New Grower Finally after 5 year of waiting, decided it's time for a new Grow.

[Bob's Auto's]

I'll get pictures up tonight Bob, as it's her night time.
I didn't add any Bactrex to the orgatrex, just plain orgatrex, added the bactrex on it's own last week.
I gave 15ml of orgatrex in 3 litres of water, when the pot was dry.
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The environment is not very good, between 21 -26c and the humidity isn't good either ranging from 56% to 72% (lights out)


I think she's looking worse but I'll let the pictures be judge of that.

You are growing an auto, so why not run your lights 24/7? everything will become more stable when you do and you can run your lights lower as the DLI will add up with more hours of light
Your VPD is completely out of whack. Read up on this subject as this will change the way you grow my friend. Getting the VPD right is the difference between a good run or a great run...
3L of water in that pot is quite a lot. Unless the plant is processing that in one day I wouldn't give so much, so late in it's grow. During veg the plant drinks quite a lot as there's a lot of evaporation, but during flower the plant isn't that concerned about it's leaves growing big, but rather creating a lot of flowers. When that's done the flowers can only do one thing and that's what they were made for and that's expanding like if there was a seed in it, but in our case we like empty seedpods, don't we?

I can’t express enough about not letting the soil dry since I am pretty sure you are growing organically. The microbes do most of the work in feeding the plant you just need to feed the soil and keep them happy. But when the soil drys out so does the life almost immediately at least from what I’ve learned.

You are completely right, but in DFtR's case his roots have been to wet, then it's better to let that situation dry out and afterwards add some new bennies...

 

[Lil Dab]

You are growing an auto, so why not run your lights 24/7? everything will become more stable when you do and you can run your lights lower as the DLI will add up with more hours of light
Your VPD is completely out of whack. Read up on this subject as this will change the way you grow my friend. Getting the VPD right is the difference between a good run or a great run...
3L of water in that pot is quite a lot. Unless the plant is processing that in one day I wouldn't give so much, so late in it's grow. During veg the plant drinks quite a lot as there's a lot of evaporation, but during flower the plant isn't that concerned about it's leaves growing big, but rather creating a lot of flowers. When that's done the flowers can only do one thing and that's what they were made for and that's expanding like if there was a seed in it, but in our case we like empty seedpods, don't we?


You are completely right, but in DFtR's case his roots have been to wet, then it's better to let that situation dry out and afterwards add some new bennies...

I am sorry but I don’t agree with that plants do better with a night period

@Mañ'O'Green shared this a while ago and I haven’t looked back I run 18/6. This is also his personal experience with all the different light schedules

I am going back to 18/6 that has proven to me to be the best indoor schedule.

Not a problem but don't go less than 11 hours of light as they may decide to ripen before getting fatter.

I have now grown autos on

8/4 Stress and Hermies, small plants and low yield.

11/13 Autos that were not autos, this fixed it

12/12 Autos with Photoperiod plants, I have plenty of DLI so not a problem.

18/6 This is the sweet spot for yield and quality.

24/0 Stressed plants, lower terps cost way more to run lights but finished about 10 days faster still cost more for energy. Overall Quality was lower.

20/4 Slightly better yield but Terps seem lower, cost more to run lights, about the same time to grow to harvest as 18/6.

The most consistent best crops come from the 18/6 and that is what I will be growing with in the future.

Yes we can assume the roots have been too wet but the red flag to me it that letting her dry out didn’t help he keeps saying she’s getting worse which leads me to think she’s been underwatered the whole time

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

You are growing an auto, so why not run your lights 24/7? everything will become more stable when you do and you can run your lights lower as the DLI will add up with more hours of light
Your VPD is completely out of whack. Read up on this subject as this will change the way you grow my friend. Getting the VPD right is the difference between a good run or a great run...
3L of water in that pot is quite a lot. Unless the plant is processing that in one day I wouldn't give so much, so late in it's grow. During veg the plant drinks quite a lot as there's a lot of evaporation, but during flower the plant isn't that concerned about it's leaves growing big, but rather creating a lot of flowers. When that's done the flowers can only do one thing and that's what they were made for and that's expanding like if there was a seed in it, but in our case we like empty seedpods, don't we?


You are completely right, but in DFtR's case his roots have been to wet, then it's better to let that situation dry out and afterwards add some new bennies...

Bob three really bad things happen when yo let a pot get too dry.

1. Root hairs are microscopic, they are responsible for intaking the nutrients the plant needs if they dry they die, they do not rehydrate and can no longer take in the needed nutrients so the plant must grow new ones. This at a minimum will stunt and at worst kill the plant. Next Root caps/tips can dry and this will kill the plant.



