Broke main branch after toping

[bamdamhigh]

After toping my first grow autoflower(3 weeks old) with almost a week, I broke one of my top branches by mistake while LST, I tried to attach it back with a wire but It looks very dead to me.

should i take it off? Or let it be till it fall, or can it recover?

 

[bamdamhigh]

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[coreywebster]

Give it a day. I'd say it's probably dead though.

I'd take both off rather than 1.

 

[bamdamhigh]

why do both? are they gonna grow again?
- ps: the other one looks pretty healthy and I topped the plant already.
how about yield? Also what about the leaves? should I take them off too?

 

[bamdamhigh]

Update: I cut the branch cause it’s dead but the other one has pretty unhealthy leaves, what is that?

 

[cannabiscrusader]

Sympathy pains. Autos are very unforgiving

 

[coreywebster]

why do both? are they gonna grow again?
- ps: the other one looks pretty healthy and I topped the plant already.
how about yield? Also what about the leaves? should I take them off too?

The reason I do both is to allow all the energy to the rest of the plant evenly.
And your light can then be closer to all the other sites

 

[bamdamhigh]

The reason I do both is to allow all the energy to the rest of the plant evenly.
And your light can then be closer to all the other sites

So should i free up the whole node in your opinion? And cut leaves off too? They’re just preventing the loght to reach other places!

 

[bamdamhigh]

Can someone tell me what is that? Why the leaves look like eaten? Also I do have some weird yellow stains what is that?

ps: my water ph has been around 4.5 for the past few feedings this week. Waiting for my ph+ to arrive

 

[cannabiscrusader]

ps: my water ph has been around 4.5 for the past few feedings this week. Waiting for my ph+ to arrive

I'll wager that's your problem. Use baking soda until your ph up gets there. Mix 1tbsp into a gallon of water. Add drops to your nute mix until you are where you need to be. 5.8 hydro 6.2 soil

 

[bamdamhigh]

I know it’s just the tap water ph changed dramatically from 7.8 to 4.4 so i was prepared with ph- but not ph+ do you think that is the reason for everything? The leaves eaten and the stains?Not overfreding or other things?

 

[cannabiscrusader]

The stains look like water droplets left under the light. Either from your humidifier, or you gave them a spritz. The "chewed" leaf was most likely accidental user error. Unless you have a cat, or a pet catapillar. Get that ph handled, or you will have lots more spots pretty quickly

 

[bamdamhigh]

appreciated, thank you!

 

[bamdamhigh]

I left the other branch and kept the LST going and now in day 32 it looks so fine but there some purple stems, I just fed yesterday half of the nutes for week 4 from advanced nutrients ph perfect advanced nutrients ph perfect week 4 and also calmag 1ml/L can someone help on what to do?

 

[cannabiscrusader]

They look good to me. If it gets a bit chilly at night the stems will purple. If the light is too intense, they will purple. Since you are doing lst you are not only exposing bud sites, but also the leaf stems. The plant gets a tan, pretty much. Start bumping your feed up a bit more as the roots fill the pot.

Keep on cruisen buuuday

 

[bamdamhigh]

Should i keep feeding veg and micro woth bloom or just bloom from now on?

 

[cannabiscrusader]

I'd go just the bloom, they look like they greened up quite a bit. Don't want to overdo it with the nitrogen in flower. It will lead to whispy buds and burnt sugar leaves

 

[bamdamhigh]

Thanks a lot for the advice my friend!
can you tell me how you feed generally or better I can tell you and you let me know what I'm doing was wrong or a waste of nutrients.
I used the table below starting week 2
I used 1/4th of all nutrients for week 2 and 3 but the whole feed for the week was a gallon with nutes mixed and balnced ph keep using it every other day for week 4 I had half of all nutes in 3 liters with cal mag and gave it to it in 3 days I remember I used regular water for very few times was mostly feeding as mentiond.

 

[cannabiscrusader]

The chart is a good starting point. You know what you put in, and you know what we just did these past weeks to correct it. Plan to have it fed more nitrogen before you notice the problem next grow. Make note of that change, and run it again. Tweak again if you need to. Every strain is different, every pheno is different. There is not a one size fits all. But you git a good starting point, and information to build onto it

 

[bamdamhigh]

Any hacks to raise the light higher? As it’s not dimmable(sf1000d) and my plants look very stressed i don’t think it could be anything else but the light cause i just fed them this morning so they should look healthier like earlier today i even hooked the light up away now with 21 inches far from the top. But I can’t go any where anymore are they gonna survive?

plants are week 5 age(preflowering) autoflower