First time grower, AlphaKronik Gobstopper , soil

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Pre diagnosis , boss is sleeping let’s see if I’m learning

Minor draw string , multiple leaf turn upside down .
Unrelated red and yellow spots on old growth mite damage and antibacterial soap spray caused it I think

the color of new growth is ... odd I’m color blind can’t explain, blotchy maybe ? Extremely inconsistent new growth color

start of deficiencies in biggie causing growth stunting ,


40 percent of lil starting minor drawstring. Growth on lil solid surpassing big

lil is 2 weeks of straight water behind big , big is advanced deficiency lil is in first stage only newest growth in newly exposed center is blotchy


So here is the results , We realized my measuring spoons had a line half way up that was the measurement. I was not doing that right so i was giving 80/20 ml base / calmag.
Having the nute juice twice the strength gave me N tox which locked up the ph and it stopped eating . Hence the Ntox&tip burn , AND drawstringing.

Not the soil.
Not the other stuff.
Measuring cups were giving me twice the needed measure. Right ratio, twice strength., few weeks of water only and the blotchyness is the plant not being happy. The tips burned on straight water because as it unlocked it started eating all the shit ive been putting in thinking it was eating., Another week or two of water only and it sorted it self out and got blotchy telling me to feed it.

20ml base 10 ml calmag 5 gals water in. 5 gals water yesterday in.
2.5 gals out looked like green tea.

Minor ick coming from drain pan. Pouring h202 in to neutralize. will reasses in week to see if the ick was residual or drainage. if drainage might like to check into other problems.

Minor haircut on lil (right side) targeting "inward facing old growth" translates to all that dark green shit that was all twisted ant pointing up . It opened the center which we are trying to coax into growing out. The sex organ looks, well it looks like a pollen sack about to open. Kinda tempted to wet it just incase.

Manicure to big, Removing the extreme damage , trimming the moderate (leafs cut in half) , and prepping the heads to try to get the slower ones growing.

Noticed the light was cooking the dehumidifier and njot hitting front side fo big. Moved it a bit got left front of big growing , but right front stagnates. Realized i put the reflector on to prevent me catching hair on fire again. Removed it , will try not to be an idiot again. Hopeing in 7 days we wont be seeing the top left corner of the white bucket cause it starts filling in proper now. The growth heads are starting to grow. I thought it was mites still but my poision killed em dead. I think I nailed the diagnosis.

Fingers crossed. PS am total introvert. This corona virus thing is well, aside from the corpses (not many here ) kinda nice.

 

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please see this post, it aided me in my diagnosis. https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/red-stems.284769/

 

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Lil is at best herm, but it was dropping 2 pollen sacks so I sold it for 20$ to a friend to goof with. just to try to keep big clear of seeds if possible .

Moment of silence for lil, she was a great looking plant.

gutted

 

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not sure etiquette ,

sold lil to buddy for 20 . Think it’s herm at best. Separation means I canpollemate big with Lil pollen and get viable seeds . Separation was needed .

round 2 begin:

Peanut butter parfait
Alphakronik f2
Puppy monkey baby
Og18 bag seed de cresco

 

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Alphakronik f2 Wins the race , cracking in the water in the 23 hour.

Puppy Monkey Baby, still hasnt cracked.
The rest have tiny taproots visable , TP to rapid rooter pointy end down. Dome in use. No heat pad once out of the ziplocks , i found they confused the taproot. Cotillons tried to push down . So this time trying it with just incandescent , 2.5 feet from top of dome.


Biggie , only remaining mature plant is starting to grow where I wanted. The heads are kind of spindly still and struggling because of my cropping. But they have started growing and using lst to encourage the slower stuff to grow putting its leafs on top.

Not a single clone ive taken roots. I can keep them from deflating and dying , i can even get them to grow ever so slightly , but i wiped out all the clones when i scrubbed lil, and noticed not a single one had any type of root . Boss has me making an aeroponic bucket with 1.5 inch net pots for my rapid rooters so I can make some viable clones. Hydro store guy was kind enough to tell me i was dumb for jamming it in dirt. Use the rooter plug. When i see roots plant it.



Really disappointed Puppy Monkey Baby is being slow assed. Its GG#4 x snowdawgbx. I was really hoping this one turned out strong.
My og18 is a cresco bag seed. it popped , second place.


Oh and Biggie is .......



A





GIRL!!!!

