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painkillerman said:

lack N salt build up flush with nutes till out/in match so u dont lose wieght with plain rince theyll make it fine

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What do you mean when you say "till out/in match so u dont lose wieght"?

Cheers!

I would try not to panic so much. It isn't Mg or Ca. It looks low on N but it also looks like it is trying to finish off early. What if your plant is more indica than sativa? 56 days is quite achievable in that case. Sound like you have added quite a bit already. I would start thinking about flushing/stop feeding and just use good water ( I use RO and add Ca & Mg equally to EC 0.3). Just make sure your water is PH 6.5 and that way any nutes in the pot will become available. Is your day 44 since the 12:12? Some people count from budding (?)

Its Nitrogen bud, purple petioles, yellowing lower leaves, perfect example of the plant moving N from the bottom up. This is usually a good thing to have happen, however its a bit early for you, and its is due to pot size. The flushes you have done quickly strip out the N from the soil. Believe it or not, but if you amend your soil by working in a cup or two of some miracle grow vegetable soil to the top of your pot and water with plain water, your plant will appreciate it very much at this point. The miracle grow will act as a light fertilizer with immediately available nitrogen that will steep through your pot and will really help without dealing with liquid fertilizers. Miracle grow is usually a swear word in the community because it is way to hot early on for seedlings but will be fine to amend an adult plant.

It is not magnesium or calcium deficient in any way in my opinion.

Ok, so if you add the amendments as a "top dressing" DO NOT try to adjust your PH down. At this stage in your plants life the roots will actually change the PH for you. When the plant uptakes nitrogen, during the conversion/uptake process the at the root zone, the PH lowers naturally. The cool part about this natural PH drop is that it makes other elements easier for your plant to uptake, because the change is gradual. Remember, regardless of what you do, the deeper into flowering you get, the less effective/abundant your roots become so it is important not to do anything drastic because what you have is all you get for roots unless you reveg it.

So, in short, my recommendation is simply amend soil, and water with plain ph 7 water and chill back. easy. Looks pretty good otherwise man.

lahadaextranjera said:

I would try not to panic so much. It isn't Mg or Ca. It looks low on N but it also looks like it is trying to finish off early. What if your plant is more indica than sativa? 56 days is quite achievable in that case. Sound like you have added quite a bit already. I would start thinking about flushing/stop feeding and just use good water ( I use RO and add Ca & Mg equally to EC 0.3). Just make sure your water is PH 6.5 and that way any nutes in the pot will become available. Is your day 44 since the 12:12? Some people count from budding (?)

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It's day 44 from Budding, and day 85 from seed
You think im at the end of the road here? None of my hairs are orange yet, but starting to hint they will turn soon.

Wow...I have plants look like this from time to time...for me it is usually because I have overfed nitrogen...have you nute burnt this plant..earlier on? I didn't go back...just picked up at pg 16..anyway it looks like the late flowering of a plant that at one time had too much nitrogen...Overfert is a bigger issue than most people realize...I think I am going to start tossing badly nute burnt plants out, just because even if I get them to recover and fill back in they end looking just like yours. I don't know if after they are burnt I give them no more nitrogen at all so they get deficient, or if everything gets locked out, but if I burn a plant but keep it alive it often looks like this around the middle of flower. So Something to think about..all the plants that look like this yield only slightly less than their not nute burnt sisters, so I guess it isn't worth killing them, but if I was you, I would not worry too much about fixing them...just give them water only, and if you feel like that is killing them then just give them slight nutes, but molasses at every feeding isn't always advisable...I have had numerous plants finish like this and all I know is that I stopped giving so much freaking nutes, and now they don't look like this anymore...I used to give boosters and molasses, and food for every spot and things always looked worse and never better, so I have found that the best thing you can do is stop adding anything to it at all and wait. It will fix itself...it is very very unlikely that a nitrogen deficiency is your culprit...I say this because plants use very little in flower, and plants can actually make it their whole life cycle without a speck of veg nutes and be alright...not as big as they might have been with the ferts, but they will end better than a plant that is overfertilized...being underfertilized will slow a plant..but being over fertilized can stop and kill a plant...

Also, how often do you have to water that particular plant...is there anyway that the roots are cramped, or that something could be wrong with your roots...because I have also had plants end looking like this because they were rootbound, and also had one finish looking like this, with the yellowing not going bottom to top, but just in places here and there, and it was because critter digging was messing up the roots and keeping them from getting what they need...

