I think I seen a little color in a few of the stems. Purple is the color I had leak up, might be amber for you. That bud looks great, what supplement do you use? I saw “bud candy” maybe? I’ve never used a booster per se’.
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There’s is a lot of purple towards the top of the branch. I have been using the Homemade BUD Candy. Epsom salt and Dark Brown Sugar. The recipe is in post 461. In the beginning I followed the recommendation for dosage. Forgot about it for a while and stayed at 5 ml per gallon. Then realized I was supposed to up it. I’ve been at 15 ml per. for about a month now. That and the flower Maxi nutes is all I have been using. Nothing fancy.
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me. I had been using it for the full grows, for a while, but someone recommended trying to start it later on, so training in veg is easier. haven’t varied my uses enough to really say
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I know it makes your stalk and stems beastly. So I can see that being an issue if your training.
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Usually I use a scrog net to pull branches out, but the plants tend to fight it a bit. I think thats why my net pots start tilting to one side or the other
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Ive used it. Does seem to strengthen the plants. It raises PH though.
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yeah shes rockin out. Agree not there yet but you start stripping her n she might ripen right up. Ive got zero exoerience in water but ive seen it a lot in soil where they stay milky with couple glassy transparent trichs n a week into flush bang they start ambering fast.
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ANs flawless finish is just that too. magnesium in water. As for silica blast its silica. I think silica is best used earlier on veg and early flower as someone else said it bulks the branches for better support. But mid -late flower ive always cut it.
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alright guys, yesterday ph went to 7.0. Today it’s at 4.5. I used the cal mag. She is not growing. Since I moved her that bucket is all over the place
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Now its 9.0 I used a pinch of ph up
and the roots are rotten I think. A clog fell off when I picked up the lid
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How high is the water temperature?
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Your bud candy might be messing with your ph ?
I also made a batch fed my flowering plants a couple times but noticed swings in ph might be something to take a look at !
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Water temp is 65 and I dumped that bucket cuz the ph up made the roots slimy I cleaned off a bunch of roots they just fell apart. I put tap water water cut with distilled water ph is back 6.8-7.0 pulled her out of the tent and stuck her under a florescent light. This is all the roots she has now.
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ok water temp is not the culprit. What did you add to the water in the bucket before the large shifts started happening?
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I have that also will be using it my next grow. I figure stronger branches equals bigger yield
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I just used the same mix every time. The green bag General hydroponics. I didn’t do anything different except move it to a separate location and used a different light. I thought I was supposed to use distilled water, when @LilJonB told me to add cal mag since it wasn’t tap I did that but doing that was just a couple days ago. The problem started in that tent. I added ph up two hrs ago cuz the ph dropped from 7 to 4.5 and that raised it to 9. So I dumped it cleaned of those slick feeling roots washed the roots and pot off
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Eeek! It’s not getting better huh? That’s terrible. The only time my roots was like that is when I was using the Myco + ( supposedly promotes root growth and will never use it againin my buckets) and the Micro from the Flora series. I’m really sorry this is happening. I can see how @JoeCrowe would think it was high water temps but you have always reported low water temps.
Didn’t you say a while back that you tried some root stuff that was frothy in your bucket? Was this around the time you started seeing a change in your roots?
Yeah if your not using tap your going to need the Cal Mag.
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I don’t think @Hoppy is using the Bud Candy. That’s me. 
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That’s the Idea. I’m hoping I can push her to finish. So stripping the leaves will help? I know people say Supper Cropping sometimes helps. So stripping could cause some stress for her to want to finish.
The silica is for the next grow I want to try out. Bigger branches = Bigger Buds. At least in my brain it = up. My cousin ordered it yesterday. That was fast!
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