Indoor First Grow 2x4 Tent 600 W HPS

[Mrbubbles87]

Unfortunately I only have the Ph drops which are a PITA! Lol I have a $50 meter reserved just can't afford it right now. Ever since I started adding tiger bloom my ph has been super low so I've had to add tons of PH up to get it between 6.5-7. My mix is about 50/50 perlite so my runoff is pretty quick. Not sure how accurate of a soil reading it will give me. That's next on my list to check with their next feeding.

And yes there appears to also be a nitrogen deficiency on the critical jack which really has me stumped. I've been giving them full dosage of the fox farm nutrient schedule. That's what's has me concerned about ph lockout or nute lockout.

Just hoping I can keep them happy for just a few more weeks lol. Thanks for the comments!

 

[smith4924]

I would almost guarantee that your ph is down then. As long as you poured water slow and catch the first bit of runoff because that has the best readings. I am wondering through if you could add dolomite to your pots with the medium your running.... I know the feeling I have 2 weeks left and 3 on some and had a bad lock out which can take a week to get back on track. I may have to push mine an extra week which I did not want to do because I have others waiting to go into flower room

 

[Mrbubbles87]

I would almost guarantee that your ph is down then. As long as you poured water slow and catch the first bit of runoff because that has the best readings. I am wondering through if you could add dolomite to your pots with the medium your running.... I know the feeling I have 2 weeks left and 3 on some and had a bad lock out which can take a week to get back on track. I may have to push mine an extra week which I did not want to do because I have others waiting to go into flower room

My mix is 50% miracle grow organic garden soil and 50% perlite. Initially my soil was reading 8 so I never thought to check my runoff again. Now I have a dilemma because I can't do anything until Sunday seems how I just fed them. I'm not sure if I should flush them now, flush them Sunday and read runoff then, or feed them on Sunday and read runoff or flush them tonight and read runoff?

 

[smith4924]

just run some ph'd water through one of them slowly until you get runoff. mine were still wet when I did it but I would rather find and fix the problem by just chancing one plant over all of them but most likely it wont hurt the plant by staying wet for a few days where they are older larger plants. just don't feed her with your next feed let it dry out after testing runoff.. Just a though for you hope all goes well

 

[Mrbubbles87]

just run some ph'd water through one of them slowly until you get runoff. mine were still wet when I did it but I would rather find and fix the problem by just chancing one plant over all of them but most likely it wont hurt the plant by staying wet for a few days where they are older larger plants. just don't feed her with your next feed let it dry out after testing runoff.. Just a though for you hope all goes well

I've also read about flushing with half strength nutes? For now I'm deciding not to panic.

What I did instead was mix up a mild foliar spray. I use 1/4tsp of tiger bloom, 1/4tsp of grow big, 1tblspn big bloom and 1tsp epsom salt all per 2litre pump spray bottle. I'm going to try doing that an hour before lights on for a few days and see if it makes a difference and if not ill water them with straight water on Sunday to check my runoffs ph. I might just say screw it and start a 2 week flush on the 3 furthest ones that are giving me problems lol.

Thanks for the advice!

 

[Mrbubbles87]

So today I decided to give my plants a good flush. I've been giving them nutrients every feeding up until this point and I believe I've developed some type of lockout on all of my plants. I flushed each plant with 2 gals of straight water. Now I'm debating if I should just do a two week flush on all of them or try to continue adding nutes for 3 of them and flush the other 3 now for 2 weeks. Today is day 64 and they are all supposed to take between 60-70 days. Here's some pics of my worst plant. It's my critical jack which is supposed to take 70 days. I'm considering flushing this plant for 7 days and harvesting. I'm really starting to panic now. Everything has gone so smoothe up until this point. Please help me from screwing this up in the final few weeks!

 

[Mrbubbles87]

Here's a few more pics of my critical jack. What really concerns me is the sugar leaves are turning brown. I'm hoping to make hash and I'm sure dead sugar leaves won't work well. I'm seriously considering taking this one day in 7 days.

 

[Mrbubbles87]

My blue cheese is starting to look pretty bad also now. What should I do? Should I flush them two weeks and harvest or should I try to re add nutes?

My critical jack could be harvested in 7 days I'm thinking. This blue cheese still needs to fatten up more. Im not sure if it will survive 2 weeks on straight water at the rate she's going though

 

[Autosynthesis]

My blue cheese is starting to look pretty bad also now. What should I do? Should I flush them two weeks and harvest or should I try to re add nutes?

My critical jack could be harvested in 7 days I'm thinking. This blue cheese still needs to fatten up more. Im not sure if it will survive 2 weeks on straight water at the rate she's going though

Don't add nutes till you know your soil Ph. Get the first measurable amount of runoff with 6.5 Ph water. Just run enough water till you get enough runoff. Don't add any nutes. Soil Ph must be corrected.

 

[Mrbubbles87]

Don't add nutes till you know your soil Ph. Get the first measurable amount of runoff with 6.5 Ph water. Just run enough water till you get enough runoff. Don't add any nutes. Soil Ph must be corrected.

My runoff is now aprox between 6.5 and 7. Unfortunately I am using the drops so its always an estimate. I'm now in week 9 so I'm debating if I should just flush them for 2 weeks or if it would be worth readding nutes. Any opinions on this?