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Hi all,
First time grower, been looking for a place to ask my dumb questions, hopefully get some assistance and then be able to one day offer and myself once I know more than nothing! Have been super impressed by all the discussion, and some amazing experts on here. Given it's a watering question perhaps Aquaman can help but any help appreciated.
I have 4x Green Crush seedlings in large pots with Coco. Having found mixed info I used no Perl/Vermic but next time will be doing this. In a 4x4 tent, 2x Mars TSL 2000 LED set about 30 inches above set to 30% - 350 ppfd measured at the plants.
I have a nute tank using seeding strength mix of Canna A&B, pH down to 5.9. Temps 70-76, RH consistent around 60-63.
A lot of my info has come from YouTube as well as a lot of reading from commercial growers, Prof Bugbee, MR Canuck, others. Having read online that seeds have all the nutes they need for the first few weeks, what was not mentioned was that this is in soil, not in a dead neutral medium. As a result they received no nutes for first 9 days, and was doing silly little spray bottle waters and avoiding a lot of water, again because of online advice that clearly was more for soil than water.
Plants don't look miserable, they only have cotyledon and first leaves, but all have shot up and have second leaves starting, but look quite yellow. I have it in good advice that new growth can be quite yellow, and that Green Crush can have very pale or even yellow leaves naturally. I guess I'm struggling to determine if I'm underwatering, overwatering or suffering lack of nutes due to none for first week.
Running a run to waste system, delivers 250 ml per 30 seconds per plant. There was no pre soaking of Coco as again I didn't know that. So yesterday I turned the pump on for the first time (have a fish tank pump with an airball aerating the water), and gave each plant 1.5L around the outside of the pot to soak the medium. No run off. So I ran for 30 seconds, total of 1 litre across the tent, and got 10% run off, beautiful. But still looking yellow today despite nutrients, and maybe starting to curl down a little? Do I need to keep doing what I'm doing and wait for the nutes to help? Do I need to water less or more? Are they fine and I do nothing? Pictures attached, hopefully they are good enough to give you an idea where we're at, any help GREATLY appreciated.
Peace and blaze crew.
First time grower, been looking for a place to ask my dumb questions, hopefully get some assistance and then be able to one day offer and myself once I know more than nothing! Have been super impressed by all the discussion, and some amazing experts on here. Given it's a watering question perhaps Aquaman can help but any help appreciated.
I have 4x Green Crush seedlings in large pots with Coco. Having found mixed info I used no Perl/Vermic but next time will be doing this. In a 4x4 tent, 2x Mars TSL 2000 LED set about 30 inches above set to 30% - 350 ppfd measured at the plants.
I have a nute tank using seeding strength mix of Canna A&B, pH down to 5.9. Temps 70-76, RH consistent around 60-63.
A lot of my info has come from YouTube as well as a lot of reading from commercial growers, Prof Bugbee, MR Canuck, others. Having read online that seeds have all the nutes they need for the first few weeks, what was not mentioned was that this is in soil, not in a dead neutral medium. As a result they received no nutes for first 9 days, and was doing silly little spray bottle waters and avoiding a lot of water, again because of online advice that clearly was more for soil than water.
Plants don't look miserable, they only have cotyledon and first leaves, but all have shot up and have second leaves starting, but look quite yellow. I have it in good advice that new growth can be quite yellow, and that Green Crush can have very pale or even yellow leaves naturally. I guess I'm struggling to determine if I'm underwatering, overwatering or suffering lack of nutes due to none for first week.
Running a run to waste system, delivers 250 ml per 30 seconds per plant. There was no pre soaking of Coco as again I didn't know that. So yesterday I turned the pump on for the first time (have a fish tank pump with an airball aerating the water), and gave each plant 1.5L around the outside of the pot to soak the medium. No run off. So I ran for 30 seconds, total of 1 litre across the tent, and got 10% run off, beautiful. But still looking yellow today despite nutrients, and maybe starting to curl down a little? Do I need to keep doing what I'm doing and wait for the nutes to help? Do I need to water less or more? Are they fine and I do nothing? Pictures attached, hopefully they are good enough to give you an idea where we're at, any help GREATLY appreciated.
Peace and blaze crew.