WK's journal

Yay, my plants are looking happy!
i gave them some salts and stuff like we discussed last night.
i also moved the babies into the tent for 18/6 last night too.


Anon1


Anon2


Hashberry1


Hashberry2


Hashberry3


Headband1


Headband2


Chemdog


Blue Widow


oh i also got a new dresser, so now i have space for the new tent.
gonna get that soon, things are coming together! 2months 2 weeks till sog

also, do i have to add epsom salt every time i feed now? or how will that work? just use it when i have a deficiency?

in an ideal world i'd have 3 mother plants, 1 headband, and 2x critical + from a friend.
but he's such a lazy mofo, and hasnt planted his 10 seeds yet making excuses etc etc.

so since ill need 3 mothers to cut 32 clones happily for the sog, ill keep 1 headband, 1 blue widow, and 1 chemdog until i get the critical +.

who knows hopefully the BW goes purp. that'd be nice

updated sketch up:
(pretend the red is headband, and the green is critical +)

 

the other plants TOP is like 14" away still,
the seedlings TOP are like.. 2ft away
i think they'll be okay? if anything i can move the light up an inch or two and that might help but yeah.

 

HASHBERRY 1&2 ARE FEMALE, BLATANT PISTILS!!!!!!!!!

as for #3 i cannot tell... might need to upload a pic shortly.

oh and the Anons were hermies.. and GONE


so i swear behind #3's stipules i see a small ball.

what do you think??

 

And then there were 6.
all fems, the tent is happy now

so now i need to make sure they get healthy, beat whatever deficiencies they got, and yeah....



Hashberry 1, Hashberry 2, Headband 1, Headband 2, Chemdog, Bluewidow.



i'm not sad about anon1&2, i wanted them gone.
hashberry 3.. well... its only fair that i got one male.
cool, i'm happy though


OH i got an extension cord so my clip on fan can reach the bottom and blow directly on the plants.
thats good ya?

 

a month?!?!?!

try two weeks

 

ok so i have a potassium deficciency not a magnesium one. but i hope the extra mag wont them.

anyways, this is how i figure.

Potassium gets locked out of Hydro and Soil less Mediums at ph levels of 4.0-4.5, 6.0-6.5.

guess where my ph is...

okay, so now that we know what it is, now i need to fix it! NOWWWWW.
it says any nute with high K (potassium) will be okay.

i have general hydroponics flora series bloom (0-5-4) and micro (5-0-1)

WHATTODO?

 

understanding my grow through the icmag sick plant guide.
i grow in a soilless medium which mimics a hydroponics setup. it uses 6.0ph.
Nitrogen- my plant is at the ph best to absorb N, shouldn't have a problem.
Phosphorus - gets locked out at ph levels of 6.0 - 8.5, i believe i could have some phosphorus problems if i don't make up for them because the sunshine#4 is so neutral (what i put in i get out really..) it says that GH Flora Bloom (what i got) can be used to treat a deficiency
Potassium - again locked out at ph levels of 6.0-6.5, i think i have some problems here, solution would be to use any note with high K value (potassium)
Magnesium - i'm in a good zone with mag absorption, the little mag i add to the tap water (because tap water has high cal not high mag) will be a nice treat, but maybe not always necessary?
Calcium - locked out at ph levels around 6.0, the solution would be add some sort of lime acidic stuff to help it, or anything with cal in it. could have problems but i think sunshine #4 has me covered on this!
Zinc - locked out at 6.0ph, anything with potassium will fix a zinc deficiency
iron - best absorbed at 6.0ph should be okay, solution is again using potassium


now applying that knowledge; we know that the sunshine #4 has me covered on some ends, but its very neutral, and coupled with the ph i am at we have some lock outs.

phospherus, potassium are the two main things my grow needs a slight boost with. i assume the main reason why they are also in nutes is because they also fight off other deficiencies and lockouts my medium and ph give.

with that being said, the medium and ph also love that nitrogen, and suck it up real good lol.

now we need to figure out how to fix this. its quite clear that my plants maybe need some nutes to kick them out of deficiencies, but not like before with my unknowdledged self.

firstly i'm gonna go back to lucasformula and re-read with the knowledge that soilless kinda equals hydro. i'm wondering how much lucasformula i'd need to give them to help them out of their deficiences.
50% of the formula? 25%? hmm ...

 

in this particular case with the knowledge learned from my above post i'd have to agree that my plants need the 0-5-4 nutes over the 5-0-1 nutes.

but then agian my friend reassures me that nitrogen is essential for photosynthesis, so then i go back to the lucas formula page and i read;
400W grows should use full dose (grow/bloom/micro) 0ml-8ml-16ml throughout the grow.
then you read that clones/seedlings should use half dose
then you read you should ph your tap water before mixing.

my hashberries are liek 2 months old, i'm sure they WANT that full dose nutes, i'm sure they'llt hank me.

what do you all think?

 

ill post pics tmrw up close shots of the two hashberries and we can look at the deficiencies together and conclude what they are.

blu was the one who told me to ph down to 6.0 well him and slinger i think, and look at the hydro side to that graph.
though that graph shows that i should be okay, clearly there's something wrong with them, so we'll get that sorted out

thanks for the info IF

when i post the pics we can figure out the best coarse of action to help them.

 

okay here's the hashberries

Hashberry1:


but you see new growth is all green


Hashberry2:

 

morning you guys,
k i think they need nutes lol.