2. Soil microbes will go dormant or die, in either case it will take time for them to regenerate. Recharge and other similar products can help but only if the 3rd problem has not taken place.

3. Your media can become hydrophobic, it becomes water proof. This can happen in pockets or even an entire pot. You may think you are watering to run-off wetting the entire pot but those pockets are dry as a bone. Everything in those pockets is dead. If you think your pot has dried too far use a surfactant to help re-wet them. I use Yucca powder as part of my fertigation program. I has a minor microbe nutrient and helps keep my drip emitters clean. Commercial surfactants are also available.

Moral of the story: Water/Fertigate the entire pot and never let it dry out!

 

[Don't Fear the Reefer]

Hello everyone.
Here is a couple of pictures day 63, sorry for the picture quality, getting interference on my phone.

 

[Don't Fear the Reefer]

Thanks @Lil Dab for the points.
There's definitely some lovely colours on some of them leaves.

 

[Corum59]

Hello everyone.
Here is a couple of pictures day 63, sorry for the picture quality, getting interference on my phone.
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Relax, put your feet up, you are gonna get some good weed to smoke... just pick off the dead leaf's and smile, things are going well.

 

[Bob's Auto's]

Hello everyone.
Here is a couple of pictures day 63, sorry for the picture quality, getting interference on my phone.
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Again, why do you worrie so much? The leaves look a bit iffy, but that's alight. You're in the home stretch now. Now it's important to let the plant finish. Looking at her I'd say she needs a couple more weeks, when the pistils start to fade away I'd say it's time to start checking the trichomes.

Do you have the PK Booster Compost tea? If so, please do yourself a favor and plan a brew in the coming days...When it's time to water the pot give it some tea instead. The tea needs to brew 24-36 hours, put it somewhere at room temperature. If for any reason you need to keep it longer add another dose of Orgatrex to the tea. The carbs inside will be a feast for the bennies growing. And the most important advise about the tea is, use a big enough airpump. I use a 200L/min pump with a large flat ceramic airstone.
Start slow. ie, brew 1L of tea. When the tea is done dilute it with 1L dechlorinated water and you have yourself a perfect brew to give your lady
If you only have the Bio PK 5-8 then start slow with 1ml per 2L water per week. Don't overdo it, better to be on the safe side.
If you have both then you can use them together, but not right yet. First let the bennies (these are specialized in converting P & K) inside the tea collonize the soil and start working for you before we add more P & K to the soil, right?

Anyway, don't worrie...You are going to have a great harvest bud

 

[Don't Fear the Reefer]

Again, why do you worrie so much? The leaves look a bit iffy, but that's alight. You're in the home stretch now. Now it's important to let the plant finish. Looking at her I'd say she needs a couple more weeks, when the pistils start to fade away I'd say it's time to start checking the trichomes.

Do you have the PK Booster Compost tea? If so, please do yourself a favor and plan a brew in the coming days...When it's time to water the pot give it some tea instead. The tea needs to brew 24-36 hours, put it somewhere at room temperature. If for any reason you need to keep it longer add another dose of Orgatrex to the tea. The carbs inside will be a feast for the bennies growing. And the most important advise about the tea is, use a big enough airpump. I use a 200L/min pump with a large flat ceramic airstone.
Start slow. ie, brew 1L of tea. When the tea is done dilute it with 1L dechlorinated water and you have yourself a perfect brew to give your lady
If you only have the Bio PK 5-8 then start slow with 1ml per 2L water per week. Don't overdo it, better to be on the safe side.
If you have both then you can use them together, but not right yet. First let the bennies (these are specialized in converting P & K) inside the tea collonize the soil and start working for you before we add more P & K to the soil, right?

Anyway, don't worrie...You are going to have a great harvest bud

Thanks Bob,
I only really have the Bio PK, but the compost tea sounds great.
I'll do as you say and add 1ml per 2L of water, once per week? is this right?

 

[Don't Fear the Reefer]

I tested the tiny bud I snipped the other day and yep you guessed. no potency, not even a little buzz.
Damn!
It definitely wasn't ready and was only small, so maybe that had something to do with it.

Also the high temperature and humidity can't have helped, but I can't do much about that, as I'm trying to bring as much fresh air into the grow tent and have it venting into another room.

I'm hoping and praying that she surprises me in the end.

 

[Del boy]

I tested the tiny bud I snipped the other day and yep you guessed. no potency, not even a little buzz.
Damn!
It definitely wasn't ready and was only small, so maybe that had something to do with it.

Also the high temperature and humidity can't have helped, but I can't do much about that, as I'm trying to bring as much fresh air into the grow tent and have it venting into another room.

I'm hoping and praying that she surprises me in the end.

She will be fine there is no way she wont get you stoned when she is ready you still got a few weeks to go yet