5 weeks 12/12 flip help!

[Kenster420]

My first grow and all sorts of problems, 2 weeks of inexperience at its finest here. Started noticing purple tips and stems almost 3 weeks ago. Then yellowing in middle fan leaves 2 weeks ago. So i pumped them nutes up! Due to unreliable grassity recourses. Im in FF OF, 800w led. 75-79f day temps and 67 auto heater at night. My PH pen coincidentally went out when all this begun. This past Sunday i finally got a new PH pen and did a 6.5 PHflush with ppm run offs of 2000-3900! No misspelling there... My water PH was definitely above 8 the whole time when i thought it was 6.7 ph. I brought them all down to 1400 PPMS. Water again today with 400 ppms PK booster, kelp and recharge. Probably should have just did water or atleast just recharge. But i wanted instant gratification! Im at the point of sucking up my pride and ego. You can see the progression in the lower leaves. Im distraught about where they could have been at this point. So what shall i do going forward...?

 

[DrOgkush]

What do you need to know? You caught your mistake and corrected it. And from my eyes. In time.

 

[Kenster420]

Cool bud growing 3 heads i think

 

[DrOgkush]

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Cool bud growing 3 heads i think

That’s a polyploid I believe. A mutation or fascination.

 

[Kenster420]

What do you need to know? You caught your mistake and corrected it. And from my eyes. In time.

Didn't know if maybe i should water just water for a week? Or check run off to see if they are eating atleast? Or is it ok to just feed low ppms for now? Sorry for all the questions

 

[DrOgkush]

Didn't know if maybe i should water just water for a week? Or check run off to see if they are eating atleast? Or is it ok to just feed low ppms for now? Sorry for all the questions

That’s not a bad idea. But I would keep the nutrition levels lower for a week or so for sure.
But if your dialed in correctly and the plants are responding fine. Then you should be okay from here on out. Just pay attention. Keep taking your ec/ppm readings to make sure everything’s running normal. What I would do.

 

[Kenster420]

That’s not a bad idea. But I would keep the nutrition levels lower for a week or so for sure.
But if your dialed in correctly and the plants are responding fine. Then you should be okay from here on out. Just pay attention. Keep taking your ec/ppm readings to make sure everything’s running normal. What I would do.

Sounds straightforward to me. Appreciate man! What's your favorite strain that you've grown?

 

[DrOgkush]

Sounds straightforward to me. Appreciate man! What's your favorite strain that you've grown?

I’d have to go with the strain I’m currently growing and almost finished. Amnesia by okseeds thru pacific seed co. But before. Anything with an og influence. I love that smell. By far my fav for consistency.

 

[Kenster420]

I’d have to go with the strain I’m currently growing and almost finished. Amnesia by okseeds thru pacific seed co. But before. Anything with an og influence. I love that smell. By far my fav for consistency.

Nice, yeah og is a classic. 2 of those are a og cross. The smell is already hitting one i get home.

 

[DrOgkush]

Nice, yeah og is a classic. 2 of those are a og cross. The smell is already hitting one i get home.

Nice!

 

[Clusterfuck Tuesday]

Honestly, they look really good. Runoff PPM is basically a useless measurement in a charged soil like that while feeding them microbial and organic inputs. If anything, they look slightly overwatered. I’m not sure what you’re feeding them, but if it’s not salt based nutes, you don’t want to water to run off; you’re just flushing good organic inputs down the drain. You just want to maintain an even soil moisture level.

If you’re using salts, then definitely feed to runoff to avoid salt buildup. Measuring the PPM of the runoff still won’t be much benefit. You want to measure the ppm or EC when you’re mixing your solution, but that’s pretty much the extent of it. You can definitely measure runoff pH vs input pH, but a soil pH test would really be what’s required.

 

[Driver733]

They look fine, just keep going and do your best. You'll be amazed at how awful the plant can look and still finish some good smoke.

 

[Beautbudz]

I wouldn't be so hard on yourself,they look alright,especially for your first grow. I think sometimes new growers overthink things and thats how things get messed up(or at least in their minds)

Keep it simple to start with and learn the basics first. My last grow the plants weren't looking too good for most of flowering period and I still got a half pound of wonderful smelling smoke.

