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bassman8290
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Hi everyone! Glad to be a part of this community.
I'm fairly new to growing, but my wife (Scarlet) is a professional who has managed a dispensary grow here in Colorado Springs and has years of experience through hundreds of cycles and tens of thousands of plants, overall.
We just recently began growing at home, as she is now a caregiver, and have seen some great results thus far, but we're super curious as to what's going on with our photoperiod Gelato plants (we have no autoflower strains). Hopefully one of you can offer some insight into our situation (which may not be problematic at all).
We started them from seed in 1 gal plastic pots with drainage holes in the bottom corners. We are using coco coir (with some perlite, of course) and Athena nutrients. Tested pH with a Bluelab soil pH pen (properly calibrated) and levels are ideal; 6.0 in the grow medium and 6.1-6.2 in the feed mix (which has an air stone in it and is stirred each time before use). Temps hover around 77°F in the 4x8 tent they're growing in with an average of around 70% RH under a couple California Lightworks Solar System 550 LEDs (approximately 30" above the canopy and set to R49 W99 B99) on a 20/4 schedule. When they were seedlings, we had them under a 2-bulb T5 (6500K) on a 24/0 schedule. Needless to say, they are nowhere near the 12/12 schedule needed to transition to flower.
That said, all our other plants being grown under the same lights and on the same lighting schedule are growing like normal, with the exception of these Gelato plants (every one of them, in fact; four plants total).
They seem healthy (the little droopiness is because they were just watered), but ever since they were about 6" tall they've been growing pistils at each node (which, of course, is not abnormal, per se). The strange part is that they now seem to be exhibiting bud structures, but are firmly in the veg stage and are growing new fan leaves out of these "buds," which seems to indicate that they are not yet flowering, but appear to be...
Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?
We'd like to keep the strongest as a mother plant, but we've never taken clones from a plant that looks like this, and Scarlet has never seen this before. We also are concerned about what topping might do to the plants.
Please take a look at the photos and share your thoughts. Thanks in advance for any information you can offer!
I'm fairly new to growing, but my wife (Scarlet) is a professional who has managed a dispensary grow here in Colorado Springs and has years of experience through hundreds of cycles and tens of thousands of plants, overall.
We just recently began growing at home, as she is now a caregiver, and have seen some great results thus far, but we're super curious as to what's going on with our photoperiod Gelato plants (we have no autoflower strains). Hopefully one of you can offer some insight into our situation (which may not be problematic at all).
We started them from seed in 1 gal plastic pots with drainage holes in the bottom corners. We are using coco coir (with some perlite, of course) and Athena nutrients. Tested pH with a Bluelab soil pH pen (properly calibrated) and levels are ideal; 6.0 in the grow medium and 6.1-6.2 in the feed mix (which has an air stone in it and is stirred each time before use). Temps hover around 77°F in the 4x8 tent they're growing in with an average of around 70% RH under a couple California Lightworks Solar System 550 LEDs (approximately 30" above the canopy and set to R49 W99 B99) on a 20/4 schedule. When they were seedlings, we had them under a 2-bulb T5 (6500K) on a 24/0 schedule. Needless to say, they are nowhere near the 12/12 schedule needed to transition to flower.
That said, all our other plants being grown under the same lights and on the same lighting schedule are growing like normal, with the exception of these Gelato plants (every one of them, in fact; four plants total).
They seem healthy (the little droopiness is because they were just watered), but ever since they were about 6" tall they've been growing pistils at each node (which, of course, is not abnormal, per se). The strange part is that they now seem to be exhibiting bud structures, but are firmly in the veg stage and are growing new fan leaves out of these "buds," which seems to indicate that they are not yet flowering, but appear to be...
Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?
We'd like to keep the strongest as a mother plant, but we've never taken clones from a plant that looks like this, and Scarlet has never seen this before. We also are concerned about what topping might do to the plants.
Please take a look at the photos and share your thoughts. Thanks in advance for any information you can offer!
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