Sweetdog760
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Hey everyone. Just wanted to introduce my self and say thank you to everyone for contributing such great info.
I'm a newish grower. I ran a small medical home grow op a few years ago with some success. Grew for prob about 18 months or so. Pretty much fucked up every crop except the last two. I started with flood tables in a garage. Had some serious environment control issues and ended up with pm over and over again. Then I moved the grow in to the house to an extra room i had and switched to coco and things were much better. I was using the Botanicare line. Pulled about a lb off a 1000w light on a 4x4 table. Not amazing i know but I was happy about it. I had more success growing outside. I basically did the same thing i did indoors but with 20 g grow bags. That one came out really good. I got an estimated 4-5 lbs from about a dozen plants. Stuff looked like indoor but smelled even better and had much denser bud structure. Unfortunately that entire crop got stolen. My next crop after that as an indoor that hermied on me. That coupled with some legal trouble forced me to move to a small apartment where I could no longer grow.
Fast forward a few years and here I am going at it again. I've grown an organic vegie garden for the last 2 years so I have some experience with organics but I wouldn't consider my self a "great" gardener. Starting to grow cannabis again has really advanced my knowledge of organics so I forsee this next years garden being my best yet.
Anyways, I'm growing indoors in a 5x10' tent. 1 1000w light (I'm going to swap it out for 2 600's at some point in the future) but the tents not full so it's really not necessary right now.
I've got 8 plants started from seed (Citrus Black by solfire genetics) in 10 gal fabric parts. I basically used Coots mix. Other than the Peat and pumice in the mix I added worm castings, cow compost, (charged) bio char, neem meal, crab meal, and kelp meal along with some rock dusts. I can't remember the ratios off the top of my head but it was basically what coot recommends. I topdressed with some home made worm castings and then covered with hay.
Seeds were started in small cups then transplanted straight into their 10 gal homes at about 2" tall. That was about 4-5 weeks ago. But the plants missed about a week of growing time when they had to be stored in a closet for an annual inspection by my landlord.
Plants get a foliar spray containing some silica, essential oils, sea 90 (basically sea salt), and a nitrogen containing amino acid powder once to twice a week. Then they get a worm or alfalfa tea also, which I water in as well as foliar. I do that bout once a week. But missed that this last week. The essential oils got added to the foliar after I found some little flying bugs. I think they were fungus nats but i'm not sure. They were gone after 2 applications so what ever they were I'm not worried any more.
So everythings been growing really good. Then about a week ago or maybe a little more I noticed small brown spots forming on the lower older fan leaves. It continued to get worse (not horrible or anything) then I started getting some twisting my fan leaves. I think it's a magnesium or calcium deficiency. I also realize that I could have been over watering. I'm hoping it's the latter because I was under the influence that there was plenty of mg and ca in my mix. And this is brand new soil so no chance of depletion.
2 days ago I made up a kelp tea (for ca) and mixed in some epsom salt (for mg) to try and address the issue. I think they look better already but it's hard to tell. They're definitely still growing well, in fact I feel like they really just took off around the same time the issue started developing. I realize I could just go grab some cal-mag but I'm pretty determined to keep this grow organic and not buy anything from the hydro store. Plus I know that won't really fix the problem. This crop is just for my self, family, and friends so I could technically afford to lose the whole crop but I might cry (at least on this inside) if that happens. I planned on flowering the plants in about 2 weeks but I want to make sure I have this issue corrected or at least headed in the right direction before then.
I was going to post this in the infirmary to begin with but i figured the guys that know how to fix it are going to be here and I've been meaning to start a little grow log.
Thanks in advance for reading and/ or contributing.
pics coming very soon...5 min
I'm a newish grower. I ran a small medical home grow op a few years ago with some success. Grew for prob about 18 months or so. Pretty much fucked up every crop except the last two. I started with flood tables in a garage. Had some serious environment control issues and ended up with pm over and over again. Then I moved the grow in to the house to an extra room i had and switched to coco and things were much better. I was using the Botanicare line. Pulled about a lb off a 1000w light on a 4x4 table. Not amazing i know but I was happy about it. I had more success growing outside. I basically did the same thing i did indoors but with 20 g grow bags. That one came out really good. I got an estimated 4-5 lbs from about a dozen plants. Stuff looked like indoor but smelled even better and had much denser bud structure. Unfortunately that entire crop got stolen. My next crop after that as an indoor that hermied on me. That coupled with some legal trouble forced me to move to a small apartment where I could no longer grow.
Fast forward a few years and here I am going at it again. I've grown an organic vegie garden for the last 2 years so I have some experience with organics but I wouldn't consider my self a "great" gardener. Starting to grow cannabis again has really advanced my knowledge of organics so I forsee this next years garden being my best yet.
Anyways, I'm growing indoors in a 5x10' tent. 1 1000w light (I'm going to swap it out for 2 600's at some point in the future) but the tents not full so it's really not necessary right now.
I've got 8 plants started from seed (Citrus Black by solfire genetics) in 10 gal fabric parts. I basically used Coots mix. Other than the Peat and pumice in the mix I added worm castings, cow compost, (charged) bio char, neem meal, crab meal, and kelp meal along with some rock dusts. I can't remember the ratios off the top of my head but it was basically what coot recommends. I topdressed with some home made worm castings and then covered with hay.
Seeds were started in small cups then transplanted straight into their 10 gal homes at about 2" tall. That was about 4-5 weeks ago. But the plants missed about a week of growing time when they had to be stored in a closet for an annual inspection by my landlord.
Plants get a foliar spray containing some silica, essential oils, sea 90 (basically sea salt), and a nitrogen containing amino acid powder once to twice a week. Then they get a worm or alfalfa tea also, which I water in as well as foliar. I do that bout once a week. But missed that this last week. The essential oils got added to the foliar after I found some little flying bugs. I think they were fungus nats but i'm not sure. They were gone after 2 applications so what ever they were I'm not worried any more.
So everythings been growing really good. Then about a week ago or maybe a little more I noticed small brown spots forming on the lower older fan leaves. It continued to get worse (not horrible or anything) then I started getting some twisting my fan leaves. I think it's a magnesium or calcium deficiency. I also realize that I could have been over watering. I'm hoping it's the latter because I was under the influence that there was plenty of mg and ca in my mix. And this is brand new soil so no chance of depletion.
2 days ago I made up a kelp tea (for ca) and mixed in some epsom salt (for mg) to try and address the issue. I think they look better already but it's hard to tell. They're definitely still growing well, in fact I feel like they really just took off around the same time the issue started developing. I realize I could just go grab some cal-mag but I'm pretty determined to keep this grow organic and not buy anything from the hydro store. Plus I know that won't really fix the problem. This crop is just for my self, family, and friends so I could technically afford to lose the whole crop but I might cry (at least on this inside) if that happens. I planned on flowering the plants in about 2 weeks but I want to make sure I have this issue corrected or at least headed in the right direction before then.
I was going to post this in the infirmary to begin with but i figured the guys that know how to fix it are going to be here and I've been meaning to start a little grow log.
Thanks in advance for reading and/ or contributing.
pics coming very soon...5 min