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Planted 15 seeds (5x each of Bodhi's Apollo 11 f4 open pollination, Goldstar f4's and Prayer Towers) on October 23. Seeds were planted directly into Lumperdagz mix (equal parts peat, EWC and pumice with added amendments ((sorry, @Bulldog11 I know I said I'd start them in the 60/40 peat/EWC mix, but I decided against that, can't remember why haha))) and all of them were above ground within four days. A week later, I planted three Clusterfunks, which were also above ground within four days.
The soil I used was a 2:1 ratio of a batch of Lumperdawgz that I had "cooking" for four months and a batch I had cooking for about six weeks. Same mix, though. Seeds were planted in those little three inch "starter pots" and placed directly under my Apache AT600 at a distance of about forty inches. I let the seedlings grow under the light at 40 inches above the seedlings for about a week, then slowly moved the light down to about 28 inches over the course of about another week.
Everything looked really good until five or six days ago. The Prayer Towers were the first to show whatever it is that's going on on the the picture I've attached. Then about two nights ago, every other plant started looking like this.
Temps in SoCal have been fluctuating all over the place. Outdoors, highs during the daytime (lights off in my tent) have been anywhere between 65 and 90. Nighttime temps outdoors (lights on) have been between 60 and 45, so it's been difficult to maintain a consistent temperature inside my tent. They've been between 84 at their highest during lights on and 61 during lights off in the tent (yeah, I realize that 61 is waaaaaaayyyyy too low). Also have to mention that twice, about ten days apart, I forgot that I left the AC vents open in the grow room and accidentally let the temps inside the tent get up to 94 because I had the heat on (I know, I fucked up.... haha!). But they only stayed at 94 for maybe a few hours, closed the vents and got the temps down to an acceptable level for at least eight hours before lights off. It's not like they were sitting in the tent for 16 hours at 95 degrees.
Humidity has been the biggest problem. I can't get it under control. It's been extremely dry here in SoCal lately and the humidity levels in my tent have been ranging between 15% and 40%. Occasionally the humidity gets up around 50 or 54%, but that's rare. Mostly, they're hovering around 30 - 35% I have two humidifiers in the room outside of the tent, plus a bucket of water with a towel halfway submerged inside the tent, but nothing seems to be working.
Been watering with RO water (ppm's around 18) and also watered them twice with an AACT of 1.5 cups of EWC (Agrowin) and .3 cups of molasses in four gallons of water, brewed for around 34 hours using microbeman's brewer. The AACT waterings were about ten days apart. Foliared them thirty minutes before lights off with an extremely light combination of aloe, potassium silicate and neem last Friday, November 13. Other than that, it's just been RO water when they seem to need it. I may have under-watered them initially, but straightened that out last week.
Sorry for the long-winded intro, just wanted to provide as much info as I can. I'm almost positive that it has something to do with the humidity, but maybe it's something else. I dunno. Obviously haha. I read somewhere a while ago that low humidity levels can affect a plant's ability to uptake potassium, maybe? Or maybe it's a calcium issue? Can't remember offhand.
I'm starting to stress. If anybody has any idea what this is, I'm all fucking ears haha.
The soil I used was a 2:1 ratio of a batch of Lumperdawgz that I had "cooking" for four months and a batch I had cooking for about six weeks. Same mix, though. Seeds were planted in those little three inch "starter pots" and placed directly under my Apache AT600 at a distance of about forty inches. I let the seedlings grow under the light at 40 inches above the seedlings for about a week, then slowly moved the light down to about 28 inches over the course of about another week.
Everything looked really good until five or six days ago. The Prayer Towers were the first to show whatever it is that's going on on the the picture I've attached. Then about two nights ago, every other plant started looking like this.
Temps in SoCal have been fluctuating all over the place. Outdoors, highs during the daytime (lights off in my tent) have been anywhere between 65 and 90. Nighttime temps outdoors (lights on) have been between 60 and 45, so it's been difficult to maintain a consistent temperature inside my tent. They've been between 84 at their highest during lights on and 61 during lights off in the tent (yeah, I realize that 61 is waaaaaaayyyyy too low). Also have to mention that twice, about ten days apart, I forgot that I left the AC vents open in the grow room and accidentally let the temps inside the tent get up to 94 because I had the heat on (I know, I fucked up.... haha!). But they only stayed at 94 for maybe a few hours, closed the vents and got the temps down to an acceptable level for at least eight hours before lights off. It's not like they were sitting in the tent for 16 hours at 95 degrees.
Humidity has been the biggest problem. I can't get it under control. It's been extremely dry here in SoCal lately and the humidity levels in my tent have been ranging between 15% and 40%. Occasionally the humidity gets up around 50 or 54%, but that's rare. Mostly, they're hovering around 30 - 35% I have two humidifiers in the room outside of the tent, plus a bucket of water with a towel halfway submerged inside the tent, but nothing seems to be working.
Been watering with RO water (ppm's around 18) and also watered them twice with an AACT of 1.5 cups of EWC (Agrowin) and .3 cups of molasses in four gallons of water, brewed for around 34 hours using microbeman's brewer. The AACT waterings were about ten days apart. Foliared them thirty minutes before lights off with an extremely light combination of aloe, potassium silicate and neem last Friday, November 13. Other than that, it's just been RO water when they seem to need it. I may have under-watered them initially, but straightened that out last week.
Sorry for the long-winded intro, just wanted to provide as much info as I can. I'm almost positive that it has something to do with the humidity, but maybe it's something else. I dunno. Obviously haha. I read somewhere a while ago that low humidity levels can affect a plant's ability to uptake potassium, maybe? Or maybe it's a calcium issue? Can't remember offhand.
I'm starting to stress. If anybody has any idea what this is, I'm all fucking ears haha.