I mean everything your plant needs is there, it just isn't using it, so now you have to figure out why...so it is either because there is too much nutes inthe soil and thus have locked everything out from being absorbed, or something is messing up your roots keeping them from uptaking what they need to.

The best thing you could do is wait it out. I have never been able to make a bad looking flowering plant look any better, but they all end up better if I leave them alone to hash it out...lol

Yellowing of leafs are cause by over watering , and or not enough nitrogen i would prob look at the over watering end of your spectrum cheers let it dry out and make sure you give it a very little more N in your next feeding

Well folks, I thought about it and here is what I did:

I added another 2 cms of quality potting soil on top of the existing soil, and watered here with plain water with just 1/4 of the recommended dose of Micro (45/00/10) only. At PH 6.8.

Now the waiting game starts, let's see how she reacts to this after a few days.....I'm hoping for the best.

After this, I'm going to give her plain water only the next time (once the soil is completely dry), one shot of full strength flowering nutes thereafter.....and it's going to be all up to her what happens next, either she recovers or stabilizes, or I start the final flush and aim to harvest at the most appropriate moment.

Wow, I'm anxious to see what she thinks about it

thanks all and stay tuned

Haven't seen a post in a while. How's it going?

Edit: BTW, I've been smoking some Pineapple Chunk that I grew and it's some of the best weed that I've ever smoked. Very strong. Makes me feel good inside and causes a strong couch lock, body stone. Really strong stuff. So don't give up! It's worth the effort.

Hey guys and gals!


Sorry for pulling a disappearing act on you like that without prior notice


Things went pretty crazy for me, pretty fast though! My grow got compromised because of one particular family member......and his self righteous "holier than thou attitude".


I managed to deal with the issue with minimal collateral....but I still had to chop them down.


They were at least a month too early, so the final yield wasn't that much....not even close to what I was hoping for.....


I trimmed and manicured them very neatly, then dried the trim and the buds. Before I put them in jars for curing, I rolled all the trim in one big fat joint and got so ripped like I haven't been in ages (Keep in mind I'm a habitual smoker of the Lebanese Blonde).....man I was so blitzed.....beyond comprehension...


After the cure, I ended up with about 12 grams of small nugs, small but man were then DENSE!!!! I made sure to remove even the sugar leaves, so the buds were mostly hair and sticky icky crystals......


The smoke report: I'm not a real connoisseur of the kind herb.....but I know that I have never tasted anything as potent as that PC, exclusively clear headed and uplifting high, with a high tendency of almost out of body experiences......OUCH!


So what comes now for the GunRunner?
Well, I learned a lot from this grow.....and in retrospect there are lots of things that could have been done better....but then again I was pretty restricted in my scenario and had to improvise on the go....


The Paranoia though was too much.....and I think my first lesson was never again to bother with a micro grow, hell no, not where I a at least....So next time I go in, it's gone be for a pound, otherwise I'm not bothering....but that seems like a long way down the road at this point in time, as I got a lot of things I need to figure out in my life before i come back to growing...ah well.


I hope you all be doing well and Jah Bless your Gardens!!!


I'll be lurking about in the forum now and posting here and there. I'll be keeping an eye out on your journals.
Big thank you for everyone who followed my little journey Love you guys!

Peace

good to see you back man!! sorry to hear about the early harvest and other bad news, atleast you got to get high!!!! that's the MAIN thing LOL, glad to know ol' runner's still about if you ever need some ideas for a lb plant i've got a few i could throw around im at around day 24 flowering i think in my journal runner...

he's alive he's aliiiive hehe cya round runner

Hey Gunny!

Sorry to hear that you had to chop down your plant because of that asshole family member. I'm glad that you got something to smoke and I'm sure that you learned a lot about growing a small plant in a small cabinet. I'm doing something like that, but not due to size constraints. It's a time constraint in my case. So I started 12/12 shortly after the plant sprouted and grew just a little. It's doing great. (No RIU journal this time.)

Anyway, I agree with your smoke report on this Pineapple Chunk strain. I also had to chop early, but only by about a week I'd estimate. Another time constraint issue. But mine turned out pretty strong anyway. When I chopped it the good parts were covered in resin. When I dried it the resin got hard like a lacquer coating. And the potency was equal to the best stuff I can find in Minnesota.

Comparing it to my first successful grow, a strain called "LSD", might be unfair because the LSD plant grew to full maturity, but I really like the LSD strain better, because it turned out more potent than anything I've smoked in years. So personally, I think I'll definitely try growing the LSD again someday. Pineapple Chunk is very good, though.

My advice now: Move out of that house!

Cheers!