Ok, thanks so much for the replies. Especially
@PK1 who rightly asked for more info. I’ll get better at posting :)
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So,
Here’s how I’ve responded. After I posted I also dug into Ed Rosenthal’s book Marijuana Grower’s Handbook. He talks in the book about how to read the plant and I made the determination that it was due to under watering. In this specific case, I clearly made a mistake so I chose to go ahead and act. Here’s the deets in case someone else can learn from it.
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Zkittles
Tried to sprout 5 HiLo CBD and 3 Zkittles seeds from ILGM. 1 of the CBD and 1 of the Zkittles even sprouted. The CBD plant didn’t make it out of the seedling trey. I got sloppy with the work and I think that played a part in how poorly it went. I over/under watered the seedling tray. Stuff like that. I think I was pretty high and it was late when I made my mistakes. I also had the seedling tray in the dark grow room (I use tents) and i just think the whole thing was a pretty bad fuck up. Here’s what I learned, Kids. Don’t make important growing decisions when high. Also, don’t get cocky when you have some success. Learn learn learn. Be humble. These plants are easy to grow but very hard to grow well and get showcase buds. Just my opinion.
So, the one Zkittles plant that survived is the one pictured. All was going well and it was thriving in the solo cup. But I am using my 5x5 tent and wanted to grow more than 1 plant in there. So a couple of weeks ago I sprouted 3 Jack Herer seeds and currently have the 2 best ones in solo cups. I will be mainlining all of my photoperiod plants (love those colas) so I went ahead and snipped the zkittles down to the first mainline. I cleaned everything below the 4th node and topped the 5th. I then immediately put it in a 5 gallon fabric pot and gave it about a cup of water. So, mistakes are again getting made. I should have transplanted it, watered it thoroughly, THEN mainlined it once growth started again in a few days.
The next morning the leaves were drooping and I panicked and posted here. The drooping had to be due to the lack of water. I have soaked the plant well this morning and wanted to reply here. I noticed this morning that even the small new tops that are growing were drooping. I’ll post an update tomorrow with pictures…hopefully it’s recovered.
Thanks for the great suggestions and forgive my posting protocol breaches…like I said, I’ll get better.
Timeline and Details:
Soil is
Fox Farm CocoLoco (not pure coco…they say treat it like soil that holds water better. It’s also hot but not as hot as ocean forest imo)
Mars Hydro TS-3000
Water is declorinated tap water with about 350-440ppm
Sprouted 11/7
Rapid Rooters & Heated seedling tray 11/9
Moved to solo cup 11/16
Mainlined 12/10
Moved to 5 gal fabric pot 12/10 (only gave it 1 cup water…don’t know why)
Droopy leaved 12/11
Watered 12/12…Soaked the pot with water @ 6.2ph, 600ppm (1/2 dose Buddha grow Organic notes), a little cal mag+
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