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Update: So not caused by the spikes, however the spikes do complicate the issue of over fertilization from the 20-20-20
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Tip burn was the first indicator, then this strange Mosaic leaf, then odd growth which I initially thought was TMV (I now suspect whats often called TMV may actually be a feeding issue?)
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The tip burn and one Mosaic Leaf were present before I put the spikes in
however the plant, obviously over fertilized is still being fed. No matter what I do it's going to get more of a feeding from the spikes ?!
So therein lies a major problem with spikes and why I suspect this method is not popular in the Cannabis community
Agree. I also now believe so-called TMV has to do with nutrients.I have seen these exact symptoms from overwatering and overnuting.
I spent a long time thinking mosaic virus too. And its amazing how growers confirm the tobacco thing even though its grower error.
I believe the mosaic pattern is a manganese deficiency. But like all “deficiencies” we see they are usually blocked or soggy roots and lockouts from nutrient conflicts.
My plants all grew out of it with proper care. I have not seen it spread but the first grow i did i got all the leaves on one plant to go mosaic.
Eventually flushed her out and she grew new leaves and continued growing. She was an autoflower northern lights. She ended up growing for over 4 months total and yielded a quarter pound dry.
Yes the auto recovered and re grew leaves and flowered almost 90 days. So much for the autoflower myths.
too late to edit above but I wanted to add that I would never put any plant that was showing issues into flower.Update: So not caused by the spikes, however the spikes do complicate the issue of over fertilization from the 20-20-20
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Tip burn was the first indicator, then this strange Mosaic leaf, then odd growth which I initially thought was TMV (I now suspect whats often called TMV may actually be a feeding issue?)
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The tip burn and one Mosaic Leaf were present before I put the spikes in
however the plant, obviously over fertilized is still being fed. No matter what I do it's going to get more of a feeding from the spikes ?!
So therein lies a major problem with spikes and why I suspect this method is not popular in the Cannabis community
Many moons ago I had one outside my bedroom window that I topped and pucked the leaves couple times a week trying to make it look like a bush. It was a big round hedge. Still looked like what it was. Took three of us a week to trim it all a couple hours every night. Worth every second.So here it is today, your guess is as good as mine? It's been topped a million times so can't begin to count how many tops there are now, I don't know what the hell is going on with this and I don't know what the spikes are doing ..but I do know why nobody uses them nowView attachment 885458
Edit: I checked and I put the 4-4-4 in on the 8th of last month, pretty sure the bag recommends reapplying every 30 days so I have the Jobe's Tomato formula spikes ready to go within the next week ..countdown to action!
The reason I wanted to do this with the romberry is because it's the most bulletproof plant I've grown yet
OMG! I literally just got the light off my ceiling last run! I was going to be all about short bushy plants, but now I've got this one monster and everything else is once again up on different levels of milk crates!Many moons ago I had one outside my bedroom window that I topped and pucked the leaves couple times a week trying to make it look like a bush. It was a big round hedge. Still looked like what it was. Took three of us a week to trim it all a couple hours every night. Worth every second.
I missed a weeks pics and she's really filled outI meant to get a picture of this girl today after watering but forgot, she's filling in nicely with dozens of budding Tops, the only thing she's got going on is I believe it was mag issue it could be also be Cal but anyway she's got the Tomato spikes & she's been getting sprayed with cal-mag and I did put extra c/m in her water today as well, besides that she's a happy healthy girl, I'll get a picture of her all budded up soon
Total weight was 96 grams, but that includes your basic gallon Ziploc bag and a couple of bodiva pack too
It's close to 3 Zips which surprised me, it's good looking and smoking nice too
..so it's thumbs up for the spikes!
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