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mcompton1973
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OK,
I wont get into all the details (unless you need them) but long story short I have a small commercial grow in Oklahoma. I lost my main grower and now I am doing it myself (I used to mainly do the compliance and sales side).
I have 16 moms.
I dont think the way he was handling the moms was right and I need to start from scratch I believe.
Long story short, moms look like they were not getting enough nutes (purple stems and yellow leaves)
Here is the setup.
The moms start in 1 gallon pots, go to 5 gallon.
They are under HLG 650 b spec lights....but only on about 30% for 18 hours a day
They are in Mother Earth Coco perlite (its a 70/30)
they get watered once a day or every other day if too wet
I have a 55 gallon barrel that I run RO water into and then add nutrients then a pump, hose with a wand on the end.
It appears there was very little pruning, trimming, of the moms. They all are basically tall, narrow plants that just grow straight up.
(we do not currently have any kind of trellis or netting etc...he said because if you do that, its to hard to cut clones....but the way it is, There are only a few branches they are long and skinny and dont have a lot of great clones to be taken.)
We grow everything in the grow room in the coco....but they are 3 gallon pots.
I feel like the coco is not the right medium for moms as we can not water frequently like we do the flower room (its on irrigation 5 times a day)
I assume lights are ok since I am not pushing them
I am guessing the moms are not getting enough nutrients...but maybe because of the coco holding too much salts with infrequent watering etc.
OK. SO the questions.
1. I feel like the main thing that needs changed is a move to soil for the moms since they get less frequent water
2. I assume any veg nutes will work since I am not trying to really push growth.
3. Same about the lights...They dont need really high intensity since they are not being pushed?
4. should I be doing any type of training or trimming to help maximize the number of smaller branches usable for clones?
5. anything else you see that I should be paying attention to?
I wont get into all the details (unless you need them) but long story short I have a small commercial grow in Oklahoma. I lost my main grower and now I am doing it myself (I used to mainly do the compliance and sales side).
I have 16 moms.
I dont think the way he was handling the moms was right and I need to start from scratch I believe.
Long story short, moms look like they were not getting enough nutes (purple stems and yellow leaves)
Here is the setup.
The moms start in 1 gallon pots, go to 5 gallon.
They are under HLG 650 b spec lights....but only on about 30% for 18 hours a day
They are in Mother Earth Coco perlite (its a 70/30)
they get watered once a day or every other day if too wet
I have a 55 gallon barrel that I run RO water into and then add nutrients then a pump, hose with a wand on the end.
It appears there was very little pruning, trimming, of the moms. They all are basically tall, narrow plants that just grow straight up.
(we do not currently have any kind of trellis or netting etc...he said because if you do that, its to hard to cut clones....but the way it is, There are only a few branches they are long and skinny and dont have a lot of great clones to be taken.)
We grow everything in the grow room in the coco....but they are 3 gallon pots.
I feel like the coco is not the right medium for moms as we can not water frequently like we do the flower room (its on irrigation 5 times a day)
I assume lights are ok since I am not pushing them
I am guessing the moms are not getting enough nutrients...but maybe because of the coco holding too much salts with infrequent watering etc.
OK. SO the questions.
1. I feel like the main thing that needs changed is a move to soil for the moms since they get less frequent water
2. I assume any veg nutes will work since I am not trying to really push growth.
3. Same about the lights...They dont need really high intensity since they are not being pushed?
4. should I be doing any type of training or trimming to help maximize the number of smaller branches usable for clones?
5. anything else you see that I should be paying attention to?