 

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25 ml base 10 calmag 5 gals water
Estimate 2 or 3 gals out

she’s growing again . Eating again , unlocked from n tox

oh to water I use a 5 gal bucket and a pump and 15 feet of hose to control output pressure . Then a extension cord with button to turn on and off .
Shop vac to retrieve runoff it gets stanky if you don’t

no tip burn 20 10 so upto 2510 .Spindly leafs and new growth is either mites or nute lock . Not sure which but it’s growing again and has no balls moreover has lots of pistols so I’m happy. There’s like 22 heads on this plant and bosssays 5 to 7 grams a head figure 100 grams conservative if I get lucky

I can see peanut butter parfait is winning the race now , with movement in the rapid rooter , og18 is second and I didn’t uncover Alphakronik f2 to check cause it’s supposed to be the strongest smelling of my Seed bank ,

puppy monkey baby still no joy , sad panda

hopefully they send me another one cause I was looking forward to seeing how it did

oh the mini solos are ghost peppers I’m gonna give out topeople

 

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These cultivators are making it easy on me.
8 viable mag mile seeds from a single top shelf bag.

OG18 bagseed from cresco sprouted super fast but ejected itself from its rapid rooter. Its in straight dirt and i took off its helmet it was extraordinarily tight. had to crack it with tweezers

Biggie is growing nicely. Found a carpet beetle on her, Inspected found no others. Going to put a perimeter of bug juice in the tent perimeter to prevent stragglers. I notice when the door is open the little shits crawl out of the heat vents to the light. Perimeter poison should do the trick . These little shits eat a lot. Act quickly and decisively.

 

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Puppy Monkey baby. no joy still not broken ground. Suspect the shell of the seed was not intact.

og18 bagseed grew so fast it pushed itself out of the rooter. So i tp it to dirt direct. Its happy but taking time to open. Took 24 hours to straighten out.



alphakronic f2 , won the race to crack and then had over watered ever so slightly .. But shes on her way now , even got her hat off. Your eyes to not lie, its a tiny red cup.


With peanut butter parfait bringing up the rear . Took its helmet off and she’s good to grow .

mag landrace bag seed is slow

Biggie had a single spider in her yesterday trying to I’d it so I don’t spray for it if I don’t have to

 

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Cleaned yellow decaying leaf from center of big .

my buddy pretty well killed lil with neglect.

og18 is doing very well

Alphakronik f2 is trying to live , I think I over watered and started to dampen off

peanut butter parfait looking good . Was loose in rooter so to to dirt and hoped , looks like it’s working out .

Puppy monkey baby is looking rough

And mag mile cracked so I put it in dirt

I put in 5 gals 35 10

 

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She grows !

I am not good at cloning .


Og18 is leggy


puppy monkey baby LIVES


Alphakronik f2


peanutbutter parfait


and mag mile I am waiting for to break ground in dirt

using bottled water .

I suck at growing ghost peppers

 

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100% germ rate.

biggie got topped 3 times on her best growing colas. Major trimming on the underside took off all the pinner stems and jammed them into rapid rooters to try to get a single viable clone of biggie.

I took a bunch of crappy looking leafs and cleaned out inside of some yellow necrotic leafage,

Minor darkening on biggie,soooo i dumped 2 gals of water in her . She immediately lightened. 25/10 it is. prolly will get minor tip burn but shouldnt be too bad.

We decided to top and try to fill out 5 colas ive been working on the front , lower side of the bush. Manipulated my lighting to give better coverage of the sides while using overlapping coverage to maintain the top. Buddy killed lil in a week. Guess we wont be seeding all of these new seedlings then.

 

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Working on a cloner bucket. Just need to drill the lid but need tools so its on hold.

Bucket 5 gal + lid.
ecoplus lowest fixed flow pump
1/2 inch riser threaded
and a spray nozle. https://www.rainbird.com/products/a17-plastic-shrubbery-spray-nozzles
netcups for the top to hold either rapid rooters or rockwool.,

The pump comes with a bottom feeder intake , and the top output is half inch. Threaded riser to sprinkler nozzle and jam it in the bucket.


Stuck all my clippings from clearing the undergrowth into rooters and into a dome to see if i could get one to stick. dispatched 2 this morning. 8 attempts for one to root left. All my seedlings took off . OG 18 just keeps getting taller. I even replanted it lower to try to combat it but it just keeps going. This is the one I expect to fail so far to make room for the clone i hope roots. Stuck it under the 400watt cobs It will either stop growing legs or melt.

1 hour passes ...

Looks like its gonna melt under the cobs. Moving it back .

 

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Topped the green heads. The rest started growing rapidly. Giving it a week to add some height to the lower colas that exploded when I topped.

