Long post...my apologies and thank you in advance for your time and wisdom.
Synopsis...I feel like I have been playing catchup this entire growing season. From trying to keep clones happy, trying to keep plants from going into flower, fighting pests, and dealing with deficiencies. URGH!
I am growing outdoors. Some from clones and some from seeds. I have a variety of issues happening. I am going to post them all here.
All plants are in DIY organic living soil. I put some basic amendments when I made the soil, top dressed, nutrient rich drenches, foliar feedings, and compost teas. I feel like I should not be having deficiencies at this point. I also have not been able to keep track of how many weeks in flower they all are. So now that means having to watch the trichome development for the next few months.
Issue #1: Purple Punch - The first to go into flower was the purple punch and over the past month has been struggling the most out of all of them. She was the best looking plant for quite a while and has since turned into the ugliest and least healthy. First was very stiff leaves and growth and then continual leaf discoloration. I have tried multiple feedings, foliar sprays, and teas. Nothing has snapped her out of this funk. Then I started seeing a few caterpillars so I started treating that using BT foliar sprays. Then I had to cull some buds because of bud rot. Initially I thought it was caterpillars causing it. After doing more research and understanding what I was looking at, it seems I caused it with the evening foliar sprays which caused the buds to stay too wet throughout the night. We have coastal breezes that come in and cause the humidity to rise in the evening and then heavy mist in the morning. Wonderful environment for mold... Recently applied some hydrogen peroxide in an attempt to slow the spread of the mold spores. We have a heat wave that started today that will be going through until next week! Hopefully that will help. I am wondering if there are any other issues you can see from these pics.
Issue #2: Loco Cleaner #2 ( created by @Jackalope )
Grown from seed and initially was struggling quite a bit. If you are curious what it looked like, take a look at my journal. After its final transplant, it turned around with a good feeding and newly ammended soil. It became a beautiful plant! The past couple weeks, I started seeing more of this leaf discoloration occurring. The new growth seems to be fine though. Should I attempt to correct this or is this just signs from a previous deficiency? I tried looking at deficiency charts and the problem thread here in the forum. Still not sure what I'm seeing to be honest.
Issue #3: Do-Sa-Do
It has had some very stiff leaves for the past couple months but recently I started seeing dark leaf tips. I have 2 of these clones and only one is showing this issue.
Issue #4: Strawberry Banana
I believe this is simply a natural nitrogen deficiency as it progresses through the flowering stage. Any other thoughts?
Issue #5: Romulan
I am in love with this plant! I have really enjoyed its growth pattern and overall happiness in the garden. It is so sticky and the buds are dense! I have done some defoliating but I still feel like it is too thick and bushy. Here are a couple pics of the canopy from above and a profile shot. I am afraid of the bud rot mold and lack of airflow so I believe I need to do some heavy clearing out. Is it bad to remove a bunch of the sugar leaves from the buds when they are in flower? How much removal is too much? If this was your plant, what would you do?
Issue #6: Gorilla Glue
Just started showing signs of stress last weekend. I'm not sure why to be honest. It has been growing so nicely and everything seemed fine. This plant is the closest to the purple punch but I have done some heavy defoliation and there is a lot of air flow. Could it be stress from defoliating? Or deficiency? If the latter, what do you think it is?
Synopsis...I feel like I have been playing catchup this entire growing season. From trying to keep clones happy, trying to keep plants from going into flower, fighting pests, and dealing with deficiencies. URGH!
I am growing outdoors. Some from clones and some from seeds. I have a variety of issues happening. I am going to post them all here.
All plants are in DIY organic living soil. I put some basic amendments when I made the soil, top dressed, nutrient rich drenches, foliar feedings, and compost teas. I feel like I should not be having deficiencies at this point. I also have not been able to keep track of how many weeks in flower they all are. So now that means having to watch the trichome development for the next few months.
Issue #1: Purple Punch - The first to go into flower was the purple punch and over the past month has been struggling the most out of all of them. She was the best looking plant for quite a while and has since turned into the ugliest and least healthy. First was very stiff leaves and growth and then continual leaf discoloration. I have tried multiple feedings, foliar sprays, and teas. Nothing has snapped her out of this funk. Then I started seeing a few caterpillars so I started treating that using BT foliar sprays. Then I had to cull some buds because of bud rot. Initially I thought it was caterpillars causing it. After doing more research and understanding what I was looking at, it seems I caused it with the evening foliar sprays which caused the buds to stay too wet throughout the night. We have coastal breezes that come in and cause the humidity to rise in the evening and then heavy mist in the morning. Wonderful environment for mold... Recently applied some hydrogen peroxide in an attempt to slow the spread of the mold spores. We have a heat wave that started today that will be going through until next week! Hopefully that will help. I am wondering if there are any other issues you can see from these pics.
Issue #2: Loco Cleaner #2 ( created by @Jackalope )
Grown from seed and initially was struggling quite a bit. If you are curious what it looked like, take a look at my journal. After its final transplant, it turned around with a good feeding and newly ammended soil. It became a beautiful plant! The past couple weeks, I started seeing more of this leaf discoloration occurring. The new growth seems to be fine though. Should I attempt to correct this or is this just signs from a previous deficiency? I tried looking at deficiency charts and the problem thread here in the forum. Still not sure what I'm seeing to be honest.
Issue #3: Do-Sa-Do
It has had some very stiff leaves for the past couple months but recently I started seeing dark leaf tips. I have 2 of these clones and only one is showing this issue.
Issue #4: Strawberry Banana
I believe this is simply a natural nitrogen deficiency as it progresses through the flowering stage. Any other thoughts?
Issue #5: Romulan
I am in love with this plant! I have really enjoyed its growth pattern and overall happiness in the garden. It is so sticky and the buds are dense! I have done some defoliating but I still feel like it is too thick and bushy. Here are a couple pics of the canopy from above and a profile shot. I am afraid of the bud rot mold and lack of airflow so I believe I need to do some heavy clearing out. Is it bad to remove a bunch of the sugar leaves from the buds when they are in flower? How much removal is too much? If this was your plant, what would you do?
Issue #6: Gorilla Glue
Just started showing signs of stress last weekend. I'm not sure why to be honest. It has been growing so nicely and everything seemed fine. This plant is the closest to the purple punch but I have done some heavy defoliation and there is a lot of air flow. Could it be stress from defoliating? Or deficiency? If the latter, what do you think it is?