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[HerbalEdu]

Yea but just because you overwater doesnt have to mean you have to stop doing other good stuff.
There is no reason for her to stop doing that ,doesnt take much time out of your life. But she should focus more on watering habbits, or go hydro and never worry about overwattering

no but i really think that suggesting more unecessary micro managing to someone that's already overloving it's plant not the way to go ...

 

[LoveGrowingIt]

Ah, well... When talking about temperature and humidity, you're talking about VPD, whether you know it or not. Plants, in general, are highly adaptable, so they can grow in varied environments. That doesn't mean they'll grow well in any environment. They might not grow at all.

Vapor pressure deficit describes the rate of diffusion, which is the movement of a fluid from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. The larger the difference, the greater the diffusion. In our case, the area of high concentration is the plant's leaves, and the area of low concentration is the air in the tent or grow space. Understanding the rate of diffusion is important when controlling a plant's environment.

Can we just all agree that this is a weed and weeds grow everywhere in all types of climates.

Being called a 'weed' doesn't describe how a plant grows. It describes a plant's desirability in a garden. Here's the definition of the word 'weed' from Google.

weed /wēd/ noun a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.

 

[Dadman86]

I don't know shit about vpd. I know my plants like it around 60% humidity. In the 70s for temp. My set up isnt great. I'm like 2 years into this way of life. I know when I first started I wanted ppfd within range of what Google said.
I think knowing a little bit about ppfd vpd pH
Caused me more problems than it helped.
Now I try to keep them happy. I'm not worried
About ppfd vpd pH. My plants are growing way better now. I want to know why I should care and the benefits to knowing these things. But I'm ok with my experience level and how my game is progressing. I'm a amateur at best and know enough to grow buds. I can grow! Now my quest is green plants 8 weeks into flower.

 

[SunshineSupergirl]

to be honest. i just don't see the point advising her to worry about vpd with even more micro managing and over loving than what she's actually doing while she fail horribly elsewhere so much more important: proper watering pratices.

I'm not failing horribly, making mistakes I have yes, but not horrible.

Horrible would be moldly buds everywhere at the end.

Which happened on my 1st grow!

I have a viable plant now and I'm learning.

 

[SunshineSupergirl]

Yea but just because you overwater doesnt have to mean you have to stop doing other good stuff.
There is no reason for her to stop doing that ,doesnt take much time out of your life. But she should focus more on watering habbits, or go hydro and never worry about overwattering

Definitely will not over water my next grow

 

[SunshineSupergirl]

I don't know shit about vpd. I know my plants like it around 60% humidity. In the 70s for temp. My set up isnt great. I'm like 2 years into this way of life. I know when I first started I wanted ppfd within range of what Google said.
I think knowing a little bit about ppfd vpd pH
Caused me more problems than it helped.
Now I try to keep them happy. I'm not worried
About ppfd vpd pH. My plants are growing way better now. I want to know why I should care and the benefits to knowing these things. But I'm ok with my experience level and how my game is progressing. I'm a amateur at best and know enough to grow buds. I can grow! Now my quest is green plants 8 weeks into flower.

pH is extremely important actually!


I messed up my pH once and it damaged my plant right away.

My Critical Purple Autoflower after researching, from multiple sources suggests a pH of 6.3 , which I'm doing with every water AND fertilizer session.

When adding nutes in my water, I will pH up or down after adding them.

Been using distilled water until just now, using good filtered water from my sink.

 

[amneziaHaze]

DAY 40

I gave Susie some fertilizer

1 cup of Distilled Water (pH'd)
2 Smidgens of Purpinator 0-2-4
2 Drops of Superthrive 0.5-0-0
3 TADS of Sure Start 4-6-2
2 TADS of BAT GUANO

Did a TAD of Defoliation
Changed Humidity to 55%

Susie now has a great chance to
THRIVE!

Lavender still not germinated, so just watered again to keep moist, still two weeks to go before it may germinate.

