New to Photos, advice welcome!

[TSD]

Ok one had issues, but not related to nutes, related to getting stuck and stunted lol.

 

[Newguy2022]

I use a wet dry meter as well not just my fingers. Also the fly tape was there since the summer when I had a lady bug infestation. No bugs or gnats since just left the tape up. I raised light to top of tent and turned down to 60. When I repotted I did not feed at all based on ocean forest having plenty of nutrients. I will move the hygrometer and send you updated readings. I got these less then a week ago and the guy who gave me the clones just watered them. So I let them sit in the small pots for 2 days until I repotted in the 5 gallon then I watered about a half gallon each of just plain water the day I repotted them. I put the wet dry meter in all the way down and it said moist so I figured it was okay. So since Sunday AM when they were watered by the guy. I watered them 2 days ago and then again today.

 

[Harpua88]

I like where everyone going with the watering.....which leads to problems with nutrients. If you've ever tried to water pots where the soil dried out, I mean really dried out.....quite often you can't get the soil to actually soak up the water, it's almost like the soil can't soak up water, it kind of rolls off of it, around it, under it, through it. Like a sponge that's slightly damp can easily soak up water, but take a bone dry sponge that you can knock on and put it under a faucet and the water will roll right off of it......

After the first number of inches, unless we really dig down into the soil, we can't see what's going on. We may think we've fully watered a pot, but there are dry pockets, the water rolled around the dry pockets. This can cause nutrients from feedings to get concentrated in places that did get properly soaked.

I'm not diagnosing this particular problem, I don't know what it is, but it's almost always a good time to bring up proper watering. It's often a blind spot becsuse it's such a simple thing.......dry soil, add water......but it's important that we don't allow soil to dry out so much that it makes dry pockets that become difficult to penetrate and can damage roots and cause other problems. In nature, it rains.......not all at once, but over time. When flash floods occur the earth can't absorb that much water so quickly. A long, soaking rain is much better. But when we water we often want to just do it, get it over with. Of course I'm really just talking about soil, and watering manually. One way to prevent these problems is to water from the bottom, let it soak up, that will take time and be more thorough. Another way is to just water slowly. Water a little, come back, water a little........and if the soil has just gotten too dry, without stabbing roots as much as you can, I've taken a thin stick, something like a chopstick only longer, and stick it down, even until it hits the bottom, wiggle it a little, water a little into the hole, do another area........you're sort of stirring the soil a little, but disturbing it minimally. It allows for a more thorough, even water soaking.....

Then, don't wait so long to water again. ;)

 

[TSD]

I use a wet dry meter as well not just my fingers. Also the fly tape was there since the summer when I had a lady bug infestation. No bugs or gnats since just left the tape up. I raised light to top of tent and turned down to 60. When I repotted I did not feed at all based on ocean forest having plenty of nutrients. I will move the hygrometer and send you updated readings. I got these less then a week ago and the guy who gave me the clones just watered them. So I let them sit in the small pots for 2 days until I repotted in the 5 gallon then I watered about a half gallon each of just plain water the day I repotted them. I put the wet dry meter in all the way down and it said moist so I figured it was okay. So since Sunday AM when they were watered by the guy. I watered them 2 days ago and then again today.

So a half gallon probably isn't enough to saturate a 5 gallon container completely... @CannaGranny how much do your 5 gals take at a time?
Also, are you stabbing the meter top down, or through the side? You need to know the moisture level in about the bottom third because they dry top down and outside in. What kind of light did the guy that made the clones have them under? If they went from say, fluorescent to strong led, could be light stress... but it really doesn't look like it. We're thry rootbound when you transplanted?

 

[TSD]

One theory is that you did not fully saturate after transplant. Roots will not grow into dry soil. They could be in a dry pocket and therefore not actually drinking the water you have provided and dying of thirst. Fabric pots are tricky to water until you get the hang of how they operate. Just a thought.

 

[2Bad]

One theory is that you did not fully saturate after transplant. Roots will not grow into dry soil. They could be in a dry pocket and therefore not actually drinking the water you have provided and dying of thirst. Fabric pots are tricky to water until you get the hang of how they operate. Just a thought.

Yea looking at it...it's either that or the light was too intense..or both. Should take a few days to bounce back newguy

 

[CannaGranny]

I usually stick my fingers in there a few inches and also have a wet dry meter.

So a half gallon probably isn't enough to saturate a 5 gallon container completely... @CannaGranny how much do your 5 gals take at a time?
Also, are you stabbing the meter top down, or through the side? You need to know the moisture level in about the bottom third because they dry top down and outside in. What kind of light did the guy that made the clones have them under? If they went from say, fluorescent to strong led, could be light stress... but it really doesn't look like it. We're thry rootbound when you transplanted?

