What’s up guys, I’m starting week 7 of flower and my ladies are root bound. I know this because I fed them nutrients thinking it was a deficiency but things got progressively worse. I transplanted into 10 gallon pots and fed them a 1/2 gallon water each pH’d at 6.5 w/o nutes. Did I make a mistake or should I be okay? The flowering time for 2 of them is 8 weeks so I’ve got 2 more weeks on those and the other can go as long as 10 weeks.
Beginning week 7 of flower and root bound
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go go kid
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8 weeks is bull shit, count on 10 weeks minimum, and the trice colour is a bit bullshity too. you go by the look of the bud itself, you want the red/brown hairs being swallowed up with a nice big fat trichome covered calyxes. or the swollen sack the hairs grow out of, you want to see just a hint of red hair and nice big fat swollen sacks they grow out of
go go kid
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you have over fed the nitrogen at some point, those leaves should be turbid and fresh as a daisey looking , yours are limp and looking like shit. the pots are way too dry, i wouldent be suprised if you had a salt/nute build up on them too. give them some water and see what happens , they should respond by picking themselves up if its not too late
I appreciate the advice. I haven’t really fed them nutes for majority of their flowering cycle, using super soil and I water them with this stuff called fish shit. Just 10 days ago they looked lovely. I don’t think I overfed them nitrogen, I know nitro toxicity makes the leaves a dark green and mine are yellow. 10 days ago they weren’t dark either. I believe they’re root bound because they’ve been in these bags for weeks before they even went into flower. They don’t look big because I had them under a trellis so they could stretch out or else they would’ve been taller. I want to know if I made a mistake by transplanting this late during flowering
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go go kid
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what are you growing in. soz about the wrong answer, but if you had seen my mates plant that he fed baby bio plant food to every watering, you would have come to the same conclusion.
the transplant shouldent have caused it, ive transplanted during flowering with no ill effects. so i doubt its that.
are you only feeding fish shit? and what soil type is it? coco, real soil/bio bizz/fox farm ???
the transplant shouldent have caused it, ive transplanted during flowering with no ill effects. so i doubt its that.
are you only feeding fish shit? and what soil type is it? coco, real soil/bio bizz/fox farm ???
No worries bro, and I’ve got them in a soil called Coast of Maine. I fed them 3 days before they looked like they do now, 1 liter each and they were in 7 gallon pots. I used Root Organics Buddha Bloom and HPK combined with the fish shit when I watered them. At first I thought it was a deficiency because I hadn’t really added nutes during the flowering stage but when the nutes didn’t help and they got worse I felt like it was root bound. The leaves were still dropped after a good watering too so that’s how I came to that conclusion. The black fabric pots are what I have them in now and I was thinking the same about the flowering time. I was going to just let them all go for 10 weeks, that’ll give me 4 more weeks to let them recover and try to squeeze a little bit more yield out of them. Let me know what you think.
go go kid
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have you thaught of doing a slurry ph test on your soil? there could be ph lockout starving your plants of nutes.
you could be waiting longer the 10 weeks, but they need to recover first.
the wilting leaves look like over watering
the colour sugests nitrogen deff
none of which seem to fit the bill here. root bound i dont think would cause this. i had a root bound plant last year, or what looked like a root bound pot, when id chopped her down i imediatly started dragging the roots away from the sides where thed been up against the pot and it turned out there was a ton of soil left un rooted as it were. maybe some fine roots, but no ware near root bound
you could be waiting longer the 10 weeks, but they need to recover first.
the wilting leaves look like over watering
the colour sugests nitrogen deff
none of which seem to fit the bill here. root bound i dont think would cause this. i had a root bound plant last year, or what looked like a root bound pot, when id chopped her down i imediatly started dragging the roots away from the sides where thed been up against the pot and it turned out there was a ton of soil left un rooted as it were. maybe some fine roots, but no ware near root bound
go go kid
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the more amber the trikes the more CBD is in them, thats the sleepy feeling you get when smoking it. so you wait untill the red haires are almost shrunk in t the fat sac they came from rather then the % of amber trikes. i used to think that it was better to harvest early and get a more rushy high from them. but i was just taught bad practice from a medicinal viewpoint. but yes, if you harvest when its 50/50 then you will get racey weed
go go kid
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i still want to get to the bottom of this though, its got me stumped. im sure theres more then a few onlookers who have had or are having the same issues but araid to ask.
one of the more serious growers will chime in soon enough with a simple explination as to the cause of this
one of the more serious growers will chime in soon enough with a simple explination as to the cause of this
Jules1976
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Think you answer your own question you haven't fed any nutes for 7 weeks I reckon that might be the problem maybe they need PK
jondamon
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It’s quite simply under feeding and underwatering.
the leaves tell you everything.
1 litre of water in a 7 gallon is NOT enough.