Ive reexamined my methods cloning. of ten attempts Im down to like 6 and 3 of those are shitty. They just wont die. Im doing things right. but so far only one has rooted and only after like 3 months of diligent watering. Its the one i gave away. So I think its something im doing .
1. Snip with pruning sheers.
2. Cut45 degree cut with blade.
3. Cut other side off makes a little wedge.
4. Dip the thing an inch into clonex gel
5. Set in (not so) rapid rooter.
6. Set in humidity dome.

water is 7.0 bottle water. is ph the problem?

The littles are doing great . 100% germ rate. Assuming I will end up culling atleast half of them. So my every intention is to stay within my legal limit..... of nugget producing plants. IE i will never flower more than my legal 5. at one time. But I dont count clippings till they are 1 week post rooting. And seedlings only once sexed.
Apparently it’s possible to sex them by mailing a leaf out .

 

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ph of my soil was 7.1 / 7.0 . Trying to unlock it so I can flower. Ran 5 gals thru which wiped out most of the residual nutes and 5.6 ph 5gals to unlock her . Almost instantly started getting dark green. I can only imagine what would have happened if I hadnt kept watering till the runoff was more light tea color instead of dark brown before ph 5.6 water x 5 gals. The lighter she got from being locked , the more nutes ive been giving . Now counter intuitively, I watered the shit out of her and shes gonna over eat like a mofo over the next 2-3 waterings (6 days) despite not actually feeding anything. ive been feeding thinking it was light add more nutes. so all that stuff is mostly still in the soil in massive quantities. So i need to get as much of that shit out

I was trying to use the gh ph down cause i paid 20 for it. I knew better than to use it in dwc but didnt know better than to use it in soil . It evaporates and you eventually end up with a horrible ph. Saw some weird shit on the edges of the leafs , like the super skinny dimension . It was fluorescent yellow. I spent all day chasing nute deficiencies in books. boss sorted me out after i figured it was ph. No longer using the gh ph down. I could leave the jug open to remove the stuff that rapidly evaporates to make it more stable but ill just diy it.

Littles are doing great. My two bagseeds are incredibly robust , fast growing , rapidly maturing plants. They grow kinda quick under the leds. I intend to give the budtender who gave me them a nug to thank him.

My ma who is all sorts of messed up, and my motivation behind getting good at this, Her birthday is like a week away so might aim for that day to flip. gotta see how she grows . I should have been checking weekly the soil ph. We expect we might need a few waterings to sort this out. Perhaps down to two days between just to flush it out. Ive gotten a few comments about flushing soil. Its super forgiving I can screw up and burn it and catch it in the first 6 hours and then water the crap out of it 12 hours later and because of the smart pot and the drain pan it never overwaters . Just cant do it too much. She relaxed overnight after 10 gals .

This morning shes vibrant and growing fast as f , and not showing even the slightest sign of burn yet . We know the soil is super jacked up with nutes. The give away is Extremely green node, and then a very light one , and a halt in growing , followed by yellow edges, followed by yellow leafs , followed by necrotic leafs . 7.0 ph is ugly.

Looking good , removed one little to artificially leg up the stem to 2 inches over soil. TP wants soil over the rooter sponge. First run taught me watering is a pain in the butt if you dont account for some space to work. cotyledons were 1 inch over soil last time.

 

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switching to sulfuric acid to ph down , lends to mold resistance. (spots on leafs) sterilized dehumidifier took it apart and sterilized it. =D

tried to get mag mile to grow 2.5 inches of stem but it refused and reacted to being starved light (under incandescent 3 feet) with growing another node.

Closed velcro vents , installed second 6 inch duct inlet. Ordered tube to make it light proof & filters to keep out bugs and dust.

Working on schedule to be legal. So far we think its going to work out to use two tents. a veg and a flower tent. Veg all 5 as i am. Then flower one. Wait a few weeks and flower another. a bit of math with desired daily ration and harvest times and we should have a little pot factory going.

 

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Trashed entirerty of clones , cept 2 , it molded over. cut new one and fired up supercloner bucket .

 

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We figured it out,

Excessive calcium in the water......

So we N locked it because boss is used to cococoir / used depleted soil.
Then we ph locked the soil, batteries went dead in my meter. and ph'd 0 ppm water which doesnt work.
Then we realized we N locked it and flushed.
Nlock release turned it DARK green and we flushed. Our goal was to deplete the soil by flushing it excessively. So the bosses ratios in flower could work their magic.

Problem we DIDNT see was excessive calcium in the water. causing calcium lockout due to the nutes we were trying to feed it.

