Few Problems...

[Chronic777]

Hey, hope everyone had a good christmas!

Just having a couple issues at the moment...

The first picture is of my whole plant, it looks generally droopy, like the leaves are too heavy for the branches...my intuition told me that they weren't getting enough air so ive opened a vent for them, i suppose they look a bit better this morning... but a week or so ago they were perky as anything, leaves even pointing up towards the light!
It shouldnt be overwatering as ive been watering under 1ltr per plant every 4-5days, could it be underwatering?

The second picture is a hole i found this morning, ive had the light pretty close but the heat has not gone above 26c, i can see another place on the plant that is definately heat/light burn, but this hole looks wider, ive backed off the light now...i did have it very close as my room is nice & cold outside the tent.

The third picture looks like some sort of embedded trail inside the leaf, perhaps leaf miner?

I still haven't seen any crawling bugs anywhere with a 60x, the underside of leaves is spotless, i just seem to be getting slowly increasing damage to the older leaves, yellow spots, burnt spots, tiny white specks.

My temp is between 22-26c
Humidity 40-60
Started giving nutrients at the beggining of the week (gave some more yesterday)
I have a fan blowing on them constantly (could this be problematic?)
Organic grower - no PH testing

Thanks in advance for any help!

Peace

 

[EvilTwin]

Hi Chronic,
I noticed your thread and thought I'd take a look. I probably don't have anything too useful to say. The plants look very healthy to me. The small defects you're worried about...well hell, I rarely look at my plants that closely. As long as they stay looking that nice...I wouldn't worry about it. Plants do have immune systems and can handle some issues by themselves,

Blowing fans serve a couple purposes. With seedlings, it helps to develop a strong stem. On older plants you really need just enough movement so that you don't get dead air layers on the leaves. You want fresh air with CO2 to be available to the leaf surface. So that's why people have fans and oscillating ones are best. Having a strong fan blowing directly on the plant continuously is a stress. So depending on the size of your fan...it may or may not be an issue.

Maybe someone else can comment on your other concerns.
Cheers,
ET

 

[oregon024]

I think they look good.

 

[redandblack303]

Hi Chronic,
I noticed your thread and thought I'd take a look. I probably don't have anything too useful to say. The plants look very healthy to me. The small defects you're worried about...well hell, I rarely look at my plants that closely. As long as they stay looking that nice...I wouldn't worry about it. Plants do have immune systems and can handle some issues by themselves,

Blowing fans serve a couple purposes. With seedlings, it helps to develop a strong stem. On older plants you really need just enough movement so that you don't get dead air layers on the leaves. You want fresh air with CO2 to be available to the leaf surface. So that's why people have fans and oscillating ones are best. Having a strong fan blowing directly on the plant continuously is a stress. So depending on the size of your fan...it may or may not be an issue.

Maybe someone else can comment on your other concerns.
Cheers,
ET

I agree. I do think however that does look like a little under watered. What is your medium? Looks like coco but maybe soil? If soil I would give it a nice big dose of water and nutes, but that's me. I would also transplant that beauty into a bigger container. I use 7 gal bags, and get some nice big healthy roots. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Chronic777]

Thanks for the replies, on the whole they do look healthy, i just want them to be perfect
When i see brown spots or holes i wanna get onit, when you look with a microcope & see microscopic damage it looks exactly the same, scary, just on a smaller scale...

The soil is Canna Bio-Terra, it holds water almost too well, when i water around 1ltr it stays wet, when ever i stick my finger in, even after 5 days, its still wet!
Its hard to get run off unless in a small pot

I gave a second nice big feed with Nutes yesterday (Bio-Vega, Hygrozyme, Bio-Rhizotonic) and im getting loads of little leaf sets, it seems a very very compact plant, Blue Cheese
Im keeping the plant in the 11ltr pot for its whole life, i heard the yeilds arent any less than a 19ltr pot plus ive only got a small space
It seems to love its 6 hours of darkness more than the 18 hours of light...

 

[redandblack303]

Thanks for the replies, on the whole they do look healthy, i just want them to be perfect
When i see brown spots or holes i wanna get onit, when you look with a microcope & see microscopic damage it looks exactly the same, scary, just on a smaller scale...

The soil is Canna Bio-Terra, it holds water almost too well, when i water around 1ltr it stays wet, when ever i stick my finger in, even after 5 days, its still wet!
Its hard to get run off unless in a small pot

I gave a second nice big feed with Nutes yesterday (Bio-Vega, Hygrozyme, Bio-Rhizotonic) and im getting loads of little leaf sets, it seems a very very compact plant, Blue Cheese
Im keeping the plant in the 11ltr pot for its whole life, i heard the yeilds arent any less than a 19ltr pot plus ive only got a small space
It seems to love its 6 hours of darkness more than the 18 hours of light...

I think you just answered it right there. 5 days is a little long IMO. A little perlite in the next batch will help out with that. Good drainage allows for oxygen to be taken in by the roots. TLC and she'll perk back up no time.

 

[Chronic777]

TLC and she'll perk back up no time.

She has!

I found a good feed & moving the light a lil bit further away made the leaves perk back up

 

[redandblack303]

Glad to hear any picture updates? Happy New Year, Overgrow the Government!!!!!!!!!!!!!!