Overall I'm REALLY happy with my garden View attachment 2435817View attachment 2435818View attachment 2435819View attachment 2435820View attachment 2435821View attachment 2435822

if this is the plant then you made a horrible mistake.it should be a monster on day 40.this is worse than dead.its like a wonded solider 2 have to carry it.you will spend 2months on flowering it electricity and care and then when you dry it it will maybe will the first joint. why not put a new seed next to it you dont have to kill it

 

[SunshineSupergirl]

if this is the plant then you made a horrible mistake.it should be a monster on day 40.this is worse than dead.its like a wonded solider 2 have to carry it.you will spend 2months on flowering it electricity and care and then when you dry it it will maybe will the first joint. why not put a new seed next to it you dont have to kill it

I'm going to wait until she's done before I start 3 new plants.

She has about 35-40 days left of life.

Yeah, I know I stunted her and made mistakes, moving past that now, learning for the future.

 

[SunshineSupergirl]

I'm going to wait until she's done before I start 3 new plants.

She has about 35-40 days left of life.

Yeah, I know I stunted her and made mistakes, moving past that now, learning for the future.

It's cool, I accept things as they are.

I still have lavender up top trying to germinate and I hope to get that established before I move it to my main room where my air purifier is.

I have a smaller area for flowers, working on another.

Probably going to plant 2 Photoperiods and 1 autoflower this next grow.

The too shelf is smaller grow area, so perfect for a small autoflower or a medium sized with some LST.

 

[Dadman86]

pH is extremely important actually!


I messed up my pH once and it damaged my plant right away.

My Critical Purple Autoflower after researching, from multiple sources suggests a pH of 6.3 , which I'm doing with every water AND fertilizer session.

When adding nutes in my water, I will pH up or down after adding them.

Been using distilled water until just now, using good filtered water from my sink.

I bought 2 shitty ph pens. Gave up on phing for now. I calibrated my pen. Immediately tested a calibration solution. Wasn't even close. So I'm going to buy a real ph pen when I can afford it.

 

[SunshineSupergirl]

I bought 2 shitty ph pens. Gave up on phing for now. I calibrated my pen. Immediately tested a calibration solution. Wasn't even close. So I'm going to buy a real ph pen when I can afford it.

I'm sorry you experienced that.

I got lucky and a kit from Amazon I bought had a TDS meter in it as well.

It came with calibration fluid and it is pretty accurate readings now.

Every time I use them I let it dry out and then put it back in the original package.

Some people say you should store it in a permanent calibration fluid all the time and leave it there.

Not sure if that's better.

 

[HerbalEdu]

I'm not failing horribly, making mistakes I have yes, but not horrible.

horribly because in 6 weeks your plant had some time to recover to more vigorous and healthy growth and yet she still as small as a 10-15 days old plant since germination, and being an auto there's not much to expect now.

even if not the size of the last plant photos as old as yours i shared it could be an intermediate size if it had recovered but that not the case.

 

[mancorn]

I'm sorry you experienced that.

I got lucky and a kit from Amazon I bought had a TDS meter in it as well.

It came with calibration fluid and it is pretty accurate readings now.

Every time I use them I let it dry out and then put it back in the original package.

Some people say you should store it in a permanent calibration fluid all the time and leave it there.

Not sure if that's better.

If the electrode dries out it will damage the pen. But a $12 pen is disposable. If it last a grow - you’re doing good.

 

[HerbalEdu]

moving past that now, learning for the future.

as said earlier you won't be learning much more things usefull from that plant now.

at the rate buds gonna grow from now on and seeing it's size , it gonna be really hard to appreciate what your doing more or less right or not.

also taking care of a small plant in a bigger pots that she would need regarding it's size, is not the same as taking care of an healthy and vigorous plant much bigger than pot size after a few weeks.

 

[SunshineSupergirl]

as said earlier you won't be learning much more things usefull from that plant now.

at the rate buds gonna grow from now on and seeing it's size , it gonna be really hard to appreciate what your doing more or less right or not.

also taking care of a small plant in a bigger pots that she would need regarding it's size, is not the same as taking care of an healthy and vigorous plant much bigger than pot size after a few weeks.

