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Just got my soil. Which should I use. And the 2 plants will not be in the same pot. Can I cut the bottom leaves off and plant deeper. Thanks
Go 50/50 I seen that twice nowJust got my soil. Which should I use. And the 2 plants will not be in the same pot. Can I cut the bottom leaves off and plant deeper. Thanks
you letting it dry out before watering?Re potted 50-50 happy frog, Fox farm, added perlite. All different sizes. I done something wrong with these ones , should I chuck them and start over. Don't seem to be growing like my last ones at this stage.
I let it dry to no wetnessyou letting it dry out before watering?
All miracle grow removedWhen you transplanted did you remove all the miracle gro down to bare root then plant in the 50/50 or did you just slide the media out of the cup and replant it all in the 50/50? I'm guessing the latter. That's why you still have slow growth. The main root ball is still in the Miracle Gro.
I also tried to amend some hardware store media into usable media for cannabis as I was having trouble accessing my usual media, Roots Organic Original. I bought a few bags of Kellogs Patio Plus Organic at my local HD. It is a wood chip based product. I amended in 30% perlite. I ran some auto seeds in it and I got the same results you are getting. Slow growth. What I took from this is that if I was going to try and use hardware store media I would have to heavily amend the original product with double the amount of perlite and some clean coco coir to open up the O² access to the roots my usual media does.
The product I was using uses wood chips rather than peat moss for its biomass. What I noticed is the wood chips seem to break down into a sort of silt that ends up at the bottom of the pot. The wood chips in the mix already hold a lot of water but the silt that collected at the bottom was holding water too long and drowning out the roots in the perched water table where the majority of the roots end up so with the poor O² exchange happening slow growth was inevitable. Final verdict is this particular product should only be used like a compost rather than a potting mix for you to mix into whatever base media you are using. The wood chips can provide larger media particles like perlite and hold onto that water like vermiculite but using it as the base media doesn't work unless you are willing to put in a lot of amendments to get it where you want it.
Right after I had made my conclusions I found a hydro store fairly close to me that was selling ROO at a great price so I have suspended any more experimenting but if I ever run into this issue again I have enough knowledge from my experiment to know how to get a usable media from hardware store media.
I let it dry to no wetness
how do you know when to water? how many days in between?I let it dry to no wetness
miracle grow yes is not quite ideal but it wasn’t the problem,. so you stressed out your roots for nothing?All miracle grow removed
I put my finger down in the soil and feel the wetness. About an inch down, then give two more days. Last time was 6 dayshow do you know when to water? how many days in between?
how much you give?
Evidentlymiracle grow yes is not quite ideal but it wasn’t the problem,. so you stressed out your roots for nothing?
Try the Light Pot method. Works better than finger method.I put my finger down in the soil and feel the wetness. About an inch down, then give two more days. Last time was 6 days
I also do that. I do both. TyTry the Light Pot method. Works better than finger method.
I was thinking not watering enough. My pots are very light to pick up. I'm confused. I'll look at my drainage holes, maybe add a few more.Well it sure looks like you are cupping and tacoing and deep green of a Nitrogen issue.
This may apply. I have seen this a few times in solid pots without ventilation.Unless you went nuts with nutes it was a basic organic run. From comments I do not think you put anything in yet.
No nutes yet, but my room was at 84 before I came outI was thinking not watering enough. My pots are very light to pick up. I'm confused. I'll look at my drainage holes, maybe add a few more.
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