Really red stems and red streaks on the main stock?
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miwa
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check your nutes.....could be your plant is lacking in Nitrogen and Phosphorous
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miwa
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do u have both of them tied down...tie downs causes stress....stress also can cause red stems
In my area we recently got heavy rain from a hurricane, my two outdoor girls did the same thing yours did after the storm. Usually I water them from city water so I believe it is a mineral that is not in the rainwater that is causing the problem.
I am trying to figure it out myself because there are too many "reasons" floating around out there. If I figure it out I will let you know what I did. I ask that you do the same for me if you figure it out.
I never use straight rainwater on my indoor grows. I do sometimes mix the rainwater and tap water 1:1 when it rains alot, but I usually use distilled water mixed with tap, it is not as good as the rainwater as far as TA and TH ppm but it is still within the good range
...I haven't ruled out that it may just be too much water. After all it did rain here alot during the hurricane...
I am trying to figure it out myself because there are too many "reasons" floating around out there. If I figure it out I will let you know what I did. I ask that you do the same for me if you figure it out.
I never use straight rainwater on my indoor grows. I do sometimes mix the rainwater and tap water 1:1 when it rains alot, but I usually use distilled water mixed with tap, it is not as good as the rainwater as far as TA and TH ppm but it is still within the good range
...I haven't ruled out that it may just be too much water. After all it did rain here alot during the hurricane...- Thread starter
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just the one with red is tided down,the others just held up
riddle me this?the red one went in to flower 12 days after that big one,but its closer to being done(looking at trics) is it because its smaller?as for water; my rain water is perfect every time i test it,i have a 5000 micron filter on the house line and my frig has another filter on it,but it runs high 8s ph so i have to ph down,so i thank my waters good.i thank i have to agree with miwa,every thing i do to them is the same,except being tide down.
riddle me this?the red one went in to flower 12 days after that big one,but its closer to being done(looking at trics) is it because its smaller?as for water; my rain water is perfect every time i test it,i have a 5000 micron filter on the house line and my frig has another filter on it,but it runs high 8s ph so i have to ph down,so i thank my waters good.i thank i have to agree with miwa,every thing i do to them is the same,except being tide down.
Dankafied Rob
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What happened to all of her water leaves? =/
miwa
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one thing for sure my red went away...the only thing i did was re-tie my plants...i do that about every three days....dam plants must be growing 3" a day...they are at the top of the fence...fence been raised two feet.....thats what happens when you don't plan...I'm real nervous....for sure....i got tho months to go...at least.
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my dumb ass didnt know any better,so i plucked as they got yellow.wont do that anymore!!
i know why its taking so long to finish now. (read twice,plant once)
i know why its taking so long to finish now. (read twice,plant once)
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just the one with red is tided down,the others just held up
I tie my plants down all the time and that never happened, and the plant that it happened to on me was not tied down because it is outdoors.
The cause I found so far is low PH, and It makes sense in my case. It also might in yours. Rainwater cannot buffer PH like tap water can. If you use rainwater with a soil that has peat in it that is still decomposing your going to lock out phosphorus because acid is building up in your soil. Do you check your run off? I did on one of my indoor plants that was using pro-mix I was putting in 7.4 water and it was coming out 4.9 I freaked and went and bought the FFOF and replanted.
What makes me believe it is truly PH lockout is that when I take cuttings from any strain and root them, the stems always turn red until they are rooted. That is because we literally cut off their nute supply and they must use stored nutes. It makes more sense. We LST our plants all the time and it doesn't cause the things to turn red.
Hey, Good luck regardless.
miwa
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Yep...could be a ph problem...my red stem plant was outside in the ground..a lot of things causes red stems...what has me really puzzled...i have 7 plants in my plot...the plant next to the red stem one is doing great...the one next to that one,the sugar leaves are curled down...like claws...all these are sativa bagseed...i'm not going to trip though....my flowers are getting huge...no more in the ground...too many problems..growing mine inside from now on...better control
Same here! I like the thought of free lighting at optimum intensity, but the problems that have come with it are just making me crazy. Now it's raining again, has been for three days. My pistils are turning brown from all the water sitting on them and the rain is affecting the soil somehow causing problems. I have sweetend the soil with D.lime and bone meal prior to the rain so now all I can do is sit back and hope they pull through, then it is indoors for me too.
