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I was flattered to be asked to consult on a new friends grow.
I took a close look, two pictures, and asked a bunch of questions.
Problem: failure to thrive.
First thoughts: is this a dramatic variation in two strains ability to thrive in cold, or is it something else?
The story: The home location is off the grid about 15 miles outside Fairbanks.
Up until three years ago he had successfully grown a plant called Fog that he got as a cut from an aquaintance in Tok, a small town a few hundred miles toward the Canadian border.
He had grown this Fog for years with good yields (4 oz per plant all day) until an infrastructure failure froze the garden.
He had lost Fog and had no contacts, so he flew to Amsterdam and bought a pack of Tangerine Dream.
(I'm just telling the story. Maybe he had other reasons to travel other than buying a few seeds.)
He has been trying to grow a 4 by 4 of Tangerine Dreams under 1K HPS for over two years and can't get them to produce.
They strike me as a very stemmy plant, almost a thicket, with no strength.
They are growing in rock wool/ clay balls net pots suspended over a wading pool.
The roots fail to grow into the pool.
He is feeding the AN line, but this seems unrelated to any problems as he has had the same bad results with other nutes.
The pool water is changed weekly and is sitting at 60 deg F at 50% RH and 70 deg room air.
Isn't 60 deg F too low a res temp?
Might it have been ok for the Fog but just hammers the Tangerine Dream?
I think he waters daily, but complains the media always seems too wet.
pH is said to be sort of green on the test kit.
My memory is that this is high, but I was told the AN claimed it was buffered against pH problems.
So what is going on here?
These are three weeks into flower many stems seem to be covering the floor.
This new friend and his wife are an example of the community that awaits a legal Alaska.
Ideas generated here will be passed along until we get this grow fixed.
I have some other genetics for him to try. Maybe one of them can take a cold res, or am I off base here?
I took a close look, two pictures, and asked a bunch of questions.
Problem: failure to thrive.
First thoughts: is this a dramatic variation in two strains ability to thrive in cold, or is it something else?
The story: The home location is off the grid about 15 miles outside Fairbanks.
Up until three years ago he had successfully grown a plant called Fog that he got as a cut from an aquaintance in Tok, a small town a few hundred miles toward the Canadian border.
He had grown this Fog for years with good yields (4 oz per plant all day) until an infrastructure failure froze the garden.
He had lost Fog and had no contacts, so he flew to Amsterdam and bought a pack of Tangerine Dream.
(I'm just telling the story. Maybe he had other reasons to travel other than buying a few seeds.)
He has been trying to grow a 4 by 4 of Tangerine Dreams under 1K HPS for over two years and can't get them to produce.
They strike me as a very stemmy plant, almost a thicket, with no strength.
They are growing in rock wool/ clay balls net pots suspended over a wading pool.
The roots fail to grow into the pool.
He is feeding the AN line, but this seems unrelated to any problems as he has had the same bad results with other nutes.
The pool water is changed weekly and is sitting at 60 deg F at 50% RH and 70 deg room air.
Isn't 60 deg F too low a res temp?
Might it have been ok for the Fog but just hammers the Tangerine Dream?
I think he waters daily, but complains the media always seems too wet.
pH is said to be sort of green on the test kit.
My memory is that this is high, but I was told the AN claimed it was buffered against pH problems.
So what is going on here?
These are three weeks into flower many stems seem to be covering the floor.
This new friend and his wife are an example of the community that awaits a legal Alaska.
Ideas generated here will be passed along until we get this grow fixed.
I have some other genetics for him to try. Maybe one of them can take a cold res, or am I off base here?
