Grow Mediums Hi all this is my first AF grow.
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Yea dude the plants are looking great.
What's your growing experience in general? You've done a number of photoperiod grows before obviously right?
What's your growing experience in general? You've done a number of photoperiod grows before obviously right?
Ok one of the Bubblelicious is way ahead than the other three. I am wondering how much longer this one will take. Here are a few pics of it and a couple of closeups if the top main bud. This plant has suffered the worst of the four from a calcium deficiency Yes I added CalMag. I would say most of the upper leaves were affected. Not sure how much the bigger the buds will get. It looks like there are a ton of trichromes on it. There are some amber hairs on a few of the buds. I started to germinate the seeds on 9/8/2014 so the plant is young only 50 days from seed. It is ready? PLEASE HELP!
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No I haven't. Only a few and they were all years apart. I am a Pure noob but I catch on real fast and I read as much as I can when I start something new.
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Those plants look like they have another 2-3 weeks at least just from what I can see in the pictures
That is just one plant out of the 4
Have u read muddy's 2 stickys in the new growers section m8? Life cycle of an autoflowering plant and when to harvest your autos?? Top 2 stickys in new growers forum.. give them a read over 
as for your plantd, I'm a noob maself but I'd say there's another few weeks left in em.. good luck with it dude
as for your plantd, I'm a noob maself but I'd say there's another few weeks left in em.. good luck with it dude
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I hate to be the one to tell you and It is kind of hard to tell by those pictures(try taking the pics when the lights are just coming on so you don't get those lines in them) but it looks like that plant has a serious Cal Mag deficency. It looks like the leaves are spotting pretty bad, that would also be indicitive of a pH problem. This is very important as both of those trace nutrients are key in flowering and can severly impact your yield. Try taking a couple more pictures and maybe post them in the infirmary or the Live Help Thread. I hope I am wrong and it is just the pictures, sending good grow karma and great vibes you way
Hey Sabre.
Those plants are no where near ready yet. I'd say they've at least 3-4 weeks left, maybe even 5.
Secondly dude you gotta get some better pictures sorted out cus it's hard to see what's going on with those plants.
To reiterate what Derek is saying, from what I can see they look like they've got some major problems. I'll try to help you out, but I gotta have you help me.
Please tell me exactly what EC and pH you are feeding them at and exactly how much of each nutrient you're feeding them.
The plants are definitely starting to go downhill. It's always easiest to grow them during veg, to keep up the excellent health during flowering is damn near impossible, but they are not as healthy as you want them to be right now. Definitely some calcium deficiency or lockout going on. That could be from lack of Calcium, incorrect pH or lockout from actually too much nutrients, even too much, or the wrong type, of calcium!
It looks like you were experiencing a calcium type problem and you did something to fix it and now it seems to be worse. So really we need all the information in order to help you.
Also I want to know about your tap water. What EC and pH is it.
"How Cal-Mag Deficiencies Occur
The most common cause of calcium and magnesium deficiencies is lockout. When there is too much cal-mag already in the untreated source water being used as the base to the nutrient formula it can cause the good cal-mag in the plant food to become unavailable. Think about it this way - the cal-mag in your tap water has a large molecular structure and is very immobile in that form. These molecules try to go through your roots and up into the plant where they can be used. The molecules are too large to be absorbed efficiently and end up accumulating on the outside of the roots. This causes a road block that can lock out the good forms of cal-mag you are trying to feed them. Other key components of the nutrient formula can also be locked out and the problems escalate until your plants appear to be stunted and yellow and growth crawls to a halt.
There are ways to mitigate this problem. Fulvic and humic acid, as well as living beneficial biology, can help break down the relatively immobile cal-mag in your tap water and allow it to become more available to the plants. This process takes time and is not guaranteed to free up all the cal-mag in an efficient manner. The whole idea behind hydroponics is to minimize your time and maximize your harvests. There is no time to wait around for the cal-mag to be made available. What the plants need is cal-mag that they can readily absorb and use immediately.
Another way to acquire deficiencies is by not adding enough cal-mag to your nutrient formula when using purified water. Reverse Osmosis gives you the purest water possible and so you have to add the correct amount of cal-mag to ensure you have the proper feed solution. The best way to start your nutrient formula is to begin with purified water, add 50 to 250ppm cal-mag, and then add your additional macro- and micronutrients. The amount of cal-mag you add depends on the variety of plants, what stage in their life they are in, and the media you are using."
EDIT : Actually dude, please READ this entire article! It's extremely infromative and basically contains all the information or suggestions I would give you in order to fix your problem. As it could be dude to your tap water and what you've been feeding them. I got myself a water filter and some good quality cal/mag and the right kind of nutrients and I don't get cal/mag problems any more ever.
http://www.cannabisknowledge.nl/showthread.php?3241-Calcium-and-Magnesium-Beyond-the-Obvious
First, always consider the breeder comments on time to finish to be almost irrelavent. There are a few that will finish in as little as 50-60 days, but very few. A fast auto would be less than 80 days. Most go 75-90 days. I'd say you've got at least 3 weeks, but could be more. Be patient, when you see those buds swell up, you'll be glad you did!
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