First Grow, Heat Stress, Red/Purple Stems and Pics Cuz it Happened

UVioletPilot

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So, this is my first post/grow, I think these look okaaay, but to be fair, I don't really know anything about this yet, so I would love some feedback.

Thanks in advance, and a shout out to girl growers and the bay area, for making me feel like this is possible.

I will take all the advice and atta-boys as I can get but am especially interested in feedback relating to my redish, purplish stems (featured in the second to last photo), and stripes (temp dropped to 63 degrees once), and dry, clawing leaves that seem droopy and unhappy looking to me, despite their decent color. Bottom leaves on some plants have yellowed, possibly due to a deficiency I have now fixed.

My temp was too hot (102 highs) during light hours for the first 2 or 3 days of my grow. There's more info on that below if you believe this is the problem. In which case, what are the end results of temps that are too high and can I do anything to heal that stress, at this point?

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Helpful Info:

- 2 Blue Dream (3 gal idk brand, they're grey), 2 Dream Queen (3 gal awesome pots) that are 8 days from clone

- in veg, tallest plant is 8 inches, blue dream has been LSTd and dream queen has been topped

- Ocean Forest

- Indoor ; Secret Jardin DR120 4 x 4 x 6.5 - Apollo 20 (20 modules) LED light, 600 watts, blue and red for both veg and bloom

- 16 inches from light
- using tap water thats been phed, when I see that it's dry. Only have had had runoff once. I believe FFOF is 6.8 buffered. I Ph my water to 6.5 ish with a GH up/down kit

- transplanted once from dixie cups
- I have fed twice botanicare pro starter kit, liquid karma (.2 ml), calmag (.2 ml), silica (.2 ml), and pure blend pro grow (.6) and then the second time i fed double, after I transplanted (.6 mL of grow first feed--- about 1.5 mL the second feed)


- The temperature was too high at first. Now it's at about 73-91. I am going to attempt to bring it to 85 at the highest by putting my AC in the tent instead of the room the tent is in, so it will shut off when it has measured the temp of the tent and not the room.
- I have a little 6 inch fan blowing air in from my house on one side, and a 6 inch duct running from my ac unit that blows cold air in from the other bottom side of the tent. This ac unit ducts the hot air outside. I have another fan that should be pulling hot air out from the top with a carbon scrubber attached. I forget what the cfm, but I figure that's not relevant anyways considering I bought it off of craigslist I doubt it's running at full potential.
- no bugs or mold

Now lots of pictures. Grey pots (dry looking plants) = blue dream and black pots (better looking plants) = dream queen.



I do this legally and medicinally. Not because I simply can and not without minding laws.










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purple in the stems is usually from phosphorus deficiency and the red is probably potassium deficiency. The bottom leaves yellowing is from lack of nitrogen. Sorry Im not familiar with those line of nutrients but you know what N-P-K stands for right? also dont be scared to water those babies more. From the pics it looks like they could use a lot more water. Is it possible to leave the door to the grow tent unzipped or something? I have run my grow rooms at 92* with no problems but I like to keep it at about 82*. Dont worry about the PH of the water either since youre growing in soil. You need to figure out how to get the temps down though. What kind of AC unit do you have? is it a little portable one or the kind you put in the window?

Will these leaves and stems remain discolored or get better with my nuting? I understand I need NPK levels to be on point, but my local hydro shop told me I shouldn't nute for the first 2 or three weeks in veg, so I didn't bother nuting my clones right when I got them.

I leave the grow tent unzipped during the light hours but figured I shouldnt during my 6 hours of darkness? Also, my ac is a portable delonghi unit.

Are damaged leaves going to remain damaged?
 
and it is normal for the lower branches and fan leaves of a clone to show signs of nutrient deficiencys. thats how you know the plant is working to produce roots. I use clonex clone solution and im not talking about the clone gel. Its a liquid you can foliar feed with or put into your cloner. The NPK is 1-.04-1 .

DUDE, THANK YOU. I was pretty sure it was P from the dark green and purple, but considered calmag and a number of other things. I will definitely nute the suckers. How often do you nute in veg? I was planning on every three days with water. Reasonable?
 
welcome UV, do some more research on foliar feeding they could be to young, RESEARCH IS ALWAYS GD, as for PH, it should be checked and be careful with nutes when there young, just some thoughts
 
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