braddaheee
Active Member
Hey my bad man.. this past week has been completely fucked for me, so I couldn't really come on here.i dunno i kind of enjoy the hunting, but i can understand a lot of people who'd prefer to have the
game served in a bottle, just easier and a good solution if you don't have the time or patience.
your plants look like they're suffering from the same thing a lot of mine used to suffer from
early on - smallness. lol you might want to check if the soil is too compact, also if there's too
much organic matter it'll cake when it's dry...too much nutrients will prevent the plant from
growing large roots and thereby inhibit mycorrhizal growth as the mycorrhizae aren't required
to pull nutrients out of the soil and convert them to a useable form. roots may grow long, and
the visible root mass might be decent, but there's a lot of root that's really hard to see...thin
strands that exponentially increase root surface area...when the roots stay small and nutrients
are readily available and the plant is receiving enough light at its current distance from the
light source, the plant really has no reason to grow big, it goes against the entire evolutionary
concept of size being an advantage. basically, if you're getting everything you need, in abundance,
why change the way things are going? the plant will put more energy into non thc/bud production
plant activities. believe it or not, balancing the nutrient availability in the soil such that it's not
scarce but not readily available is what triggers maximum plant growth. roots expand to find nutrients,
mycorrhizae become active and form a symbiotic relationship with the roots, etc. roots get bigger
and you get a bigger plant. now the plant is getting enough light and the roots are large, mycorrhizae
are densely spread all over the roots, why should the plant grow bigger? because the large plant is
utilizing more nutrients than a small one would and as a result, the roots grow. and then as a result,
the plant grows. rambling shortened, don't overdo the organics. give the plant a long enough break
between watering. the roots stretch out to find more water when the medium is less dry than ideal.
if you're growing organic, and you're making the soil, you have to play nature's role, unless you play
it close enough to the real deal the plant's not gonna be close enough to the real deal
ElChupacabra
ps : mate in the first post your plant looks overwatered...
i'm not good at distinguishing between over and under watered in pictures alone...need to feel the
leaves...
Yeah, for sure my soil is more on the compact side. I did add a lot more perlite in my latest transplant, and the consistency is better and way lighter. One thing that kinda tripped me out tho was how my small plants wanted to bud really early.. like 3wk to a month from seed, I think. You think maybe theyre some foreign strains? My current big female and the last big male seem pretty different.. They were in the same soil, but growing pretty well and not tryna flower as early. I think my main problem was the soil consistency, but I'm not sure why the small guys was budding so soon?
This might sound stupid.. but what do you think about using Rose fertilizer in flowering? I got some cause its NPK is 4 8 16. I also use certain amounts of micro nutes, Bahaar all purpose plant food, banana peels, egg shells, depending on stage of growth. My soil mixture consists of some Ratanshi's Cow manure, Biogro, Green Gold. I appreciate you're input Elchup! Seems you really been doing ur homework and growing some crip buds when I read ur posts!
Heres some pics of my girls from maybe a week ago.. since then, Ive put stakes n strings for support and the big girl is now over 2ft tall, 21in wide. The one in the black pot was starting to look real nice n bushy. Nicer than the big one at that age. Unfortunately.. my Mom knocked it over by accident and it died
I really gotta order and also get more of these Indian strains going SOON!