Stress?

[Smokey Mcpotster]

I don't know who had more,me or the plants.
As you can see by the pics I'm still battling some issues. I am growing in 3.5 gal dwc buckets. The new flower room is 40x40"x86". 600w HPS cool tube. Temps 75-78 deg. RH 40% Using lucas formula w/ 7.5 ml cal mag per gallon. The 3 are Mandala satori or speed queen. Like a noob I didn't label them well.
Started with 8 plants. 3 killed themselves, couldn't take my nute torture anymore I guess. Of the 5 I had in a 10 gal tote 4 were fem. 1 male. I took the best 3 for flower. Talk about tough, it was hard enough to kill the male. I had to kill a female!!! My wife refused to play taps while I chopped her up. I pretended to cry, she laughed. I have been able to keep the ppm @ 700 /.5 conversion, before cal-mag, past that they get a little yellow. I still seem to have a bit of yellowing on a few leaves, should I boost cal mag up to 10ml per water change? I am going to take clones later today and put her into flower. Any thing else I should look out for going into flower?

And a HUGE thanks to all the people on here, for taking the time to post and help others. I couldn't have got past germing without your help!!!!!!

 

[fleshstain]

i'm not sure what the "lucas formula" is, but i'd wait till they got a bit healthier before taking clones.... if you're seeing deficiencies or toxicities with mothers the problem is going to passed in the clones.... i use some of my clones as future mothers so i make sure they're in the best of health before clipping....

just my thoughts though....

 

[Smokey Mcpotster]

Thanks flesh, I think the only deficiency at this time is my experience, first grow. I had them growing green and strong. I had to trim some roots. I had 6 plants in a 10 gal tote. Roots were one giant ball the shape of the tote. That was 10 days ago. I had to trim 80% of the roots off to get them separated. I should have backed off on my nutes when I switched them to the buckets. 700ppm was to much after the hair cut.

The lucas formula is the GH flora series without the grow. You use 8 ml of micro and 16 ml bloom per gallon in dwc. Nothing else is supposed to be used but I read of many ppl who use cal mag to help with the r/o- distilled water issues.

I appreciate your thoughts, thanks for the help.

 

[ozzydiodude]

With trimming the root ball you have caused the plant to pull nutes from the leaves to grow new roots just like clones do. Give the plant a few days to establish its self and just use plain PH'd water so the new roots are not damaged.

Green Mojo to help them along.

 

[legalize_freedom]

I'm not a hydro guy, but I have been growing for awhile, and I just wanted to say that they do not look too bad (stressed) from the pics. Or maybe my monitor is junk??? lol