mared juwan
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Yea man I see some growth. Looks to be a little bit of overwatering like you said. Are you measuring the ph of the water you are using?
I think that's just my camera and the hps bulb Hehe, the new growth is a light green, the color i would expect a healthy plant to be. Ill try to take some naturally lighted pics tomorrow for yas. Also the point you make about nutes is awesome. And of course its right..plants arent like mammals...we cant force food down their throat to make them fat...they only take up what they need and putting more in the water than they ned is just making less of that water available for them to use as water.OK cool, yea I was just noticing the new growth was looking a little yellow and that could be from overwatering or ph imbalance so I wanted to make sure. 6.5 ph is good for soil. Keeping the plants on the dry side is good for a lot of things when you are new to growing. It reduces the chances of getting mold, fungi, or bugs. Plus the roots do search for water like you thought. So yea man nobody is perfect in the beginning. You should have seen the horrors my first plants went through. I overnuted them bad. I really wouldn't recommend giving your plants nutes until they are two weeks old or 4 nodes tall. You can't make them grow any faster by nuting before that age, you'll only run into problems.
I like that.Plants grow themselves, we dont grow plants. All we can do is provide the stuff the plant needs to do its thing.
Well, its not drooping, the new growth is bright green...im not thinking its a healthy green though..Its lights out in 45 minutes, so i will go mist it lightly just before lights out.I like that.
Plants seem to grow best when left alone. Basic necessities must be fulfilled but beyond that you are just fussing with them.
One note about nutes is that the "poison"you refer too is really the nitrogen component. Veg nutes are very high in nitrogen and the plant will take up more than it needs and attempt to store it in the leaves. This creates a toxicity of sorts and results in what we see as "nute burn"- bright rusty orange spots on the fan leaves. So your goal is to not give the plant more nitrogen than it has capacity to store in the leaves. When you get to flower on the other hand, bloom nutes are primarily phosphorous and potassium, no nitrogen. The plant's roots will not take up more of these nutes than the plant needs. There is little danger of burning and during flower you should be pushing the levels. But during veg less is more, especially for the beginner.
That being said, these are very resilient plants and yours will probably recover if you treat it carefully from now on. I've had plants recover from horrific accidents before - always faster and better than I expected.