very little growth seen.

[woodymanz]

I have 4 plants that are in there 8th week of flower and showing very little growth. Do you think I need to change the nutes? It's been 2 months since I added the nutes, I have been just adding water and nutes when needed the ph is 5.5-5.8 and checked daily. Do you think It would make much of a difference if I change the water and nutes today or should I just leave it and add the nutes and water when needed? I want to see more growth on the buds and trichs as fast as possible.
please help me..

thank s

 

[maineharvest]

What strain are you growing? Most indoor strains finish budding around 8 weeks. What nutes are you giving it and are giving it the recommended full dose.

I usually start with feeding it a quarter dose and then up the amount of nutes every feeding.

 

[HippyInEngland]

Hello Woody

Click 'Quote' at the bottom right of my post and fill the details in

HYDROPONICS/Aero Ponics/Coco/Soiless/

How long has this problem been going on?

Are you growing in a PVC grow tent? (example: Hydrohut or any other non brand tents)

What system are you running? (DWC? Ebb flow? Aero? Water Farm? Flood Tables? and so on...)

What STRAIN are you growing?

What was the establishing technique? (Were the seed or clone?)

What is the age of your plants?

How long have they been in there mixture they are in now?(coco,soiless etc..)

How tall are the plants?

What PHASE are the plants in? (seedling, vegetative or flower) are the plants in?

What Technique are you using?

What substrate/medium are you using?(Hydroton, RockWool etc.)

What is the Water temperature?

What color are your roots? White? Brown? Are your roots slimy?

What Nutrient's are you using?(If growing soiless)

How much of each nutrient are you using with how much water? *Knowing the brand is very helpful*

How often are you feeding? (If using soiless)

How often are you giving nutrients? (If using soiless)

If flowering, when did you switch over to using Bloom nutrients?
What order are you mixing your nutrients? (example: veg nutes 1st, bloom 2nd ect)

What is the TDS/EC/PPM you are using?

What is the pH of the "Tank"?

Are you sure your calibration is correct on your equiptment?

When was your last watering?

What is your water temps?

When was your last feeding change? (ie. grow-bloom-micro-additional)

How often do you clean your system: example: Flush out water replace with clean water and nutrients?

What size bulb are you using?

What is the distance to the canopy?

What is your RH Factor(Relative Humidity)?

What is the canopy temperature?

What is the Day/Night Temp? (Include flucutaion range)

What is the current Air Flow? (cfm etc.)

Tell us about your ventilation, intake exhaust and when its running and not running ?

Is the fan blowing directly at plants?

Is your water HARD or SOFT?

What water are you using? Reverse Osmosis (RO)? Tap? Bottled? Well water? Distilled? Mineral Water?

Are you using water from a water softener?

Has plant been recently pruned, cloned off of or pinched

Have any pest chemicals been used? If so, What and When?

Are plant's infected with pest's


eace:

 

[woodymanz]

Hello Woody

Click 'Quote' at the bottom right of my post and fill the details in

HYDROPONICS/Aero Ponics/Coco/Soiless/

How long has this problem been going on?

Are you growing in a PVC grow tent? (example: Hydrohut or any other non brand tents)

What system are you running? (DWC? Ebb flow? Aero? Water Farm? Flood Tables? and so on...)

What STRAIN are you growing?

What was the establishing technique? (Were the seed or clone?)

What is the age of your plants?

How long have they been in there mixture they are in now?(coco,soiless etc..)

How tall are the plants?

What PHASE are the plants in? (seedling, vegetative or flower) are the plants in?

What Technique are you using?

What substrate/medium are you using?(Hydroton, RockWool etc.)

What is the Water temperature?

What color are your roots? White? Brown? Are your roots slimy?

What Nutrient's are you using?(If growing soiless)

How much of each nutrient are you using with how much water? *Knowing the brand is very helpful*

How often are you feeding? (If using soiless)

How often are you giving nutrients? (If using soiless)

If flowering, when did you switch over to using Bloom nutrients?
What order are you mixing your nutrients? (example: veg nutes 1st, bloom 2nd ect)

What is the TDS/EC/PPM you are using?

What is the pH of the "Tank"?

Are you sure your calibration is correct on your equiptment?

When was your last watering?

