Crentz Posted April 14, 2017 Author Share Posted April 14, 2017 @slimkush I was getting some yellowing of the leaves with the veins staying dark green, the Epsom Salt cured this problem and some of the purpling of the stems but not all of it? @Cannabissapean thanks man? I'm going to add hydroguard,Cal Mag, Bio-root and Diamond nectar to my feeding schedule this week once I receive delivery and add everything in the order below. Silica Hydroguard Cal mag Micro Bio-root Diamond nectar Grow Bloom I wasn't going to do any lst training or super cropping on these girls but decided to start yesterday, plant 2 has now been super cropped as it was starting to stretch a good bit and I'm just doing some light bending of branches on the other two plants. Plant 1 and 3 has 7 tops and plant 2 has 8 tops. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimkush Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 hello crentz ! it is difficult to see exactly the problem with the purple light but with you said i think you're right. more, if you solve it with adding epsom salt you was totally right . it's cool to see that. . i hope it will be the last problem for you man ! continue to read and observe your plants like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crentz Posted April 17, 2017 Author Share Posted April 17, 2017 On 15/04/2017 at 7:00 PM, slimkush said: hello crentz ! it is difficult to see exactly the problem with the purple light but with you said i think you're right. more, if you solve it with adding epsom salt you was totally right . it's cool to see that. . i hope it will be the last problem for you man ! continue to read and observe your plants like that. I have found that growing in Hydro is very finicky so far and unless you have everything dialled in to nearly 100% like environment/nutrients then things can go wrong very fast....growing style and the way you problem solve also play a big factor in it too. I deliberately used the feminised mix seeds for this grow as a test run so I can have optimal conditions for my second hydro grow, I'm still having some small issues like EC and ph rising while water levels are dropping which I will post in more detail soon here and I am hoping some experienced hydro guys can point me in the right direction on how to correct this. @slimkush thanks for the advice and help it's always appreciated man? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crentz Posted April 17, 2017 Author Share Posted April 17, 2017 Day 7 of flower PH 5.3 EC 1.5 Temps 23 degrees Humidity 58% Water temps 20 degrees Just changed out the nutrients into 20 litre buckets and switched over to bloom mix, still no sign of pre-flowers at day 7. Dropped the PH to 5.3 for this nute change and I will let it steadily rise to 6.2 before adjusting back down.....hopefully this will give the plants a good range of nutrients at different ph levels. I was having some issues with EC and PH rising and water levels dropping before the last nutrient change, I'm guessing this in down to my nute mix being to strong and the plants are taking up water faster than nutrients but maybe I'm wrong. Hopefully some experienced hydro growers can point me in the right direction regarding this? My understanding is EC levels should be dropping as the plants feed, I lowered the EC to 1.5 and I'm hoping this fixes the problem. Feeding mix for this nute change is as follows. General Hydroponics Flora Series Per 12 litres of water or 3 gallons 9ml Grow 9ml Micro 15ml Bloom 32ml silica 0.5ml Super Thrive Tap water starting at 0.7 EC or 350 PPM Total EC 1.5 or 750 PPM I'm waiting on a delivery of Cal Mag and Diamond Nectar which I will also be adding, I would like to add B52 by Advanced Nutrients but it's out of my price range at the moment so any suggestions on something similar would be great. The two Mars Hydro 300w lights have been lowered to 18 inches from the canopy and the plants are really starting to bush out now. Thats it for now, if anyone has any ideas about the issues above I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crentz Posted April 23, 2017 Author Share Posted April 23, 2017 Day 13 of flower PH: 5.8 EC: 1.6 or 800 PPM Humidity: 53% Temps: 24 degrees lights on - 19 degrees lights off. Water Temps: 20 degrees Ok so I'm 13 days into flower now and still no signs of any of the 3 plants showing their sex, no white pistols at all. This has me a bit concerned and the only thing I could think of doing was adjusting my light timer so lights on will be 11 hours 45 minutes and lights off will be 12 hours 15 minutes.... hopefully this will move them along a bit faster. I decided not to change the nutes out for another week as my EC was raising and the plants didn't take up much nutrients. In one week the EC has raised from 1.5 to 1.8, my next nutrients change I'm going to drop the EC to 1.3 or 1.4 and see if this fixes the problem of my EC raising. For this week I plan on dropping the EC slowly by adding just plane tap water PH'd to 5.3 until I find the sweet spot where my water levels are dropping and EC stays around the same. I have narrowed the strains down to either Shiva Skunk or Skunk Kush or maybe even both. Overall I'm happy with growth and they seem to be happy enough for now, over the next week I'll open them up a bit and remove some leaves for better light penetration and do some lst on them. Any advice welcome. Thanks for looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crentz Posted April 26, 2017 Author Share Posted April 26, 2017 Side by side picture of growth in just one day Changing up the light timing did the trick, two days after changing to 11 hours 45 minutes on and 12 hours 15 minutes off buds are forming nicely with lots of white hairs now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crentz Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 Day 18 FlowerPH 5.5PPM 820Humidity 50%Temps 19 Degrees lights off - 24 Degrees lights onWater Temps 20 degreesChanged out the nutrients today and trying something different, below if the feeding they got this time around.Silica 25mlCal Mag 10ml = 150ppmMicro 10ml = 145ppmDiamond Nectar 8mlGrow 2ml = 30ppmBloom 13ml = 100ppmPK 13/14 3ml = 35ppmSuper Thrive few drops4ml ph downStarting ppm 360Total 820ppmStarting ph 7.3Finished ph 5.5Plants look really happy but bud production looks a little behind for this stage of the game, doesn't help that I don't know which strains I'm dealing with and if they are early or late finishers.The leds are now lowered to 12 inches from the canopy and the plants are showing no signs of light burn, I'm hoping the pk 13/14 kicks bud production into overdrive but let's see what happens.Overall I'm very pleased with how my first hydro grow is going, I was expecting it to be a hell of a lot more complicated than it is. thanks for looking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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