Hi everyone!
This is my first time growing. I've done a fair amount of research and just received my clones two days ago from a buddy. I have 7 clones, all Strawberry Cough, and they came to me in decent condition.
I am no expert in diagnosis and I became a little bit concerned on my second day when I noticed some light white spotting on some of the leaves. I was hoping to get some input on that, as well. Anyway, before all that, here's my set-up:
2x Secrect Jardin Dark Room II
2x EcoGroLED 135W UFO
1x Sunleaves 4" WindTunnel
1x 4" Phresh Filter
1x Fox Farm Ocean Forest
1x Fox Farm Light Warrior
1x Fox Farm Soluable Trio
Other than that...Uhm, I am using grow bags to grow in. I started off with 1 gallon bags, filled with 50/50 OF/LW, rolled down about half way. I will roll them up as the plants grow and fill with more OF and start to work in nutrients as needed. I did not add any nutrients at the start as I did not want to risk a chemical burn. Starting with 50% LW is to help the clones take root quicker and just generally be more gentle on the plants during their youth stage.
I'm keeping the lights running from 7AM to 7PM currently, so 12/12. I'm probably going to bump it up to like 7 AM to 8:30PM once the clones get going a bit more and leave them at that for vegging. The lights are currently a foot above the canopy -- again for the clones. I'm going to let them grow to about 8 inches away from it before I start pulling it back with them. Because I'm using LEDs I can only support up to a 3 foot plant before the blue spectrum stops penetrating fully and the bottom leaves start dieing off. I've got no experience in low-stress training, but I'm going to do my best at keeping each plant's branches low and spread out. In addition, I'm going to top any that grow a bit too fast and try and keep them all away from that 3 foot mark for a while.
So, here's an album full of pictures I just took tonight. If you click Image Options -> View High Res you can see a larger picture of each of them.
Here's a few pictures from the album so you don't have to click the link if you don't want to:
Obvious white specs. Other than that looks healthy.
Some discoloration on lower leaf. Was there when I was given the clone. What could it be?
Little bit of curling on those back leaves?
I have a couple of concerns. First off, the obvious white specs on the plants. The larger specs aren't important -- I got some soil on the leaves and didn't dust it all off. The white spotting, however, I have no idea about. I looked at them for a while and checked the undersides, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. The only thing I can think of is that when I was pouring water onto the plants I poured it directly over them -- making the leaves wet. The water had an altered, slightly low pH because the soil was at a 7.5 and I wanted to bring it down to a 6.5. I'm not sure if pouring 5.5-6.0 water over the leaves would cause this?
In addition, you can see in some of the pictures slight curling on the ends of the leaves. I looked at the weed ailement identification chart, but couldn't figure out mine. When do I know if it's a problem? At first sight, or do leaves just do small things out of your control sometimes?
Anyway.. thanks in advance for any help. I'm really trying to do this right, but who knew plants could be so complicated!
This is my first time growing. I've done a fair amount of research and just received my clones two days ago from a buddy. I have 7 clones, all Strawberry Cough, and they came to me in decent condition.
I am no expert in diagnosis and I became a little bit concerned on my second day when I noticed some light white spotting on some of the leaves. I was hoping to get some input on that, as well. Anyway, before all that, here's my set-up:
2x Secrect Jardin Dark Room II
2x EcoGroLED 135W UFO
1x Sunleaves 4" WindTunnel
1x 4" Phresh Filter
1x Fox Farm Ocean Forest
1x Fox Farm Light Warrior
1x Fox Farm Soluable Trio
Other than that...Uhm, I am using grow bags to grow in. I started off with 1 gallon bags, filled with 50/50 OF/LW, rolled down about half way. I will roll them up as the plants grow and fill with more OF and start to work in nutrients as needed. I did not add any nutrients at the start as I did not want to risk a chemical burn. Starting with 50% LW is to help the clones take root quicker and just generally be more gentle on the plants during their youth stage.
I'm keeping the lights running from 7AM to 7PM currently, so 12/12. I'm probably going to bump it up to like 7 AM to 8:30PM once the clones get going a bit more and leave them at that for vegging. The lights are currently a foot above the canopy -- again for the clones. I'm going to let them grow to about 8 inches away from it before I start pulling it back with them. Because I'm using LEDs I can only support up to a 3 foot plant before the blue spectrum stops penetrating fully and the bottom leaves start dieing off. I've got no experience in low-stress training, but I'm going to do my best at keeping each plant's branches low and spread out. In addition, I'm going to top any that grow a bit too fast and try and keep them all away from that 3 foot mark for a while.
So, here's an album full of pictures I just took tonight. If you click Image Options -> View High Res you can see a larger picture of each of them.
Here's a few pictures from the album so you don't have to click the link if you don't want to:
I have a couple of concerns. First off, the obvious white specs on the plants. The larger specs aren't important -- I got some soil on the leaves and didn't dust it all off. The white spotting, however, I have no idea about. I looked at them for a while and checked the undersides, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. The only thing I can think of is that when I was pouring water onto the plants I poured it directly over them -- making the leaves wet. The water had an altered, slightly low pH because the soil was at a 7.5 and I wanted to bring it down to a 6.5. I'm not sure if pouring 5.5-6.0 water over the leaves would cause this?
In addition, you can see in some of the pictures slight curling on the ends of the leaves. I looked at the weed ailement identification chart, but couldn't figure out mine. When do I know if it's a problem? At first sight, or do leaves just do small things out of your control sometimes?
Anyway.. thanks in advance for any help. I'm really trying to do this right, but who knew plants could be so complicated!