GreedAndVanity
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Oscillating fans do good work. The work they do is to help you attain a larger yield by stressing your plant in a manner that is proper, long term, and gentle over all. The draw back is that this is in fact stressing the plant and could lead to reduced potency.Sorry for taking so long to reply, I've been incredibly busy lately.
I recently flushed out all the plants except for the new kush plant (which I'm working on taking better care of than the last ones). I found the soil was much more acidic than I had previously thought; I'm hoping that flushing the soil will help with most of the problems.
On a random note, I have been using an oscillating fan directly on my plants at a high speed, do you guys recommend this? I've heard different sides of this debate.
I got a quick picture of the top of one of my plants (which is considerably more healthy than the bottom parts of it, but still could use tons of work) and I also got a general shot of the grow room itself. If you notice, I have a wide spectrum fleurescent light in between all the plants to give supplemental light (250 W HPS ~21 inches above tops of plants). What do you guys think about the placement of the light? I know it's not a CFL so it is likely to be hotter - do you think it's likely to burn some of them? (I think I might have seen burns on some of the kush clone's leaves and it was close to this light).
I'm really going to work on getting a decent camera to get better pics. I am seeing a few minor things on my new kush clone that I'm not sure of as well, so I'm hoping to get a few good shots of it soon.
Thanks again for all the help guys! If it weren't for you guys I know my situation would be exponentially worse.
I have never had the decision be a hard one, you get way more plant with moving air indoors. It is natural for the plant and although extreme airflow is negative a slight breeze is all they really need.
You might even want to get your light a bit closer, my hps in that wattage range is no more then a foot from the tops. What you want to look out for is light bleaching, if they start turning funky colors on growth tips and leaves that are seeming to be to close to the light odds are it is light bleaching and you should try to raise the lights.
I would say you might want to lower maybe an inch or two and just keep an eye on them as they grow into the light. Once they start looking like something isn't quite right with the tops (and it isn't due to nutrients or something else and you can be sure of it) start moving the light up to see if there is a change in appearance.
Is your same plant potted in the exact same stuff? I know a few people that use fox farms. My friend who recently started growing I recommended it might be best to use pure light warrior for propagation, a 50 50 of light warrior and OF for veg, and a final transplant into flowering of pure OF.
Then I don't think you would have to worry about any nutrients, just water and PH correctness (I like a value of low sixes and sometimes high fives depending on what is going on in the room and how things look.