64yoda
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Hey. This is my first post outside of the "introduce yourself" post.
I'm growing an auto Blueberry, a photoperiod Blueberry Headband, both at about 45 days of growth, started on same day.
I also planted a World of Seeds Afghan Kush Ryder (auto) on the 19th of last month. I'm wondering what's going on because once it got the first set of leaves after the cotyledons, it's like it refused to grow any further.
Here's my album for what the three plants look like. I took the photos about 2 hours ago or so.
http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/album.php?albumid=124
The BBHB is having some problems with the lower leaves though. And if you're wondering where my fan leaves are, I made the mistake of cutting them off (thinking it would spur growth) and then finding out that the flowers use the sugars from the lower fan leaves more than from anywhere else (correct me if I'm wrong on that too).
http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/album.php?albumid=125
At first I thought it was simply a pH imbalance because I had some signs of that early on. The BBHB is much less forgiving than the BB auto. The BBHB also requires extra Nitrogen. Then I thought yesterday that maybe it was a phosphorous or potassium deficiency. Now I'm thinking that maybe it's heat stress because I rotate both plants every day and perhaps sometimes the long stems with long leaves hang down to close to the heating bulbs.
*I'm using Black Gold soil, coco coir, perlite, and vermiculite in my three pots (I'm still trying to figure out the best ratios, but I think it will depend on the strains and the other things I use to grow them until I can afford more expensive set-ups).
*For the BBHB, I've used just something that we had for our other house plants, called Schultz 10-15-10. It's not Miracle-Gro, but I didn't want to change over to organic half-way through and possibly shock the plant.
*Up until now, I've only used organic Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizer, Fish & Seaweed Fertilizer, and Seaweed Fertilizer for the Blueberry auto.
*I was late in the game at figuring out how to adjust pH of my water. Until now I've used purified water from the grocery store. It wasn't until maybe the second week that I started to adjust the pH. I found it later it was fairly alkaline. Two days ago I started buying distilled water by the gallon and found a grocery store that sells gallons of distilled water that seem to have a pH right at around 6.5.
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I'm growing an auto Blueberry, a photoperiod Blueberry Headband, both at about 45 days of growth, started on same day.
I also planted a World of Seeds Afghan Kush Ryder (auto) on the 19th of last month. I'm wondering what's going on because once it got the first set of leaves after the cotyledons, it's like it refused to grow any further.
Here's my album for what the three plants look like. I took the photos about 2 hours ago or so.
http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/album.php?albumid=124
The BBHB is having some problems with the lower leaves though. And if you're wondering where my fan leaves are, I made the mistake of cutting them off (thinking it would spur growth) and then finding out that the flowers use the sugars from the lower fan leaves more than from anywhere else (correct me if I'm wrong on that too).
http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/album.php?albumid=125
At first I thought it was simply a pH imbalance because I had some signs of that early on. The BBHB is much less forgiving than the BB auto. The BBHB also requires extra Nitrogen. Then I thought yesterday that maybe it was a phosphorous or potassium deficiency. Now I'm thinking that maybe it's heat stress because I rotate both plants every day and perhaps sometimes the long stems with long leaves hang down to close to the heating bulbs.
*I'm using Black Gold soil, coco coir, perlite, and vermiculite in my three pots (I'm still trying to figure out the best ratios, but I think it will depend on the strains and the other things I use to grow them until I can afford more expensive set-ups).
*For the BBHB, I've used just something that we had for our other house plants, called Schultz 10-15-10. It's not Miracle-Gro, but I didn't want to change over to organic half-way through and possibly shock the plant.
*Up until now, I've only used organic Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizer, Fish & Seaweed Fertilizer, and Seaweed Fertilizer for the Blueberry auto.
*I was late in the game at figuring out how to adjust pH of my water. Until now I've used purified water from the grocery store. It wasn't until maybe the second week that I started to adjust the pH. I found it later it was fairly alkaline. Two days ago I started buying distilled water by the gallon and found a grocery store that sells gallons of distilled water that seem to have a pH right at around 6.5.
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