Clem Fandango
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By the way, that little yoghurt tub with a seedling in it can be ignored. It was inspired by St tom and his solo cup grows but will not work out.
New Grower CF - Do Si Dos and Super Silver Haze.
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Issues with calcium and magnesium due to PH sinking to around 5 in all pots. The two Autos stalled with bud development and had obvious necrosis and yellowing of shade leaves.
After the overwhelming response to my infirmary post I took it upon myself to try to remedy the situation.
All plants were given a light feed and strong mix of Calmag two days ago.
The autos reacted well to this with a noticeable fattening of buds and the trichomes perked up.
With that positive feedback, today the job was to bring the pH up.
Dosi do 1 was flushed out with 14 litres of 6.8 pH water in two batches, run off now reading 5.9.
Dosi do 2 was also flushed with 14 litres with runoff reading 5.8
SSH was flushed with 8 litres at 6.8 which gave me a reading of 6 pH.
Next step will be a feed plan until done set at 6.5 pH and a single one off foliage spray of Calmag at 15 ml per litre.
Side note; the SSH has been put into the cardboard box dark chamber for the last 5 days and seems to be responding well. I need the whole tent for it soon and am crossing my fingers that the autos finish up soon before the SSH muscles too much room from them. The only other measure I can take is to remove the SSH from the tent, bring the ts 600 out as well and use the lung room until tent is available. That will be last resort though.
After the overwhelming response to my infirmary post I took it upon myself to try to remedy the situation.
All plants were given a light feed and strong mix of Calmag two days ago.
The autos reacted well to this with a noticeable fattening of buds and the trichomes perked up.
With that positive feedback, today the job was to bring the pH up.
Dosi do 1 was flushed out with 14 litres of 6.8 pH water in two batches, run off now reading 5.9.
Dosi do 2 was also flushed with 14 litres with runoff reading 5.8
SSH was flushed with 8 litres at 6.8 which gave me a reading of 6 pH.
Next step will be a feed plan until done set at 6.5 pH and a single one off foliage spray of Calmag at 15 ml per litre.
Side note; the SSH has been put into the cardboard box dark chamber for the last 5 days and seems to be responding well. I need the whole tent for it soon and am crossing my fingers that the autos finish up soon before the SSH muscles too much room from them. The only other measure I can take is to remove the SSH from the tent, bring the ts 600 out as well and use the lung room until tent is available. That will be last resort though.
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Clem Fandango
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@TheHappyClique here's the thread mate. Very much a learning by doing experience, but despite the many mistakes made and what will be a unspectacular harvest. I am happy with what I've learned and think the SSH will end up being a good back up.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Update
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Ok, so today I had to reconfigure the tent. The fan placement was rearranged to accommodate the exploding SSH.
All plants responded well to the flush out yesterday. Today they were fed at 6.5 pH and received a foliage spray of Calmag. I gave them a good misting therefore put three fans on them and vented the lung room to avoid high humidity and or rot setting in. Hopefully, they'll be ok. As of tomorrow I'll be regularly adding Calmag to the feed albeit at significantly smaller doses.
I should have an EC, TDS pen tomorrow plus some more calibration fluid for my pH pen so I can be a little more accurate with my feeds and water.
I'm starting to get hopeful that the results may not be as woeful as I suspected them to be.
I do really need them to get a giddy up though.
This bloody photo is going bananas. I had to tie it even further down today as well ..
All plants responded well to the flush out yesterday. Today they were fed at 6.5 pH and received a foliage spray of Calmag. I gave them a good misting therefore put three fans on them and vented the lung room to avoid high humidity and or rot setting in. Hopefully, they'll be ok. As of tomorrow I'll be regularly adding Calmag to the feed albeit at significantly smaller doses.
I should have an EC, TDS pen tomorrow plus some more calibration fluid for my pH pen so I can be a little more accurate with my feeds and water.
I'm starting to get hopeful that the results may not be as woeful as I suspected them to be.
I do really need them to get a giddy up though.
This bloody photo is going bananas. I had to tie it even further down today as well ..
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Gonna follow this one, looks like that plant is making a pretty good recovery, and super silver haze is one of my favorite strains!
Update week 10
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So I messed up my week count and am actually now at week 10 with the first Do si Dos and week 9 with the second. Week 1 of flower switch with the Super Silver Haze.
Wakey wakey
I played around with light height and ended up cooking the tops of the plants a bit. Light quickly moved to a less burny distance.
I also bought a PPM meter finally and found out my starting water has a ppm of 400. After sourcing the correct water analysis I saw it has a high Cal Mag content. I have to work around that until I get myself a cheapish reverse osmosis set up.
