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Thanks, @Budwizer, I fixed it with Epsom and AACT over the week. Bounced back beautifully. Shot gents. My soil mix was a bit too rich, so I broke it down with equal parts, coco, ewc, my soil mix & perlite. Didn't add lime for the extra coco. I think that particular strain was just more sensitive to the deficiency. IMO. Ill monitor and Epsom salts as per @CG420za schedule above. Pic below a week later.

Get LED lights You have to run 30+ degrees for optimal growth, and transpiration. Much easier and cheaper to control humidity than fighting hot temps. Seriously, these are the same plants as my SOTM entry. Record flowering time, and looking to be my best yield ever.

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Here is some of my other babies

There is a lot of info on the net regarding growing this plant. Much of that info is outdated, but regurgitated as gospel. You could run 30 deg with HPS and not have major issues. Trick is balancing the most important factors- heat, humidity, light intensity, substrate EC, substrate moisure level, substrate pH. LEDs don’t radiate much infrared, which HPS ( and the sun) does. That infrared energy (heat) is one of the drivers of photosynthetic processes, used by the plant to manufacture sugars. You need to achieve a LST (leaf surface temperature) of 27 deg plus or minus. If your cab is running at 28 ambient with led, your probably only hitting 24 deg LST. Your plants aren’t performing at their best. I’m still getting my head around a lot of this myself, but my results are proving this new info correct. I have pretty good control of RH, which is an important factor. I have lowered my daytime ambient temps from 31 to 29 for the last two weeks of flower, nighttime ambient temp from 25 to 24. RH from 60 to 40 day and night. My system runs +-5 points from those goals. I’d say it’s working.

Foliar Epsom with Fulvic 5 grams Epsom to 1ltr, 3ml GTH Fulvic to 1 ltr. Spray the underside of the leaves. Do one ASAP, then again 3/4 days later. But what has caused this? What you’re seeing is a symptom. You need to get to the root of the real problem. If it’s a problem now, then it’s gonna be a problem through the whole grow. Mg def means one of two things: too much Ca or Na or P in the mix, or pH out of whack. You need to sort the problem, then the symptoms will go away.

You sound like a first time grower. Nothing wrong with that, we were all first timers. The common thing amongst first timers though, is that they all ( me included) make way too much of everything. I guess pretty much like first time parents do. 90cm is quite far, unless you’re running very powerful lights. If you’re worried about it, try 60cm. For the wattage you stated, I’m comfortable recommending 45cm.

This seems too easy a solution to our problem. https://shop.yourdoor.co.za/product/led-intelligent-emergency-bulb/ 4 hours max ?

Man I feel u I have Rhodesian ridgeback who chewed up the cover for my PH meter (the one thats suppose to keep the damn probe moist all the time). He is my physical security and best friend in one so i cant get rid of him . Your doggy sounds like he works for the K9 unit cos he goes for the actual plants .

Great minds !!

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Winning @Toby!

Perfect recovery

When I say day temps, I mean lights on. Doesn’t matter whether that’s real nighttime or daytime. Your system will run more efficiently if you run lights on during the daytime. Use the heat of the day while the lights are on, set the aircon to 30, cooling. At night drop the aircon to 25, still cooling. On cold days, set the aircon to heating. During the winter months, my aircon will run heating permanently. Don’t ignore my advice regarding RH. In veg and early flower, you need to be above 50%. I have a PAR meter, to set the distance for my lights. They’re at approximately 30cm, and I have multiple overlapping. Your lights are different to mine. You can’t run the same distance I am. I’d recommend 45cm for yours, without knowing your setup.

Was no joke about to send you the link https://www.takealot.com/russell-hobbs-10000btu-portable-aircon/PLID41125397

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Portable aircons actually dry out the air with their internal dehumidification function. I currently run my lights at night, but I will be bringing on my other 600 watt panels so may find heat and issue and as such will be investing in one. Ideally I'd like to connect to to a humidistat. I will be building a make shift air scoop over the AC and run it into one of the vents, I won't actually keep the AC inside.

So another week of veg and girls happy all round. Yes the foot has to be in the pic! Shes getting to tall almost for top shots. The 2 LST chocos...

Well at least your dog didn't destroy everything..... I have a greyhound almost 1 yr old, it first got into the locked parking bay when I forgot to lock the side gate, he chewed my plant, so I moved it out on top of those cube water tanks, got home today to see he got to everything there as well.... I lost over R2000 and Im chucking the freedom farm soil away too, so got to count that too, guess I'm done growing, thinking I'm done with my dog too, anyone looking for a dog for Christmas? He kinda keeps you on your toes :) Sent from my ALE-L02 using Tapatalk

Indeed the only way for it to be 100% fair would be for everyone to use a cutting of the same plant but I think we can all agree that'll be just about impossible. So we do have the this option.... @Totemic has very generously offered to sponsor his chocolope genetics for this competition. A pack of 5 reg seeds for up to 200 participants. 1000 seeds in total Would you guys be okay with covering the delivery cost of your 5 pack?

Magnesium sulphate will only hurt you microbes in large doses . At the doses me use it's actually beneficial to use it . A lot of soil recipes actually put a cup of magnesium sulphate into the mix. yes that plant is suffering from MG def so magnesium sulphate would be better to use over calmag+ as you dont look like you need the extra calsium or nitrogen

Nothing like tsitsikamma reserve and a dank blunt.