Live Stoner Chat 1st grow, need help!

[MedGrower]

Bro, nothing wrong in her size for day 30! Damn this is your first grow and it is going GREAT! You can see she has a lot of potential that is going to unleash later. Alright. So the PPM's are 900. Keep in mind to just monitor that reading, do you see it going up or down as your plant is drinking water? From that you will know when you have too strong feed when that reading starts to go up. I've had my roots look nastier than that from nutrients and specially kelp products so you are golden.

 

[G.Leave]

Looks like @MedGrower has got you covered!! Thanks bud!

 

[Mr Green Fingers]

Hey @MedGrower So I think I might be running into a bit of trouble here, I have some spots appearing on some of the fan leaves, I noticed this starting 2 days ago on the smaller lady and then today on the bigger one, I have been trawling the internet to try to work out what it is and I think it might be a calcium deficiency, what do you think??

I also moved my light further away just in case it was to close but I first noticed these spots on a lower leave on the smaller girl.

I did some defoliation on both the smaller one 5 days ago but I think I went overboard and her growth has been stunted somewhat, the bigger girl I did 3 days ago and she has bounced right back, so we'l in fact I think I need to do a bit more!

Day 36
Ph 6.15
EC smaller girl 1.0 after water deduction as she didn't like it when I upped the feed, EC 1.2 on larger girl and it's pretty stable.
Yesterday I switched to Aqua Flores

Thanks man, if I get through this It will be down to you guys lol!

 

[epenguin]

In the grand scheme of things, your girls are a picture of health. Adding a little Cal/Mag would not go amiss but really, they look fine. You need to start worrying when they go spottier than a teenager full of acne and puberty hormones raging.....................eP.

 

[MedGrower]

Hey @MedGrower So I think I might be running into a bit of trouble here, I have some spots appearing on some of the fan leaves, I noticed this starting 2 days ago on the smaller lady and then today on the bigger one, I have been trawling the internet to try to work out what it is and I think it might be a calcium deficiency, what do you think??

I also moved my light further away just in case it was to close but I first noticed these spots on a lower leave on the smaller girl.

I did some defoliation on both the smaller one 5 days ago but I think I went overboard and her growth has been stunted somewhat, the bigger girl I did 3 days ago and she has bounced right back, so we'l in fact I think I need to do a bit more!

Day 36
Ph 6.15
EC smaller girl 1.0 after water deduction as she didn't like it when I upped the feed, EC 1.2 on larger girl and it's pretty stable.
Yesterday I switched to Aqua Flores

Thanks man, if I get through this It will be down to you guys lol!

Hey there! Those girls looks really fine, great job! All the values seems good and yes, it is early symptoms of Ca -deficiency. I would add some CalMag product to the feed or just a bit of Canna Mono Ca.

You may be just alright with going as it is but my own experience has convinced me it would be better to be proactive with Ca. Just take it easy and use little doses (0.2 ec impact), thats all she needs.

Good luck, and again, great work so far man!

 

[Mr Green Fingers]

In the grand scheme of things, your girls are a picture of health. Adding a little Cal/Mag would not go amiss but really, they look fine. You need to start worrying when they go spottier than a teenager full of acne and puberty hormones raging.....................eP.

Thanks man, yeah maybe I'm just over reacting as my first grow and any sign of a problem I'm paranoid I'm going to screw it up Lol, but getting reassurance from experienced growers puts my mind at ease

 

[Mr Green Fingers]

Hey there! Those girls looks really fine, great job! All the values seems good and yes, it is early symptoms of Ca -deficiency. I would add some CalMag product to the feed or just a bit of Canna Mono Ca.

You may be just alright with going as it is but my own experience has convinced me it would be better to be proactive with Ca. Just take it easy and use little doses (0.2 ec impact), thats all she needs.

Good luck, and again, great work so far man!

Thanks Med, awesome advice as always, ordered some calmag earlier so I will add some to the res on Monday.

Happy Friday and have a great weekend!

Oh one more question though and this might seem really dumb but I'm going to ask it anyway lol, so when measuring your EC and Ph do you take out a sample from the bucket say with a jug or just go straight into the bucket with it bubbling away??

 

[epenguin]

You MUST enjoy your grow, the first is always a nervy one........but you learn so much from it. Both the things you do right and more so from the mistakes. Take time to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Don't over water and when it comes to drying/curing do some good research. I found this the hardest part. But it turned out well and I am sure your grow will too.

Good luck chum.................eP.

 

[MedGrower]

Thanks Med, awesome advice as always, ordered some calmag earlier so I will add some to the res on Monday.

Happy Friday and have a great weekend!

Oh one more question though and this might seem really dumb but I'm going to ask it anyway lol, so when measuring your EC and Ph do you take out a sample from the bucket say with a jug or just go straight into the bucket with it bubbling away??

I just take a litre out, pour it back and take another and measure from that

 

[Sage]

Hey Guys,
So this is my first grow as sick of buying C grade weed for top dollar so thought I would try to become self sufficient, my setup is as follows:

Gorilla Grow Tent 4 x 2 x 8 feet
Systemair RVK 4 inch inline fan with 4 inch Rhino carbon filter
900W Viparspectra LED reflector series
2 x Exodus Oxypots
Hiblow HP40 pump - so 20lpm per bucket which has 2 4 inch airstones in each but wish I had now bought the bigger pump as these buckets probably could take 60lpm each but they still have a nice root spa with 20!
TDS & PH meter
Canna Aqua nutrients

So for my first grow I decided on Dutch Passion Colorado Cookies as have heard it's a great smoke but maybe not the best yielder but I am really interested in quality over quantity!

As this is my first grow I am just trying to keep things as simple as possible so will be growing my 2 babies El Natural.

So I have now reached day 16 since the seed popped out of the rockwool cube, I fed just plain PH'd water for the first week, 2nd week I gave a light feeding of Aqua Vega A&B and Rhizotonic, 3rd week and I am now feeding Aqua Vega A&B, Rhizotonic, Cannazym & Canna boost, my PH I keep at between 5.8 - 6 and my current PPM is 300 (after deduction of tap water PPM).

So far I have had no issues (I don't think) until I noticed this morning that some of the leaves are starting to yellow slightly on the veins, I am wondering if maybe I have a calmag issue coming, I didn't bother to buy any calmag as I am using tap water which has been left out for 48 hrs which has a starting PPM of 216 but I have no idea what's in it!

Please could someone take a look at the pictures (sorry only phone camera so not the best) and help me diagnose the issue, thanks everyone

How loud is the Hiblow HP40? I've been looking for a quiet air pump, so many claim to be silent but when you turn them on they're like jet engines...