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@Eyegethi420! Thanks for checking in!
Apologies for the radio silence, but I encountered my very first major
plant emergency!!!
So, this past Saturday, I went to go put in new car brakes with the help of my dad, so I was busy all day hanging with the parents, but I got home around 9pm after lights out for the plants, and took a peek, and noticed that all the edges and tips of the leaves had gotten ....................................
brown and crispy!!
Right underneath where the HPS light was ...........................and only where it was closer than a foot or so from the plants....................(I also found some smallish male parts, with pollen, close to the bottom part of the plants, but plucked the bits immediately, were probably from the light stress)......................... I of course had been worrying about this, but was hoping for the best, and kinda forgot about it cuz I could already tell it was probably too close but they weren't burning............though I knew my plants had grown too big and too close to the light. I ran out of room so quickly!!!!
So, I tried to think of ways to fix this, but the only solution I could think of .............................Buy a bigger tent!!!
I had wanted one anyway, but was putting it off - but now, I had to, it was an emergency!! I could FEEL the plants' PAIN!
So, luckily my local grow store is open on Sundays, so I went in right when they opened in the morning and bought a 4' x 4' tent that's about 7' tall instead of the about 5' tall tent I had run out of room in.
So, luckily, I think I got to them just in time - the buds look OK for the most part, and I trimmed off most of the totally burnt-to-a-crisp part of the leaves, and tried to do very very little but a good amount was burnt crisp.
I also put the bigger tent in the basement, so the temps are much lower, more around 60 degrees F. I need to run a dehumidifier down there too, it's pretty humid right now, 65-70 percent rh.
I figure this all has set me back a good amount in terms of time-to-harvest and quality of the buds, but the buds are still there and growin'........so I ain't too mad!!! Haha!!
I gave 'em a watering again tonight, first time since last Wednesday - They took barely any water since the day they got burned (Saturday)..............but they look to be recovering for the most part. Maybe another 3-4-5 weeks..................................
So, that's the bad news, but the good news, is that now I have a small veg tent to play around with!
I popped one more BC Kush seed and put it into soil yesterday, and have the clones going still, about eight of 'em, so let's see how long it takes for these girls to root in and get going, once the Burnt Girls are done, I can start new ones!!
I'm learning, boys! Sure am! Thanks for tuning in everyone!!!!
Do any of y'all have any experience with burnt plants? hahahaha, I could probably use some advice on how to care for these girls for the remaining part of their lives...........
Grow On!! Peace!!
