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So it's day 61 of flower and things have been going alright. Unfortunately the cookies kush started going south for unknown reasons. My guess is the strain is a heavy feeder and so it kinda seemed to run out of steam too soon. She started to show ill signs about 3 weeks ago after a top dress and declined slowly since then. As a result I had to cut her prematurely 2 days ago, I'll just be using her for cooking. The top colas actually started to go dry and crispy and the leaves began to just go yellow and die. Whether that could be due to a top dress with my own worm castings, I won't really know. The other plant didn't react the same way so maybe not. Also the Kush never began to show any real resin production from the onset. If anyone can take a look at the last 2 pics and suggest what may have gone wrong with here that would be much appreciated The la blanca gold went a lot better although I would have liked bigger colas. She does smell great though and is nice and frosty. All in all for my first full organic grow with no bottled nutes I'm pretty chuffed with the result on this plant... not ideal but it's a start. So far I would say the soil mix isn't bad at all judging by the la blanca it just needs a few tweaks and I reckon I'll start supplementing with biobizz bloom midway through flower next time. I think something a little extra is needed in the soil for bloom. I think more rock phosphate is needed. I must admit that I didn't quite stick to my plan during flower as well... I didn't inoculate and only brewed 2 compost teas. I also didn't feed with any kelp teas or alfalfa teas thinking they wouldn't need that... Which I was wrong about... Lessons learn't though and I look forward to giving it another shot soon The La Blance is the first 4 pics below. The Cookies Kush is the last 2 (looks very ill) Will share some dried nug pics soon

Maybe try fabric pots next time or perhaps you could even transplant those into fabric pots.

You want the correct PH going in. Your plants are quite looking hungry which is why you're getting those red stems, they need more N. Maybe up the dosage a bit on those nutes. Strange that you'd be getting a deficiency so early on with those plants though. Makes me think the soil PH might be a bit off

Wow 80g off 1 plant with LED is impressive In hydro or soil? What strain?

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@Connor42 you didn't attach any images

Looking good so far. Not sure if I missed it but what strain you growing there?

I haven't been growing hydro for a while now but will be next month. Right now I see Horti's calmag nitrate as the only option for buffering

Doesn't look like nute burn to me, more like a deficiency caused by PH issues I'm not experienced with DWC but my guess is that the light leak caused the algae growth which causes the rise in PH which has caused that def. Maybe give your res a good scrubbing

Thanks for joining! Best of luck with your new grow

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Disappointed to see these products go off the shelves. Gthydro also had at a stage

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Did some reading and actually found some benefits so I stand corrected. My thinking was that if you're already feeding the plant directly with synthetic nutes you wouldn't need bacteria to help the plant feed.

What is Heisenberg tea? Why would you want beneficial bacteria in a hydro system?

Don't have more than one plant in one container...ever... Leads to a transplanting nightmare

They're looking good! Are you keeping a close monitor on the amount of light hours they get? The days are slowly gonna get longer now heading towards spring

For nutrients in Cape Town there is Hortishop. They have a shop in Claremont and in Kraaifontein

Welcome Shane!

How often do you water and with how much? Those seedlings are still too young to be transplanted. If you have been overwatering the root system will be badly developed too further complicating the issue. You need to try save those seedlings in their current pots there. Maybe buy some seagrow and give them a feed with that, or if you're going to go organic brew a compost tea ASAP with some seagrow in it

Have you got perlite in that mix?

Looks like a male but image isn't close enough to be sure. Are you able to post a closer image?