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I think adding chems might possibly tank everything Psua. If will help right away, but in the long term it should cause problems.

And @ Poly, a def. is caused by lockout, and I don't agree with the sitting around waiting..
I say your fix is balanced AACT's. I fixed an issue I caused in my first grow with AACTs that I caused with AACTs, so I know it's the fix, rather than doing nothing about it. What's your logic in saying to sit and wait and use nothing but water?

Mine is that you add the bennies back to the soil in numbers, so that they can regulate, which is what they're capable of.
They store nutes within, and make others available as the plants ask.

It's seems like a Cal build up could be caused by hard water..And when there's too much cal, other things get locked out like K, which could leade to a temporary def.
I'm just going of the info I got here to work with, and what I've done in the same soil mix

Molybdenum is common with root bound plants.. Mine had it on 4 the last batch an 3 the batch before. When I lagged on transplanting it and didn't give it nutes. I kept telling myself that I'll transplant tomorrow and kept lagging. Mine have had it in the past too. So I know that one really well.

hyroot said:

Molybdenum is common with root bound plants.. Mine had it on 4 the last batch an 3 the batch before. When I lagged on transplanting it and didn't give it nutes. I kept telling myself that I'll transplant tomorrow and kept lagging. Mine have had it in the past too. So I know that one really well.

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Haha damn hy,

I was almost sure that was a typo for Mag lol as I've never seen the world before! But I didn't even think about the plants being rootbound...
Wonder what size pots he's in?! I know rootbound plants get all kinda issues lol, but when you catch em time, the grow seems almost like the plant benefitted from being rootbound! Have you noticed that? Or has it been a different tale for you? I had a root bound girl just freak the F out and blow everything away in production in the same environment!

Sincerely420 said:

Haha damn hy,

I was almost sure that was a typo for Mag lol as I've never seen the world before! But I didn't even think about the plants being rootbound...
Wonder what size pots he's in?! I know rootbound plants get all kinda issues lol, but when you catch em time, the grow seems almost like the plant benefitted from being rootbound! Have you noticed that? Or has it been a different tale for you? I had a root bound girl just freak the F out and blow everything away in production in the same environment!

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You do not want to let them get root bound. Especially kush's. They don't like any stress. My master kushes hermied in week 6 of flower. Root bound in veg was the only stress they had. When It happened to mine it was always during veg. So when transplant I cut a couple inches off the root/soil ball. To make the roots grow more feelers or whatever and a bigger root ball. When they get root bound molybdenum, nitrogen, phos, mag and potassium are deficiencies mine have had. Usually molybdenum

If rootbound during flower. Yield will suffer greatly. Transplanting at that point will do very little.

Altar,

I just hit Microbe Organics up here -> http://www.microbeorganics.com/#What_is_Compost_Tea_

Info regarding a fixer upper tea is right there boss. He give you his exact ratios as to how he's brewed successful teas

I am in 5 gal smart pots, save for one 5 gal bucket. The roots should not bind in smart pots... and the 5 gal bucket plant is healthier than the others...

Ps...I'm also at hour 18 with Microbeman brew and it's looking ok so far...Not as dark as I think it should, but it doesn't smell!
Think I could have went went a little more compost like maybe half cup....But we'll see. I'll pour it today 20 hours brewing, but if yo brew it for 40 hours, it's supposed to be a nute recycling tea with more micro microbes haha.

hyroot said:

You do not want to let them get root bound. Especially kush's. They don't like any stress. <SNIP> So when transplant I cut a couple inches off the root/soil ball. <SNIP>

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This was very interesting. I am growing some Kush variants this grow.

I was going to ask whether root pruning might do if one was forced
to "transplant" back into the same container. (my layout is fixed and
is 100% filled)

...but I am using Smart Pots and will hope that this will suffice.

Take care,

JD

Sooo... buds are gettin bigger, fast. Impressive increase in size since the other day's pics. I'll take new ones soon.

Just wanted to point out, this is kind of amusing... the one who was yellowing the most--the same one that was behind in growht stage--, is showing significantly bigger buds at this stage. Go figure.

I am going to give them an earth juice feeding with Meta-K and the Microblast added tomorrow... brewing it up tonight... was gonna get the compost for tea yesterday, but the damn store was closed on sundays... should have seen that coming. Anyway, I figure a good dose of EJ can't hurt anything, and the microblast and meta-k should cover extenuating deficiency possibilities... meanwhile, I'm now brewing with 000 TDS water, so hopefully I'll start seeing some recovery from the calcium overload...

I'm not too worried really... i did lose a good bit of leaves at the bottom, but there are still plenty of leaves along the 1+' of colas that's above the rings. If I can get things straightened out soon, I should still see a significant increase in yield compared to previous attempts.

I'll take some pics soon for ye... I'm impressed how much the buds swelled on some of 'em... literally double the size they were last week.

Pic update time...

firstly, that sweet tooth auto I've had going in the mother chamber.... can't be more than 7" tall even before the supercrop... but damned if she don't just keep packing on weight... going to be interesting to see how this finished... as you can see she's been neglected a good bit and has no big fan leaves left, heh. But even after I thought the main head was finished, she keeps sprouting more new growth out.











Haha, sorry for the multiple pics at same angles... was trying to get some better shots... and I just can't get enough of photographing buds late in development.
As you can see on the last coupe pics, some of the top cola is already quite done, while there is new growth shooting all out around the parts that are begging to be chopped. Whatever, it was just an experiment anyway.

Will be back with a pic update of the main chamber in a bit...

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C99 side:




Raspberry Cough side:


C99's buds are definitely pulling ahead, but they also have a shorter flowering time and half as many colas per plant.

Didn't bother with any super close ups on the raspberry side... waiting for them to swell a bit more first, haha.

Looking good bro, hope all is going well with you and your grow.

Sorry I haven't had time to come around lately, if you need anything let me know bro.

Thanks man... no worries!!

How are the leaves hanging as of lately? Still dropping like flies or are they hangin on?!

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How are the leaves hanging as of lately? Still dropping like flies or are they hangin on?!

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I didn't pull them out for close inspection of the back ones, but the front one seems to have stopped progressing at least... (I will do a closer inspection tomorrow for sure) maybe they are just really hungry plants... there is consistency amongst the C99's, they all yellowed up at the bottoms while the raspberries burned up a few green leaves each primarily... Considering adding another top-dress for the C99's only. The raspberries don't seem to need it... they burned up a few leaves each, but haven't really lost much at all. Of course they look SO much more bushy because there's literally 2x the colas per plant, heh.

I did have to pull a handful of dead ones last feeding, but less than before...

Oh your having probs with the cindys?

They take quite a beating and like a lot of food bro.

Thanks Gigs, good to know... I will start getting more aggressive with them... maybe they just need more!

Trust me they take a lot more then you think lol.

First time I grew mine I was dropping leaves and yellowing out like crazy. Same probs your having?

giggles26 said:

Trust me they take a lot more then you think lol.

First time I grew mine I was dropping leaves and yellowing out like crazy. Same probs your having?

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Precisely dude... thanks ffor the info, I will step it up!