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I'm probably just being newbie paranoid, but I wanted to get the farm's wisdom, such as it is.
Question: I'm growing two strains. One is light green with leaves dying, the other is dark green. From the video below, am I feeding too many nutes and getting a lockout on the ones on the left? Or am I just being a paranoid helicopter cultivator?
GG4 on the left, Kush Mints on the right. They have been in flower for five weeks, today, and today begins Week 6 of flower. This is Day 35 since flipping to 12/12. This is only my second grow. Compared to week-by-week descriptions of flower that I've seen online and compared to posts here by others, my flowers seem to be behind in growth. They're not fattening or filling in much. The GG4 colas are short and not lengthening, and the Kush Mints are skinny and not fattening up (and it's a lot of leaf, which is probably just genetics at work). They are in FF Ocean Forest soil, and I'm using FF nutes.
Today I fed the heaviest I've ever fed them, which is the full "recommended" dose. I'm conservative with nutes, and usually feed 1/2 to 2/3 the recommended dose. Today they got the full boat of flowering nutes (Tiger Bloom and Big Bloom) along with CalMag and Recharge, all at full strength. My thought was if they're growing too slowly, maybe they're not getting enough food.
However, I see two things that could be of concern, or maybe not.
1. The GG4 leaves are yellowing and dying off. Maybe a sign of lockout. And as you can see, leaf tips on the yellowing leaves are dropping in a mild "claw" manner. Lockout? But maybe it's just natural for this strain to be dying off at five weeks. I dunno. Seems a little early, but I've never grown this strain before.
2. The Kush Mints are a dark green. They have always been darker green than the GG4, so part of it is genetic. But they are dark and that's a symptom of nitrogen toxicity. I was feeding moderate amounts of Grow Big, the nute that favors nitrogen, but stopped using that earlier in the week. Didn't use any today.
3. GG4 leaf tips show what is possibly some light burn. Kush Mint leaf tips look pretty good, though maybe a bit burned at the very, very tips.
Now, I know that the hardest thing here is getting accurate advice regarding nutrient problems. They are tough to diagnose to begin with, and then you get people who don't know jack coming in and declaring with certainty that they know the answer, and it's hard to tell who knows and who doesn't.
I hope you tell me this is fine, and the plants are doing great. But if you think I've overdone the nutes and it's causing a problem, please let me know, and tell me what to do about it. (I cannot move the plants anymore, so can't subject them to a big flush with tons of runoff, so if that's the cure I need advice on how to do it with plants in place.)
Thanks. Here's a video of what they look like.
Question: I'm growing two strains. One is light green with leaves dying, the other is dark green. From the video below, am I feeding too many nutes and getting a lockout on the ones on the left? Or am I just being a paranoid helicopter cultivator?
GG4 on the left, Kush Mints on the right. They have been in flower for five weeks, today, and today begins Week 6 of flower. This is Day 35 since flipping to 12/12. This is only my second grow. Compared to week-by-week descriptions of flower that I've seen online and compared to posts here by others, my flowers seem to be behind in growth. They're not fattening or filling in much. The GG4 colas are short and not lengthening, and the Kush Mints are skinny and not fattening up (and it's a lot of leaf, which is probably just genetics at work). They are in FF Ocean Forest soil, and I'm using FF nutes.
Today I fed the heaviest I've ever fed them, which is the full "recommended" dose. I'm conservative with nutes, and usually feed 1/2 to 2/3 the recommended dose. Today they got the full boat of flowering nutes (Tiger Bloom and Big Bloom) along with CalMag and Recharge, all at full strength. My thought was if they're growing too slowly, maybe they're not getting enough food.
However, I see two things that could be of concern, or maybe not.
1. The GG4 leaves are yellowing and dying off. Maybe a sign of lockout. And as you can see, leaf tips on the yellowing leaves are dropping in a mild "claw" manner. Lockout? But maybe it's just natural for this strain to be dying off at five weeks. I dunno. Seems a little early, but I've never grown this strain before.
2. The Kush Mints are a dark green. They have always been darker green than the GG4, so part of it is genetic. But they are dark and that's a symptom of nitrogen toxicity. I was feeding moderate amounts of Grow Big, the nute that favors nitrogen, but stopped using that earlier in the week. Didn't use any today.
3. GG4 leaf tips show what is possibly some light burn. Kush Mint leaf tips look pretty good, though maybe a bit burned at the very, very tips.
Now, I know that the hardest thing here is getting accurate advice regarding nutrient problems. They are tough to diagnose to begin with, and then you get people who don't know jack coming in and declaring with certainty that they know the answer, and it's hard to tell who knows and who doesn't.
I hope you tell me this is fine, and the plants are doing great. But if you think I've overdone the nutes and it's causing a problem, please let me know, and tell me what to do about it. (I cannot move the plants anymore, so can't subject them to a big flush with tons of runoff, so if that's the cure I need advice on how to do it with plants in place.)
Thanks. Here's a video of what they look like.