OlderStoner
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I'm doing a small indoor grow in soil. This is my 3rd grow and I'm using seeds from the first two grows for this. The parents of these plants were a Cotton Candy and White Widow mothers pollinated by a White Widow X full blown male. The mother CC plant produced remarkable smoke. The smoke from the White Widow mother was great but a couple of notches down from the CC plant. I thought the CC seed would produce more killer smoke. The weed in the last grow from these was good, but still nothing like their mother. Oddly, the White Widow + White Widow X seeds produced an abundance of very good smoke. Okay, that grow was fast and just to see if the seeds would be viable.
In this grow, I'm really taking my time to examine the plants as they grow. There's no doubt the Indica qualities of those seeds from the CC mother are apparent. The leaves are broad and the entire plants are very symmetrical.
Now for the advice I could use. I have the FF regime left over from last year. Anyone who reads my last grow journal will see that I pushed the nutes too hard before, even though I didn't use that much. This time round, I'm of course letting the plants talk to me and using the great advice I got from everyone on this forum, I'm trying not to make those same mistakes. But, as usual, there are some glitches. The plants are thriving after a full month since they sprouted. They are under 400 watts of fluoros and growing. The thing I'm noticing in at least one of them is the yellow tips on the very ends of a couple of the lower leaves. The discoloring is out on the very end of the tip of the leaf and very small. I take it that already there's too many nutes in the soil. The soil mix I made from compost and then placed the transplanted plants into FF Ocean Forest. I've found that this line of FF soil is loaded with N and the plants always get very dark green and grow nicely. I've been going sparingly on the water but gave all of them a big drink 48 hours ago, just fresh water. Tomorrow I plan on making a week1 mix of the FF chart, even though these plants are now in their 5th week. I will make the mix only 1/4 strength. But with the signs I'm seeing in the plants right now, I don't think nutes are what they need.
In this grow, I'm really taking my time to examine the plants as they grow. There's no doubt the Indica qualities of those seeds from the CC mother are apparent. The leaves are broad and the entire plants are very symmetrical.
Now for the advice I could use. I have the FF regime left over from last year. Anyone who reads my last grow journal will see that I pushed the nutes too hard before, even though I didn't use that much. This time round, I'm of course letting the plants talk to me and using the great advice I got from everyone on this forum, I'm trying not to make those same mistakes. But, as usual, there are some glitches. The plants are thriving after a full month since they sprouted. They are under 400 watts of fluoros and growing. The thing I'm noticing in at least one of them is the yellow tips on the very ends of a couple of the lower leaves. The discoloring is out on the very end of the tip of the leaf and very small. I take it that already there's too many nutes in the soil. The soil mix I made from compost and then placed the transplanted plants into FF Ocean Forest. I've found that this line of FF soil is loaded with N and the plants always get very dark green and grow nicely. I've been going sparingly on the water but gave all of them a big drink 48 hours ago, just fresh water. Tomorrow I plan on making a week1 mix of the FF chart, even though these plants are now in their 5th week. I will make the mix only 1/4 strength. But with the signs I'm seeing in the plants right now, I don't think nutes are what they need.