What is your water temps?

When was your last feeding change? (ie. grow-bloom-micro-additional)

How often do you clean your system: example: Flush out water replace with clean water and nutrients?

What size bulb are you using?

What is the distance to the canopy?

What is your RH Factor(Relative Humidity)?

What is the canopy temperature?

What is the Day/Night Temp? (Include flucutaion range)

What is the current Air Flow? (cfm etc.)

Tell us about your ventilation, intake exhaust and when its running and not running ?

Is the fan blowing directly at plants?

Is your water HARD or SOFT?

What water are you using? Reverse Osmosis (RO)? Tap? Bottled? Well water? Distilled? Mineral Water?

Are you using water from a water softener?

Has plant been recently pruned, cloned off of or pinched

Have any pest chemicals been used? If so, What and When?

Are plant's infected with pest's.


eace:

Hydroponics
2 weeks
no grow tent wooden closet
DWC
Bag seeds from some realy good chronic and blueberry.
seeds
8 weeks bloom plus 4 weeks in veg
13 weeks
3 are 28 inches and the blueberry is only 24 inches but very snowy looking.
flowering
Technique
Hydroton
water temp 65-67 F
Brown but no slime or weird smell
GH FloraNova Bloom GH floracious plus and kool bloom GH
2 tsp per gallon of nova bloom and 1/4 tsp per gallon of floracious plus and 1/4 tsp per gallon of kool bloom powder.
I feed 1 gallon of nutes per 2 gallons added to the res.
when i started the 12/12
I don't have a ppm meter so I just go on the ph meter.
ph 5.5-5.8
new hanna multi meter pen it's red tells the temp and the ph digital.
yesterday
67 degrees F
3 weeks ago
I haven't since the change to bloom
430 hps and 150 hps
2 feet from the tops
RH 30%
78 degrees F
day 78-80 F Night 65-68 F
CFM 240 in and 240 out
vents out of the closet and outside and intake from outside daily 24 hrs
yes on the plants in rotation
soft RO water
RO
no
no
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there you go let me know if you need any more info.

 

[woodymanz]

What strain are you growing? Most indoor strains finish budding around 8 weeks. What nutes are you giving it and are giving it the recommended full dose.

I usually start with feeding it a quarter dose and then up the amount of nutes every feeding.

I got them in a bag of chronic and one is a blueberry and she is really short but growning like a christmas tree with alot of crystals all over it. I'm using this time GH FloraNova Bloom and I'm giving it whats recomended on the bottle.

 

[icegrower]

i would start by cutting down the nutes by close to half the a,ount given by the manufacturer...ive seen to be getting better results with obout half the strenght that they recoment...i to have floral series nutes

 

[woodymanz]

i would start by cutting down the nutes by close to half the a,ount given by the manufacturer...ive seen to be getting better results with obout half the strenght that they recoment...i to have floral series nutes

i just drained both grow containers and refilled with fresh water. container 1 holds 6 gallons and the second container holds 3 gallons. I put enough nutes in the 6 gal for 4 gallons and for the 3 gallon container i put enough for 2 gallons and both have a PH of 5.8.

how does that sound?

 

[maineharvest]

Are you feeding them any nitrogen? They look to be really dark green for eight weeks of flower, mine arent even that green in veg.

 

[maineharvest]

Lower your light about a foot and put a fan blowing right on the top of the canopy. That is what I would do. I bet they would fatten right up if you can get those lights as close as possible with out burning them.

 

[woodymanz]

no just whats in the bloom formula,if you look through my journal you'll see how green they realy get

 

[woodymanz]

i'll try that today on the right is a 150 hps and a 430 hps sunagro on the right i used a old computer case cover for a reflector

 

[maineharvest]

I use a 400 hps and I keep it about ten inches from the canopy. I use a pretty powerful fan too. I also have my bulb enclosed with a sheet of glass so that takes a little of the heat off too.

 

[woodymanz]

I'll try that hight above the plants, I'll need to setup a stationary fan just above the plant tops to keep them cool.

 

[maineharvest]

yeah you definitely need a fan or it can get too hot and it will really slow the growth.

 

[woodymanz]

if it's to hot will it make the leaves at the top start to curl down from the side of the leaves?