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Do you have a cheap hygrometer or something to measure environment? What are the temps and RH? If air circulating is a problem, find a generic fan in your house or get a cheap one to blow under the canopy and move around what I assume to be humid, hot air.

The plants in the rear are showing these issues

I do have a intake fan but I think my veg tent is stacked too much and air circulation is the problem aswell

Could you post some photos of the whole plant/canopy? Curling leaves and the slightly browning tips can be attributed to heat stress for sure.

Well... They viable. At it again Tap roots showed in 24 hrs and a additional 3 days to sprout. This time TA tripart and 70/30 coco pearl Testing 5L plastic pots with the intent of keeping them small From what I've seen. 5L fabric pots still produce fairly large plants

Hi I have 4 plants that look like this pic. Plant in the pic is the worse looking one. What can cause this? Is it heat stress? My extractor fan fan of for a day or two without me knowing. 250w MH in a 1.2 tent What you guys think?

Curling would be heat and the texture is light stress. They might be to close to your reflective insulation at the back there.., the material is awesome for maintaining heat but without the airflow that insulation gets hot pretty quick. As for what to do, cut the effected leaves off, move them away from the sides and add some kelp extract with water for the stress relief. (It's what worked for me anyway. I use the same lining in my flower room.) Happy growing and GL

Thanks NP. You have a point, i will email FF.I had some of my best grows with their green bag. Definitely interested getting into proper living soil...most likely my next run after this one.

Damn ... Freedom Farms. Suuucks to hear that from one of the more reputed names. It's a bigger problem for them as a brand than it is for the customer that runs into an issue so I am sure they would appreciate the feedback so they don't run into the same problem again. Either straighten out the lazy employee or replace them. Not giving feedback on big problems like these can be even bigger issue at the end of the day and who knows, maybe they thank you and bless you with some merch or new soil just to cover their ass. Even if they don't, at the very least, all they can do is use the info to avoid another slip up. Luckily I am off buying soil anymore, but I remember about 5 years ago till the other day still FF being the most consistent soil brand for us locals, but also hearing a lot of people running into problems with their stuff lately. About a year ago now a bud of mine transplanted 2.5month old clones (not small plants) straight into their Premium Classic soil and it just turned his plants into a crisp right away. That's trusting that he took my word to only give water, and didn't give nutrients (I know him to be that kinda guy, does exactly what you tell him not to do) plants just turned to a crisp. Luckily, because they all photoperiods we saved them, but yeah.... Freedom Farms being caught slipping up a bit too much lately, but then could also be the difficulty of trying to keep up with demand. I'd say if you looking at organics, even when you get into it, you'll end up making your own soil or amending soil you have as a base, so it's better to start waaaayy before planning to grow in the soil so once you wana make the move you're one step ahead of yourself. With organics we never throw anything away, you can basically use the cocoperl you got there as a base and build on that. A worm tower to make your own worm juice and castings - takes literally 10 to 20min to make, very very little financial input, helps to make clean up easier around the kitchen, builds a better relationship between you and the natural cycle and ultimately the plants too, will be the best time and effort investment to make for your plants and garden in general as the worm colony grow you can multiply your towers, you can sell the worms, you can literally just throw them on the ground in the garden and get a good healthy conscience boost as you're basically reviving, regenerating and spreading life.

No didn't take it up with them, Just too tired to do anything...i need a good 8 hours sleep. FF coco perle, most likely a lazy or disgruntled employee is the cause. Definitely will be back on organics soon, i ran out of nutes and was gifted the tripart.

That sucks! What brand is this? Did you take it up with them? Are you completely against the idea of organic growing or may I suggest it?

Aweh fellow greenfingers, Our winter outdoor grow is showing some Irie winter bud with some beautifull shades of colour. Yields might not be as impressive as summer, but the delicate winter flavours make up for it. The reduced vegetarian pest load is an added bonus, unfortunately the taxman(budrot) still has to be paid no matter the season. Keep growing....

I agree about the root issue. @nakes The first thing I noticed is that you didn't mention the heat in the tent? You did mention the extraction fan being out, that may play around with temps a bunch, but it will have a bigger impact on the RH, depending on your setup. Is the extraction fan only cooling down the light? If RH is a problem and the plants can't breathe properly it's gona be a problem. Another big one, where the root problem becomes the leaf problem - Check on your rootzone temperature in correlation to your leaf surface temperature. Those HID lights are not enough to heat up a rootzone, they give off nice heat, but once the cold settles in the soil the light will basically just heat up the surface of the stuff it hits, like your leaves. Giving you big contrast in the temp around your roots and on your leaf surface. Then the heat from the light becomes more of an issue than a good thing. How big are the plants? If you talking bout throwing them away, you gona replace them? Just asking, because they clones I know they photos and photos can be turned around at the grave. I like making recoveries instead of hitting the restart button, cause I learn more that way. If it was a bunch of autos I couldn't really help you much and if it was a bunch of different phenos from a seed pop I'd say no way of throwing them out, but if they still small clones and you got replacements I'd say feed them to the worms. if they big plants it's way too little of a issue to be thinking bout throwing them out. Another reason I ask how big they are - 250w mh in a 1.2 tent is actually a very good combo, but at what distance is the light hanging in correlation to how big the plants are? they're clones so I can't go by age or say "seedling" stage, but clones go through a sensitive stage too when they small. I'd like to add, smaller rootzones will generally be a bit colder than bigger ones. Eg. - a control measure would be to take both a 10L pot of soil or water and a 100L pot of soil or water, heat both to the same temperature on the surface and internal, take them both out in the cold, the 10L soil/water would have cooled down much quicker than the 100L pot. If you have a plant growing in there and you got some life going, some movement, gas exchanges and all that then it creates some more warmth for itself. Smaller pots typically don't work in a living soil way, big living soil beds have nice internal temperature that it self regulates like it does with PH and EC and all that, but with smaller seperate pots need something external to keep the roots warm to keep up with the 23 - 28°C range you want above soil. How do you grow - Organic? Synthetic? What kinda feed you use and all that stuff?

How the top leaves look?

What you suggest I do Evan? Should I toss them in the bin? All the other plants looks good and healthy. Is just 4 of this one strains clones doing this texture on the leaves

The canoeing is heat stress, but the texture of the leaf is also off. Might be something going on at the root zone also.