I noticed over the last week the growth wasn’t as big as I had expected, but it’s my first grow and I’m inexperienced. I felt that maybe the plants had out grown the dixi cups I had started with, so my goal was to transplant this week, as well as introduce a sleep cycle to help the root systems develop and give them a break from the transplant shock. I also noticed the leaves seemed to be showing some kind of nutrient burn or lock out, and I would later find out what I believe to be the reason why. At first I assumed nutrient burn, since the plants had grown really fast, but I had used a potting soil for the initial planting from paper-towel germinating. I figured that the roots were developing and that the nutrients in the soil were over kill. So I prepped my water with MagNifiCal from Reno nutrients to help flush out an balance the nutrient overload.
But then, my PH tester arrived and found out I had been watering with water that was way to high in PH. Thankfully I was mostly using bottled water till this point, and just used some of the really high ph tap water to dampen the soil during the transplant. Regardless, it was probably nutrient lock out as my new growth was seemingly happy, and it seemed like the nutrients it was missing were being vampired from the lower growth. I gave the plant a decent feeding with the mixture I prepped to help lower the ph in the soil and get them back on track.
This week I am hoping to help the plants rebound from my negligent watering with water that was not ph tested. When I ph tested the water I was using I found the bottled water I used when I started the germination process was 7.3 or so, and then my tap water once boiled was actually at a ph of 8.5 and up. Anyone know if this will screw my crop entirely from this point forward?
They seem to be recovering from the negligence, and are peeking up nicely.
I did start to notice a skunky / piney smell in my tent today after waking up the ladies.
Any questions or feed back hit me up.
Do you guys think my plant will recover with the main stem break? Details are in the journal but basically it completely snapped, was hanging by a thread of fibre. I used some allow and ducting tap that came with my exhaust.
I've done this to a couple plants over the years and more often then not the plant recovers. If you got that tape one there and the two pieces of stem tight together it should heal in a week or two. Keep tape on there for a while tho!!! If the top that broke off is wilting and leaves feel limp and soft likely it's been damaged too much
You've done it like someone who has follow a step by step method and you've done it right. I can't see any things wrong in your LST , maybe you could use LST + topping to build a bushier shape ans increase the secondaries growth while keeping the a flat cannopy.
the leaves falling down are not a good sign but just leave it and let it do its thing it took my plant a couple weeks to heal up and recover fully dont get impatient and take the tape off just let it do its thing it if it dies it dies but give it a shot anyway man