The smaller DSD (week 10) is about a week away from chop. It's looking ok all Things considered.
The second DSD (week 9) is fairing much better, and looking ok apart from the scorching.
Then there's the Super Silver Haze,
I did a defol and more bondage to keep her as low as possible until the Autos finish. I also have her doing 12 hour stints in the darkness of the cardboard box. She is a great plant and very forgiving. I have scrog coming and am chomping at the bit to give her more room to spread her wings. I'll never do 3 plants in the tent again. It's a massive pain in the arse.
Lastly and not really worth a mention is a mini DSD that will probably go outside once the other two DSD's are finished. This one is just a bit of fun and if it tanks it tanks, no big deal.
That's it. Tune in next week for CF's dog's breakfast grow update.
Wakey wakey
I played around with light height and ended up cooking the tops of the plants a bit. Light quickly moved to a less burny distance.
I also bought a PPM meter finally and found out my starting water has a ppm of 400. After sourcing the correct water analysis I saw it has a high Cal Mag content. I have to work around that until I get myself a cheapish reverse osmosis set up.
The smaller DSD (week 10) is about a week away from chop. It's looking ok all Things considered.
The second DSD (week 9) is fairing much better, and looking ok apart from the scorching.
Then there's the Super Silver Haze,
I did a defol and more bondage to keep her as low as possible until the Autos finish. I also have her doing 12 hour stints in the darkness of the cardboard box. She is a great plant and very forgiving. I have scrog coming and am chomping at the bit to give her more room to spread her wings. I'll never do 3 plants in the tent again. It's a massive pain in the arse.
Lastly and not really worth a mention is a mini DSD that will probably go outside once the other two DSD's are finished. This one is just a bit of fun and if it tanks it tanks, no big deal.
That's it. Tune in next week for CF's dog's breakfast grow update.
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I don't think they're looking too bad, especially with all the trouble you've been trying to sort out. Your water is really high starting ppm. I'm sure that's contributed to some of the issues. Most nute lines are designed to be mixed up with 0ppm RO water. If an RO setup is out of the question you can do like I do & buy gallon jugs of distilled water from the store.
I cut my tap water 50/50 on water days and use distilled for mixing nutrients. Really helps with the starting ppm. If you've done this well so far and have just picked up your ppm meter, imagine how much smoother and easier your next one will be!
I cut my tap water 50/50 on water days and use distilled for mixing nutrients. Really helps with the starting ppm. If you've done this well so far and have just picked up your ppm meter, imagine how much smoother and easier your next one will be!
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Thanks DCLXVI, I'll pick up a RO system soon to get that starting ppm down. There's much work to be done to get things in the green zone but at least i have an idea where the weak points are now. It'll take a couple of grows to get it all locked in.
Chop chop bud rot
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We've had high humidity here over the last week and my tent was sitting at about 62% for too long ... Went to water this morning. F#ו bud rot on one bud on the smaller DSD. Pretty annoyed after all the grief this f'n thing has given me (or me it, depends on your point of view). As it was a few days from ready anyway with quite a few milky trichomes and a amber here and there, I though better chop it now and lessen the risk of the other (better) DSD falling foul of this shite.
The rot had just infected the first top cm of one bud.
It was quickly removed and brought to a separate room.
The plant was then taken out of the tent and chopped. Bud was trimmed back as much as I could as I want a fast drying time to mitigate potential mold explosion.
I then made an emergency dry box
I bagged the (visibly) infected part of the bud and removed it.
Here's the bit where if any one were to read this they may shake their head.
I stuck the rest of the bud in my mushy dehydrator.
I Intend to make a batch of canna milk/tea/coffee with all the trimmings as soon as I find out how...
Pray with me to the imaginary cloud man that I caught this in time and that I can keep my humidity in the tent low enough for the next two weeks to get the second DSD over the line
The rot had just infected the first top cm of one bud.
It was quickly removed and brought to a separate room.
The plant was then taken out of the tent and chopped. Bud was trimmed back as much as I could as I want a fast drying time to mitigate potential mold explosion.
I then made an emergency dry box
I bagged the (visibly) infected part of the bud and removed it.
Here's the bit where if any one were to read this they may shake their head.
I stuck the rest of the bud in my mushy dehydrator.
I Intend to make a batch of canna milk/tea/coffee with all the trimmings as soon as I find out how...
Pray with me to the imaginary cloud man that I caught this in time and that I can keep my humidity in the tent low enough for the next two weeks to get the second DSD over the line
You got my prayers dude.. I like to follow your journal, interesting and entertaining 
