Help Please. In the 3rd week of Flower

Jackriddle21

Jackriddle21

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Hello everyone,

First off, Thank you for taking your time to help me this is my first run so I am a newbie. However, I have grown many vegetables outside, so I am familiar with horticulture. My setup is a 600 Watt cool-hood HPS light. I also installed an inline fan and carbon filter inside of my 3X3X6 tent. The temperature sits around 78 degrees at all times. There are two questions I have. The first question is what in the hell do I do with all of the leaves and branches underneath the buds? As you can see, the plants have overgrown the area and the bottom leaves look healthy but they get very little light. Should I trim this stuff to try and create more energy into bud growth and quality?

2nd Questions: Do the plants look a little yellow like they might be getting too much light? Look at some of the nug tips they almost have a yellow tint. Should I dim my ballest to 400 watt?

Genetics I have growing: Sour Diesel, Blue Dream, Ghost OG, 3 Skywalker OG
 
HA! Photos would help right? Sorry about that. Here they are
 

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There are a total of 6 plants in the room. I let them veg until they were 12" tall then flipped to flower. They have already doubled in size in the past 3 weeks so I am worried they will continue to explode.
 
Jackriddle21 said:
Hello everyone,

First off, Thank you for taking your time to help me this is my first run so I am a newbie. However, I have grown many vegetables outside, so I am familiar with horticulture. My setup is a 600 Watt cool-hood HPS light. I also installed an inline fan and carbon filter inside of my 3X3X6 tent. The temperature sits around 78 degrees at all times. There are two questions I have. The first question is what in the hell do I do with all of the leaves and branches underneath the buds? As you can see, the plants have overgrown the area and the bottom leaves look healthy but they get very little light. Should I trim this stuff to try and create more energy into bud growth and quality?

2nd Questions: Do the plants look a little yellow like they might be getting too much light? Look at some of the nug tips they almost have a yellow tint. Should I dim my ballest to 400 watt?

Genetics I have growing: Sour Diesel, Blue Dream, Ghost OG, 3 Skywalker OG
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The second question is what you should focus on 1st.
The only useful pictures are the three pictures with the lights out. Can't make out the others, the light distorts the color.
It does look like they are yellowing.
What medium are you in? If soil what brand?
What have you been feeding in what quantities and how often?
 
I have the girls in E.B. Stone Recipe 420 mix with added perlite. I fed them fermented soybeans and used strabucks coffee grounds for nitrogen with a ph of 6.9. Once they went into flower, I gave them some bone meal per the recommended amount on the instructions and I also have been giving them Tiger Bloom 2-3 teaspoons per the instructions. I will post some more pictures tonight when the lights go off. All of the plants look very healthy except for the two tips were you notices some yellowing. Those tips were about 10 inches away from my 600 Watt light. So, I truly feel like it is the light. I raised the light so that is about 15 inches away from the tips.
 
I also give them i tablespoon of epsom salt each month mixed into a gallon of water and also a little bit of molasses 1 tablespoon per gallon.
 
Jackriddle21 said:
I have the girls in E.B. Stone Recipe 420 mix with added perlite. I fed them fermented soybeans and used strabucks coffee grounds for nitrogen with a ph of 6.9. Once they went into flower, I gave them some bone meal per the recommended amount on the instructions and I also have been giving them Tiger Bloom 2-3 teaspoons per the instructions. I will post some more pictures tonight when the lights go off. All of the plants look very healthy except for the two tips were you notices some yellowing. Those tips were about 10 inches away from my 600 Watt light. So, I truly feel like it is the light. I raised the light so that is about 15 inches away from the tips.
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I mean they look great, really nice for your 1st grow.
Not sure what it is, there are always many possibilities :)
While it might not be this. My thought is you gave it to much tiger bloom when flowering started. Just a possibility. When flowering starts bloom ferts should be introduced slowly until the stretch ends.
Green Thumb shows.
Happy Growing!
 
I did read the tiger bloom label wrong the first feed. I gave 2 tablespoon instead of teaspoon. So maybe that was the yellowing. That was like 2.5 weeks ago. Do you recommend me flushing?
 
You could look at cleaning up some of the lower branches that are getting no light. That could clear up a little space to train the plants some.

One other comment that won't help now. Try growing the same strain. Variety is amazing but it's also really tough to control for. We had 3 different types for our first grow and the Indica's and Sativa's did wildly different things. Which was interesting, but also tough for a first grow.

Like others have already mentioned. You are doing a great job for a first time.
 
Jackriddle21 said:
I did read the tiger bloom label wrong the first feed. I gave 2 tablespoon instead of teaspoon. So maybe that was the yellowing. That was like 2.5 weeks ago. Do you recommend me flushing?
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probably jus too intense of light. 10" is pretty close to a 600. Definitely could cause the yellowing you're seeing. no need to flush. lift up light and watch over them over the next week or so and if the yellowing stops, then you're good (it may not go away completely, but should stop progressing). If it continues and you notice they are stalling, you could be in lockout due to soil pH.

as for the bottoms of the plant, look up "lollipop" technique. it basically just means you strip away the lower stuff and leave a stick, leaving the more productive nodes that are in better light to do the work. hence lollipop, stick on the bottom, big ol bud on the top.
 
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