Nope, not a deficiancy. Its one of the multitude of fungi known as rust fungas. I've spent a year thinking it was a deficiancy of sorts, or an enviromental factor. I tried every trick in the book, browsed all the forums and websites. Cleaned, re-cleaned, threw out all my affected plants, and...
Background:
I'm growing in soil ( foxfarm ocean forest ), multiple strains, cfls for veg and 400 w hps for flower.
I've been battling this borg for a long time, and am at my wits end on what to do. So any advice would be appreciated.
I've tried all the nutriant and enviromental...
Re: Low yields, need some help.
Strain choice can have a lot to do with yeild, I have some that only put out so-so yeilds no matter what I do, others are just higher yeilding plants. With only your limited area either go with a higher yeilding strain or like the previous poster said, scrog, lst...
I've bought seeds from most of the major seedbanks and have to say that Herbies is about the best place to find what you want. Good shipping speed, good products, never had a problem with them.
I'm not sure of where you are located, but if you are a legal marijuana patient or caregiver, you might want to contact your local NORML or canibus club to see if they can hook you up with someone who grows for others and see if they might just be able to supply you with what you need, instead...
I sympathize with your situation, and can see what you will be facing in the near future.
You will be needing much more in the way of lighting. Cfls can be used for a completed grow IF you have enough of them and they are the correct temp. What I did for my grow area was to check out the 2nd...
Maybe a mini split air conditioner? You only need a hole big enough for the compressed coolent to go to the outside part of it.
I used a portable swamp cooler for a while, until I could install a better unit, the portable is small enough to hand carry and uses about a gal or 2 of water per day...