First time grower with red stems/yellow/spotting leaves

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I've read several times, somewhere on MP, that some strains or whatever won't show until you flip them. You could use a black plastic bag over one branch to simulate 12/12 or just flower a clone to *** it if you arent ready to flip.

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Okay guys thanks for the responses. The GH3 part is a little cheaper then the FF stuff so I might try that first?

On a brighter note. The lights will be here Monday. 20,000 lumen T5's. Perfect for my 6 square foot area! :)
 
You may not get that full 6ft coverage since you will want to keep those lights right on top of your plants. Are you getting those T5's from HTG?

Thanks smack I'll let it get a little bigger and attempt my first try at cloning.
 
Yep. Ordered from HTG. They will be here Monday. Right now...at best I am seeing 900 lumens per square foot with my current lights. So it will be a huge setup, that's for sure. And I have my HPS 400w all ready to go for when flowering comes around.

Next thing to do it get that 4" inline fan you showed me, Silver Bullet. That one will work perfect with my 4" duct work. After that just figure out if I want to go organic or chem ferts and watch these beauties grow!
 
I got to say. People on this forum are some of the nicest people I have meant on forums. Other forums (car forums in particular) everyone is very hostile. So thanks for such a great community that is provided here on MP!
 
I wasnt thinking right this morning :stoned: lol you should be able to get 6sq ft(2'x3') out of your light once it is raised...

Get your self a speed controller(just search it on that site they have a $20 one that I'm getting) with your fan so you can run that fan at half power and it will last you longer, less fan noise, and still exhaust your air twice per minute at half speed.

Yeah this forum rocks! Its one of the reasons why I joined this one... I was forum hunting before I joined here and everyone on the other forums seems like they just wanted to ridicule people that didnt know anything. There is a college worth of wisdom here.

I just placed my light order for the same light today, and got my GH3+calmag nutes in the mail today.
 
Nice, Bro! I will probably go with the same nutes. My local hydro store carries them along with FF stuff, too.

And yeah I saw that speed controller today. I will be getting that along with the 4" inline fan here in a week or so.

Not to go against what anyone said... but I tried CO2 this week... well, long story short (not that it is long haha). The plants shot up over 5 inches in 2 days. To me that's saying something. Never saw them grow this fast before in such a short amount of time.
 
If you do keep doing co2 (i may be wrong) but you'll need stronger lights and you will find you will need to feed more nutes.
 
You can certainly use CO2 if you have it, why not. The thing is that using the CO2 causes you to have to adjust everything to account for it. If you had the level of ventilation that you need for that grow then you most likely would not have seen as big a difference. You can use it as it will give results, if you can make everything else work with it without it becoming more of a headache than its worth. My Bro has a very "contained" grow that does well but I have told him multiple times that he needs either more intake air into the space to give fresh air, or get the CO2 injector system to increase the level of CO2 in the space and he would see bumper crops, but he's too hard-headed to listen to me. :angrywife:

If you have it, and you can make it work, by all means use it :)
 
Thanks guys! Yeah I will continue using it and see what happens. Lights will be there soon so so that will help out greatly. I will keep u all posted! :)
 
"shooting up" is NOT necessarily a 'good' thing. Stretching between nodes is not beneficial indoors. It means fewer bud sites closer to the light source. U[ward growth does not always mean 'more' growth.
co2 can enhance a grow, but it also requires a 'controlled' environment, more light/lumens p/sq/ft, higher temps, and more nutrients to compensate.
 
I should restate. There was no, as to what I can tell, more spacing between nodes. Just normal growth but was faster than in the past. I will eventually be gettin the controller that controls light, co2: fans, humidity, temperature etc... In the future. For now I am just seeing what works best.
 
Update:

I think at least one of my plants is showing a deficiency? What do you think?

Also I accidentally broke off a leaf. Should I worry?

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growgreen420 said:
Update:

I think at least one of my plants is showing a deficiency? What do you think?

Also I accidentally broke off a leaf. Should I worry?

pics show new growth, but no pistil yet..;)
"A" leaf... naaaaa not consequential
"I" wouldn't rush the nutes, not until your real light gets rolling anyway. It's tough to tell from pics, but "I" don't see a serious deff' yet. It's a LOT easier to add nutes than it is to get them out ;)
 
Okay thank you. I will just continue what I am doing and see where to go from there.
 
The first pic shows a leaf with a little yellowing around the edges. That is what made me think that was a sign of deficiency...
 
That little bit of yellowing may actually be a result of the co2/nutrient/light ballance that Hick is talking about. Whenever you increase one of the growing variables for the plants, the plants will react and what ever is weakest in the line of variables will show up as an imballance which can cause a bit of deficiency or growth pattern change.

The bigger leaves is just the phenotype expression of the indica side of the hybrid. Typically, Sativa has long narrow leaf fronds, and the indica has shorter, wider leaf fronds. With the hybridizing of the 2 types, you can see the experssion of traits from both sides come out at different times. I have plants that come from the same clone mother (Blueberry Punch) that have shown a good bit of variation in the leaf patterns and a few other traits as well, but the overall plant is fairly stable.
 
The plants are looking good! :) We are going to start doing nutes once the new lights get here. We are still trying to decide either organic or chem.... not sure why it is such a tough decision. We would rather go organic but the chem GH3 part is much cheaper....
 
Just picked up some FF nutes so I will be ready to dose when the time comes.
 

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