Indoor Having quite a few troubles

[coral reefer]

Hi, there. I'm in great distress and this whole post is written kinda chaotically so I hope you can read through it and figure it out alright.

This is my first grow, all of the plants are the same age, 56 days. I'm growing in 20% light warrior, 30% ocean forest, 30% happy frog, 20% coco.
I've given the plants very limited nute action so far since I'm growing in 5 gallon smart pots.

Originally the plants had not very good light with one feliz dual spectrum 250 watt cfl, this caused stretching, and slow growth for first couple of weeks, I then replaced that with 3 sunshine systems glowpanel and dropped 4 6500K cfls, had that for a few weeks then bought a blackstar chrome.

The plants are automazar, easyrider, critical +, vertigo, big bang, photoperiod white widow, and photo bag seed.

I've had some issue with bugs, not sure if spider mites or thripes, pretty sure spider mites because I saw webs but then I also thought I saw a thripe crawling on one, I original treated that with neem oil, but I thought it might have been burning the leaves on the automazar.
So I stopped using the neem and bought some liquid lady bug and flushed the Automazar with distilled water just In case it was a nute burn, (because a few days before at about thirty days I gave them half a dose of General Hydroponics nutrient line). Anyways that cleared up and I didn't really feed them after that, until about day 35 I gave them a couple cupfuls of molasses with a gallon, they seemed to take that fine.

At about day 45 yellowing started on the Critical +'s lower leaves and a little on the vertigo which I was thinking was nitrogen deficiency but I was thinking that it is to early in their life for natural nitrogen deficiency, I also noticed some yellow splotches on some of the easyriders lower leaves. The White widow also started getting lower leaves that looked like a magnesium deficiency. So again I feed them about half a dose of GH nutrients and a little molasses, well since then the leaves have rapidly gotten worse. The Critical + is sitting at 6.8ph.

Also I've had a problem with the automazar starting to look droopy only a couple days after watering, when I water it perks up but then two days later it's down again, I can't seem to figure it out, it is the biggest plant probably about 30 inches, the critical+ and vertigo are about 20 inches, they are really the only one's with buds the rest just have pistils which I also think is crazy because they are getting up there in days, They all showed sex pretty late, between 20 and 35 days.

anyways I welcome anyone's opinions and any help or guidance you can give. If you have any questions please ask and I'll try to answer best I can.

crtical + leaves

as a whole, are the buds small for it's age.

Easy rider.

white widow

vertigo

the big droppy automazar.

Thank you guys I hope you can help.

 

[Mr Piggy]

Please take the massive confusing post and break it up into related paragraphs, it's too much. I can tell you right now if you're not monitoring your ph and not treating your pest your grows will most likely fail. You keep switching between different kinds of lighting and giving the plants the same treatment, there's many differences between growing with cfls and led. Leds require more nutes, not less. That's about all I can help you with right now, I can't make it all the way through that post

Good luck and safe growing.

 

[namvet25]

That droppy mazar looks like it is way to dry, or way to wet.I never worry about some of the lower leaves turning yellow, that always seems to happen and I remove them.Hold back on the molassis.Give them a lite feeding of flower nutes once a week and hope for the best. Ph is very important try and get a nice tester for your next grow .

 

[dreamweep]

i have a critical at day 53 today and like yours my leaves started yellowing at almost exactly day 45.

 

[dreamweep]

if you think your critical is small i have a journal you can compare to check it out if you would like.

 

[Mr Piggy]

I was thinking that droopy looked like over water.

 

[mikes678]

From my first auto grow, I noticed they eat nutes up compared to photos. I was using full strength nutes by week 3 through to the end and she loved it, never had problems. How often are you watering?

 

[Mr Piggy]

Then you've had quite the different experience than most people. The general consensus is that autos are more nute sensitive. What are you feeding them mike?

 

[mikes678]

A+N 3 part, the seed was a Sweet Dwarf from Advanced Seeds. I even threw in a compost tea during flowering and she took it really well. From what I've seen, the reason they like more is because they have such a substantial amount of growth in a short period of time. The auto I have right now is almost 4 ft tall at 8 weeks and eating all she can

 

[coral reefer]

Ok, I have edited to remove wall of text, thanks guys.

From my first auto grow, I noticed they eat nutes up compared to photos. I was using full strength nutes by week 3 through to the end and she loved it, never had problems. How often are you watering?

I was splitting about a gallon between the 7 plants every 3-4 days.

The soil has extreme trouble holding water, it all runs out to the bottom, so I realize I have probably gotten the soil too dry.