in two days all went to hell

[GCase]

I have burned and locked out---many a plants.

It appears they were hungry. The leaves look more in line with N self consumption (like just prior to harvest) and likely P and K--the mobile nutes. See no cal/mg issue as one would expect with wild PH swings.

The PH swing was not bad. Really very little PH damage just hungry.

My take anyway. And think you are doing the right thing. The buds look good and not too far off for harvest.

Cheers

 

[diskokobaja]

Sorrys for my bad eglish but i went to high school 16years agoo.. I have chinese ec meter and i dont even know what to doo with it, people on my domestic forum told me that this meter is useless for soil, so i had tetsed few time runoff off my water with this..i had to say that i didnt measure anything with it in this grow.. I was just writting the values that i got on last grow..I know that cervantes tells to not pluck old leafs but i will do that.. I'm going to visited them today and keep you informed what is going on... I'm thinking to try to give em plain watering with 6.2-6.3 phed water and mesaure runoff with ph meter.. I have one question , i have this calibrating solution (ph7) i dont know if im using it right (i pour it in glass cup, stick ph meter in it and calibrate it to 7) ? .. Thanks everybody for caring...

@GCase u think so?? But plant is obvious stunned.. The buds ainf fattening at all..

 

[DarthMaul]

Did you do a flush after 30-35 days as recommended? If you didn't that explains all....
Had the same problem on my first grow cuz I didn't know that I need to flush.

Flush the bitches with potsize times 3 so if its 15L x3 = 45 L and give the last 5 liters nutrients.
Check Tang's feeding guide and follow it and you shouldn't run into issues like this.

Cheers

 

[GCase]

disk--check out You Tube videos. Good professional videos about PH calibration and almost any issue dealing with cannabis.

Take a look it will be a lot easier for you.

Cheers

 

[diskokobaja]

I went to visit today annd thinks no lookin good and i' think i've made it worst.. They look like this
smart me, add fertiliser again 50% hesi , and watered them with 6.5 ph water.. I check the runoff and this are the stats first plant 5.6ph, 541x10ec (what ever that means),,second:5.5ph, 443x10ec, thrd 5.6ph, 244x10ec.. I plucked leafs that look too bad, put them back and pray.. yes temp is 25c light on hum 45%..

 

[GCase]

It is ok diskokobaja. I have had much worse.

I would just baby them along. Watch for new green growth. Take a look at trichomes and plan to harvest when cloudy or just starting to get cloudy.

It is stressful and disappointing but part of the game. Been there many times as have most members. You will still have some good smoke--watch the flowers.

In fact, my present journal has one genetically bad plant and one that had one day of a PH swing. It looked like yours somewhat and just harvested--biggest so far.

Cheers

 

[A4]

Disko my man, you have some wonderful help here. Like GCase said, it is all part of the experience but if I could add a few things. Don't worry too much because it looks like you are in the home stretch and while at first appearance the plants looks pretty bad, when I inspect it real well it appears that most of your damage is on the larger fans and the outer portions of your plant. That is good news! The flowers look like they are developed very well with plenty of trichomes and the bulk of the plants look fairly healthy. I believe you will make it through to harvest with some decent quality smoke so long as you don't try putting a lot of corrective nutrients in the soil.

Your friends on the domestic forum couldn't be farther from the truth. Many people have a belief that pH isn't important in soil grows but it is. While you may not have to keep an eye on it like hydro or soilless grows, it is still very important for nutrient uptake by the plant. Anything less than 6 in the soil is going to give you problems. Your pH is off a bit for a soil grow at 5.5 with runoff water, if that meter is to be trusted. From the looks of things, I would say the meter is probably pretty close to being correct. I would guess your soil is probably around 5.0. The best thing you could do for the plant, in my humble opinion, is just keep feeding her plain water with the pH set to 7.0. That will get the pH in your soil up closer to a normal range and allow any nutrients that may be left in the soil to be taken up. With pH being so low, my guess is you have a lot of nutrients left in the soil and that should be enough to keep her fairly happy until harvest day. I didn't see you mention how much longer you have but from the looks of the flowers, less than a couple of weeks.

Best of luck with her my friend! Don't fret over it, you will still have some good smoke and a learning experience that will help you on the next grow.

Be well.

 

[diskokobaja]

Did you do a flush after 30-35 days as recommended? If you didn't that explains all....
Had the same problem on my first grow cuz I didn't know that I need to flush.

Flush the bitches with potsize times 3 so if its 15L x3 = 45 L and give the last 5 liters nutrients.
Check Tang's feeding guide and follow it and you shouldn't run into issues like this.

Cheers

why the f... should i flush em ??? I didnt add any fertiliser and i never heard of flushing soil after 3-4weeks..The point of industrial fert soil is to just water it first 4-5 weeks,and my plants start to show that they are hungrey without too much nitrogen in them ( i had that problem with critical jack photo, but he was 5days in veg and fertilised few time) so i dont get the point of flushing??

 

[diskokobaja]

@GCase my primary concern is that buds are not fattening.. And its pretty frustating,second this is again my geurilla grow and cant visited them oftem (my next is finaly going to be at my place) and when im there cant bee to long, and i like to have time with my garden, i will make little video next time for ya all to see better the state of them.. I cantt thank you all for your help it really means a lot to me!!!

@A4 I dont know can you see it but on that three plants the steams are purple 70% of them.. i had issues with my firstt grow and honestly i was sure that this will go flawless, i'm so dissapoint,the majoruity of fan leafs are yellow or burned,i plucked them all.. I know that ph is everything.. My filisophy of growing, make right condisions and if you have right ph its just watering here and there fert and waiting.. I had bubblegum outdoor this year flawless grow, i didnt know that i had her at all,no problems at all.. I found out that my ph meter wasnt calibrated well he was showing +0.5 value... And one time i lower the ph too much and i wasnt sure if she was correct when i watered them , coz i had to little time... So i didint sure if one watering with wrong ph can fck them so much??But they get water 1nce of week so i dont know.. I pretty sure that ph meter was correct this time when i mesurit it..
i'm thinking the same, next few times water her with 7.0 ph and check the runoff.. I had to say that one cheese who is photoperiod but got the same water and nutes looks gorgeus and that little bud girl is showin nut def. on just one leaf....

i transplated them 9.9 so I'm counting that for first day of life (they were about 8days old when i transplanted them..)

and people I LOVE U ALL!!!!!


Much much Love and Respect From DK via Croatia!!

 

[diskokobaja]

This is that cheese i moved him in another tent and set him off at 12/12 i dont know what i'm goinng to do if he goes up in bloom.. He looks ok.. At least to me..