Doing a run of Gorilla Punch from Green Point Seeds

[Arny420]

One late bloomer. But thats fine it has to veg

 

[Arny420]

Guess im still dialing in the watering system. New strain new learning

 

[Arny420]

One isn't looking too good debating on going back to the nutes that I started with on the Grape Ape

 

[Arny420]

Just trying to figure out what is going on with the Gorilla Punch

 

[Arny420]

Gorilla Punch got an addition only til the Grape Ape is done. The one survivor of Blue God Berry

 

[Arny420]

Flushed her and now have the system back in there. Gonna see how it goes. The other one had fell over but its snapping out of it. Any help is welcomed. Water ph 5.9 not too sure what the runoff is my last grow i never had any runoff. General Hydroponics nutes. I can not remember what the ppm was after the ph.

 

[Arny420]

The lone survivor of the two Gorilla Punches.

 

[Arny420]

She is coming along. Still working on dialing in the water system. Had to add some more watering times to it. Just chilling watching the ladies

 

[Grownsince95]

What's the ppm going in and how much is coming out the bottom? It looks like you are accumulating some salts in the medium.

 

[Arny420]

What's the ppm going in and how much is coming out the bottom? It looks like you are accumulating some salts in the medium.

Im using a 70/30 coco perlite mix. Right off hand i dont know the ppm. The last grow i never really had any run off to test

 

[Grownsince95]

Im using a 70/30 coco perlite mix. Right off hand i dont know the ppm. The last grow i never really had any run off to test

So are you just mixing up the GH 3 part and not measuring the ppm/EC?

It is very important that at least 10% of what you put in is coming out the bottom of the pot every day. Otherwise it's like a pot of soup simmering on the stove. It will slowly get saltier as the liquid evaporates unless you top it off with new stock. With your plants, the "stock" is the fresh nutrient solution. There needs to be enough added every day to push out the old concentrated solution that's been "simmering" in there. This resets the growing medium to the ppm and pH you decide going in. Without that reset your coco will slowly accumulate toxic levels of salt that will eventually steal the nutrients back from your plant, literally sucking the life out of it.

Give me a detailed run down of your source water and how you're measuring and mixing your feed. Your only a few simple steps away from success!

 

[Arny420]

Still dialing in the watering system

 

[Arny420]

She isnt looking too good right now. I picked up the pot she is in and it was light very light so I am pumping some nutes and water to her now

 

[Arny420]

I upped the watering system on them and the Gorilla Punch started getting more bushy. I think im gonna have to flush her with some ph'ed water and let her dry some then do it again

 

[Arny420]

Flipped to flower 3/4/26. Will update with pictures soon. Flipped 16 days before 3 months veg. Damn my bad that could be y she is looking all funny all root bound. I will be upping the nutes amd the run time of the pump going into flower because it was at high demand for the Grape Ape while in flower

 

[Arny420]

She has lived up some. I flushed her with 7 gallons of fresh water ph down to roughly 5.9. Starting lights on tomorrow will start getting a little more stronger nutes thats mixed and expected to run in the morning

 

[SeaPhan]

Looking at the leaves, it seems the soil pH is off, the plants aren't absorbing nutrients properly, and the light is too high. You need to reduce the light and adjust the pH.

 

[Vick_Vinegar]

Looking at the leaves, it seems the soil pH is off, the plants aren't absorbing nutrients properly, and the light is too high. You need to reduce the light and adjust the pH.

This. Reducing the intensity at a time where the plant is struggling to metabolize like this gives the plant that little bit of help it needs to green up and get back on track.

A lot of times people are trying to feed their way out of a deficiency but if she's being pushed too hard metabolically and there's an issue with uptake, giving the plant a break from intense light will help more than you'd expect.

From a quick glance It looks like an issue with potassium uptake due to buffer/cation exchange issues or pH, magnified by metabolic demand.

At a time like this I like to lower the demand on the plant by decreasing the DLI rather than playing catch up with more feed.

 

[Arny420]

Im still learning all the acronyms. Not too familiar with DLI? I flushed it with 7 gallons of water ph down to 5.9 and I guess that didnt help. So I am just riding it out. If it gets to a point where it dont look like its gonna fix then it will go and another will go in its place from the other tent

 

[Vick_Vinegar]

Im still learning all the acronyms. Not too familiar with DLI? I flushed it with 7 gallons of water ph down to 5.9 and I guess that didnt help. So I am just riding it out. If it gets to a point where it dont look like its gonna fix then it will go and another will go in its place from the other tent

DLI is the totally accumulation of photons over a 24hr period. Just a fancy way to say light intensity. Measures the total amount of photosynthetic flux in moles over a m2 over a single day. An average photoperiod is around 30-50 moles of flux per day. The lower your accumulation of flux, the less of a metabolic load it puts on the plant.

Just ignore all the stupid words and just pretty much think of it as your light intensity accumulated over 24hrs.