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Awesome, thanks. Yeah if it's looking more like 2 weeks maybe a little booster makes sense. I'm also going to look into kelping it, I've only heard good things.I think you have more time left, but when you see amber trichomes, that would be what to base your decision on. If you do have 1-2 weeks left. You could give a "booster" ratio (1-3-2 NPK ratio). And/or, feed it some Pennington Alaska Pure Kelp. I think that stuff acts like a bud hardener. In veg it can cause stretch. It has growth hormones. I don't use it except in late'ish flower. I think at that time the plant is stritctly in bud-growth mode. The growth hormones cause bud growth, not stretch.
Awesome, thanks. Yeah if it's looking more like 2 weeks maybe a little booster makes sense. I'm also going to look into kelping it, I've only heard good things.
Also, 1800ppm output!?! Whoaaa.... That's wild man. What media are you growing in?
FWIW: I tend to keep my runoff PPMs around 1800 in mid-/late-flower. I don't try to. It's just where it finds itself with the feeding I give. If it reaches 2500ppm, I get lockout. (I wound up at 1800 after fighting salt buildup, an reducing my nute strength. It seems to work well. Sometimes I'll pour more volume for more runoff, and it will go to 1600. Sometimes I feed more, and it goes to 2000.).
Interesting. I adjust my feed feed water to feed water water if it starts to climb. I'll usually feed 1.5ec/750ppm and expect runoff to be 1.7-1.8. When it creeps up to 1.9-2ec/900-1000ppm I add an extra water only cycle with 100-150ppm calcium carbonate ph'd to 6.5 to bring the runoff ppm back down and prevent the media from going acidic.
FWIW I use Proterra/promix.
I've been using hydro nutes 3 part, trying 10% strength 50-100% strength alternatively... rally not sure of how to feed soil hydro nutes, just trying things out lol My first grow I think I burned them pretty bad so every second grow I give it less or none. "Or, just cut the ordinary fertilizer to 1/4 strength and use the same amount of "booster"" <- This is what I probably needed to hear.What fertilizer product(s) are you using? Be careful of you "bloom boost." Typical boosters are 80% nutrient by weight (compared to the fertilizer fed through the grow, which might be 10-30% nutrients by weight). It's easy to burn plants. You can dial it in for the exact NPK ratio and strength. Or, just cut the ordinary fertilizer to 1/4 strength and use the same amount of "booster". That's relatively safe (if you don't want to dial it in exactly).
Some people believe molassses helps in soil. I haven't noticed it. They say it has trace nutrients. Or, feeds the soil microbes. The kelp has trace nutrient. You can add a pinch of sugar to feel the microbes. (I do that each feeding.).
That was my reaction also haha Im growing in peat based potting soil. Still trying to guage what's what for PPM.Also, 1800ppm output!?! Whoaaa.... That's wild man. What media are you growing in?
GUYS! Almost right after I posted my original post I noticed 2 of the plants starting to grow "nanners"... I freaked and cut them down and left the other non nanners one in dark for 48 hrs and then cut it... not sure if best thing to do, there weren't many... I really didn't want to crop early and in retrospect I maybe could have let them go and I should have posted here first and got some advice but I did what I did, I def don't think it was in it's prime but I'm going to try to dial it all in better next one. I'll post some pics of the yield later today.Second indoor, tips of bud leaves starting to turn purple, fan leaves starting to turn, only started to really smell maybe 3 days ago, 60-70% orange hairs, not a single brown trich yet homestly cat tell what % clear vs white maybe need to get a better eyepiece, flushed my output from 1800ppm to 740ppm 2 days ago...
So... stop feeding for sure? Keep flushing? Will it grow more or should i focus on finishing, would like them to get bigger but what seems best?
Seems like its not in a hurry to finish but Im not that experienced so let the colors change fully and keep an eye out for a few brown trichs? Or am I like maybe weeks away? Flipped on June 4th but it was pre flowering like it was a few weeks in at that point.
Was reading posts on this site for weeks and just made an account, you guys are a vast wealth of knowledge and would like to get some ideas of what to expect, any advice is appreciated.
Thanks!
Yeah I rushed it but was having some light leak issues and heat issues that were room related and need to be addressed before next gorw (heard light f*ckery can cause this also stress) I'll know not to spaz next time.Wow, that was short and not so sweet. Rodelization can be a bitch, especially when you have invested time with breeding and have nothing more than birdseed when all is said and done. Next time perhaps pluck the anthers first and watch diligently if this happens again, they just might have been duds anyway.
Thanks for the advice seems to be the prevailing opinion to have let it go, I'll know for next time (will try to improve conditions so it won't even happen) but next time I'll post and wait.overfeeding probably stressed them into throwing nanners. Probably dont want to hear this, but they're usually not a huge deal. They arent likely to pollinate the whole crop, they usually just make a couple seeds, no big deal. Sometimes when they emerge late in flower they dont produce any viable pollen at all. I would not have chopped..
Thanks for the advice seems to be the prevailing opinion to have let it go, I'll know for next time (will try to improve conditions so it won't even happen) but next time I'll post and wait.
Just another step in the process of getting your own "system" down flawlessly.
Rome wasn't built in a day and you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, and all that
I've been using hydro nutes 3 part, trying 10% strength 50-100% strength alternatively... really not sure of how to feed soil hydro nutes, just trying things out lol My first grow I think I burned them pretty bad
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