Hi guys and gals, this is my first grow soooo here goes.
Not entirely sure on the strain, it was called purple durban. Not necessarily the most reliable source, but it probaby is what he said it was. It's a hybrid, 55% Sativa, 35% Indica. I have 9 plants going now. In early vegetative stage. Been about one and a half to two weeks since they sprouted. I'm growing indoor in soil. I used a local potting mix in about 1 gallon fabric pots that I made. I'm using CFLs, I have 13, 23-watt, 1600-lumen, 5000K bulbs about six inches above my top leaves right now. My space is 72cm x 72cm, so 0.5184 meters squared. Which means about 40,000 Lux or lumens per square meter, if my calculations are correct. It's air cooled, at around 81 - 82 F lights on, and 70 - 71 F lights off. Humidity is around 45 - 50 %, almost always. I have been hand watering with tap water, left out for a while to evaporate chlorine, etc. Tap water here is around 6.5 - 7.0 PH . I started with small amounts getting up 150 ml at a time, but seemed to be too much so backed down to 100 ml at a time. I water when the dirt is dry and cracked on top and just barely still moist under the surface about a centimeter down, about once a day, but I skipped a day when i gave them too much once. No pests as far as I know, and there's no reason to suspect pests.. I think.
I was planning on starting nutrients pretty soon, when I noticed some of my plants were getting little crimps in their leaves and ones leaves were very light colored and curling down quite a bit. Did a little research and am pretty sure the crimps were from a PH imbalance and the light curly leaves were from a nitrogen deficiency. So I figured it was time to start feeding them nutrients and properly testing PH levels. I went to my local garden shop and picked up a PH kit and General Organics Go Box.
That day the light colored curled plant developed brown tips on it's leaves before I was able to water them with nutrients. I watered them with the nutrients that night and by mid day the next day all of my plants looked better, even the ones that already seemed healthy seemed even better. Haven't seen any more crimps and the light curled one with brown tips had a huge change, the brown tips were slightly larger but there was now a clear difference between the now very green healthy leaf part and the unhealthy part.
That was two days ago, and my plants are doing well for the most part. The one with the brown tips wasn't getting any worse and was growing again, but today I noticed that its new leaves have tiny brown tips and are very curled and much lighter in color again.
Just hoping for some advice to see if I'm on the right track and what I can do to help my little buddies.
Here's the one who's had it the worst.
This one's showing some signs of something on its tips.
And this is my healthiest for comparison.
I know it's a long post, thanks for any help!!!
Not entirely sure on the strain, it was called purple durban. Not necessarily the most reliable source, but it probaby is what he said it was. It's a hybrid, 55% Sativa, 35% Indica. I have 9 plants going now. In early vegetative stage. Been about one and a half to two weeks since they sprouted. I'm growing indoor in soil. I used a local potting mix in about 1 gallon fabric pots that I made. I'm using CFLs, I have 13, 23-watt, 1600-lumen, 5000K bulbs about six inches above my top leaves right now. My space is 72cm x 72cm, so 0.5184 meters squared. Which means about 40,000 Lux or lumens per square meter, if my calculations are correct. It's air cooled, at around 81 - 82 F lights on, and 70 - 71 F lights off. Humidity is around 45 - 50 %, almost always. I have been hand watering with tap water, left out for a while to evaporate chlorine, etc. Tap water here is around 6.5 - 7.0 PH . I started with small amounts getting up 150 ml at a time, but seemed to be too much so backed down to 100 ml at a time. I water when the dirt is dry and cracked on top and just barely still moist under the surface about a centimeter down, about once a day, but I skipped a day when i gave them too much once. No pests as far as I know, and there's no reason to suspect pests.. I think.
I was planning on starting nutrients pretty soon, when I noticed some of my plants were getting little crimps in their leaves and ones leaves were very light colored and curling down quite a bit. Did a little research and am pretty sure the crimps were from a PH imbalance and the light curly leaves were from a nitrogen deficiency. So I figured it was time to start feeding them nutrients and properly testing PH levels. I went to my local garden shop and picked up a PH kit and General Organics Go Box.
That day the light colored curled plant developed brown tips on it's leaves before I was able to water them with nutrients. I watered them with the nutrients that night and by mid day the next day all of my plants looked better, even the ones that already seemed healthy seemed even better. Haven't seen any more crimps and the light curled one with brown tips had a huge change, the brown tips were slightly larger but there was now a clear difference between the now very green healthy leaf part and the unhealthy part.
That was two days ago, and my plants are doing well for the most part. The one with the brown tips wasn't getting any worse and was growing again, but today I noticed that its new leaves have tiny brown tips and are very curled and much lighter in color again.
Just hoping for some advice to see if I'm on the right track and what I can do to help my little buddies.
Here's the one who's had it the worst.
This one's showing some signs of something on its tips.
And this is my healthiest for comparison.
I know it's a long post, thanks for any help!!!