First Grow - Feminised ppp under t5's

Hi, here's an update. I'll do a quick summary, one is a dutch passion fem ppp in a waterfarm, the other is a nirvana fem ppp in a homeade DWC. Both are sitting under a 4ft 8 tube 54w T5 on 24/7, 2 fans blowing across them, temps are around 75, res temps 68-72, trying to use Lucas formula (GH Micro & Bloom).

The waterfarm one earlier this week showed signs of being hungry (looked kind of droopy, lethargic), I checked the ec and it was below .2, so I decided I would try and up the nutes on this one, I took it up to .4 (which is still really low) and in a few hours it really perked up. 8 hours later the plant had dropped the nute ec level to .2, so I was thinking it's still hungry, but I didn't do anything. Another 8 hours later the plant started showing signs of nute burn. I didn't do a complete flush this time, but watered it down with RO water. Seems the nute burn has subsided, growth inside the canopy looks okay, but as you'll see outside growth got some damage.

The DWC is sitting in nutes at ec .2 and is starting to grow pretty good now. It had shown signs of being deficient in something, but since adding the nutes the newest growth seems to be okay.

Both buckets recently have started having the ph drop, seems to want to go down to 5.5/5.4. I'll take it up to 5.9/6.1, but it will quickly go down. Is this because it got overfertilized?

I asked AW about the fat leaves on one of my plants (dutch passion seed) and he mentioned it may have some indica in it. That one is growing really tight and has fat leaves, doesn't look like the other ppp's I've seen. The one in the DWC (nirvana seed) looks more familiar to me.

Anyways, I hope next week goes a little smoother, I got a little scared with the over nuting. Here are some pic's, thanks everyone for looking in and helping out!!

 

Thanks myles, I bet that is a good feeling. I'll be happy with that. Sometimes I'm scared to go down and look at them, scared they might be laying on their sides croaking or something! Hope all is well with you and we'll see how they do this week.

 

Thanks jimnut, how is your grow going?

 

Hi all, I have something going on with one of my plants. The lower leaves are getting discolored and twisting up. Ph has been stable (5.8-6.1) and ec has been staying at ec level of .2 for a couple of weeks now. Is it some kind of deficientcy, maybe need to up nutes? I've noticed a few little critters in the room now, so I'll be spraying them down with some safers soap tomorrow. But I think these problems on the lower leaves were starting before I noticed any bugs. At only ec .2, it's probably not getting much ca/mg? I'm using the lucas formula with the gh micro and bloom right now. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.

 

Ok, thanks guys, I'll try flushing and increasing the nutes some.

 

Hi all, time for an update. The DWC plant that was looking sick is not doing so well, I don't know if it's root rot or what, but I trimmed her slimy looking roots back ( res did not stink though ?? ) and ran some florashield through her and and just running ph'ed water adding h202 everyday to see if she comes back. She doesn't look good, but not dead so we'll see. The waterfarm one is still growing, but I can not figure out a good ec/ppm level for her, she burns so easily. I'm only giving her ec .2 / 150 ppm right now!? Just seems so low and now I don't know if her signs are from too much nutes or too less. But she keeps growing and new growth looks okay. PH has been bouncing around her more than I'd like too. Had been pretty stable. I've checked her roots and they are really white and no smell in res. Anytime I give her nutes, she knocks the nute level down so quickly. But if I give her more like ec .4 / 300-400ppm, she'll knock the ppm level down real fast, been then start getting crispy on older growth, so I'm not sure how to try increasing her. If anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate it, she's come this far, don't want to lose her now. I'm hoping to get her into flowering in the next day or so, get her away from that other plant! Anyways, here are some pic's of the waterfarm girl.

 

Hi all, here is an update. She has gone into flowering as of tonight, I've got her nutes up to about an ec level of .1 now (500-600ppm), the new growth looks good, so we'll she how she does. I decided to use a different location for flowering and this area is much cooler, so I did go with a 400w HPS, since she's the only one in there, I kind of spread her out by tieing some of the branches down. So we'll see how she does. Temps with the cool tube never get over 75 and I do have another fan to extract air from the tent every hour for a few minutes. Just using passive air intakes. Well, I'll report back as things progress.

 

Hi all, quick update. Here she is a few days into flowering, seems to be doing okay. Humidity is getting kind of high in the tent at times though 80% plus during lights out. 60% during lights on. Temps are staying fairly even in the 70's.

 

Thanks myles, I'll have to look into controlling that humidity. I'm increasing the time it exhausts the room during lights out for now, see if that keeps it more stable.