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Johnston, Iowa

Hey everybody- any idea what could be causing this?

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=251164

1/9/2016 6:26:54 PM

Central NY

What did you do to it?

1/9/2016 7:05:37 PM

Ely Mn

To much N or just from heavy pruning.not a big deal.

1/9/2016 8:48:23 PM

Johnston, Iowa

Porkchop - that's what I'm trying to figure out

Dan - not pruning, but possible I may have juiced the soil up with too much Nitrogen

As I typed this (and just touched the leaves a minute ago) a couple of very tiny bugs crawled across the screen of my phone. Uh oh, maybe I've got a bug problem?!?

1/9/2016 10:28:18 PM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

he way the leaves are curling up, it might be aphids or something like that sucking the juice out. But I don't have experience with indoor growing.

1/9/2016 11:14:29 PM

Ely Mn

Sounds like to much nitrogen.I have had this happen to some of my plants before.

1/10/2016 12:47:34 AM

Wixom MI.

i have had this happen too.i think it's from heavy feeding ? i had 6 plants in the same 10 gallon pot and 3 plants one one side were doing this.also i use a halide light a 400 watt bulb and not sure if i have it to close to the bulb too ? i have noticed that it can go away when i back off the feeding and raise the lamp i bit, but i never was sure if the intence light or heavy feeding caused it,or maybe both ??? but it cleared up when i backed off a bit !

1/10/2016 10:14:12 AM

Johnston, Iowa

I had a similar concern about my lights being too close. (Using two 150w HPC lights). Previously I had them 1 foot above the top of the plants. I raised them up now.

1/10/2016 10:19:44 AM

Wixom MI.

warning to anyone using a halide bulb !!! you will need a sodium bulb to promote flowering ! i had small week flowering with just the halide bulb. halide blue spectrum is mainly just for growing the plant and the sodium bulb red spectrum is for flowering.

1/10/2016 10:24:39 AM

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Chris, when you try to flower with metal halide do you also change the time that the light is on? Meaning when you're in growth stage you should be running the light @ 18/6 and when in flowering mode 12/12.

1/10/2016 10:49:36 AM

Wixom MI.

I did do that but i may have done it to late ? my plants were to big by this time and the buds wouldn't even develop anymore ! so i made a gamble and cut my plants down to to first branch and started over. they are coming back and i see new buds, so i just have to wait to see if this will work ? but i do have a sodium bulb now, so hopefully i can still make this project work.

1/10/2016 11:55:30 AM