet for a while working on improving my setup and craft. I started some Liberty Haze seeds from Barney's Farm 3 July and it's been a struggle from the start due to very low Temps. So excuse the stunted growth. 

I've ran into a bit of an issue this week and thought perhaps some of the experienced growers in this forum could advise. 

My medium pH seems to be high. I'm thinking it could be nute lock out and/or a build up in the soil because of the high pH. 

I'm using Jamie's living soil but I've amended it using coco, worm castings, humigrow and a bit of molasses. 

Been watering with aerated tap water pH 6.2 to 6.5 and feeding weekly using biobizz bloom, heaven, grow, top max and every second feed I add a bit of worm tea as well. 

I've also just been spraying foliage with plain aerated tap water daily. 

Lights - 130watt 3500k growopz + 75watt 3500k growopz. 

I'm also struggling with height so I'm considering adding some blue and red spectrum that I think may help with this. 

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Slurricane ending off week 7 of flower...

End of week 7

2 minutes ago, Pandy said:

@Tee_Aitch_Seehey man i noticed that you dont have your drivers mounted on your light frame, do you mount then out of your tent?  Does it reduce a lot of heat?

Hey Bro, 

I keep them outside of the tent but they don't really emit that much heat. I just kept them out of the tent because the supplier I got it from recommended that I do. The 100watt driver has this open grated cover so water could get in. Thats why I keep it out of my grow space. 

End of week 4 

Grow update: 

The slurricane appears to be turning purple. Starting to put on some frost now too and super sticky. 

Tart pops, getting frosty AF. 

Last feed was Monday (3 weeks since flip) 

2.5ml bloom, 1ml top max, 1ml grow as per the biobizz feeding schedule. Those are the only products I have though. 

Hey all,

The ladies are in flower. I flipped them 2 weeks ago. 

The tart pops showed pre flower signs within the first few days. 

The slurricane was a bit slower though. And there is some discoloring with the older leaves. From the leaf diagnosis charts available online, I reckon perhaps a nitrogen or zinc or Sulphur deficiency. Not entirely sure. 

I noticed the leaves late last week. This was before I top dressed with enormous bud soil. Their last feed was 2 days ago. 2ml bloom per litre RO water. pH 6.4. Four days before that, I watered them with RO water at pH 6.3. 

I'm thinking perhaps a flush and just light bloom nutes and a drop of molasses with their next feed. 

1 hour ago, Ill_Evan said:

Hmm it may cause more problems than what it may solve. Mulch with bark can be quite acidic and drop your water pH significantly, especially if it's on top and the water runs over it and through your soil. 

I see your temp is sitting at like 29C and humidity is below 50% so understandable that your soil is drying out quite quickly. See you got a nice little ice pack hanging there to try help. 

Seeing as it's just two plants I'd rather just water more often than have the mulch. Maybe add some coco on top instead of the mulch to hold more moisture if you really need a solution in that regard. 

Aaah, I didnt know that. Thanks for the heads-up. 

I just grabbed some mulch from a stockpile in our estate and washed it then packed in on my soil. 

I was planning to get some perlite but perhaps I'll just get some coco over the weekend. Fortunately, I watered before I placed the mulch on top of my medium

1 minute ago, Ill_Evan said:

What's going on with that soil in the right-hand side pot? Is that tree bark I see? That's a no-no. 

It looks like you're using two different types of soil there between the two pots. 

Same medium. I just covered the one with mulch to see if I can get the soil to hold moisture a bit longer. My topsoil dries out like a day and a half after feed or watering 

Hey Growmies,

So I've stopped the autos for now and cleared out my grow space. I've been vegging a slurricane clone and a tart pops clone that will get all of my attention now. 

Flipped to 12/12 light cycle on 7/01/2021 and watered at pH 6.4. 

Medium - Orgasoilux living soil 

Nutrients - biobizz grow, biobizz bloom, molasses, banana and mango FFJ 

Lights - QB75 and QB130 from @growopz

Each in 20litre fabric pot 

On 12/15/2020 at 3:34 PM, TheUltimateNoob said:

Got a mate in CPT that imports seeds. Thinking of distributing

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Please do though. I'd be keen to try

I'm actually disappointed in this Quarter Pounder strain I got from capeapeseeds.  Even gave my buddy a pip and he too got a very small yield and also had some issues. I thought it would have performed better than it did but the Bulk Seed Bank seeds I previously used performed much better and just under 130watt. 

I've got 2x sour diesel seeds from royal queen and then I'm currently vegging a slurricane clone that ill be flipping in a week. 

On 12/14/2020 at 12:04 PM, TheUltimateNoob said:

Hey man, saw the thread title and I thought I'd share.

I just banged out about 146g off an auto in a 10L smart pot. She grew a our 113cm above soil and developed some thick buds.

The strain was Deimos

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Thats insane! What light did you use? 

Quarter Pounder Auto - day 71

Chop day is approaching 

Quarter Pounder Auto (capeapeseeds) Day 63 of 80/85 

I've gotta learn to take better pictures 

4 weeks to go