Help a newb pretty please!?

[Mothman]

But the clear cup gives you the advantage of seeing water saturation and it should be showing roots by now. They will grow to the water quickly but also need oxygen, air, thats the purpose of drying out the soil (peat) and adding coarse perlite. Bottom leaves show past damage, likely lockout from overwatering. You got this, new growth looks great, leaves will start praying daily.

I thought praying leaves is a stress symptom, not a good thing.

 

[MIGrampaUSA]

I thought praying leaves is a stress symptom, not a good thing.

You want your leaves reaching towards the light and making as much of the surface of the leaves available to absorb that light. If this is happening in your grows, its a good thing.

Likewise, leaves under light stress will do things to limit light exposure. Like turning away from the light source.

 

[Madbud]

I thought praying leaves is a stress symptom, not a good thing.

You may be thinking of leaves shaped like taco shells, shielding themselves from the light. Leaves go up and down throughout the day, when they are in the praying position the plants going full throttle, wide open stomata on the underside.

 

[Mothman]

You may be thinking of leaves shaped like taco shells, shielding themselves from the light. Leaves go up and down throughout the day, when they are in the praying position the plants going full throttle, wide open stomata on the underside.

Yeah, but it sounds so dirty when you say it.

 

[Ballisticsuk]

Super new to all of this, if you had to take a wild or educated guess what’s wrong with my babies lol? They’re about four weeks old (2 bigger ones) others are 2 weeks old. Have they outgrown their container and it’s transplant time stat? I just started using nutes a feed ago but the yellow has set in. Halp!

1. Are you growing from seed or clones?
Seed
2. How old are your plants?
4 weeks and 2 weeks
3. How tall are your plants?
4” 3”
4. What size containers are they planted in?
Tiny a f
5. What is your soil mix?
Fox farm ocean forest
6. How often do you water and what type of water do you use? Distilled, about every 18-24 hours with these small pots
7. What is the pH of your water?
6.2
8. What kind of fertilizer do you use and what is its NPK ratio?
Grow big 6-4-4
9. Do you foliar feed or spray your plants with anything?
Not yet
10. What kind of lights do you use and how many watts combined? (HPS, MH, fluorescent, halogen, incandescent "plant lights")
Spider farm 100w full spec
11. How close are your lights to the plants?
32”
12. What size is your grow space in square feet? 8
13. What is the temperature and humidity in your grow space?
72-76 30-33
14. What is the pH of the soil?
6.5
15. Have you noticed any insect activity in your grow space?
None
16. How much experience do you have growing
First batch baby, none.

Water them less wait till the pot is dry and light

 

[RootsRuler]

If you want a quick fix to your overwater problem repot your plants into a larger pot. A 3 gallon would be good and might even be able to stay as it's home pot. Make sure the soil in the pot you're potting into is fairly dry. Wick effect will even out your soil humidity.

 

[Plaguethecrowd]

Update, transferred them into the pots I had, one doesn’t seem to being doing well after, I think I should water without nutes soon, it’s been about 3 days since transplant and they’re feeing light. I’m noticing yellowing on the ends of almost every set of leaves, to many nutes? A few small gnats appeared and I stuck some fly tape and an attractant and don’t seem to have anymore as of now.

 

[Ponky]

Water them fully. They be thristy.

 

[Dub_City405]

They all seem to be looking way better. When they are that little you only need a cup or two of water every like 2 or 3 days. I only water it 2 times a week the first 2 weeks of transplant.

You need to start a spray regimen. You start before you get infested.

 

[Imzzaudae]

Make a gnat trap out of a water bottle. Cut the top off and turn it upside down press top into bottom section. A little red vinegar inside and leave it close buy, they will all drown in a day. As you have dried out your plants you likely won't have a problem long. Thumbs up bud. Looking much better. Now just let m be.

 

[Plaguethecrowd]

Update: no bugs ty for advise. One is getting so tall, the one who didn’t do too well after transplant is still hanging on but you can see its struggle. Getting ready to switch nutes from grow big to tiger bloom. Do you guys think I should add a little cal mag to the nute water? Or should I wait to switch a little longer?

 

[Cirroji]

Update: no bugs ty for advise. One is getting so tall, the one who didn’t do too well after transplant is still hanging on but you can see its struggle. Getting ready to switch nutes from grow big to tiger bloom. Do you guys think I should add a little cal mag to the nute water? Or should I wait to switch a little longer?

To me it looks like they have a lot of nitrogen from some downcurl and dark green coloring, there’s tip burn too so I would move into a light feeding of tiger bloom. I add a quarter dose of ca/mg to my first flowering feeds - when I go heavy on ca and mg I always see direct issues almost 24 hrs after

 

[Plaguethecrowd]

To me it looks like they have a lot of nitrogen from some downcurl and dark green coloring, there’s tip burn too so I would move into a light feeding of tiger bloom. I add a quarter dose of ca/mg to my first flowering feeds - when I go heavy on ca and mg I always see direct issues almost 24 hrs after

Should I give them a nice distilled watering to flush some nitro out before the light feed?

 

[Cirroji]

Should I give them a nice distilled watering to flush some nitro out before the light feed?

I only do flushing in two situations

About 10 days before harvest

If my soil mix is bad enough I believe it will continuously degrade my plants going forward. Flushing strips ALL nutes from soil so be careful, the last thing you want is to go from too much and then too little and be dealing with both over and under feeding issues

Leaves don’t “recover” so watch the new growth as your telling of how it’s going

 

[Madbud]

Just back off newbie, fresh ocean forest has plenty of nutes for at least a month or more. Its mostly peat that doesn’t need water often. Slow your roll

 

[Crabgrassfarms]

I only do flushing in two situations

About 10 days before harvest

If my soil mix is bad enough I believe it will continuously degrade my plants going forward. Flushing strips ALL nutes from soil so be careful, the last thing you want is to go from too much and then too little and be dealing with both over and under feeding issues

Leaves don’t “recover” so watch the new growth as your telling of how it’s going

I thought flushing was a hydroponics thing, or I don't understand the principle. I don't how much amendments should be added to FFOF and flushing seems very counter productive.

 

[Crabgrassfarms]

Just back off newbie, fresh ocean forest has plenty of nutes for at least a month or more. Its mostly peat that doesn’t need water often. Slow your roll

I agree, FFOF is loaded with what a good medium should have and all of the premium potting soils hold moisture well. I started my 5 gal bags with a supersoil mix in the bottom 1/3 and don't expect to add anything but cal-mag. Organic soils keep producing nutrients as it matures.
I understand hydroponics is a whole other game, and not really organic. A lot of folks swear by it though.