Gonna stack two more questions with the above..

I’m not concerned or anything, just hoping to learn how to read the “symptoms,” understanding that some will be nothing and some will actually be a call to action.

I read deeper into VPD and did not realize that the leaf temperature was the thing to go by as opposed to the ambient air. Makes perfect sense. I am going to order a infra red gun to see what my lst is. I wen ahead and adjusted the offset up by 3 degrees in the ACInfinity app. This being an HID grow, I understand now that lst will be higher due to wasted radiant energy from the light source. So my VPD with lights on is somewhere on the order 1.6-1.9 I think. Will confirm when I get the temp gun. I’m not panicking or anything, but if I can dial that in more, all the better.

I can’t bring temps down. They’re around 75-77 degrees in the tent at all times. With lights off the VPD becomes ideal. So my only option during lights on is to add humidity. I’m not going to do that in the lung room until it gets colder here in the winter. At that point I wouldn’t mind supplementing the lung room if need be because the central heat lowers humidity beyond our living comfort zone anyhow. But for now it would have to be a humidifier in the tent. If I get one, it would have to be placed dead center on the floor, and it would also have to be small. I’m looking at a 4L smart Levoit in potential.

A couple things holding me back. One, it will be kicking out its mist straight up and centered in the room, so pointed straight at the glass of my air cooled hood. I have an oscillating fan on at all times, so I don’t know if that would negate condensation buildup on the glass? If so, check.

Possible issue number two, depending obviously on the heat from the HID light, I have to extract pretty heavily most of the time to keep the temps where I need them. So I’m thinking the added humidity from the 4L humidifier might just get constantly sucked out and do practically nothing? If I turn the exhaust down, temps go up and then I’d be left chasing after higher humidity than I want or could even maintain.

So it boils down to knowing wether or not a small humidifier can bring humidity up by at least 5% with high extraction. If not, the variables will never line up. And if that’s the case, so be it. Dialing in VPD will be easier in flower which I’m assuming is ultimately more important than during veg. Thoughts?

Lastly, my first true leaves are starting the process of dying. No biggies, just curious if this is a total normal and healthy looking pattern of die off? Thank you!!!

Not loving the looks of this. It’s on the same plant that had the fugly first true leaf. This is on the second set. I’m assuming that means it’s not a calcium deficiency. Hoping it’s not septoria leaf spot. Here’s an updated picture of that original first leaf. I went ahead and removed the first leaves on this and another plant, and sliced off the portion of the second leaf with these small dark spots, using alcohol in between each cut. Maybe it’s something else? I have a hepa filter on my intake fan. But, there is septoria leaf spot on my greenhouse tomatoes, as well as in the leaves of plenty of pioneer native annuals outside. Gonna start researching how to stop it from spreading if that’s what it is..

After looking at it under 50x (wish I had more powerful..), I’d say IF it’s a fungal disease, I’ve certainly caught it early enough to possibly nip it in the bud with a combination of copper, neem with baking soda and maybe another spray round of potassium bicarbonate. Also not totally ruling out the potential for it being a result of a too soon watering mistake.

I’ll go ahead and address the other two potential concerns, which appear to be unrelated to those dark spots. One is some beige spots, not too widespread. The other is the two color tones on a fair number of leaves. I suspect it’s either A) the beginnings of magnesium deficiency or B) symptoms of light to moderate overfeeding from using nutes twice now, which I’m going to pause on. Water is pH 6.3.6.6 or so, with lowest dose of calmag. One of the parents of these plants is Cinderella 99. Everyone including the breeder mentions that it is especially hungry for calmag, so maybe I need to bump it up, but I don’t want to rush to conclusions 😉

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Yep, these are going into 7 gallons tomorrow. I wanted to do it sooner but they took awhile to show up. My disease fear is just simply that I’ve struggled a lot this year on the farm with disease. I’m always on high alert and worry about accidentally bringing pathogens into the tent. I suppose I’ll try to be patient and see how these spots play out after transplanting. Hopefully they’re just simple growing pain blemishes!