New Grower My first grow (Small scale)

[MrMojoRisin]

These look pretty healthy to me. As far as the clawing, what is the temperature in the space? Was that bottom leaf touching the soil? Are you having any leaf burn (which usually accompanies N toxicity)? What is you pH of water and Nute mix going in?

 

[TimTaylor]

Temps are between 25-27 C lights on and about 21 lights off. I don't think the leaf was touching the soil.
The ph of the solution was around 6.5 but that was testing using the drops. I have a digital one now so can make sure it's not gonna be photo related going forward.

 

[MrMojoRisin]

Temps seem right on. ph at 6.5 seems right on. Maybe back off on the nutes just a touch then, or at least the N? Raise the lights slightly?

 

[Dr Fluff]

Clawing is often a sign of N def which can happen a couple of ways.

Over feeding of Nitrogen in veg nutes or can also appear when not enough light is reaching lower leaves.

Sometimes,the low levels of light reaching the lower leaves means the N in the leaves can build up due to low levels of photosynthesis in these leaves.

In this case I would say it was a bit of N sensitivity when she was younger.

The clawed leaf also looks to have a little over watering damage from when she had a less developed root system again when she was younger.

In your PC box you'll probably want to start feeding bloom nutes now as opposed to after stretch due to height restrictions.

This will also help with any over nitrification/clawing due to the reduced levels of N in your bloom nutes.

Your PC grow is looking great and you'll probably want to start LST soon.

Keep sending those updates,this is such a nice grow to follow, even if I don't get to drop by as often as I'd like.

I look forward to your future tent grow as well.

Your doing a great job in a limited space, well done bro

peace

arty

 

[TimTaylor]

Thanks Arty for the kind words, Im using the GHS short flowering so no bloom or veg nutes just all in one. I think i will give them another feed today or tomorrow with another .5gr/1ltr and keep an eye on them.
As for the LST yeah im just plucking up the courage now, bluematic is showing pistals in about 10 different locations now so its time to expose them. Sweet tooth seems quicker in growth and looks great but not showing any flowering yet.

Tent is ready to rock, 2 6ltr airpots a 300w led, scrog net and some nice beans. Gonna wait a few more weeks as i dont wanna get distracted and one of these may need to move to the tent yet.


Day 19 Bluematic morning vs day 19 evening after 6 hours of darkness


Day 17 Sweet Tooth Auto one patch on a lower leaf ?
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Wishing you a top weekend lads

 

[TimTaylor]

Saturday morning gardening
Bluematic was drooped again, ill never understand women.
Fed both girls 300ml nutes ph'd to 6.5 and decided it was now or never so popped another cherry and tried some LST.
Im happy with the results but open to criticism.

ST Day 18


Bluematic Day 20

 

[Dr Fluff]

Looking good Tim

 

[MrMojoRisin]

One thing i do when LST is to not pull the branch down directly over one below it. I try to skew it to the side a bit to allow the same node below to get light too. The stems end up looking like an easy S from above. In other words, when looking from above like at a clock, i take one branch and bring it down and to the right so it curves to point at 1 pm and the second opposite brand down an to left so it point at 7pm on the clock. I do the same thing with all opposing branches. This really spreads all your potential tops out around the plant equally, and gives each one some air space to grow into next to the others. Lemme know if you need more photos. Like below:

 

[TimTaylor]

Nice, thanks man. So far the the bluematic Looks good pretty much every flowering site she has is now getting direct light. With the sweet tooth she isn't showing pistols yet so I have just started to train her so as to maximize space in the cab. I can already notice the difference, growth direction has already changed so now ill just keep any eye on them and adjust as required.

 

[MrMojoRisin]

Nice, thanks man. So far the the bluematic Looks good pretty much every flowering site she has is now getting direct light. With the sweet tooth she isn't showing pistols yet so I have just started to train her so as to maximize space in the cab. I can already notice the difference, growth direction has already changed so now ill just keep any eye on them and adjust as required.

Yea, it's pretty amazing how quickly they react. I just LST'd that one in the picture last Saturday and it's already filling the middle back in nicely. It was pretty severe looking when i first did it with the tops pointing straight to the sides and some even downwards. This one is just starting to show pre flowers and i think it's female, but still a little hard to say and i'm not counting that chicken just yet.