Dutch Passion 4xABBs in a scrog under a GN MS0006 rebel

[dirty budster]

I started giving nutes at day 20, yesterday. The grow mix I'm using is moderately pre-fertilized, it says on the bag it should be enough for the first 3 weeks. It has worked out pretty well in the past. But you're right it does look a bit pale. I was just concerned that it might be lock-out due to incorrect pH and I figured adding nutes then would be bad. It has bounced back for the most part but it's still a bit pale looking.

 

[steelrat]

That's why i switched to organic compost and nutes, no need to worry about ph, no need to flush because the soil buffers itself, if it has a good microbiology going on, which you ensure by prewatering the soil for a few days to a week before planting.

 

[dirty budster]

That's why i switched to organic compost and nutes, no need to worry about ph, no need to flush because the soil buffers itself, if it has a good microbiology going on, which you ensure by prewatering the soil for a few days to a week before planting.

I've been curious about organic growing as well. I might try it one day.

Things are moving along pretty well. All 4 plants showed sex, ABB#1 and #4 at day 21, ABB#2 at 19 and ABB#3 at 22 and there is already quite a strong veg smell in the tent. I'm pretty sure ABB#1 is out of the dangerzone, every new set of leaves is darker and healthier looking than the previous set.
I lowered the light a bit so it's now around 46 cm away from the screen and about 40-42 cm away from the plant tops with 4 spots on.

Day 20

I occasionally had stems snap in the past and when they do it's usually around the 2nd or 3rd bend. So this time I put a pipe cleaner across so I can create a half square and gradually bend the stem into position. I'm hoping to avoid any snapped stems in this way.

Day 22

 

[Grim Reefer]

Hey man dont know if its just me or do those leaves look like you have got a mg diff. See the way the leaf vein is darker and outer edge of the leaves are going slight lime pale color. Could be wrong man sorry if i am.

 

[dirty budster]

I agree with you Briain, I gave them a 1/4 dose cal-mag and 1/8 of grow nutes last watering. I'm wondering if I can increase the cal-mag to 1/2? The bottle says it can be given at full dosage from week 2 on but I wouldn't go that far.

 

[Grim Reefer]

Ive always worked my way up to using full dosage without any problems when it comes to cal and mag. You should be fine moving it up to half.

 

[steelrat]

I had calmag issues last grow and they started fairly early on.

This time round i bought some dolomite lime and there's no sign of calmag def at all :



Dolomite lime is definitley the way to go with soil grows under LED.


steely

 

[dirty budster]

Thanks for the hint Briain, good to know that it can be used at full dose later on.

Steely, I think I will add some dolomite lime next grow. How much did you use?

 

[Grim Reefer]

You can also throw epsom salts into your soil mix to help with cal/mg. One tablespoon of epsom salts per gallon of soil mix should be sufficient.

 

[dirty budster]

I'm still struggling a bit with the cal-mag issue. I was expecting some cal-mag issues, switching from CFL to LED, just not this early in the grow. I will definitely add dolomite lime for my next grow.
I watered #2,#3 and #4 with root stim, 1/4 grow nutes and 1/2 cal-mag. The new growth on those is looking much healthier so I hope I got it sorted now. The soil of #1 is still too wet to give it a proper watering so I tried foliar feeding with cal-mag but I'm not sure if it really helped as it's still looking pretty rough. On top of that I was a bit heavy handed with #4 and managed to break the main stem. Luckily it's a minor break, about 1/4 of the way through, so I taped it up and it doesn't seem to have affected it much.
Despite all those issues there has been a decent amount of growth and quite a lot of new bud-sites formed.

Day 24

Day 26

This has been a humbling experience as I have realized that I still have a lot to learn.