Do these look stressed any advice welcome thankyou..

[craigsy]

Hi ..theses are auto green gelato and the small one is a F1 milky way..the leaves seem to be curling upwards slightly..they are 2 weeks old tday I got my lights at 250 watts 20 inches above top of plants..there in bio bizz all mix soil ..I'm only watering around the base of the plant..my rh is around 45 percent lights on and around 54 percents lights off.I'm doing 18/6 lights temp is around 28 lights on. 20 lights off..not using any extra feed untill they start to flower..the exhaust fan comes on for 15 mins every 2 hours while lights on and runs constant when lights are off...I have a small isolating fan running constantly while lights are on..any advice would be welcome it's my first time growing...sry ih I've gone on a bit lol..thanx in advance...these pictures were took half hour before lights out thankyou..

 

[nylonneurton]

Anyone? They look okay to me.

 

[Gmix]

a little bit yes. How close is your light & what wattage is it

 

[TannedViking]

Try to keep your rh around 60 and lower it the bigger they get. If it's 28c and dry your leaves will curl up, especially at this stage. Getting your lamp up a bit more can also help.

For feeding you'd want to look at how much nutes your soil has. Start nutes when the soil is out or when they show you with a deficiency (which is kind of too late for an auto). Not when they start flowering. All you do is adjust nutes to the flowering stage. Autos are very sensitive.

Good luck!

 

[craigsy]

a little bit yes. How close is your light & what wattage is it

Hiya..I've got it on lowest setting 250w and it's 20 inch above plants..

 

[craigsy]

Try to keep your rh around 60 and lower it the bigger they get. If it's 28c and dry your leaves will curl up, especially at this stage. Getting your lamp up a bit more can also help.

For feeding you'd want to look at how much nutes your soil has. Start nutes when the soil is out or when they show you with a deficiency (which is kind of too late for an auto). Not when they start flowering. All you do is adjust nutes to the flowering stage. Autos are very sensitive.

Good luck!

Thanx for the advice very helpful

 

[craigsy]

Try to keep your rh around 60 and lower it the bigger they get. If it's 28c and dry your leaves will curl up, especially at this stage. Getting your lamp up a bit more can also help.

For feeding you'd want to look at how much nutes your soil has. Start nutes when the soil is out or when they show you with a deficiency (which is kind of too late for an auto). Not when they start flowering. All you do is adjust nutes to the flowering stage. Autos are very sensitive.

Good luck!

Hiya..I'm only watering around the base of the plant you think I should water the whole pot..15 ltr..cheers mate

 

[Gmix]

Try to keep your rh around 60 and lower it the bigger they get. If it's 28c and dry your leaves will curl up, especially at this stage. Getting your lamp up a bit more can also help.

For feeding you'd want to look at how much nutes your soil has. Start nutes when the soil is out or when they show you with a deficiency (which is kind of too late for an auto). Not when they start flowering. All you do is adjust nutes to the flowering stage. Autos are very sensitive.

Good luck!

Yeah it was the slight curing that made me say there slightly stressed nothing major I’d expect them to grow out of it if you get on top of your watering

Bottom feeding is ok but it takes practice to get right you probably be better of watering the plant itself

 

[RoadKillSkunkHunt]

Yeah it was the slight curing that made me say there slightly stressed nothing major I’d expect them to grow out of it if you get on top of your watering

Bottom feeding is ok but it takes practice to get right you probably be better of watering the plant itself

I agree ....

If a grower is watering too frequently or watering and not wetting the whole media, then its going to take much longer before there's enough roots for bottom watering. The best practice for getting roots to the bottom of your pots is proper watering techniques where you soak ALL of the media and then allow enough dry-back for the soil to begin to pull away from the side of its container. Best practice for a newer grower in my eyes is to use a moisture meter and not try to guess by the number of days its been or even the moisture level at a few inches deep in the soil. Most new growers don't have enough experience to execute proper wet/dry cycles without the aid of a moisture meter when they are just starting out.

Edit: Can you provide information as to how much light your plants are receiving? Many people use a free smart phone app like Photone to get this information. Usually, a good ballpark reading is enough to make an informed adjustment on the amount of light your plants need at their particular stage of growth.

 

[craigsy]

I agree ....

If a grower is watering too frequently or watering and not wetting the whole media, then its going to take much longer before there's enough roots for bottom watering. The best practice for getting roots to the bottom of your pots is proper watering techniques where you soak ALL of the media and then allow enough dry-back for the soil to begin to pull away from the side of its container. Best practice for a newer grower in my eyes is to use a moisture meter and not try to guess by the number of days its been or even the moisture level at a few inches deep in the soil. Most new growers don't have enough experience to execute proper wet/dry cycles without the aid of a moisture meter when they are just starting out.

