wedginfool
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Just a breif explanation of what i've got going
I bought a phototron and followed manufacturers instructions
the manufacturer says to plant 6 plants in the phototron and then FIM them
so all 6 plants are in the same pot containing spaghnum peat moss which tends to give plants short internodal lengths in the first place and then with all the FIMing i've got so many branches it isn't even funny.
2 weeks into giving the nutrients that came with the phototron i got severe nutrient burn and then nutrient lock out and then iron defeciencies. when i got the problem fixed i veged for i dunno maybe 3-4 weeks till i had gotten nice vigorous growth (oh by the way i switched to flora series nutrients) anyway the temps in the phototron have always ran high especially at the top of the unit and my plants were getting up there in height. one is like 32 or 34 inches tall.
the temps near the top of the unit with the windows in the house open to allow maximum cooling (at the time it was like only anywhere like -25 to 20 degrees farenheight outside) so i was keeping the house so cold you could almost have ice in the kitchen sink to keep the temps down to what was anywhere from 85 to 105 on occasional spikes but most of the time in the 90's somewhere. Along with the heat from the bulbs i was getting burning from the fluoro's in the unit coming into direct contact with plants branches.
anyhow i recently had received my 2 250 hps lights and decided to pull the panels on the phototron and broadside them with hps lighting. this way i could shut off the phototrons flourescent lighting and quit burning my plants directly with the bulbs, and i would be able to pull them outside of the phototron giving them much needed space and allow lighting into the canopy of the massive bush.
the temps were approximately the same as the florescent but i started noticing very droopy wilting top fan leaves, like they were a blanket laying over a broom handle (the main stem in the leaf would stick out normally but the leaf it self just fell limp off the side of the main vein in the leaf) any way long story short the temps were very high for a couple of days and when i put a fan in there it seemed to make things worse right away. so i purchased an airconditioner and had to pipe the cold air directly into where the plants were. now i have the temps down to mid 70's but it appears that my biggest plant is or has been stunted or stopped the flowering, any ideas as to why it only affected my biggest plant??
this isn't true it has affected all of my plants at first. but the rest seem to have come back from the wilted stage but my big one still has the leaves that have the extreme wilting hanging off overside of the main stem in the leaf (this is at the top) of the plant. but it has lots of fried leaves over lots of areas of the plant.
the thing is i'm not so sure it's all from the heat i think i might be over fertilizaing too so i cut down to 50 percent mixture than what is called for at this stage
I'm also wondering if this could be a mg defeciency
ANY IN PUT WOULD BE APPRECIATED
thanks in advance
I bought a phototron and followed manufacturers instructions
the manufacturer says to plant 6 plants in the phototron and then FIM them
so all 6 plants are in the same pot containing spaghnum peat moss which tends to give plants short internodal lengths in the first place and then with all the FIMing i've got so many branches it isn't even funny.
2 weeks into giving the nutrients that came with the phototron i got severe nutrient burn and then nutrient lock out and then iron defeciencies. when i got the problem fixed i veged for i dunno maybe 3-4 weeks till i had gotten nice vigorous growth (oh by the way i switched to flora series nutrients) anyway the temps in the phototron have always ran high especially at the top of the unit and my plants were getting up there in height. one is like 32 or 34 inches tall.
the temps near the top of the unit with the windows in the house open to allow maximum cooling (at the time it was like only anywhere like -25 to 20 degrees farenheight outside) so i was keeping the house so cold you could almost have ice in the kitchen sink to keep the temps down to what was anywhere from 85 to 105 on occasional spikes but most of the time in the 90's somewhere. Along with the heat from the bulbs i was getting burning from the fluoro's in the unit coming into direct contact with plants branches.
anyhow i recently had received my 2 250 hps lights and decided to pull the panels on the phototron and broadside them with hps lighting. this way i could shut off the phototrons flourescent lighting and quit burning my plants directly with the bulbs, and i would be able to pull them outside of the phototron giving them much needed space and allow lighting into the canopy of the massive bush.
the temps were approximately the same as the florescent but i started noticing very droopy wilting top fan leaves, like they were a blanket laying over a broom handle (the main stem in the leaf would stick out normally but the leaf it self just fell limp off the side of the main vein in the leaf) any way long story short the temps were very high for a couple of days and when i put a fan in there it seemed to make things worse right away. so i purchased an airconditioner and had to pipe the cold air directly into where the plants were. now i have the temps down to mid 70's but it appears that my biggest plant is or has been stunted or stopped the flowering, any ideas as to why it only affected my biggest plant??
this isn't true it has affected all of my plants at first. but the rest seem to have come back from the wilted stage but my big one still has the leaves that have the extreme wilting hanging off overside of the main stem in the leaf (this is at the top) of the plant. but it has lots of fried leaves over lots of areas of the plant.
the thing is i'm not so sure it's all from the heat i think i might be over fertilizaing too so i cut down to 50 percent mixture than what is called for at this stage
I'm also wondering if this could be a mg defeciency
ANY IN PUT WOULD BE APPRECIATED
thanks in advance
