400w HPS, Blumats, Smartpots with Golden Label nutrients

omgwt · Sep 29, 2014

I still see signs of nutrient deficiency so I will up the nutrients to 2.0 per Liter from 1.5 the past week and see what happens

4tokin · Sep 29, 2014

From my limited experience with blumats it looks like your pots are way to dry. Your pots need to be wet enough so you have little to no run off. Flush with 1.2/1.4 solution for a week to stabilise the plant media. 1.8/2.0 is way to high for your stage of growth.
There is a good thread in cannabis questions that will help you. Read it all then ask questions.

omgwt · Sep 29, 2014

There are clear signs of spidermites (I could see them crawling under a leaf) so I'm gonna have to emergency order some stuff against it and more MG/enzyme solution. I still don't think 2.0 is too much frankly because they still show yellowing of leaves. Yes there are good threads, but this is more of a diary than anything, If someone has some input I'll take that into consideration but it's not a help my plants are dying thread, so far i've battled the pH problem and upped nutes and they still aren't satisfied so I'm upping it some more.. If I see more than the tips burn I'll simply go down a bit!

stoned40yrs · Sep 29, 2014

omgwt said:
There are clear signs of spidermites (I could see them crawling under a leaf) so I'm gonna have to emergency order some stuff against it and more MG/enzyme solution. I still don't think 2.0 is too much frankly because they still show yellowing of leaves. Yes there are good threads, but this is more of a diary than anything, If someone has some input I'll take that into consideration but it's not a help my plants are dying thread, so far i've battled the pH problem and upped nutes and they still aren't satisfied so I'm upping it some more.. If I see more than the tips burn I'll simply go down a bit!

You won't find anyone to agree that going up to and past 2.0ec will help :biggrin:

Them little 8 legged pricks are in control of your plant, not you :tiphat:

4tokin · Sep 30, 2014

omgwt said:
There are clear signs of spidermites (I could see them crawling under a leaf) so I'm gonna have to emergency order some stuff against it and more MG/enzyme solution. I still don't think 2.0 is too much frankly because they still show yellowing of leaves. Yes there are good threads, but this is more of a diary than anything, If someone has some input I'll take that into consideration but it's not a help my plants are dying thread, so far i've battled the pH problem and upped nutes and they still aren't satisfied so I'm upping it some more.. If I see more than the tips burn I'll simply go down a bit!

Reread my post.
By improving your plant health they will be in a better physical condition to fight the bugs and cope with the insecticide you are about to use.
Other wise they will be dead in a week or three.

stevewinthrop · Sep 30, 2014

RHe doesnt have an EC meter, he means 2.0ml per gallon.

4tokin · Sep 30, 2014

stevewinthrop said:
RHe doesnt have an EC meter, he means 2.0ml per gallon.

Apologies, another case of RUI
From what I have found the dose rates on the bottles can give high EC levels.
Not having an EC meter is a major issue that needs to be addressed. In the meantime I would suggest he take a sample of his nutes to his local hydro shop and they should be able to test the EC levels for him.

omgwt · Oct 3, 2014

I am now at 2.0 ML A+B Golden Label Coco, 0.1ML GL Enzyme & 1 ML GL MG per liter - the plants look great, starting to get that darker green on the leaves and they look in general really healthy for having those pesky green spidermites, I have sprayed them with Pyrethrum EC one time now, I tried to cover all leaves on both sides but I saw some buggers still alive today so I'm probably gonna do a spray down or two the next couple of days (it is organic and used for other eadible vegetebles from what I understand so shouldn't be much harm [made from a flower etc])

Anyway, here's a quick snap I took just now after removing some lower canopy (still a bit left tho, it's really starting to become a huge jungle in the tent, they grow so fast right now!)

omgwt · Oct 3, 2014

And to you guys - I mean 2 ML per Litre, and they show absolutely no signs of burning, Remember I'm using Golden Label nutrients, the dutch companies products, maybe you are thinking of General Hydroponics nutrients?

omgwt · Oct 3, 2014

(Still no edits possible, sry for double posts etc.)

Oh yeah, I forgot to say that I might even up to 2.2-2,5ML per litre because I've read that a little burning on the tips is a good sign where to stop feeding more, and I've yet to encounter that... But I'll let them be on 2.0 til sometime next week.

And after the buggs are gone I think im gonna spray them again with this thing my hydro shop gifted me, HALO - supposedly helps the plant when you switch different growth stages etc (I applied it one time in late vegg so that leaves me 3 more times til harvest)

omgwt · Oct 7, 2014

The Jungle keeps growing, hehe. I'm not sure when I should start removing a shit ton of leaves because they're basicly growing on top of eachother now!

Unclecrash · Oct 7, 2014

Looking Good!!

omgwt · Oct 8, 2014

this is from 23rd of september

this is 8th of october

I'm honestly scared that the girls will outgrow their growing area by height right now, having only a 160 cm tall tent is not the best thing but they don't make this size any taller.

omgwt · Oct 16, 2014

16th october:
http://i.imgur.com/Vq1UYsj.jpg

omgwt · Oct 16, 2014

16th of october

omgwt · Oct 16, 2014

trimmed a lot today, the lower branches were just a waste of energy and a lot of leaves covered several flowers so it was really necessary, sprayed them with A lot of pythrium 5ec, almost a liter per plant id say. I hope the damn spidermites are gone from my lovely girls for good now.

Unclecrash · Oct 16, 2014

Ya I clean all the crap off the lower area's. It's just a hiding place for mite's. How long you been in Flower?

Weeded1s · Oct 16, 2014

U can take your cuttings from those if there healthy..not sur if your gonna try to run them again or not.

omgwt · Oct 22, 2014

Hey guys, i probably switched 2-3 weeks ago now, they are now starting to budd up i would say. They smell really nice, i can tell which ones are iced grapefruit because they are so fruity all 3 of them. Not to say the PureAK's smell bad but damn the fruity smell is delicious.
I removed the added MG from my nute schedule now, going with 2ML per litre with A+B, 0.1ML of Enzymes from now and i'll add some PK soonish (starting next week I think).
pH still constant 5,7-6.0 range.

So my girls were getting way too tall - I even started burning one of the top colas - so I had to put an hour into re-organising my entire tent. I now have the fan on top of the tent pulling air from the carbon filter inside - removing the cooling for the 400w in a cooltube, it's working fine as a regular reflector, albeit it gets a bit warmer around it i guess. Added a small hanging fan blowing towards the cooltube, might have some effect, or not. ^^
I also moved around my nute tank and re-did the pipes on the bottom to fit the (hopefully) final placement of the pots.

I made a short video, a short overview of my tent

https://vid.me/e54

Weeded1s · Oct 23, 2014

Air cool that thing with 1 more inline fan and feel that neg pressure. Wadiddo

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