Havent checked on them for two days since I watered them last due to various circumstances. I checked on them today and something has gone seriously wrong. A lot/most of the fan leaves have completely died on one of the plants, and are beginning to on the other plant. They looked perfectly healthy two days ago when i watered them. I watered with 7-5-4 as id run out of flowering nutes. I know it wasnt the right nutes but figured it would be better than nothing. I doubt thats related to the issue but thought id mention anyway. Doubt its light burn as the lights have been the same distance away for nearly two months with no issues. It does get very hot in there, probably around 40 C at hottest, although there was a heat wave two weeks ago and its gotten cooler since then. So yeah. Please if anyone knows what i can do to save them let me know asap. Ive put so much time and effort in to keep this grow going against all odds and i dont know what id do with myself if i managed to kill them on the final stretch ): i just accidentally deleted most of the photos but heres one for now
An immediate Leaching is required also called a flush poor air temperate, ph'ed water 3x times the pot volume thru the pot allow to drain over night or in dim light no nutes for 2-3 weeks if no improvement in 5 days repot to a prepped soil with 30% perlite perlite adds air reduces nute burn and root compaction nice grow journal good work
Thanks a lot for the fast reply and good advice man, ill have to get them down out of the attic to flush with that much water or itl be raining inside the house haha, il get right on it now. Really wish id been able to get perlite before as im sure it would have helped a lot. I have like 6L of it now i think, but thought repotting would do more harm than good. Il look into getting more soil in case the flushing doesnt help. Thanks again, il let you know what happens
Keeping in line with my series of unfortunate events I've had to relocate the plants outside , and relocate myself along with them late last night. Gave them a shitload of water this morning and have kept them out of direct sunlight today. Tomorrow I'll see if I can find a batter home for them, but I think they have to stay outside. Tbh it will probably be healthier for them anyway, just got to find somewhere dark for their sleep period as its only dark for about 6 (edit: 8) hours this time of year. Il take some pics tomorrow and update my grow journal
This time of year..? On the northern hemisphere, days are growing SHORTER since 7.22 as such these will fall to flower naturally like but a little 'light depo' will help them along good luck
What temperatures are you getting in there? If it's getting very hot.. like over 85f and there is poor air circulation then maybe the leaves stomatas have closed, causing them to uptake more nutrients, burning the newer growth. I only think that though because of the clawing, and the leaves don't look overly dark to be nitrogen toxicity. Edit: Oops didn't read your post properly, agreed with Fennario, 40C is cooking them lol.
40C is 104F - super hot for plants. In an attic space too. I mean, they can tolerate some days of that kind of heat outdoors sometimes, especially if the humidity in that attic space was low - It could have just ripped all the moisture right out of the leaves. I'd cut back to 1/4 sites until it gets itself sorted out - which it will. Your growing tips still look to be ok, so it will carry on. In a week it will explode in new growth. You need to cool down that space to at the very outside, no more than 35C. Above that they go into protection mode and growth stalls.
This sounds really dumb but I'm not even certain what hemisphere Bulgaria is in haha. But it's light til past 9 at night atm and the sun comes up at around 5, so I've found an old barn and a rug that keeps them suitably dark until I take them out at 9am ish
Thanks for the input, it sounds like that could very likely be the cause. Although it did feel reasonably humid in there.. my humidity sensor broke tho so i don't know for sure. They're outside now so the temp s should only get to 40ish rarely, the average is about 34 atm I think
The attic space did feel reasonably humid but what your describing sounds very likely. What do you mean by cutting back 1/4 sites? I really hope you don't mean cutting budsites off D: A couple of the growth tips do look ducked though. Il take some pics in about half an hour. The plants are outside now, probably permanently. I'm artificially making the nights longer so they still get 12 hours, but the days right now are mid 30s anyway, if not more. Il keep the ground around them moist if I can so it's a bit more humid, it's pretty dry atm
I plucked most of the dead leaves off of the worst plant yesterday, and there does seem to be a few more today.. as you can see, a few of the budsites seem beyond help, while others have no damage at all. I guess time will tell.
The other plant seems to have fared better, although there is a fair amount of yellowing and unhealthy looking bits. I was a bit worried as I thought I saw a testicle, but it seems more like a swollen.. thing. Calyx? Forgot what they're called..