Its also cause i was using 10ml of camg+ (rolls eyes)


Soooo. dont use calmag .
dont use camg+
dont give it just water (too much calcium in it where im at)


15 ml base this time , just so we dont cause massive burn. We think ideal is around 20 or so but working to it slowly. The plant instantly perked up. We flushed the camg+ out last night with 5.8ph water. about 2 gals . This morning it had more spots (}we thought were mold orfungus due to light on / off shift causing huge humidity till i realized it and fixed it. ) This confirmed the spots were from flushing it. We have depleted the soil of what it can be depleted of. So when we flushed cause i was using calmag / camg+ in ludicrous amounts It was then starving the plant.

so it instantly perked up when after flushing it yesterday, i gave it 5 gals of 15ml base . instantly started looking happy. 20ml base next time.

I almost killed it , because of the minute differences in my grow to bosses setup. Even with the boss and his crew supporting its still easy to mistake nutedeficiencies with mold/fungus and thank god i refused to spray it


My littles are HUGE . I need a second tent. None failed in germ I expected 50-75% germ rate and came out with 100%.

My cloner bucket is starting to work. I managed to root two successfully. The key was not 6.5 ph water. 5.8-6.2 . I let it go a day out of frustration and the ph skewed from 6.5 to 5.98 when i checked it . I was worried and checked them but found roots. Ok, so dont ph to 6.5 for the cloner bucket. I also think i need to change the water in it weekly.



All indications are i need to use ro water . I wanted to skip it because it seemed like apain in the butt. people told me i was over thinking things and could use tap water and all that bs. I was lazy and wanted to believe. End result....

*DWC bucket might not have had spore outbreak, but instead was solids in the water growing . IE there is still poop in the local drinking water in large enough quantity it RAPIDLY cultures in the DWC.
*amazon might not have sent me spores. Instead i might have libeled amazons good service with my own stupidity.
*Calcium lockout is a pain in the ass to figure out. (top leaves yellow first)
*Nutes are impossible to proper ratio with out proper measure tools and ro water to start. Calcium will ruin your day.
*do not ph 0 ppm (0-110 tap water) it wont be accurate. and will lead to ph lockout of soil. combined , its apain in the arse to diagnose.

Special thanks to our active users who clued me into it being deficiency NOT mold/fungus . I owe this turn around to you two for making us reassess things and stop assuming we knew what the problem was.

I pruned the crap out of biggie, did it in three chunks and took about 60% to open her up.

 

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Got the nutes right. an additional thing we didnt see coming was the lights im using are NOT bs cheapos . Id guess they put out about 600 watts of lumens and 260w actual . The two of them in a 3x3 can burn leafs if im not careful and it dries the pot out fast keeping it humid in the tent. gotta water every two days, sometimes dumping a gallon in between if its hot out.

So it dries out and burns the tips then i freak out and flush it , lol. Figured that out .

Biggie grew like 3 inches in 24 hours , was gonna flip but need to top her back and wait 3 days and then flower. Shes recovered from my shenanigans .

I can have unlimited plants less than 2feet. Ive got a propagation tent now. and moved my grow to accommodate.

Oh I also raised my legal allotment so i remain as legal as possible. I tried to convince them to give me a 2.5 lb limit. I applied myself to make a good case for it. I got half a lb. (ear to ear grin) its not enough so i can run all5 plants at the same time but its enough to work with. I can do a decent speed grow and stagger out if i have to . I want a 600w hps dimmable but even with moving the grow im concerned i cant combat heat. Also, i legit wanna see what led cobs can do.

I got ownt with the sickness, My ma was gonna get sent home the day of the tp rush. So I ended up in the thick of it despite quarantining since nov. It got scary as f there. I found hot showers broke up the congestion and it just flows out of your head. Once you do that keep warm and you bounce back pretty quick. It hates fever so please dont fight fever unless life threatening. Be well friends. It transmits by talking. Talking is equal to sneezing to spread it.

I am excited about my latest seeds i got.
Purple Heart

Stephen hawking kush
Enigma
Gas munkey
Nevada privada
Snowdawg x alphakronik
Chemdawg 91 x alphakronik

If anyone is wondering why im such a fanboi , the weed is good and they have a seed club for 20$ a month you get random seeds. (there are better packages but im a pleb so this is the best for me).

 

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Soon to be tent dedicated to the littles .
The link below is an email i got this morning from where i got the seeds. Someone might enjoy this coupon. Here it is. (not affiliated with them, i just like the strain and service ive gotten. The link is saying the title of the email. )

Stock Up During Our EPIC 4/20 Sale!

 

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Something to look at.

My first plants were like little banzais ultra short and hard to top. 2.5 ML bloom(at first) then 2.5ml bloom and micro. AND 1.5ml calmag.


My second plants are like cornstalks. 2ml grow

Higher N to k = banzai
Higher K to N = cornstalks