I think the problem with that is perfectionism... People want to make things always 100% right all the time in fear of failing and so on...
Lol they don't look that bad to me. I see the foxtailing but other than that it looks smokeable lol!No co2, first run with LEDs so I wanted to test the limits. I still smoked them
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And to be fair, you’re in DWC. That advice is fine for throwing beans in the dirt (they grew for thousands of years before humans touched them). In DWC if your EC/PH are wrong (they are closely linked) you’ll have dead plants in a week
The best advice I got when starting out was LITFA, Leave it the F alone. I was always trying little tweaks and extras thinking I could squeeze more yield or better terps out of the plant. Once you learn to just relax a little and read the plants you realize they don't really need much. Proper light, good genetics and good watering habits will give you good weed. You might not be the next Instagram star but you'll be smoking your own stash.
Usually EC going up means you need to lower EC. They are drinking more than eating. You want them close to equal.
No higher than 1000 actually. I use a cheap quantum PAR meter and can quickly dial it in. No guessing. No math operations or conversions using white paper or anything else. Measure it. Set it.
True...
Ok wow so you are halfway through flower but still not at 100%... Looks like I have to be careful will the dimmer lol.
Since switching them to flower I let them be on their own but I was increasing the light too much. They were beatiful and green and now they look like ***** lol... I think it's good genetics but I don't know a lot about that right now... This is something I have to learn... Most of you guys know a lot of strains and genetics and know which are good and which are not...
Yes I know. Before they were eating very good and were healthy and green. I was feeding at 2.3 and the EC always was stable or a little bit lower the next watering so everything was perfect. Until two weeks into flower they stopped eating completely and I was only feeding water since then... I tried to lower the EC but it was always climbing again except for 2-3 times in that period. When the EC was dropping I thought it's over now and they are eating again but the next day it was raising again... So yeah the feeding was perfect until 2 weeks into flower... Maybe this was the point where they had enough of the light and stopped eating because of too much stress. idk.
Ok so you also say to not go over 1000 ppfd without added co2... I think I was way over that. What ppfd meter do you use? I thought they are very expensive?
Check Amazon. Mine is close to the Hydrofarm unit. I’ve checked it under 5 different LEDs against the Apogee $700 unit. The differences are so small under lights at 100% power that I would buy the same thing again.
Ok thank you I will check it out.
Yeah it's also due to the shi* in the internet... Everywhere you look they say stop seeds in weed because you will loose potency and so on... And that it is a very bad thing and so on... So maybe that's why people always worry about that...
Looks good to be honest even seeded. Looks potent to lol!
I used to really worry about that when I first switched to a new LED and started seeing them but a lot of times I've seen it's a light reaction like a sunburn. If it's on the top of the stem and not the bottom half I chalk it up to light burn. If it's all over the stem it could be genetics or a deficiency. I pay attention to it when I'm running a new strain but if they look healthy otherwise I just let it go. My Motorbreath 15 has purple streaks in the main stem and purple stems but that seems to be genetics as it's shown in veg even with lower light.