 

[Driver733]

This is my current effort, 5.5 weeks into flower, to me they look awful:



They are suffering from a terrible fungus gnat infestation due to using Ocean Forest straight out of the bag. I know better, I cut a corner one time (didn't dry out or pasteurize the soil with boiling water) and learned the hard way how much damage gnats can do to plants.

Amazingly, the flowers have been growing and seem to be plenty sweet and sticky, but three weeks ago I thought maybe I might lose both plants.

The same plant (top left) three weeks ago (after only three weeks in flower):


As an aside, the mosquito netting around the pots, combined with B.T.i treatment, has the gnats almost completely eradicated after several root soakings.

I am glad I kept going.

 

[HydroKid239]

My first grow and all sorts of problems, 2 weeks of inexperience at its finest here. Started noticing purple tips and stems almost 3 weeks ago. Then yellowing in middle fan leaves 2 weeks ago. So i pumped them nutes up! Due to unreliable grassity recourses. Im in FF OF, 800w led. 75-79f day temps and 67 auto heater at night. My PH pen coincidentally went out when all this begun. This past Sunday i finally got a new PH pen and did a 6.5 PHflush with ppm run offs of 2000-3900! No misspelling there... My water PH was definitely above 8 the whole time when i thought it was 6.7 ph. I brought them all down to 1400 PPMS. Water again today with 400 ppms PK booster, kelp and recharge. Probably should have just did water or atleast just recharge. But i wanted instant gratification! Im at the point of sucking up my pride and ego. You can see the progression in the lower leaves. Im distraught about where they could have been at this point. So what shall i do going forward...? View attachment 5047451View attachment 5047452View attachment 5047453View attachment 5047451View attachment 5047452View attachment 5047453View attachment 5047454View attachment 5047455View attachment 5047456View attachment 5047457View attachment 5047458View attachment 5047459View attachment 5047460

You need help with what? Smoking all that? Cuz here I am

 

[Kenster420]

Honestly, they look really good. Runoff PPM is basically a useless measurement in a charged soil like that while feeding them microbial and organic inputs. If anything, they look slightly overwatered. I’m not sure what you’re feeding them, but if it’s not salt based nutes, you don’t want to water to run off; you’re just flushing good organic inputs down the drain. You just want to maintain an even soil moisture level.

If you’re using salts, then definitely feed to runoff to avoid salt buildup. Measuring the PPM of the runoff still won’t be much benefit. You want to measure the ppm or EC when you’re mixing your solution, but that’s pretty much the extent of it. You can definitely measure runoff pH vs input pH, but a soil pH test would really be what’s required.

What ppms do you like around mid flower? Going in

 

[Kenster420]

I wouldn't be so hard on yourself,they look alright,especially for your first grow. I think sometimes new growers overthink things and thats how things get messed up(or at least in their minds)

Keep it simple to start with and learn the basics first. My last grow the plants weren't looking too good for most of flowering period and I still got a half pound of wonderful smelling smoke.

True, how many plants do you have to hit 1/2 p?

 

[Kenster420]

This is my current effort, 5.5 weeks into flower, to me they look awful:

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They are suffering from a terrible fungus gnat infestation due to using Ocean Forest straight out of the bag. I know better, I cut a corner one time (didn't dry out or pasteurize the soil with boiling water) and learned the hard way how much damage gnats can do to plants.

Amazingly, the flowers have been growing and seem to be plenty sweet and sticky, but three weeks ago I thought maybe I might lose both plants.

The same plant (top left) three weeks ago (after only three weeks in flower):
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As an aside, the mosquito netting around the pots, combined with B.T.i treatment, has the gnats almost completely eradicated after several root soakings.

I am glad I kept going.

I did have a bad fungus knat problem, wonder if that had anything to do with this? But your buds look pretty good

 

[Kenster420]

You need help with what? Smoking all that? Cuz here I am

Haha 4 more weeks!

 

[Driver733]

I did have a bad fungus knat problem, wonder if that had anything to do with this? But your buds look pretty good

Interesting, the fungus gnats do more damage than I ever thought possible. Nothing I do with fertilizer seems to make any difference, but the flowers seem to keep growing although they are a little small. We'll see at the end. I will never ignore fungus gnats again.