Gorilla Glue Auto, Day 18 Troubles

OrionsCeiling · February 25, 2021, 6:39am

Hey dude we’ve chatted back and forth prior but I just wanna say tour auto looks just right for the Grobo. Autos grow a bit differently than some other photo periods and take some time to do their thing. The browning on the leaves is normal, those leaves will come off sooner or later as she gets bigger. I recommend to think in terms of foresight when you look at her. Where would you like to see tops? How many do you want her to have? Will you LST or does she need any leaf tucking/demolition to help her nodes grow?

I personally keep my Grobo in a closed room, if you look at my latest grow as soon as I moved the Grobo into that closet she exploded with growth. I’m not quite sure why, but the consistent humidity and warmer temperatures may be playing a factor

McLovin6792 · February 26, 2021, 4:14am

Yeah man, these are all things I need to consider. I feel like I am finally turning the corner with her. Today I changed the air pump with a much better and quieter one, so that’s dope! Two days ago I began my CO2 adding and feel it might be helping. And her roots are starting to whiten and look really quite good with roots starting to form near the top of the tap root!

At this point I don’t quite know what I’m looking for and could use help determining if I stay on course or if I move forward with extending things. Any help from anyone, input would be greatly appreciated! Below is my diary entry from this evening:

Ambient humidity 36%, 73.4° Inside humidity 41%, 73.1° Water temp 71.4° Old leaves looking brown and speckled still, but new leaves looking good! Added a yeast mixture for CO2 purposes. Also upgraded the air pump in the back, much quieter and more bubblage! Grobo was off for about 30 minutes while I worked on her. I think she started to go to sleep. Looking to get better nutrients as well like silica. Gotta find me some!

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FireGuy · February 26, 2021, 4:19am

Are you using hydroguard or some other alternative? Your water temps are high.

McLovin6792 · February 26, 2021, 4:23am

I am using hydroguard. I put in 5 ml on Sunday. Keep in mind the unit was off for 30 minutes with stagnant water. Water temp has been averaging 69 before this evening. What would you recommend though if the water temp gets too warm and stays too warm?

FireGuy · February 26, 2021, 4:26am

My first grow was done in Arizona summer with 70+ water temps and 7.5ml hydroguard was all I did.

McLovin6792 · February 26, 2021, 4:28am

Gotcha, I’m thinking also it may have gotten warm because of my A/C set up at the moment. Twas warm upstairs before I got in there.

FireGuy · February 26, 2021, 4:33am

Cool cool. The only other thing I can think of is a ph health check. She’s droopy, and has been for reasons that can’t be explained. Your leaves should be raised and praying towards the light. Do you have ph calibration solutions?

McLovin6792 · February 26, 2021, 4:37am

I do not… Was hoping to hold off but ive been thinking about doing that. I will attempt to calibrate Sunday when I water change next. Did you have droopiness and solve it by calibrating the pH probe?

FireGuy · February 26, 2021, 4:40am

I DID! I had a gunk buildup on my ph and EC probes. I was using other nutes, but the ph seems to be an issue as of late.

Baumi1981 · February 26, 2021, 5:44am

Hello … Had the same problem 73.4 ° f fell … Your air pump draws heat in air from your other devices and heats the water.
Cooling bags in the water could help.

McLovin6792 · February 26, 2021, 9:27pm

Thanks guys for the insight! I will be cleaning the probes over the weekend. And the water temp has come back down to 68.5 since adding the new air pump outside the unit. Will update Sunday with photos

OrionsCeiling · February 26, 2021, 11:49pm

Nice! Keep on truckin’

McLovin6792 · March 1, 2021, 2:13am

Hey Growers,

Here is the latest entry into my journal:

Ambient humidity 27%, 70.7°
Inside humidity 33%, 71.7°
Water temp 65.7

Hello Grobo, Today was GG’s best-looking day in quite some time. She seemed perky and really likes the changes we have implemented. Her roots looked great! Tap root seems to be getting quite thick which bodes well for long term growth Today we changed her water and added Hydroguard after a few hours to let the grobo get back to where it needs to be. We also cleaned the probes and recalibrated so hopefully the grobo can read things better. Lastly, we started applying a 25/75 Silica/Water (Tree Trunk) Supplement to the leaves via Foliar feeding. Got a fine mist sprayer and hope she does well. Not sure of the amount of foliar feeding we are supposed to do. Will find out

So I suppose the only question I have right now is, how often should I foliar feed? Everyday, every other day? I don’t want to over due it but with the plant taking in nutrients much slower but more constant via roots, I’m curious how frequently to applicate. I’m going to try and do every other day unless told otherwise.

OrionsCeiling · March 1, 2021, 2:28am

I think you’re gonna have to increase your humidity but foliar feed depending on the nutrients. It should be on the back of the bottle.

Usually you’ll get rust/cal mag spots on the leaves when the humidity goes below 40%

McLovin6792 · March 1, 2021, 3:25am

Got it,

I will work with the humidifier to get that up. Thanks man, I wasn’t sure what the spots could have been related too.

OrionsCeiling · March 1, 2021, 5:07pm

No prob! Happened to me too. I use a toatronics humidifier these days a lot of people use them, it’s like $42 on Amazon

Chris_Gowan · March 7, 2021, 3:42pm

How did you run the fans? I just bought those exact ones

Gmann · March 7, 2021, 8:01pm

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I ran the cable through the rear access panel m8

A little fiddly ! but better than anything sticking out the door imo Even if it won’t harm anything & best attempted in between grows btw as its in bits anyway

Errrrr Like this !!..

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My Only criticism is that it’s Not Top Fill !!

But does have WiFi

McLovin6792 · March 9, 2021, 3:30am

Hello all! Thought I would check in and post the latest grobo journal! She was doing really well until my last water change when I tried foliar feeding… that didn’t go so well because of too intense dilution. Thought a 3:1 water:tree trunk (silica) would work as I read the concentration should be 75% let down. Well I burned her leaves… I felt really bad… and stopped after day 1. Been sticking to the plan and keeping the humidity around 55% whilst shaking the CO2 bottle everyday while keeping the water around 69 degrees. She is responding very well to everything and think she will get through the silica burn. Additionally, I don’t have a photo, but her roots are pure white and her tap root is crazy thick!

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Also, can I get your thoughts on extending the Transition timing? I gave it an extra 7 days, because of some struggles leading up to this point. Do you think she looks good/needs that timing with her budding by day 70?

Ambient humidity 61%, 76.2° Inside humidity 59%, 75.7° Water temp 69.2°

Thanks All!

Baumi1981 · September 10, 2021, 10:33am

Watertemp is little bit too high. Take cooling bags into the reservoir. It works.
Cut off the lower leaves with the Brown spots.