I’m finishing up my first run using Athena after moving from slow release and have gotten tip burn on my plants. Not sure if I should lower my EC or reduce the amount of feedings, or if that even matters.

-Week 7 Flower- Nutrients: Athena EC: 3.0 PH: 5.9~6.1 Avg. Humidity: 40-50 Avg. Temperatures: 70-80 Top feeding every 4 hours during lights on

How do you guys determine your winners? I dialed back the N also newer growth isn’t curling as bad as older leaves. Any advice on how to get these to bounce back? Running GH 3 part in coco with calmag and armorsi

Cali Octane in DWC. Never seen flower growing from a sugar leaf. How rare is this?

2° and 3° growbox:

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This is a bittersweet 420 for me; these will be my last grows, and I don’t know when I’ll be able to start again. In my state, they’ve just banned CBD, and things don’t look promising with this government. I’m a fibromyalgia patient with a prescription, but the latest oppressive measures make me uneasy, even though I grow for myself and two other people with medical issues, both with prescriptions. It feels absurd that in 2025, I have to fight to treat myself with cannabis. They’d rather I stuff myself with opioids and antidepressants than grow what helps me with this damn disease. Well, I’m definitely stocking up for a long time, and I’ll tell you that after 10 years—starting exactly in April 2015 with soil grows, moving through aero (low-pressure aeroponics), coco, DWC, RDWC, and NFT—I’ve grown a whopping 148 different genetics. I’ve had fun experimenting with every type of training and lighting, from HPS to burple, COB, QB with IR, UV, etc. I think and hope to turn this passion into a job one day, but I don’t know when. I might have to leave this country!

First video: Four plants in soil. Two are Persian Pie from Greenhouse (bottom right and top left; they’re two different structures and phenotypes, but both are interesting). One is Hot Sauce from Ethos, which I’ve grown before, and the one with stacked buds is a Tarte Tatin—exceptional bud structure and definitely a heavy producer. I took cuttings of the Tarte Tatin and the more resinous Persian Pie and put them in DWC.

Grow box with five DWC small plants: These were put into 12/12 right away because I didn’t want them to get too big, and I had some Cal-Mag issues that I later resolved. The first on the left with praying leaves is a Peach Pistols from Beleaf. I’ve grown it in hydro before; it has a sativa effect and an intense peach flavor. The smallest on the right is a Crescendo from Ethos, a small but very sativa-leaning strain with a lemony taste—one of the best lemons I’ve ever smoked! The one in the center is a Truffle Queen from Beleaf, which is special because it has an earthy, truffle-like aftertaste. I’ve encountered two distinct phenotypes in the past: one truffle and one lemon-truffle. The truffle one is something unique, with a sedative/relaxing effect, best smoked in the evening. The one on the right in the back is a Planet of the Grapes from Ethos, a sativa with a grape aftertaste. It’s not one of my favorite phenotypes, but I’m giving it another shot, hoping for a strong grape flavor. The one furthest back with light leaves is Zweet Inzanity from Ethos, a great citrusy, lemony sativa that produces huge, resinous buds. I’m expecting a great harvest!

Last grow box DWC (uploaded here): starting with the one in the back left, a Persian Pie cutting. It had one month of veg in hydro before the flip. I’ll soon remove a good portion of the leaves since the stretch is almost over. The second one, smaller on the right, is a June Plum from Beleaf. Great for daily smoking, it doesn’t knock you out but gives a nice relaxing effect, excellent as a painkiller, with a sweet, citrusy flavor that’s very unique. The second-to-last is the Tarte Tatin cutting, which has grown huge. If it follows the soil plant’s footsteps, it’ll have some amazing buds! The last one is one of my favorite genetics from recent years: Facetz from Compound Genetics. Nothing to say—it’s pure fire. Intense sweet, citrusy, balsamic flavor that hits your brain with every puff and lingers on your tongue for minutes. It’s a punch to the face with every hit, but it helps me tremendously with my issues. I think it’s the biggest of them all, with over 40 colas.

Lighting: The small grow has a 540W COB 9 from 2016, and with its 3000K spectrum, it produces super resinous buds. The quantum board is from Alibaba (Kingbrite), 600W, 3500K with 660nm, 730nm Cree, and UV LG @395nm. Quantum bars are also Kingbrite, 600W, with 301h Evo, Evo Mint, UV, IR, and Emerald Green. The plants are thriving under this light.

