What’s happening DGC!? How’s the Fam!? I’m growing blue dream here and was hoping to have flowers in nov but not anymore. I let my humidity go low, watered in a whole tsp of Recharge/wk and my tap waters pH after installing a “Waterdrop” filter has a pH around 7.5-8.3. I started adjusting the pH two weeks ago and pulled back my watering ALOT since she’s not soaking it up anymore. But leaves started dying, and I had to cut it down since it was too far gone. Now two more branches are gone and it’s not looking good. Temps are 80 degrees constant and I always have moist soil but she doesn’t look like she’s recovering. Could a whole tsp/wk of recharge ruin my soils bio? What is going on here?? Also what is this stuff on the bottom of my pot?
(Soils pH is 5.8 I checked with sample of soil and distilled water mixed)
Hey! I used to get that build up when I topdressEd heavy with organics like down to eart veg and bloom fertilizers. I always figured it was just them coming out of the soil and taking hold in the fabric and starting to cause that build up. Idk if that’s what your doing but I noticed when I mixed it with moist worm castings or compost it helped with this a little bit. If your using a mineral based nutrient that’s it’s run off.
And after you cut that much of the plant off, the rest of it is taking up all the nutrients from the pot. So it could ha e fried it. Could have gotten a virus 🦠 or infection from when you chopped the branches off. Stress maybe. Idk though. One of the big guys will prob know for sure
Look buddy, you want the truth? Put that poor girl out of her misery. Or, take a few clones and put what I am suspecting is a big old rotten mess of a root ball out. It sounds like you have been overwatering for some time. Every time a branch gets cut or leaves die, you are losing more material that uses water. Compounding the problem. The extra recharge is not the problem. I use it every watering. The sugars in it prolly don’t help slowing the pace of decomp….. you have wasted a lot of time on her. It’s hard to ditch something we have already done work on. It’s more of a tragic if you keep wasting time. Start over. New soil. The crap on the outside of your grow bag is normal. I call it natural salt based patina . Invest all your time in understanding how and when to water. Understanding how moisture and oxygen are both used . It’s a feel thing. I started off with a scale in my veg room. What dose a dry pot weigh, now what dose this one I fully watered weigh? So what would the 50% weigh. Hands down the hardest thing in growing is learning that feel with water. If you let roots dry out tooooooo much then the start to die. So if you try to make up for it with a flood then now you have a plant without the tools to handle the big job of respirating all that water. It’s a whole thang chicken wing.
👆🏼Right here.
Whoa! What did you doooooooo!!!! OH NO!
Just kidding dude! Just start over. Even if you harvest you won’t have anything to smoke.
KEEP TRYING YOU HAVE THE TENT AND LIGHTS!
READ THE MARIJUANA HORTICULTURE BIBLE BY
JORGE CERVANTES.
Best advice I can give.
It’ll change your life, I advise getting a physical copy to keep for when crap hits the fan.
Facts
It pains me 🥺 I grew her biggest I ever had then messed up, thank you @sunnyinbectopia @sensi-mi-yah and @wallyp I’ll check it out. Guess the next grow will definitely improve! Man I love this plant, Lessons and all!
I promise you, it will be. when you try new things for fun, you may have hiccups along the way. But it’s all a grand learning experience
I have a good stock of blue dream seeds I’ll pop em ASAP
I hate two say it but two me,, respectfully almost looks like bud mold or rot but your not that far so that would make me think it is a root problem but that would only happen if over watered.. it happens on the bottoms is there a fan blowing on the parts that are looking bad ,, it really looks like either bud rot or really i hate two say it because you sound like your grow is on point & mabey another idea could it mabey be broad mites,,,,??? & i only say broad mites because if you can say the two others are not the problem your really left with broad mite’s.. there really tiny root drench, would be the right response but you mabey want two grab a clone like sunny mentioned try again.. it may be broad mites so nematodes or some thing like sulphur for the soil or what ever you use for problems…way two grow… sounds like you got it..go dgc
no a teaspoon of recharge will not hurt your plant i do the same thing.. but i use a bit more for a weekly flush with recharge in it…nope your good with your recharge
man hit return,, but the stuff on the bottom of your pot is salt,, salt builds up in your medium and drains out that is just salt building up…it happens in supper soil or synthetic so your good… there…keep growing way two handle your grow right on..!!
It does look like overwatering. I wouldn’t comment if those with more experience hadnt already, but maybe this will help with watering. I basically follow WELCOME TO THE GROW TENT . This is his instructions and it works. One thing I’ve learned is it seems marijuana is more of a dry climate plant, then wet. I do the feed water- water- water- feed model. Pending size of plant ( i end up with 5 gal SOIL through flower), this is essentially every 4-6 days it gets feed or water. SINCE I USE CHARGED SOIL, they typically get first feeding around a week before flipping to flower. However the 3 waterings between feeds i use recharge in the water, alternating with calmag during veg, mag sulphate during flower. The amount of water used for these starts at around 1/2 gallon per plant during early veg. By the time i flip to flower 3/4 gal, and around week 3 of flower a gallon each. I use half recommended amount of calmag. It worked on the first grow. Im really using even less nutrients now, and before watering/ feed try to check the leaves for what they need. Lots of good utube sources for leaf signs. Debacco university for one. I am following the fox farm schedule at 1/3 strength. I also use a flusher after 2 feeds in flower which is around week 5. Then one more late flower feed in the cycle. Then winterfrost during last few weeks, plain water starting day 56 (8 weeks) with the expected harvest day around 65.