Dude dim your lights and they will grow. They all showing light stress especially the one center right.
Cut back to like 20% and give it a week. Guarantee you see vast improvement in growth and vigor.
Keep at it you got this!
Use bud candy too. Good stuffWhen I'm setting up the media for the girls I use Roots Organic Original soil. It has Mycorrhizae in it but I usually mix in a few scoopfuls of Xtreme Gardening MYKOS before I transplant at the bottom of the hole so that the beneficial bacteria is at root level.
The only bloom booster I use is Bud Candy. Other than that it's GH Florinova Grow or Bloom, some Hormex and some Silicate.
Reduce the light by 20%, or put it at 20% (first setting)?
I just reduced it by 20%, so it's at 60% strength now. If it's recommended to drop it less, I'll do that.
Thanks!
Just snagged the app. Had to pay for the LED full spectrum mode, but I’ll post the results shortly.You can download an app on your phone to read ppfd. They're not 100% accurate, but they will give you a ballpark number. For my lights it seems to be pretty close to what I would expect it to be according to the PAR/PPFD maps for the lights.
I use PPFD Meter-Grow Light Meter
In my opinion, light stress is a difficult problem to diagnose. What light are you using? What height is it at? Just for reference, a sunny day provides 1500-2000 ppfd. Seedlings are generally 100-300 ppfd, Veg is 600-1000 ppfd, Flower is 1000+ ppfd. Can go all the way up to 2000 ppfd if you're pumping C02. A lot of factors here to determine if your plants are getting sufficient light. The light is the main source of food for the plants. The more light you can give the plants, the more they will grow.
This is a great article, there are many out there. Dr. Bugbee is mentioned in the article and is somebody everybody should learn about, very intelligent man.
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Hi, "but I don’t want to risk over watering" impossible to do...over watering is when you water when they don't need it over and over again. Giving it water to saturate then drain to dry you can't really over water unless of course there is no drainage or your giving them gallons too much too often.Just got done watering. I watered slowly - some of the soil still puffed up, but once it settled and I gave it some time, it started getting damp, so I continued watering and all looks well.
I used 50% nutrients, and between the 4 pots, they took a little under a gallon each. I could probably add in more, but I don’t want to risk over watering. Some spots along the edges are dry, but trying to get the edges in fabric pots seems to get more on the floor.
I’ll post pics later on tonight
It was also at this time I saw @FuriousStyles comment about dimming my lights. Prior to today, it's been running at 80%, so I dialed it to 60%.
As a note: the dimming the light brought the temp down about 5 degrees and boosted the humidity up by 10%. Even adjusting my exhaust fan did very little to affect it, but I'll just turn the pellet stove on tonight to make sure the tent doesn't dip below 70F-ish.
Hi, "but I don’t want to risk over watering" impossible to do...over watering is when you water when they don't need it over and over again. Giving it water to saturate then drain to dry you can't really over water unless of course there is no drainage or your giving them gallons too much too often.
Saturate let sit for a minute or 2 until water on the top has disappeared then flood it again until the water disappears then flood it again until you're sure everything is wet. In the heat of summer I'll flood them until they are fully saturated then 3-4-5 hrs later I'll come along and water/ feed them again slowly until I see liquid coming out the bottom again just to be sure the whole pot is wet.
I'll sometime if in a hurry and I don't have time I'll flood and let the runoff sit in the trays instead of wetvacing it up and let the plants suck up the runoff. Then when I come back later I'll check, if there's still water in the trays I'll suck that out but usually they suck the water all up.
Check it out. People can give you numbers and it wont mean a thing if you can not read your plant.
Like I heard someone say, "you can know all about paint and brushes, and canvas, that doesnt make you an artist"
You got this bro, cut the lights back to 25% power and watch your plants start to thrive. Learn!
Healthy plants will never grow faster with less light. That makes no sense at all... You can give them too much, but that's not the case here if the PPFD is around 500
Do not keep changing your environment constantly, the plants don't handle that too well inside. Read multiple different sources of information and make the best decisions you can with the information available to you. Which isn't easy when there's a lot of conflicting information...
@PipeCarver is spot on with what he's saying about overwatering. If you do it right you cannot overwater. The only way you would overwater is if you are not letting the plants dry back enough. Soil = heavy + infrequently, Coco = light + frequently. There is plenty of great information online about how to properly water soil. The professors I learned from about soil science at Rutgers University confirmed everything I've learned prior to hearing it directly from them.
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