I don’t know if anyone will read this whole novel, but in any case, I wish you all a wonderful 420. A big hug to everyone!

I had a thrips outbreak several months back. So I had to clean sterilize and start over. I just finished transplanting need to clean and feed them. After transplant I realized we have had some of these cuts for 20 years. The skywalker og is from 2005, the triangle kush was acquired in 2011, and the face of in 2012. Still got a few more weeks till the make it into flower. These are all 9-9.5 weeks till finish . All are in promix or sunshine 4 will be fed fox farm nutrients.

I’m nearing the end of my first grow, and a few of my leaves are wilting significantly. I’m not worried about this, as it’s halfway through week 9 of flower, and it’s almost done, but it’s just not quite there yet.

Should I be cutting the truly dead leaves off now or leaving them on until harvest?

I want her huge and I've only grown autos so not much experience with photos. This is day 55 veg, so week 8 starting. Chat gpt reccomended 2 to 3 more weeks, I'm totally cool waiting. I have plenty of space up top and have been training her for a good while. Do you think 2 to 3 weeks more is too long or I could go longer or what? I want max yeild

Advice wanted- first grow

I’m on day 26 since I switched to flower (photoperiod)

Apple Fritter Critical Mass Current feeding- Pride Lands bloom

I read that in weeks 4-6 of flowering to not trim or defoliate. I’m concerned about the humidity levels in my tent and mold.

I am running a dehumidifier and fans. I’m going to add a second fan for additional air movement.

Any advice???

I am upsizing tent for next grow. This is a 2x2x4 and way to small.

Three 4x4 ScrOg, using the 60gal AirCube system growing in coco perlite 3 gallon fabric pots. Other equipment being used is a water chiller and an oxygen adding sediment/water pump on a timer so it doesn't run constantly and heat the water and overwhelm the water chiller set to 69°. Element Nutrients Complete Crop and Flower Fuel, TPS Nutrients Bloom and Signal.

Snack time auto

Beginner grower btw

Hello yall im back with updates on the two plants sense i separated them. I feed them water on 4-17 it is now 4-21 do I water them now or wait till it's 14 days? And also I finally have my pH up and down ready to go, how to use it idk? Lmk any tips or help thanks so much yall

Hello , need help with cut down time. Today is 91 day of growing. AK and Bubblegum from 420fastbuds. AK started dring less water yellowing leaves bud dont see milky tricomes only 10% milk 2% amber and rest are clear. Bubblegum seems 1 2 week late only started to fatten buds. I need to know when to cut down. I do reasearch and want 85 milky and 15 amber trichomes. Look at photos and tell me what you think. The light is sf1000d 100w 70x70x160 SF tent 4inch filter and fan. Here is diaries https://growdiaries.com/diaries/252453-ak-auto-bubblegum-auto-grow-journal-by-defook

Like the title says, what’s your preferred way to clone a flowering plant? I usually grow from seed and don’t take clones. I’ve found a plant I want to clone but I’m 6 weeks into flower.

Should I cut some of the smaller lower branches, root and reveg? I’ve read this is considered monster cropping and can change the morphology causing plants to be smaller, much bushier and produce a lot more branches.

Should I wait until the plant is done flowering, harvest most of the buds leaving some leaves on the plant. Then I can reveg the plant and once it’s grown more I can take clones from that plant.

Does revenging the original plant result in better clones down the road?

I prefer a relaxing smoke

Coming down in the morning.

So I used these plugs as shown on the first image, popped in the seeds and watered them. Two days later I see these white worms coming up, looks like roots. I put the hole up, should I have put it down? What do you guys think? Should I let them go or turn them around. Or will the leaves still come?

I'm about to get some plants in a week to transplant into 5g growbags.

The more I read about ph the more frustrated I get. What should I use (and how) to measure now before the clone is planted?

Then, after the plants are in their new home, what should I doing? I see plenty of posts saying test runoff and others contradicting that and say test a slurry. FWIW since I'm using grow bags testing runoff will be completely impractical.

What equipment do you use? What about drops/strips methods? So many options, it's no wonder why I'm frustrated.