January 10 update - both good news and not so good
Well peeps, as a few of your may have gathered from my infirmary posts, this grow has run into issues. The bad news is that two of the four plants I intend to harvest have been seriously buggered by nute screwups. The good news, or at least part of it, is that I seem not to have quite killed them, and buds continue to at least pretend to mature. I may get something off them yet.
The other bad news a few days ago was that the miss Northern Lights showed symptoms of heading in exactly the same direction as the two buggered plants. As a result of her symptoms, namely what looked to me to be clear deficiencies of both potassium and phosphorus, I concluded that miss NL was hungry, and this pushed me to conclude that the problem all along with the two problem plants was that I starved them since initial symptoms were pretty much identical to what started with Miss NL, and they showed up more or less at exactly the same state of plant development. Anyway, the two problem plants were headed for doom if I didn't do something, and the other two looked to be headed the same, so I had to make up my mind which way to adjust the nutes.
So, I moved the two problem plants to ~1400 EC, i.e. almost double what they were getting earlier, and the other two to ~1200 EC, double or more than what they were getting earlier. It was likely a kill or cure move. If the problem plants were locked out, this would finish them off, and would worsen trends with the other two if the same process was going on with them.
It now appears that I moved in the right direction with nutes. Symptoms on the problem plants are not continuing to get worse, initial symptoms on miss NL seem to have halted progression, and so far, no obvious problems have shown up on the CBD mom. The last bit of good news is that it appears that the stud CBD plant has produced pollen, even if not a lot of it, so I should get some seeds later. Perhaps a good thing given Dinamed's legal problems of late. Loss of their genetics will leave a big hole in this hobby.
Enough with the words, here are the pics:
The three girls in the 2x4:
The Seedsman Auto Strawberry Cheesecake at Day 64:
Not dead yet, and no worse than a few days back, so maybe I'll get some decent bud yet in spite of my screwup.
The Mephisto Auto CDLCx3Bog cross, also Day 64:
Not quite as sad as Miss Cheesecake, but close.
The Dinamed Auto CBD Kush, at Day 40:
No signficant signs of mischief yet, and she is starting to color up. Looks like I may have dodged the bullet with her.
And last, the Seedsman Auto Northern Lights in her own DIY 2x2 at Day 56:
Symptoms are stable, so she may stay on track now.
So peeps, the summary is two sad but not dead, and two apparently doing ok after I adjusted nutes.
Happy growing all, and try to stay safe.
The other bad news a few days ago was that the miss Northern Lights showed symptoms of heading in exactly the same direction as the two buggered plants. As a result of her symptoms, namely what looked to me to be clear deficiencies of both potassium and phosphorus, I concluded that miss NL was hungry, and this pushed me to conclude that the problem all along with the two problem plants was that I starved them since initial symptoms were pretty much identical to what started with Miss NL, and they showed up more or less at exactly the same state of plant development. Anyway, the two problem plants were headed for doom if I didn't do something, and the other two looked to be headed the same, so I had to make up my mind which way to adjust the nutes.
So, I moved the two problem plants to ~1400 EC, i.e. almost double what they were getting earlier, and the other two to ~1200 EC, double or more than what they were getting earlier. It was likely a kill or cure move. If the problem plants were locked out, this would finish them off, and would worsen trends with the other two if the same process was going on with them.
It now appears that I moved in the right direction with nutes. Symptoms on the problem plants are not continuing to get worse, initial symptoms on miss NL seem to have halted progression, and so far, no obvious problems have shown up on the CBD mom. The last bit of good news is that it appears that the stud CBD plant has produced pollen, even if not a lot of it, so I should get some seeds later. Perhaps a good thing given Dinamed's legal problems of late. Loss of their genetics will leave a big hole in this hobby.
Enough with the words, here are the pics:
The three girls in the 2x4:
The Seedsman Auto Strawberry Cheesecake at Day 64:
Not dead yet, and no worse than a few days back, so maybe I'll get some decent bud yet in spite of my screwup.
The Mephisto Auto CDLCx3Bog cross, also Day 64:
Not quite as sad as Miss Cheesecake, but close.
The Dinamed Auto CBD Kush, at Day 40:
No signficant signs of mischief yet, and she is starting to color up. Looks like I may have dodged the bullet with her.
And last, the Seedsman Auto Northern Lights in her own DIY 2x2 at Day 56:
Symptoms are stable, so she may stay on track now.
So peeps, the summary is two sad but not dead, and two apparently doing ok after I adjusted nutes.
Happy growing all, and try to stay safe.
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