Edit: Can you provide information as to how much light your plants are receiving? Many people use a free smart phone app like Photone to get this information. Usually, a good ballpark reading is enough to make an informed adjustment on the amount of light your plants need at their particular stage of growth.

Hi..I've got them set at 250 watts thinking of turning up to 400 watts at 3 weeks old then 600 Wats in flower..the lights are 20 inch high above plants at the mo

 

[craigsy]

Hi..I've got them set at 250 watts thinking of turning up to 400 watts at 3 weeks old then 600 Wats in flower..the lights are 20 inch high above plants at the mo

There led full spectrum 720 omega black

 

[RoadKillSkunkHunt]

There led full spectrum 720 omega black

I would use the photone app and your eyes to determine what intensity levels to run your lights at. Every grow is different. Every strain is different. Even every plant of the same strain has different responses. Your concept of increasing intensity is sound. I would encourage you to use all your tools (your eyes being one of the best ones) over a preconceived notion of what enough light is. Your 720 watt fixture is a powerhouse and its very easy to run your intensity too high with that light. (The extra power is a positive but that doesn't mean your goal should be to run the light at full power.)

For your approach, it would work best giving your plants extra room between the light and the canopy each time you raise intensity. This allows the plant to adjust by growing into the light. You'll have a lot less issues with light burn that way.

 

[Gmix]

I would use the photone app and your eyes to determine what intensity levels to run your lights at. Every grow is different. Every strain is different. Even every plant of the same strain has different responses. Your concept of increasing intensity is sound. I would encourage you to use all your tools (your eyes being one of the best ones) over a preconceived notion of what enough light is. Your 720 watt fixture is a powerhouse and its very easy to run your intensity too high with that light. (The extra power is a positive but that doesn't mean your goal should be to run the light at full power.)

For your approach, it would work best giving your plants extra room between the light and the canopy each time you raise intensity. This allows the plant to adjust by growing into the light. You'll have a lot less issues with light burn that way.

Yeah 20 inch on your light is on the close side.
As said your best tool is your eyes how the plants are reacting

 

[craigsy]

I would use the photone app and your eyes to determine what intensity levels to run your lights at. Every grow is different. Every strain is different. Even every plant of the same strain has different responses. Your concept of increasing intensity is sound. I would encourage you to use all your tools (your eyes being one of the best ones) over a preconceived notion of what enough light is. Your 720 watt fixture is a powerhouse and its very easy to run your intensity too high with that light. (The extra power is a positive but that doesn't mean your goal should be to run the light at full power.)

For your approach, it would work best giving your plants extra room between the light and the canopy each time you raise intensity. This allows the plant to adjust by growing into the light. You'll have a lot less issues with light burn that way.

Brilliant thanks I've took the lights up a bit and will increase distance as I turn up lights and Def keeps my eyes on it lol..thanx again..

 

[craigsy]

Brilliant thanks I've took the lights up a bit and will increase distance as I turn up lights and Def keeps my eyes on it lol..thanx again..

I'll download that photone app and post on here the results..

 

[Gmix]

Ive grown Milky Way a few grows back & have one growing now it should produce a fair bit the F1 autos are very different to plain autos yeild wise if not stunted

 

[craigsy]

Ive grown Milky Way a few grows back & have one growing now it should produce a fair bit the F1 autos are very different to plain autos yeild wise if not stunted

Ye that's my worry trying hard to avoid it lol

 

[craigsy]

I would use the photone app and your eyes to determine what intensity levels to run your lights at. Every grow is different. Every strain is different. Even every plant of the same strain has different responses. Your concept of increasing intensity is sound. I would encourage you to use all your tools (your eyes being one of the best ones) over a preconceived notion of what enough light is. Your 720 watt fixture is a powerhouse and its very easy to run your intensity too high with that light. (The extra power is a positive but that doesn't mean your goal should be to run the light at full power.)

For your approach, it would work best giving your plants extra room between the light and the canopy each time you raise intensity. This allows the plant to adjust by growing into the light. You'll have a lot less issues with light burn that way.

I'm getting readings of around 410 ppfd u think that a bit high?.there 2 weeks old now...the lights are at 21 inches...that app seems to work great thanx..

 

[craigsy]

I'm getting readings of around 410 ppfd u think that a bit high?.there 2 weeks old now...the lights are at 21 inches...that app seems to work great thanx..

 

[KG1]

Don't put temp and rh meters under lights unless they are fully shaded.

It's a meter for reading air not light, light will heat it up give you false readings and then you incorrectly set the wrong environment which is 90% of everything.

Weird how this is general knowledge in all other disciplines and we seem to have very little advice. The met office would disown you for this behaviour they use a screen to protect all their Rh and temp equipment from light and so should we.

Generally your tent air temp and rh should track your room readings and once you know that it's easier to not measure inside the tent and many of us work that way round.

Hope that helps get your environment set. Getting a reading in a small hyper reflective tent is very hard it's almost better not to try.