Help needed.... Repeated issues

[Mossy]

Can't help but admire the dedication!

Or should I say defacation haha

You've got to see where he lives...... ...there is little to no natural soil...and not a garden centre in sight......

 

[Garysmells21]

@trailanimal ...I can See the headlines now....this guy on AFN says crap in your plant pots and now when I put the light on in the grow room none of the neighbours complain about the smell of cannabis anymore...........




@Garysmells21 ....get a bag of Seedling compost...grow a plant up to sex with nothing but water.......then look at it to see if it is your water...or all the amendments you are adding.

Yeah good shout... My water is super clean though, probably too clean. It's borderline RO out the tap

 

[Garysmells21]

Yeah dry amendments can be tricky timing is key might want to look into brewing some teas and feeding those they are available to plant a lot faster.

Have you heard of or tried bio tabs? I can’t get them in the states but have seen other growers here that are overseas use them with great success

Yeah this my first go with them, I think I was a bit slow off the mark with earlier feeds and with the soil so compact not sure the top dress gets in quick... Last feed I did brew into a tea so think I'll do that for the remaining feeds tbh... I'll limp them home as I am so used to doing.. I always get decent meds even when the plants looks sick as fuck, but I'm sure yield is harmed hugely

 

[Garysmells21]

Yeah dry amendments can be tricky timing is key might want to look into brewing some teas and feeding those they are available to plant a lot faster.

Have you heard of or tried bio tabs? I can’t get them in the states but have seen other growers here that are overseas use them with great success

Yes those tabs are on my list to try.

 

[Garysmells21]

Weed luvs fast drainage. Mine is 45% drainage. I use perlite and expanded clay balls. In the cloth bags I have to water every 48hrs. I give each girl around a gallon ea time (7 gal bags). @Garysmells21 your girls will go to the finish. Pick the dead leaves off and let them go. I had a lot of experience with organic growing and still had a 2 or 3 year learning curve growing weed. I feel like I still have things to learn about it. This is a great place to gather knowledge.

Yeah man for sure... One thing I have learned is an sickly plant can still produce nice end results... But I'm smaller quantities than one would like!

 

[trailanimal]

Yeah this my first go with them, I think I was a bit slow off the mark with earlier feeds and with the soil so compact not sure the top dress gets in quick... Last feed I did brew into a tea so think I'll do that for the remaining feeds tbh... I'll limp them home as I am so used to doing.. I always get decent meds even when the plants looks sick as fuck, but I'm sure yield is harmed hugely

And of course the grower's psyche suffers. Who want's to stand watch over plants that are suffering. Learning to grow autos is more than just about a plant. Understanding connectivity...

 

[trailanimal]

Or should I say defacation haha

Well, we all gotta do it. On the frontier, out of necessity, resources are used to their fullest potential. Where waste becomes an asset and the 'junk' pile is probably a 'fix' in potential.

 

[KingRatt]

Hoping for some help... Been growing for circa 5 years with reasonable results, some great some not but all part of learning curve.... But now I'm at a point of borderline breakdown with the cunts...

Running pretty much exclusively Meph genetics... For the last few runs, maybe more now I'm running into the same problems which has to be nutrients I'm thinking but diagnosing seems impossible. Seems to show traits of every deficiency going... Doing my heed in.

Used Biobizz and this time a living soil mix. Followed schedules religiously, Ph checked, environment good... Seem to just run into the same shit every time. Things look great, healthy until maybe 3rd week of flower and all hell breaks loose....

Any ideas?

I know they are stunted, learning curve on the living soil and transplant I think but the leaf colouration seems to be feed but what? Same thing happened with Biobizz runs despite doing what I always did before without issue... Soft water.

Help save me from turning the twat off.

Are you using cal mag? Are you using tap water?

 

[KingRatt]

Oh hey, thanks for reply. Appreciated. New to here and forums in general tbh...

They are in biobizz light 70pc, perlite 30pc... Then using UK based livingsoils (Company name) dry amendments and followed their regime to the letter. They do an autoflower mix...

Mistakes made... Per livingsoils I doused the 3gal fabric pots with a lot of water, till run off maybe 5 percent, then left for 2 weeks to cool down.... This left it really compact... I've just started 2 more and fluffed the soil back il after the 2 weeks... Also first time transplanting from solo cups following tested techniques but possibly left them in solos too long, between week 2 and 3, transplant seemed fairly clean.... Whether the transplant, the compact soil or just deficiencies have stunted they are all pretty small, but looked decent till maybe week 5.... Then this bag of wank

PH in between 6 and 7, as per livingsoils... Top dressed weekly in flower... Under a 480w light on about 85pc... Ppfd about 800 at the canopy... Temps 25-29C, RH 50-60..... All sounds good to me..

Soft water here. Doesn't register to the truncheon. Was assured the dry amends would be OK for cal mag..... But could be an issue...

To me it just seems short of every nutrient going when I try to diagnose them... Redness on the leaves..

Seem to get the snae thing every time. Pisses me off id had 4 years of banging results and now I feel lost.

Soil should not compact so much that its a oroblem, especially after one soak

 

[BII]

If the plant "seems short of every nutrient going" I'd suggest feed it. With diluted BioBizz Lite, you might do better with light feeding with a good base nutrient product vs. adding soil amendments, which take time to become available to the plant and you have no real control over.