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snozzy
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Hi all,
Appologize in advance for the long winded post - this has been building for a while. First time grower and have had a myriad of issues that I can't seem to overcome. Popped seeds on Oct 1 and currently growing in OLS in 15G grassroots living soil pots. Light is a mars Hydro SP3000 LED and have 2 plants in a 4x2 tent. I got off to a bad start with some pretty substantial overwatering early on - while they were still in solo cups. Growth stunted, leaves were formed and more. Once I figured that out, uprooted them to 1G and dried them out a bit, things got a bit better, although still slow growth. Still had watering issues though - never knew if I was over or underwaering at any given time. When I potted up to 15G pots, I mostly got watering under control. It took a while, but the plants ultimately looked very healthy, but still grew incredibly slow. Until that point, the only feeding I had done was top dressing with dry amendments + worm castings and watering with recharge every so often. I eventually became frustrated with slow growth - around week 6-7 and decided they needed a boost so I introduced Foop - an organic bottled line. Around the same time, I added a humidifier and got my VPD in check. Before the humidifier, I was running 73-75f and 50rh. after, humidity was uo to about 60. vpd has been pretty good since. Growth picked seed to pick up, but after a couple of weeks, I started getting really deformed new growth. I was also treating fungus gnats with mosquito bits, so though that might have had something to do with it, but I don't think that was accurate. Deformed growth was soon coupled with discoloration and leaves tacoing up and getting worse. it took me about a week or more, but I finally concluded that this might trace back to the Foop. Specifically, since im in OLS, I haven't been PHing water and assumed I should stay that route when I added the Foop, but I think that may have been a big misstep. Wondering if the reason we don't PH with OLS Is because there is enough buffer in the soil for the NORMAL range if water. With the nutrients, the water solution was now around 3.5-4 PH. Ouch! I Phd the next feeding or two before pulling the plug on the nutrients and going back to water. Been on straight water or water + recharge for at least two weeks and the new growth was slowly getting back to normal-ish, but no change in discoloration and tacoing! I had been getting ready to flower when the first deformed leaves showed up in early December and put it off while I try to get them back on track. I finally decided to flip the lights on 12/23 even though health wasn't totally restored because I felt like I just needed to get on with it - and quite honestly, I'm wanting to ge to the end so I can start fresh. Very depressing. Also on 12/23, I have it another top dressing. On 12/24 I aded a heater to help raise the vpd for flowering. Today, 12/25, almost all new growth looks like the first deformed growth in early December. Ughh!!!!! . Coming into flower, light was at 55%. have bumped it up about 10% each of the last two days and planned to keep doing so till it was at max. Removed the heater for now and raised the light height a bit. Try to keep it around 15-20". Again, sorry for the drawn out saga, but wanted to hopefully paint the whole picture. These girls have struggled in one way or another since the beginning and the most recent struggles are particularly stressful. I'm. here to learn and as such and open to all input. Please help me turn this around. Thanks so much.
Appologize in advance for the long winded post - this has been building for a while. First time grower and have had a myriad of issues that I can't seem to overcome. Popped seeds on Oct 1 and currently growing in OLS in 15G grassroots living soil pots. Light is a mars Hydro SP3000 LED and have 2 plants in a 4x2 tent. I got off to a bad start with some pretty substantial overwatering early on - while they were still in solo cups. Growth stunted, leaves were formed and more. Once I figured that out, uprooted them to 1G and dried them out a bit, things got a bit better, although still slow growth. Still had watering issues though - never knew if I was over or underwaering at any given time. When I potted up to 15G pots, I mostly got watering under control. It took a while, but the plants ultimately looked very healthy, but still grew incredibly slow. Until that point, the only feeding I had done was top dressing with dry amendments + worm castings and watering with recharge every so often. I eventually became frustrated with slow growth - around week 6-7 and decided they needed a boost so I introduced Foop - an organic bottled line. Around the same time, I added a humidifier and got my VPD in check. Before the humidifier, I was running 73-75f and 50rh. after, humidity was uo to about 60. vpd has been pretty good since. Growth picked seed to pick up, but after a couple of weeks, I started getting really deformed new growth. I was also treating fungus gnats with mosquito bits, so though that might have had something to do with it, but I don't think that was accurate. Deformed growth was soon coupled with discoloration and leaves tacoing up and getting worse. it took me about a week or more, but I finally concluded that this might trace back to the Foop. Specifically, since im in OLS, I haven't been PHing water and assumed I should stay that route when I added the Foop, but I think that may have been a big misstep. Wondering if the reason we don't PH with OLS Is because there is enough buffer in the soil for the NORMAL range if water. With the nutrients, the water solution was now around 3.5-4 PH. Ouch! I Phd the next feeding or two before pulling the plug on the nutrients and going back to water. Been on straight water or water + recharge for at least two weeks and the new growth was slowly getting back to normal-ish, but no change in discoloration and tacoing! I had been getting ready to flower when the first deformed leaves showed up in early December and put it off while I try to get them back on track. I finally decided to flip the lights on 12/23 even though health wasn't totally restored because I felt like I just needed to get on with it - and quite honestly, I'm wanting to ge to the end so I can start fresh. Very depressing. Also on 12/23, I have it another top dressing. On 12/24 I aded a heater to help raise the vpd for flowering. Today, 12/25, almost all new growth looks like the first deformed growth in early December. Ughh!!!!! . Coming into flower, light was at 55%. have bumped it up about 10% each of the last two days and planned to keep doing so till it was at max. Removed the heater for now and raised the light height a bit. Try to keep it around 15-20". Again, sorry for the drawn out saga, but wanted to hopefully paint the whole picture. These girls have struggled in one way or another since the beginning and the most recent struggles are particularly stressful. I'm. here to learn and as such and open to all input. Please help me turn this around. Thanks so much.
