MeAmoPedro
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Been signed up and lurking for a while, but this my first post. I am not versed in the science of growing, although I have been at it over 2 years and have had good results for the most part.
I have been with 1 strain for the most part. Blueberry; sativa. Had as many as 20 or so going at a time: say 12 flowering and 8 in grow or babies. This is indoors, 1 gal pots; Earth Grow potting mix.
Babies in plugs under 80w flouresant - Clonex clone and seedling nutrient
Grow is a 250w and a 400w HPS - Miricle Grow Bloom Booster 1 tsp/gal
Flower is 2 400s HPS - Bloom Booster- then last 3 weeks Jack's Classic Blossom Booster 10-30-20 at 1tsp/gal added to 1/2 tsp /gal MGrow.
Temps in summer 76-82; water about every other day; just cover the top.
Each room is about 90 sq ft, not all of it used in flowering.
With experience and starter plants from a mentor it started small but grew steadily, with very good results. Last summer there was a devastating run-in with spider mites. All plants affected. Sprayed and sprayed, different products, until temp was dropped dramatically and 1000w removed for 2 400s. Then plants recovered and produced well until recently.
Started to see yellowing early in grow, affecting leaves all over plant. Small skinny sparse leaves.
The yellowing continues in grow, also see tip burn and curling
The leaves are all small and skinny, does not bush out at all. When they go to flower, nothing gets better. Many leaves die and fall off and tops do not develop at all. Stays spindly, with 'tops' only barely develop; stay shape of stem. No stink or sticky ever develops and the results are bad.
After clipping, root balls are mostly brown, thin and dead looking. Can grab the bottom of roots and easily pull apart from top of ball.
There will only be a few white roots. The same whitish bulb appears when cut under original plug that are seen in babies that do not survive. Cut though the bulb and look at the end there is a bulls eye inside the outer stem, the inside is pretty hard, but the outer layer is mushy, peels away very easily.
Thing is, doing nothing different than before when there was very good results. Only hints/ideas may be:
The baby cloning mix is used with a turkey baster out of a plastic tray. Over time these items began getting a greenish build up on them. Some of the green would peel off and end up in plugs, where you could see them.
Figgered this was active ingredient in fert. A friend/mentor saw this and did not like the look of it at all, gave some new cloning food that is clear. With babies getting that weird whitish bulb under plug that plants also have at the end, makes me wonder if something has happened right from the beginning; getting over ferted and doing root damage from the start?
Room is in a basement setting and there is seepage in a very strong rain period; which is vacumed up right away.
Could some badness come in with seepage, get in the air? Did a big clean, no seepage since.
Found a bad ballast, light may have been off in grow way more than it should, but this was fixed and problem continued.
Did a water only flush for a week then 1/2 strength fert for a week but that did not show results.
All my girls are dead or dying, can anyone comment??
I have been with 1 strain for the most part. Blueberry; sativa. Had as many as 20 or so going at a time: say 12 flowering and 8 in grow or babies. This is indoors, 1 gal pots; Earth Grow potting mix.
Babies in plugs under 80w flouresant - Clonex clone and seedling nutrient
Grow is a 250w and a 400w HPS - Miricle Grow Bloom Booster 1 tsp/gal
Flower is 2 400s HPS - Bloom Booster- then last 3 weeks Jack's Classic Blossom Booster 10-30-20 at 1tsp/gal added to 1/2 tsp /gal MGrow.
Temps in summer 76-82; water about every other day; just cover the top.
Each room is about 90 sq ft, not all of it used in flowering.
With experience and starter plants from a mentor it started small but grew steadily, with very good results. Last summer there was a devastating run-in with spider mites. All plants affected. Sprayed and sprayed, different products, until temp was dropped dramatically and 1000w removed for 2 400s. Then plants recovered and produced well until recently.
Started to see yellowing early in grow, affecting leaves all over plant. Small skinny sparse leaves.
The yellowing continues in grow, also see tip burn and curling
The leaves are all small and skinny, does not bush out at all. When they go to flower, nothing gets better. Many leaves die and fall off and tops do not develop at all. Stays spindly, with 'tops' only barely develop; stay shape of stem. No stink or sticky ever develops and the results are bad.
After clipping, root balls are mostly brown, thin and dead looking. Can grab the bottom of roots and easily pull apart from top of ball.
There will only be a few white roots. The same whitish bulb appears when cut under original plug that are seen in babies that do not survive. Cut though the bulb and look at the end there is a bulls eye inside the outer stem, the inside is pretty hard, but the outer layer is mushy, peels away very easily.
Thing is, doing nothing different than before when there was very good results. Only hints/ideas may be:
The baby cloning mix is used with a turkey baster out of a plastic tray. Over time these items began getting a greenish build up on them. Some of the green would peel off and end up in plugs, where you could see them.
Figgered this was active ingredient in fert. A friend/mentor saw this and did not like the look of it at all, gave some new cloning food that is clear. With babies getting that weird whitish bulb under plug that plants also have at the end, makes me wonder if something has happened right from the beginning; getting over ferted and doing root damage from the start?
Room is in a basement setting and there is seepage in a very strong rain period; which is vacumed up right away.
Could some badness come in with seepage, get in the air? Did a big clean, no seepage since.
Found a bad ballast, light may have been off in grow way more than it should, but this was fixed and problem continued.
Did a water only flush for a week then 1/2 strength fert for a week but that did not show results.
All my girls are dead or dying, can anyone comment??
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