Coco Week 7-8-9 or something flowering

[simple-Steve]

So I suppose it was a few weeks ago, week 6 or 7 that I noticed a tad bit of a burn on the upper leaves, along with a little yellowing. I figured it was nute burn or salt build up. It most likely was, it has cleared up for the most part.

In the process, I decided to grab a drip system from lowes. I went ahead and attached an attachment to a 2.5 distilled water container (the same kind I buy to mix nutes with)

Set it up, got it running. Loved the amount of run-off I could get without having to sit there with the girls. (they are also in 2.5 distilled water containers, recycling ftw! )

I made damned sure I was running TONS of water through them now, but wait! TOO much water/nutes!

Ph'd from 5.7 to 5.9
EC of roughly .9 - 1.3

I over watered the hell out of them. Too much love! Now I've been letting them dry out for 2 days, run the drip only for a few minutes and bam, they are back to their normal selves.

Coco is great, coco is awesome, cannabis just doesn't like wet feet!

 

[simple-Steve]

 

[DrDee]

Hi SS,
Well they don't seem to have suffered any damage. They look great and nice shots too...
DrDee

 

[simple-Steve]

Thank you Dee. It's been a fun grow, fungus gnats are always a bitch for me, dunno if it's just the location or if it's wifey with her houseplants.

Just a few more weeks and I'll put up some bud porn. Wifey wants mostly amber, she loves the couchlock.

 

[RonSmooth]

I have been dealing with the same problem. Rolled leaf margins and twisted/slightly burnt tips. This only happens mid-late flower.

I thought it was radiant heat stress but the problem didnt improve when I increased airflow and raised the light considerably.

I have low RH in the winter, between 30-40%. I am thinking this must have something to do with it. I have also been watering with straight tap water to use up the remaining nutrients. I dont pH the water during this phase, I suppose it could have something to do with that as well. I am not too concerned as it doesnt seem to hurt to final product but I am curious as to why it happens.

If you find something that works please let us know.

DOesnt seem to affect anything but the upper fan leaves.

 

[simple-Steve]

Interesting! You have practically the same condition as I do. Same RH in winter, Mid-late flower. I've raised the light, increased airflow, even installed a fan that pulls from down by the containers to up top, in hopes that maybe the RH will go up a tad, cooler air, ect.

I don't use tap, I run Distilled @ 0ppm. Cal/mag up until 2 weeks in flowering.
I always PH/EC my nutes, just got a new meter, very happy about this.

I've had some reduction in the past with it, this run has been better by far, I'm looking forward to recording and this time I might actually report the results. See if we can get better at this together.

Thanks for stopping by!