New Grower First grow- Indoor Auto White Widow

Oh, forgot to actually fix your problem lol. just give em a really light feed of like 200 ppm at ph5.8
Give em a few litres per day and it'll sort itself out in 2 or 3 days then kick it back upto about 400ppm.
 
Right buddy I just wrote this for someone else so I'll share with you too. As your having ph issues I'll also point out that they can be caused by too strong a nute mix. As the plant absorbs nutes (or doesnt) the ph of the pot changes due to imbalances.
if your feeding correct doses, the ph of the pot will rise during veg then drop during bloom. To deal with this without all the fucking about you go in at 5.8 for veg and around 6.3 for bloom. That'll keep it ph perfect all the way as long as you've got the nute strength right.

As I mentioned, completely ignore what the manufacturer says. I don't need to look, I know it's a pile of nonesense lol. They all are. Here's how it works. .

some general rules for you.

Not an exact science but you can't go far wrong.

Feed wise, asuming they're growing properly they need 100ppm(NOT including the water) per week of veg.

4 week old plants needs 400ppm, 10 week old plant needs 1000ppm. Most strains take a little more during the stretch then level off once the buds start forming.

Once the buds are half formed you drop the Base nutes by half (roughly) and hit it with a PK booster.


Most strains can handle ppms a fair chunk higher than that but that's what they actually need.

Tops go yellow you up the micro nutes/calmag

Bottoms go yellow you up the Base nutes.

Brown rusty spots and you first make sure it's not caused from perspiration burn then up the calmag.

Leaves go dark or the tips claw down you lower the N which is in the Base nutes.

Tips burn is iether p or K I can't remember but if your not using a booster you'd lower the Base nutes. If you are using a booster then lower that.

As long as you keep the feed on the lighter side, up the doses a little at a time and stick to those rules then that's all you should ever need to know.

Again though, this is general guidelines you've still gotta judge it yourself.

For example, I've got 7 week veg photos that are still on 450ppm and apart from a little iron Def they're fine but it's because I had to keep them small for a while.

I've also had autos that needed 1000ppm by week 6 cos I made them go massive.

As long as you stick to the lighter side though the worst that can happen is some leaves go a little bit yellow. When they do you just up the feed and problem solved. If nothings going yellow then they don't need anything more.

Hope that's helpful for ya buddy.

Keep it green

Just copied that as it sounds spot on. Will be using it on my current grow. Cheers [emoji1303]

HH


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Just copied that as it sounds spot on. Will be using it on my current grow. Cheers [emoji1303]

HH


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Yeah I've finally copied onto my clipboard too. Sick of writing It every other day lol. It's pretty full proof like.
That's for coco and hydro though.
I know absolutely nothing about soil growing.
 
Yeah I've finally copied onto my clipboard too. Sick of writing It every other day lol. It's pretty full proof like.
That's for coco and hydro though.
I know absolutely nothing about soil growing.

I’ll soon find out as I’m in soil!

HH


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I’ll soon find out as I’m in soil!

HH


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Haha no doubt. I'd run that passed a soil grower and see what they think about it tbh. Think they like higher ppms cos they don't feed as often and the ph probably behaves differently.
 
a soil grower typically would never think of getting a tds/ppm/ec pen.thats not to say its not usefull for finding out base tap or well levels if they suspect something odd going on.
a ph pen yes.
:pighug:
 
I've been growing for a little over a year now. On my 4th grow now. I grow in a soil mix (50% Bio Bizz Light Mix, 20% Perlite, 20% Coco & 10% Vermiculite). Everything I've read on pretty much every grow site says pH should be between 6.0 - 7.0 for soil with 6.3 - 6.4 being the perfect pH for soil. I always pH to 6.3 or 6.4 & have never encountered a pH problem as of yet. On my 1st grow I started out with Purified Water that was 7.0 & that gave me problems. Once I started using Tap Water & pH'd to 6.4 everything went well.
Now these were all Photo Period Grows. This is my 1st Autoflower grow so we'll see how it works out.
 
Thanks everyone for the feedback. @EvilScotsman...excellent write up and that does a good job of dumbing it down to the lowest denominator (ME!). Haha

I tend to be a "why" guy. Not one to want to just blindly follow something without understanding the why behind it. This whole thing has been quite the learning experience. Emphasis on learning as I seem to be reading for several hours a day right now.

For what it's worth, this doesn't seem to be slowing her growth down all that much. I had to raise the lights again this morning to get back to 24". That said, the smallest of the 3 started to show the same symptoms this morning. It's only on one leaf and very minor, so I'm assuming that it's just residual from the few days it had the elevated pH.

I'll continue to monitor and update as I can. Thanks again everyone, and y'all be safe!
 
Yeah it's a pretty big learning curve but you'll get there mate. I struggled on my first grow till someone pulled the sock puppets out and gave me it without all the jargon. I still get baffled with half the stuff people post on here.
I'm a why guy too though and I've generally answered most of them so feel free to tag me if you have any questions.
Long as it's coco or hydro related I'm usually fairly useful.
 
I've been growing for a little over a year now. On my 4th grow now. I grow in a soil mix (50% Bio Bizz Light Mix, 20% Perlite, 20% Coco & 10% Vermiculite). Everything I've read on pretty much every grow site says pH should be between 6.0 - 7.0 for soil with 6.3 - 6.4 being the perfect pH for soil. I always pH to 6.3 or 6.4 & have never encountered a pH problem as of yet. On my 1st grow I started out with Purified Water that was 7.0 & that gave me problems. Once I started using Tap Water & pH'd to 6.4 everything went well.
Now these were all Photo Period Grows. This is my 1st Autoflower grow so we'll see how it works out.
Treat em exactly the same as photos mate. Watch what your doing with HST methods and recovery time but other than that there's no difference really. Well the lighting hours obviously but you know what I mean lol.
 
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