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I think your plants are WAY to young and small to be showing ANY signs of a deficiency, two sets of leaves doesn't say too much about a plant's health unless they are very noticeable. The leaf curling is the equivalent of a pimple...it is too small to be life threatening and it will probably heal on it's own very quickly. Don't woory too much about your first set of leaves or two... they often get damaged or gimpy. You need to pay attention mostly to the new growth and make sure it looks healthy, since plants don't heal earlier injuries... they just allow the damaged areas to die off and grow new leaves instead of healing damaged ones. The amount of nutrients used by young plants is miniscule... even a plant a few ft tall uses very little. If you compare the fertilizer use of a regular corn farmer and compare it to what many growers dump on their plants, the farmer could probably plant 2-3 more fields of crops using the same amount per plant. Many newer growers think that the more that you feed them, the more massive they will become, but it doesn't work like that for the most part. In my last 4 grows, each one roughly 6-7, 7 ft plants in 6 gallon buckets, I've used half a container of nutrients (Jacks 20-20-20 or a Blooming mix with less nitrogen and more of the others.) which isn't too much compared to what some feel is necessaryI'm not sure but I think my poor Zkittles plant is developing a calcium def. Noticed some rust colores speckles on one of her leaves. Ill watch it for now and possibly raise the calmag amount in the next watering.
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Thanks Jimster, that plant is the same age as my other 2 (15days old today) it had a hard start to life and has been lagging behind its tentmates since.I think your plants are WAY to young and small to be showing ANY signs of a deficiency, two sets of leaves doesn't say too much about a plant's health unless they are very noticeable. The leaf curling is the equivalent of a pimple...it is too small to be life threatening and it will probably heal on it's own very quickly. Don't woory too much about your first set of leaves or two... they often get damaged or gimpy. You need to pay attention mostly to the new growth and make sure it looks healthy, since plants don't heal earlier injuries... they just allow the damaged areas to die off and grow new leaves instead of healing damaged ones. The amount of nutrients used by young plants is miniscule... even a plant a few ft tall uses very little. If you compare the fertilizer use of a regular corn farmer and compare it to what many growers dump on their plants, the farmer could probably plant 2-3 more fields of crops using the same amount per plant. Many newer growers think that the more that you feed them, the more massive they will become, but it doesn't work like that for the most part. In my last 4 grows, each one roughly 6-7, 7 ft plants in 6 gallon buckets, I've used half a container of nutrients (Jacks 20-20-20 or a Blooming mix with less nitrogen and more of the others.) which isn't too much compared to what some feel is necessary
OK...I'm done preaching. Plants usually sprout with enough energy to get them started, and when starting, their feeding requirements are tiny. A plant 7-8' tall uses a lot more nutrients than a 2 ft tall SCROG, but even the big plants don't take too much, IMHO.
That is what I call pinching (since we used to "pinch off" the growing tips), although it is the same as topping. I usually top or pinch Sativa's twice, Indica's once or not at all if clones, since they tend to be bushier. The 4 main branches are trained to lay horizontally, with the buds that normally grow on the side growing like new, individual plants, which produce a row of sizable colas along each of the branches. The problem with laying out Sativa's horizontally is that they can easily cover a 5X5 area per plant. With the picture you posted, each of those frosty areas on your branches would be growing vertically off of the horizontal branch, and getting another branch's worth of buds from each of those. Just continue to flatten out the branches daily... if it's a Sativa you can do this as long as you have the space. When you flip the lights, things will go wild since Sativa's continue to grow while flowering. I don't think this will work as well with Indica's, but pinching/splitting/topping/fimming all work well in general.With Quadline training you grow the plant up to at least the 5th node then you remove nodes 1 and 2, let it rest a day or two then top just above the 4th node leaving 4 branches that get Lst trained out into an x pattern. Makes for a ton of cola sites to pop up
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