I understand your point.

But there are still things I will be learning in the next 35-40 days of her life cycle.

Especially to see if Purpinator brings out those purple Hughes

I will be lowering night temperatures during mid/late flower to 68° as well, to coax the anthocyanins to make beautiful colors.

That's something I wasn't able to achieve on my 1st grow with Purple Haze.

If I can get purple colors, that's a WIN!

And yes my yield is going to be very low and from most people's point of view not worth it.

That's fair.

But if I can finish this out with success and have a good harvest with what's there I call that a pretty good learning experience.

Last time I didn't have a good harvest and my bud was half rotted.

If I can avoid Bud rot and other various problems in the next 40 days then I'm going to be happy.

 

[HerbalEdu]

Especially to see if Purpinator brings out those purple Hughes

I will be lowering night temperatures during mid/late flower to 68° as well, to coax the anthocyanins to make beautiful colors.

no you won't be able to tell if that's the purpinator and/or lower temperature and/or just a pheno that would have faded without purpinator and without lower temp ...

until you grow two clones of the same plant under different condition(s), there's no way to tell.

 

[SunshineSupergirl]

no you won't be able to tell if that's the purpinator and/or lower temperature and/or just a pheno that would have faded without purpinator and without lower temp ...

until you grow two clones of the same plant under different condition(s), there's no way to tell.

Ahh yes, makes sense.

But since Purpinator has a good nutrient profile, it would be a shame to not use it.

I could try an experiment later, maybe grow some small 1 gallon autoflowers on my top shelf and choose to only apply Purpinator to 1 or 2 plants and see if there's a difference.

I wish had more room for more plants.

I have a space above my kitchen cabinets that I could grow smaller autos or very small photos, enough for 6 plants up there, but that's a whole nother project and I need another grow light and other equipment for that.

In California, legally, you can have 6 adult and 6 baby plants growing at any given time.

When I move to a house someday I'm going to have a HUGE dedicated grow room.

 

[HerbalEdu]

And yes my yield is going to be very low and from most people's point of view not worth it.

not only very low, but most prolly 1 to 10 joint at most i'd say. it's an auto not a photoperiod like last time, it won't stretch anymore now and gonna stay rather that size, nothing like your plant from 2022.

wich to me is a successfull plant despite the mold, you know sometime the weather and or strain and/or pheno just doesn't help with mold.

( i have more or less mold with 1/3 1/4 of my grows. rarely losing much and also once in 40 grows lost a whole harvest to mold.)

(but our fruits and vegetables farmer also experience bad seasons sometime and lost part of their harvest.)

But if I can finish this out with success and have a good harvest with what's there I call that a pretty good learning experience.

"yes my yield is going to be very low" "finish this out with success and have a good harvest with what's there"

 

[HerbalEdu]

I could try an experiment later, maybe grow some small 1 gallon autoflowers on my top shelf and choose to only apply Purpinator to 1 or 2 plants and see if there's a difference.

need to be clones from the same plant, you can't compare different seeds.

two different seeds may just be well different and that won't prove anything to grow one in some condition and the other seed with some others conditions

 

[SunshineSupergirl]

not only very low, but most prolly 1 to 10 joint at most i'd say. it's an auto not a photoperiod like last time, it won't stretch anymore now and gonna stay rather that size, nothing like your plant from 2022.

wich to me is a successfull plant despite the mold, you know sometime the weather and or strain and/or pheno just doesn't help with mold.

( i have more or less mold with 1/3 1/4 of my grows. rarely losing much and also once in 40 grows lost a whole harvest to mold.)

(but our fruits and vegetables farmer also experience bad seasons sometime and lost part of their harvest.)


"yes my yield is going to be very low" "finish this out with success and have a good harvest with what's there"

I respect your observations.
But one has to make with the situation at hand.