Hello all, I’ve been fighting these plants for the past three + weeks, and I need serious help.
The situation is grim, most of my girls look terrible and I’m am stumped, this is my second grow so my knowledge is limited.
The particulars:
Strain: wacky clones I get from a family member. Makes up their own names.
Growing medium: 50% promix bx, 25% coco, 25% perlite, In 2 gallon pots.
Lights: 4’ 8 bulb t5 and two t8 fixtures on either side to get more coverage.
Feeding with: GH floratrio + calmag
Two oscillating fans on plants and one box fan blowing air out of my grow room.
I’ve been wrestling with the ph of the medium since I noticed issues a few weeks ago. Super low PH, like 4.5 when they dry out just before watering then bounces back to 5.7-6.3 after watering/feeding but I am losing my shit here :’(
I have obvious deficiencies and woke up to the claw, so obviously nitrogen toxicity.
I’m giving proper feed amounts but it’s not properly getting to the plants because I think they are locked out from the low ph. I believe it’s feom using coco and not properly rinsing with calmag. I don’t know…
After waking up this morning to the claw I took one plant out and flushed it with ph’ed water and waiting to see if that helps.
Can anyone throw me some ideas on what I need to do to get these gals looking good?
Plants overall don’t look too bad I think I would start with a good clean calibration with new solution on pH meter make sure that is calibrated right . That way you can get your runoff pH in line. Good luck
Yes the clawing is definitely a nitrogen overload , as for the twisting leaves…how close do you have the liggts to the top of the canopy ? Could be that they are too close and are trying to hide from the higg temps of the light. Just a guess though !
My meter died on me a week before this all started. I’m using my backup… tube of water and four drops…match the color till my new on comes next week. My run off is between 5-5.5 according to that
The strains aren’t mainstream and it could be crappy genes. But I had good luck last year with these.
Barney’s surprise, Eperb 2, bangi haze2, Downeast skunk.
I’ve been running the 5ml/gal of the grow, micro, bloom, plus CaliMAGic same amount.
Okay, so now that we have identified the issues, how can I go about fixing it? Do I flush them all with ph’ed water, do I repot them? What should be my next step?
And yes, thank you all for the reply’s… very very much appreciated!
