DGC producer here,
Having a smooth start to mephisto 3 bears OG in my ac infinity 2×4 and rain science. Growing with Recharge and grow dots in happy frog under black gold seed starter. Temps steady 70 night to 76 day time, humidity has been a battle lowest I saw was 41 but normal is high 40s to mid 50s. Light is viparspectra xs2000 at 75% power about 24 inches above canopy.
Started my training and things started crazing, even though they don’t seem to grow the best with lst at least yet. These girls are 3 weeks old and about 1 week trained.
During my training I noticed the 2nd set of branches new shoots have some ugly leave tips on just set. Then another one (with most Grow Dots, all are different) has the same look on 1 fan leaf but it looks issuing from the side not tip of leaf.
Please any ideas would be very appreciated! I have noticed a couple fruit fly/fungus gnats just today for first time and sticky traps are coming. I just really can’t see them being the causation.
Did you FIM them? usually i will miss a piece of a node when i pinch off the tip and when it grows out it looks ripped in half.
That’s my bet
To me plant training is everyone’s own journey. I’m not going to tell anyone how to live their life. Live the life you want to live……me I would FIM the bigger ones when the smaller one was still just a nubbin.
This is no fiming or ripping, I’ve heard something along the lines in abundance of nutrients or lack there of. Maybe something else but I heard a solid explanation for this yet can’t find it anywhere now that I run into it
Usually this happens with a potassium deficiency then.
But I think the Potassium works hand in hand with sulfur.
If you didn’t top these and clip some leaves on accident then it makes me think that when you were first training them that you damaged those leaves when they were tiny near the stalk of the plant and when they shot up you can now see the damage. I have done this before and it’s the only thing I could have thought happened. IlI noticed leaves like this on a mephisto forum stomper and ethos purple Thai after I started training them and was puzzled and thought something was eating my plant. But it’s real hard to tell when you mess up the shoots when they are tiny, it’s likely that is what happened in some capacity.
As for the fungus gnats, the sticky traps won’t do much in controlling them. They spend about 1/3 of their life in their gnat form, you’ll have better luck attacking them in the soil with something like SF nematodes or even diatomaceous earth depending on your style.
Will sf nematodes live in a soil with grow dots? First time salt growing trying to hurry up a run I skipped the organic to gain a few days hopefully.
They should since they spend the majority of their lives inside their infected host. It’s just important to keep the top layer of your media moist for several hours so that they can move around and start infecting the larvae. But they will live in the infected host for up to 2 weeks before emerging into the environment/media again. But after there are no more fungus gnat larvae to infect then I would expect for the nematodes to start dying off.
Thanks a lot man I really appreciate it.
This looks like human interaction
I just ate a little bit. Sorry