Hey y'all. First time grower (unless you count Bronx windowsills as a teenager!) and growing indoors in dirt with grow lights. I had a hard time getting my cuttings to root - started well then eventually started to yellow and curl.. eventually used a rooting hormone and I was at a standstill until they rooted and started to use Tiger Bloom nutrients. They stayed yellow and sometimes with the brown tips at the ends and when new growth came in it eventually happened again. I reduced the heat ( I use a radiator since its a small area) and moved the grow lights a bit higher (they're about 20ish inches away from the plants). This worked and they had all new growth but I am still seeing them yellow and or curl/get brown tips. I'm no stranger to growing vegetables (I own a 9 acre farm in new Jersey) but growing the sacred plant is new to me. I assumed it was over watering or lack of nutrients causing these things but I do the knuckle test in the soil and I use the liquid fertilizer every other day and have them on an 18hr light cycle. Any ideas anyone could offer? Much appreciated! (ps I just realized these pics kinda suck. I'd be glad to take better ones if they're too vague)
Tiger bloom is for flower only. Pictures in natural light removed from the purple would allow for a better visual. It's a weed grows like a tomato if you can grow tomatoes you can grow weed
My apologies it's actually "grow big". I have the 3pk for the stages- mixed up the names. And yes I can upload better pics didn't wanna disturb the plants during the cycle. It roots like a tomato has that fibrous system from cuttings for sure but it's definitely a bit more involved and I'm still learning the maintenance. Thanks
Nah not really it's a weed, I use the same amendments at the same times on my black krim tomato plants as I do weed. Treat them the same. Only difference is tomatoes can use more calcium to prevent blossom end rot. Starting with cuttings can be more challenging without proper environment.
Well I believe that's more the case. I've cloned the most effed up veggie suckers with no problem but spinning my wheels here. These were cuttings and I don't know how much this matters, but they were originally hydro grown. I had tried to root them with just water but about 2-3 weeks in they just grew a few more leaves then started getting yellow until I did root hormone and stuck them in some potting mix. I will definitely get some better pics when I am able and appreciate the help.
It won't get you on the cover of high times, but if you are just looking to get your feet wet growing quality bud, feel free to pirate knowledge from any of my journals, I've got 2 grows documented where it was just bag soil from build a soil and fox farms, plus the 3 FF nutes (grow big, tiger bloom big bloom) and some cal mag. Bruce Banner / Gorillia Glue scrog dirt grow for octogenarians and more! You probably already have most of that stuff or equivalent if you garden but you can easily be grabbing 4+ ounces dried down per auto or 8+ ounces from a 5 month photo plant just using that stuff, a decent light and some water. Off the top of my head it looks like you might have a pretty big Nitrogen deficiency (yellowing dried out leaves dying) coupled with perhaps under watering, and what is likely not enough dirt and possibly root bound plants (get a bigger pot, I go with 5 or 7 gallon just cause I'm lazy and don't like to re-pot more than once. Typically I start in 1-2 liter pots, and once the leaves overgrow the edges they are ready to go into 5 or 7 gallon pots Hard to tell with blurple, but it looks like your leaves are doing this, which on my grows typically means I've not been getting enough Nitrogen in the medium. Best of luck mate, its one of those things where you just have to hammer at growing until it "clicks" for cannabis (or anything else imo) took me almsot 3 years to get the point where I can reliably grow multiple plants without issue on a set schedule, but its totally worth it for me.
If you left cuttings in water for 2-3 weeks, they are probably done for. While that's minutely possible weed clippings aren't like potatoes. Using a rooting hormone even just aloe or honey then into moist medium with plenty of humidity is the most efficient way to root a clipping. The yellowing is probably just the plant dying neither deficiency or toxicity. Only time will tell. I wouldn't use a lot of nutrients until roots take hold and they start growing maybe a little bit of big bloom if you started with yard dirt. If that's potting soil they should be good for awhile. You can root fairly well hydroponically, but it has to be like a bubbler that feeds oxygen. They sale cloning kits to do so. But I'm thinking you just put clippings in a glass of water. Like how you would a piece of potato to get slips
It's weird they aren't root bound yet (I have cents at the bottom of the cups) but I do believe you're right about the volume for sure! I will get them transplanted to larger pots. Thank you!
I did both haha I started with just water and when they started yellowing I did root hormone and potting soil. My cups are definitely a problem I should have moved to bigger right out the gate. Appreciated.
Nah those cups are fine for clippings until they take root and fill that cup. Extra dirt isn't needed to grow roots, need to get the cuttings rooted and growing before trying to mess with a transplant. You could transplant your worst one and see if it's any benefit, imo that's not your issue tho.