New Grower Hi All :) 2nd grow has Begun.....

[A4]

What size containers are those AR? Also, how often are you watering them? I have been using air pots religously for the past year, year and half and judging from my experience and what I see it looks to me like the containers are going dry.

The tip burn, same reason, when there is a lack of water the nutrients become concentrated and the pH goes completely out of whack from the concentrated salts and no ability to buffer the soil. The buffer relies on a liquid base to stay constant. My guess is, if you pick those containers up they will fell about like styrofoam they are so light. If you get the water back in there I would bet everything else will take care of itself. It isn't going to be as easy as just watering them though because once those airpots gog dry once they are nearly impossible to get saturated again. Just tonight, I had to soak every one of my plants in a 30 gallon tub because I forgot to water them yesterday. Yep, one day without water and they were bone dry and wouldn't take on water at all. Peat is naturally hydrophobic so once it is allowed to dry out, it repels water instead of absorbing it. So long as it is moist it will continue to take on water so the trick with growing in those air pots is, never ever let them dry out.

That is my best guess my friend but I have been known to be wrong.

 

[Autorocks]

DAY 46

Temp - 25
Humid - 45
PH 6.3

feed 2 ml A/B Bloom
1ml calmag
1ml big bud

 

[Autorocks]

 

[Renaissance Redneck]

How's it looking, Brother?

 

[Autorocks]

...Okay, big picture stuff,... what bothers me most are green leaves being cleaved off so quickly,... No defc. issue does this; and you say the tops look fine? They do in the pics,... no wilting up high either?.

Hey W

Ye Big picture! nicely said, id say this all had happened within the first week of the flower??? hmm.. anyways from last post I'd cleaned 99% of infected leaves and now 2 days since then..hasn't gone outta control just a a-few leaves from a massive amount have showed same signs...

Tops Look fine Waira!!!!..acouple have showed this defc at the top since cleaning up, just a few leaves no more but, looks like something still not right and progressing?? ill post anymore deficiencies that pop up...

Now that you mention it , Right now and probably last few days, 40% are wilting in the higher tops..

Possibly root issue like you and RR are saying or infection thats HH is suggesting...same thing??? And yea the girls have lots of staved leaves due to size and amount in this space and not proper light getting to the bottom half... Probably to many considering the size/height they are..

Your information, sounds like you guys have done and seen it all, I had problems on my first grow but minor and easy fix,(MORE NUTS) ...My second grow and finally run into my first hopefully fixable go away issue..


The burn tip you mentioned yeah i pushed the nuts of last weeks of Veg...good spotten! Lead distortion, edge rolling, Never any heat stress, but since Veg theres been a good few twisted tips for awhile nows...possibly from hsp don't think so I've seen it all around LEDs ect!! P.s they Dark green Asssss!!

Never Upped the Calmag..My BAD ............ Feeding to TaNgs Schedule

Hey Found this have a check, only found on 1 Leaf.....from a million but hey its something different looking then I've seen ....what ya reckon??

 

[Autorocks]

How's it looking, Brother?

Bro From Another Mo..

...Looking Good Amigo, just Starting that tasty sweetness ....you know what IM talking about!

Sent A reply to the boss.. looks like we all still deciding...You guys though with your Information BOMBS!!! Just Holyshit...All this time.......I thought there was only one HAPPY but infact there's more!!!!

 

[Autorocks]

What size containers are those AR? Also, how often are you watering them?

SUP A4

15 Ltr pots, watering once a day...some possibly going a-litte dry, I have alot squeezed in there and keeping everything fair is the key balance, pretty sure next or next time ill be switching to a drip water system..That will resolve any drying out issue and life will become a breeze....

What you mentioned about tip burn makes sense....pretty sure my tip burn was from pushing nuts during Veg, after which it stopped after backing off ...Some good information there Horticulturist...Im in waiting mode now till this eve for the girls routine inspection

 

[Renaissance Redneck]

Just keep us updated, Friend. Another thought is that root rot and similar issues can sometimes look very much like pH problems, so if you haven't already done so make sure to calibrate your pH meter.
Karma for your ladies, AutoRocks.

 

[Happy Horticulturist]

Hey Found this have a check, only found on 1 Leaf.....from a million but hey its something different looking then I've seen ....what ya reckon??

Looks almost like heat stress from lights.

acouple have showed this defc at the top since cleaning up

Brown spotting at the top of plant can be a sign of a calcium issue.

Pretty sure the EC of your tap water is really really low right? If so that means there's very little calcium and magnesium in your water. The plants under LED will get that calcium deficiency really easily. It may not hurt to bump up the Cal Mag from 1.0 ml per litre to 1.2ml per litre. If that seems to help things that could be the issue.

Like A4 says don't let them dry out but don't keep them continually soaked either.

With Flood and Drain system like this...

You won't have an issue with under or over watering. The clay pellets hold a lot of air. Plus the flood system (once dialed in) will provide all the nutes they need. Plus keep an eye on the pH is easier as the pH of the tank will tell you what's up. Knowing the pH of the soil is much harder. You really only know for certain after you harvest and test the pH of the soil. You can pour water through the soil and measure the pH of the water before and after it comes out the bottom and that can give you an indication. For example. If you pour 6.3 pH through the pot and as soon as it starts leaking out, catch about a shot glass worth, then pH test it. If it's 6.8 (0.5 pH higher) then the actual pH is probably more like 7.2pH inside the pot. So whatever the difference of the run off is, it's usually twice the amount of difference inside the pot. If you pour 6.3pH in and 6.3pH comes out, then your probably bang on. So you could try that to eliminate any pH issues.

 

[Happy Horticulturist]

Checkout how to do a pH slurry test.

I would do this after harvest. You can do this at any time but it will slightly stress live plants, as you need to take some soil away from the roots. Doing it right after harvest will allow you to learn something about how your last grow just went.



This is the most reliable way that I know of, for testing pH of soil. The method I described in the previous post (which is testing the run off) isn't as reliable but it's certainly better than nothing!

You can get an expensive soil pH tester, but that's going to require intermittent testing of each pot one by one.

Much easier in my opinion to use hydroponics and hang up a blue labs guardian which will continually tell you the pH, EC and temperature of the entire systems root zone.