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MrFatGangster
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Hello,
My name is Mike.
I made a critical mistake by not buffering coco after washing it and now believe I’m facing the repercussions of that. I heard of washing it, but found out about buffering with high strength cal mag solution, and how crucial it is for the cation exchanges AFTER I already planted… So it’s a bit too late for the double buffer at this point.
I transferred germinated seedlings from a wet paper towel to a small cup of coco/perlite with holes drilled all over sides and bottom, watered with 6.2 ph and left with humidity dome on top of cup, shortly after 1st set of true leaves grew they begin to yellow and eventually rust out. Watered daily with about 20%-50% runoff until second set of true leaves grew, thats when I started small dose of nutrients and cal mag. Using general hydroponics: 2ml cal mag, 2ml micro 4ml bloom every other day.
They’re still growing very slowly but I mean these poor plants are so miniature compared to what I see everywhere else. They’re just about a month old and are barely 4 inches tall and still small enough for a small plastic cup. Roots are not developing like most others seen in the community. I can tell because they’re planted in clear ventilated plastic cups and you can hardly see any of the roots, maybe a few very thin roots on sides and bottom.
I started 2 other seedlings thinking I must’ve been over watering so I watered very precisely using a food scale to monitor weight of plant before and after watering, ensuring to only add 30ml of 6.2 ph water every other day and allowing for that 30ml to be absorbed or evaporated. But now that they’re developing their first sets of true leaves, their running into the very same issue!
I’ve been foliar feeding 4ml cal mag/gallon of water at 6.3 ph just as lights go out to help with cal mag deficiency noted by the small brown spots on leaves. That has only been a few days, but no change in the deficiency at all. Started to foliar feed the younger ones that are just starting to go through the same issues as the originals to hopefully not run into such extreme issues that I have now, but I have little to no hopes on the cal mag foliar spray helping. Seems to be a waste time.
I’ve attached pictures of the plants growing from August 5th of this year (2022) and the various progress to August 28th of this year (2022). You can see the older ones progressively get worse. The leaves that are affected by cal deficiency also appear to have acute Nitrogen toxicity with how they claw down and how dark they are. Newer leaves not yet affected by cal deficiency are also not dark green either. I believe these little ones are fighters because they haven’t perished yet.
I know someone suggested to cut my losses and just start over but I’m having a hard time doing that because it’s been a month already, and time goes on regardless. I completely understand that my yields will be pitiful, but I’d like to say I made it from start to finish at the very least! I will definitely start a new batch of seedlings in buffered coco going forward to avoid such catastrophes, but I was really hoping to find a solution on helping these poor girls make it.
Any information that you have that can help would be hugely appreciated as I am a first time grower and I’m already failing.
- Mike.
My name is Mike.
I made a critical mistake by not buffering coco after washing it and now believe I’m facing the repercussions of that. I heard of washing it, but found out about buffering with high strength cal mag solution, and how crucial it is for the cation exchanges AFTER I already planted… So it’s a bit too late for the double buffer at this point.
I transferred germinated seedlings from a wet paper towel to a small cup of coco/perlite with holes drilled all over sides and bottom, watered with 6.2 ph and left with humidity dome on top of cup, shortly after 1st set of true leaves grew they begin to yellow and eventually rust out. Watered daily with about 20%-50% runoff until second set of true leaves grew, thats when I started small dose of nutrients and cal mag. Using general hydroponics: 2ml cal mag, 2ml micro 4ml bloom every other day.
They’re still growing very slowly but I mean these poor plants are so miniature compared to what I see everywhere else. They’re just about a month old and are barely 4 inches tall and still small enough for a small plastic cup. Roots are not developing like most others seen in the community. I can tell because they’re planted in clear ventilated plastic cups and you can hardly see any of the roots, maybe a few very thin roots on sides and bottom.
I started 2 other seedlings thinking I must’ve been over watering so I watered very precisely using a food scale to monitor weight of plant before and after watering, ensuring to only add 30ml of 6.2 ph water every other day and allowing for that 30ml to be absorbed or evaporated. But now that they’re developing their first sets of true leaves, their running into the very same issue!
I’ve been foliar feeding 4ml cal mag/gallon of water at 6.3 ph just as lights go out to help with cal mag deficiency noted by the small brown spots on leaves. That has only been a few days, but no change in the deficiency at all. Started to foliar feed the younger ones that are just starting to go through the same issues as the originals to hopefully not run into such extreme issues that I have now, but I have little to no hopes on the cal mag foliar spray helping. Seems to be a waste time.
I’ve attached pictures of the plants growing from August 5th of this year (2022) and the various progress to August 28th of this year (2022). You can see the older ones progressively get worse. The leaves that are affected by cal deficiency also appear to have acute Nitrogen toxicity with how they claw down and how dark they are. Newer leaves not yet affected by cal deficiency are also not dark green either. I believe these little ones are fighters because they haven’t perished yet.
I know someone suggested to cut my losses and just start over but I’m having a hard time doing that because it’s been a month already, and time goes on regardless. I completely understand that my yields will be pitiful, but I’d like to say I made it from start to finish at the very least! I will definitely start a new batch of seedlings in buffered coco going forward to avoid such catastrophes, but I was really hoping to find a solution on helping these poor girls make it.
Any information that you have that can help would be hugely appreciated as I am a first time grower and I’m already failing.
- Mike.
