My growing journey begins

[automan2]

Hard to figure but you're gonna have to do something FIRST. With the medium layering and ammendments along with "cooking", there's no way to accurately know what the heck is going on.
When you start with complex methods, problems will be complex.
When testing a different medium, perhaps a control pot will help.
My suggestion is start over with a simple medium....

 

[Iriee Vibez]

The temp is around 25-26 Celcius and humidity 60% so seems good. I thought not clipping the leafs off is more natural way... you know... like in nature There is one pretty strong fan turning from side to side and all the leafs on each plant move slightly... Apart from the ones on the very bottom in the middle... So maybe they die from lack of light and wind... no idea

And about the tea... I think you make the aerating thing to it huh? Because I make the simple way, just leave it till rotten but will have to buy the bubbling thing to make it faster. But don't you think my plants are too far into flowering to use teas? Won't it affect the taste and stuff?

Hey man, it’s never too late to make teas. In fact, some folks swear by flowering teas with high P guano or compost. From what I have read, a good tea could help fix the ph in the soil, and could resolve imbalance in N in the soil. You can also addneem cake in the address any -est issue, which may also be one of your issues. Yeah, I use a pump and bubble snake to aerate my teas, so 24 hours mostly.

 

[created2live4ever]

This has me beat too , Do you know what your soil Ph is , looks like you have a number of problems going on .

The rootzone PH is 6.5 - just measured it. Funny how I red in every sick plants thread that the first thing is measure PH and I forgot about it myself :smoking:

What’s the normal temp/humidity in there? You definitely have a lot of foliage there, and may want to clip some of those overlapping fans for better airflow.

I am into natural way and felt like cutting leafs off isn't the right thing but I gotta be honest it felt like a good thing to do in this situation! I thought about your advice from yesterday and decided to cut a few ones in the middle bottom. Now you can see the whole main steam. Looks much better and I chose the most damaged leafs anyways so it didn't feel like hurting the plants

You can also add neem cake in the address any -est issue, which may also be one of your issues.

I topdressed all pots with grounded neem seeds 2 weeks ago but didn't post it here. And it with keeping the soil surface dry reduced the fungus gnats population to minimum. Great idea dude.

Hard to figure but you're gonna have to do something FIRST. With the medium layering and ammendments along with "cooking", there's no way to accurately know what the heck is going on.
When you start with complex methods, problems will be complex.
When testing a different medium, perhaps a control pot will help.
My suggestion is start over with a simple medium....

And I thought I made one of the simpliest living organics soil mix there are Hmm I will try to find the problem with some people here but if we don't I'm afraid I'll have to start even simplier as you said...


Here are pics of the fan leafs I removed from the biggest plant (BGPP#2). There are no more SO much damaged leafs left. The other plant (BGPP#1) had half the amount of so bad looking leafs.

 

[Iriee Vibez]

How is it going, man?

 

[created2live4ever]

DAY#67 for two older plants and DAY#48 for the other two. (Auto Bubblegum)

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The girls have multiple nutritions problems but they "are survivours" as @Iriee Vibez said. They build pretty nice buds anyways. Today I realized that all the plants have some stems with purple strings, so another puzzle to the deficiency picture. I do multiple things at once to go against it so if any of it helps it will be hard to say what did what but I'm sure none of this will do harm, so I just did it to all 4 plants Here are the 3 steps (timestamps acoording to 2 older plants):
- DAY#58 applied stinging nettle (high N) compost tea 1:10 with RO water
(oh I installed RO system in the kitchen so don't have to distill water any more!)
- DAY#62 applied H2O2 (Hydrogen Peroxide) 5ml per 1L RO
- DAY#65 applied dandelion (high P, K and Ca) compost tea 1:10 with RO


Below are some more shots of deficiencies signs. I also topdressed the younger plant's soil with another mulch - unwashed sheep wool. And the last photo shows the Dandelion compost tea. I am also planning to brew one with Chelidonium which is also extremely rich in nutes.

How is it going, man?

Thanks for caring, friend. You motivated me to post this update. I keep pruning the ladies gently since you gave me this advice and it feels like it's doing good to the plants. I cut a leaf or two if I feel like it's blocking too much light. I go with the flow, intuition thing, I like it!

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[Iriee Vibez]

Yeah, you should definitely get some good smoke at this point in the grow. No grow is perfect, especially the first, and many don’t get this far. You have lots of budsites, and it looks like things are moving along there. The leaves I am seeing on top look really good and healthy, so they will make it to harvest. Keep it up, man!

 

[browncoat]

Just finished reading all 5 pages and I have say that your perseverance really came through! You have an ambitious first grow and things look good. I am about to start my first grow and I have been reading and researching constantly but I have not done even close to the prep you did and the ambitious approach you have taken. Bravo c2, I'm betting you've already learned a ton! Keep up the good work and I hope your end results are amazing

 

[created2live4ever]

Thanks guys for motivation! That's exacly what I needed atm cause I see all the deficiency problems (purple stems, dead spots, brightening leafs edges etc) and not many forum members seem to care/have time and the ones that do can't help much even tho they would really want.

Yeah, you should definitely get some good smoke at this point in the grow. No grow is perfect, especially the first, and many don’t get this far. You have lots of budsites, and it looks like things are moving along there. The leaves I am seeing on top look really good and healthy, so they will make it to harvest. Keep it up, man!

Dude, awesome. You know you get free smoke at my place whenever you visit Europe
(after this corona BS ends :/)

Just finished reading all 5 pages and I have say that your perseverance really came through! You have an ambitious first grow and things look good. I am about to start my first grow and I have been reading and researching constantly but I have not done even close to the prep you did and the ambitious approach you have taken. Bravo c2, I'm betting you've already learned a ton! Keep up the good work and I hope your end results are amazing

Dude, how did you get trough all this but I'm glad it wasn't as boring as I thought haha. Some guys - like @Iriee Vibez f.e. - gave me really good advices so I'm expecting you learned at least something from the 5 pages And yeah... I am a hardcore perfectionist what doesn't make my life easier. I was planning the grow already a year before the actual start but couldn't help myself with watching, reading, researching... I could have started after the first book "TLO" from The REV which had enough info. OK, my plants would definitely look much worse at this stage but I would already go trough the third grow and be much more experienced... So I don't know what's better Thanks for visiting my grow journal!

 

[South of the Equator]

From reading the 5 pages, seems to me that you used too much additives, I'm on my second grow. My first was three plants, harvested average of 265grams per plant of "green" trimmed buds (didn't weigh after drying). Didn't use nothing, just kept temperature and RH in right zone during each phase. It was a 600w HPS grow. I'm now on my second grow, Single plant P-450 Led, same thing, just water and temp's and RH in the range, keep it simple is the way to go!
Here is a picture of my 42 days old lady, so far so good!

 

[created2live4ever]

From reading the 5 pages, seems to me that you used too much additives, I'm on my second grow. My first was three plants, harvested average of 265grams per plant of "green" trimmed buds (didn't weigh after drying). Didn't use nothing, just kept temperature and RH in right zone during each phase. It was a 600w HPS grow. I'm now on my second grow, Single plant P-450 Led, same thing, just water and temp's and RH in the range, keep it simple is the way to go!
Here is a picture of my 42 days old lady, so far so good!

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Seriously just plain soilwith perlite??!! What exactly did you grow yours on? Cause the harvest average looks impressive to me