Thanks i thought that was what it looked like too, the funny thing is though, i havent given them ANY nutes so far, other then what was in the soil. i almost killed one of them when i started cus i gave it too much nutes so ive been afraid to start the nutes up again.
the lights are 2 feet away, and as i said its not hot at ALL on the plants, i held a thermometer right above the top leaves of my tallest one and it read 74 degrees fahrenheit
thank you for the info, i got the best that i could find around, it had around .2 percent of N and .19 P and i think .07 KI would say you should flush your soil really well and try to just water them until they start changing. If the leafs start to yellow a little you should start with the nutes. If that doesn't help I would say what kind of soil are you using for this grow? Some MG (Miracle Grow) has too many nutes in the soil already for bud plants. Hope this helps
For the chlorine you can distill your water by first boiling it then chilling it and then you can use that for an even more filtered water. As far as the Ph is concerned I can guarantee you that this will look the same as nute burn or very similar. I would suggest going online and ordering a General Hydroponic Ph testing kit. The kit includes 1 bottle of green/purple drops and a vial.
Wow I just read this. Throw that fucking thing away man. It will kill your plants. It is a waste of electricity and puts out too much heat as opposed to lumens. Best thing you can do for the money problem is grow using CFLs (compact florescent lighting) from Wal-Mart for like $11 for an 8 pack. (1) 8 pack would grow 2 plants comfortably. Your halogen light is killing your plants. I would suggest moving back to the tube lights. Check out https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/286576-my-first-riu-grow-journal.html and see my "low budget" grow to see how I managed. To start it I put about $150 into it and the rest was extra expenses that I really didn't need at the time. The $150 was my mylar, cfls, fixtures, pots, soil, fans. I spent 150 on a complete small closet set up and was growing (well I might add) 21 plants.
Thanks for pointing that out though.ahh alright i will definitely be checking the ph and i know that light blows like the wind.I stated lumens for the purpose of a first time grower and it will help understand a lot about your lighting. As far as lumens are concerned though pertaining to plants, it is actually a way of measuring the amount of light output of a bulb rather than what the plant can use. Cfls have been proven to provide a nice growing environment for plants and can be categorized by their watts, lumens, and kelvins. In regards to the botany portion of it the lumen property of a bulb is quite useless. The amount of light able to be used by a plant can be measured by many things, spectrum, lux, wave, chlorophyll energy consumption, and many other things. Here are just a few pictures of lights as they pertain to plants.
http://futuregarden.com/lighting/PAR_chart.jpg
http://reefkeepingfever.com/images/chlorophyll_a_absorption.jpg
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q261/newt_album/chlorophyll.jpg
http://www.life.illinois.edu/govindjee/paper/fig5.gif
With no ill will of the advice submitted by Canna but I am not only a grower of cannabis but of many other plants also as well as some courses of botany. I knew what I was talking about
alright thank you, i would like to just go straight to hps/mh though, i dont want to spend 100 on setting up a bunch of cfls and then turning around and getting a good light.
ha ha thank you, and i do intend to try, try again. i love smoking it and i would love to figure out EXACTLY how to grow some nice weed.