caukygrow
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Hello! I am new here! I really need some help... I've grown some monsters in coco and decided to switch over to an RDWC setup. I got the whole kit, researched everything I could about it and have run into some issues...
My seeds germinated on the 11th April, about 4 weeks ago.
I am growing autoflowers from Fastbuds, LSD-25, pineapple express and G14 auto. The seeds were about 2 years old and took slightly longer to germinate than usual.
I had them in rockwool for about a week until I saw each of them with a root out the bottom of the rockwool.
From that point, I transplanted into my system with a PH of 5.8, water temp of 20c and grow tent of 21c.
My PPM's were around 200-300 to start. I slowly upped to 400-450PPM.
Humidity was 60-70%
I set my lights on 20 hours a day and started at a low setting. It's a 480W LED which I set to 30% (typical of what I'd do in a coco grow with good results previously)
My water has a base PPM of 0 - it's rainwater collected in a tank.
I expected that my seedlings would reach the water quickly and I top fed for the first week until the first root came out of the netcup & hit the water.
My water was set one inch below the netcup.
From that point, I had extremely slow growth.
I left it for two weeks with occasional top feeding until I realised they're still growing at a snails pace & were showing signs of hunger. (yellow leaves)
I have since started top feeding daily with about 120ml of water squirted around the rockwool (Not directly on it)
My roots have grown out the side of the netcup & have very few growing out the bottom. Now my plants look like they are flowering............ and they are tiny... so I am going to mark this grow as a complete failure - just want to know what I did wrong for next time..
I am using FloraMax nutes. I've put some pictures of my setup, each of the roots of my plants
Thank you in advance!!!
(Please note, my netcups looked soaked because I raised the water level up the other day in the hopes that it would promote growth, but my leaves started drooping, so I lowered it again to 1 inch below the cup)
My growdiaries profile is here: (I don't have all my plants, but they are all started at the same time)
My seeds germinated on the 11th April, about 4 weeks ago.
I am growing autoflowers from Fastbuds, LSD-25, pineapple express and G14 auto. The seeds were about 2 years old and took slightly longer to germinate than usual.
I had them in rockwool for about a week until I saw each of them with a root out the bottom of the rockwool.
From that point, I transplanted into my system with a PH of 5.8, water temp of 20c and grow tent of 21c.
My PPM's were around 200-300 to start. I slowly upped to 400-450PPM.
Humidity was 60-70%
I set my lights on 20 hours a day and started at a low setting. It's a 480W LED which I set to 30% (typical of what I'd do in a coco grow with good results previously)
My water has a base PPM of 0 - it's rainwater collected in a tank.
I expected that my seedlings would reach the water quickly and I top fed for the first week until the first root came out of the netcup & hit the water.
My water was set one inch below the netcup.
From that point, I had extremely slow growth.
I left it for two weeks with occasional top feeding until I realised they're still growing at a snails pace & were showing signs of hunger. (yellow leaves)
I have since started top feeding daily with about 120ml of water squirted around the rockwool (Not directly on it)
My roots have grown out the side of the netcup & have very few growing out the bottom. Now my plants look like they are flowering............ and they are tiny... so I am going to mark this grow as a complete failure - just want to know what I did wrong for next time..
I am using FloraMax nutes. I've put some pictures of my setup, each of the roots of my plants
Thank you in advance!!!
(Please note, my netcups looked soaked because I raised the water level up the other day in the hopes that it would promote growth, but my leaves started drooping, so I lowered it again to 1 inch below the cup)
My growdiaries profile is here: (I don't have all my plants, but they are all started at the same time)