I’m using seven gal. pots and they are using about 1 1/4th to 1 and 1/2 gal per pot. Two if I divide my watering half morn half afternoon. I only water the root zones.
Maybe this will help
Was this post that inspired me to write that one!

Grow Bags The Good The Bad & The Ugly

Grow bags. Seems everyone’s experience is a bit different. Some run with it, other’s struggle the entire grow and hate them! I love them and had to wonder why so many do not. Mainly it seems to all come down to watering practices and an understanding of the root zone. Pros of the bags: Allows...

www.thcfarmer.com

 

[TSD]

I’m using seven gal. pots and they are using about 1 1/4th to 1 and 1/2 gal per pot. Two if I divide my watering half morn half afternoon. I only water the root zones.
Maybe this will help
Was this post that inspired me to write that one!

Grow Bags The Good The Bad & The Ugly

Grow bags. Seems everyone’s experience is a bit different. Some run with it, other’s struggle the entire grow and hate them! I love them and had to wonder why so many do not. Mainly it seems to all come down to watering practices and an understanding of the root zone. Pros of the bags: Allows...

www.thcfarmer.com

My pot is like 3.75 gals, nursery pot with many holes, same soil, FFOF, and if I let it get very dry and do it slowly it will take just under gallon to get very slight run-off... I'm just thinking a half gallon probably isn't fully saturating his 5 gal?

 

[CannaGranny]

My pot is like 3.75 gals, nursery pot with many holes, same soil, FFOF, and if I let it get very dry and do it slowly it will take just under gallon to get very slight run-off... I'm just thinking a half gallon probably isn't fully saturating his 5 gal?

I seriously doubt it is enough. Mine are on a schedule and drink that amount every three days. Sometimes if I can get it to do two gallons I can make it to that fourth day.
With his grow even if he gave them two gallons, unless it was done properly for sure does not mean they got anywhere near that amount. If it all ran off, in essence it was not watered. Make sense? (I hope it does cause I just cracked open a jar of Future One and rolled a niceeeeeee one )

 

[PipeCarver]

So a half gallon probably isn't enough to saturate a 5 gallon container completely... @CannaGranny how much do your 5 gals take at a time?
Also, are you stabbing the meter top down, or through the side? You need to know the moisture level in about the bottom third because they dry top down and outside in. What kind of light did the guy that made the clones have them under? If they went from say, fluorescent to strong led, could be light stress... but it really doesn't look like it. We're thry rootbound when you transplanted?

Mine take 1.5 gallons maybe a touch more depending on how full the pot is.........It takes 1 gallon to water a 1 gal pot.

I like 3 gallon pots because I get to feed them once a week, It take 3 -4 days to dry ( except when its hot) With 5 gallon pots I go through 1.5 gal of feed/water every 4-5 days meaning I only get to feed 1 in 10 days.... I like the smaller pots.

 

[Cirroji]

Should I flush the soil maybe it’s too hot?

I am growing runtz (Runtz S1 from seed) in FFOF soil currently - no burn started on my plants until i went into week 3 of veg and started ramping up the doses to 50% and that was expected from past runs.

i use the foxfarm trio with it and they get a slight tip burn but nothing like this.

i used my light only about 40% at veg and it worked amazing - you may have that bad boy up a little too high

i had a couple leaves (literally 2-3) look pretty identical to the ones above and that's when i was still using my well water that had maaaaaaaasssive iron issues. literally stains my tub and toilets. switched back to RO water like i did previous grows and it stopped.


food for thought, never know when setups, medium and nutrients are applied differently.

Worst case I got 3 clones left, come get one :D

 

[TSD]

Mine take 1.5 gallons maybe a touch more depending on how full the pot is.........It takes 1 gallon to water a 1 gal pot.

I like 3 gallon pots because I get to feed them once a week, It take 3 -4 days to dry ( except when its hot) With 5 gallon pots I go through 1.5 gal of feed/water every 4-5 days meaning I only get to feed 1 in 10 days.... I like the smaller pots.

Yeah mine is just under 4 and it's a good size I think, 3 is probably better, I find mine a bit tall, but it's what I had access to at the time. Mine was doing a bit more than half gallon every 2-3, sometimes 4, (5 early on) days but it just took a full gallon today because it got super dry, almost too dry... she's just starting flower so she'll be thirsty and I've been keeping jungle conditions in there, like 80-84 and around 60-65% humidity. Of course environment has a big affect on how often you water, not just the passage of time. I drilled about 50 holes in my pot so it's faster to dry than a standard nursery pot.

 

[Newguy2022]

Thank you all so much. I’ll keep you updated on the adjustments and progress. We will hopefully get this right