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I'm using 50% of this, 25% earth worm castings and 25% perlite. The options for soil where I am are very limited.What medium you using ?
I hope that's not true because I've just given them another 2 litres of water each with molasses and liquid seaweed. I put 1 tablespoon of molasses and 6 millilitres of seaweed in 6 litres of water.It happend to me I was advised to flush since my concentration of molasses to water was too high it caused my ph to swing heavy and caused nutrient lockout Nitrogen mostly.I flushed my medium and watered with kelpak and that fixed my girl in a day.Molasses is sugers for microbes in the soil. It should be used once a week or once 2 weeks but not with every watering since it is high in potassium and is needed mostly in flower and not so much in veg.Thats my 2c.
I hate to say it but yes, I was thinking that the leaves had gone a little lighter. I thought that feeding molasses during early veg was ok because I've seen successful growers doing so on You Tube but perhaps not. I've got the Fox Farm nutrients on the way so maybe I'll flush before I start using them. I'll wait to see if anybody else gives me some advice on this though.Since you started to feed the molasses water did they start to become a lighter shade of green?
I hate to say it but yes, I was thinking that the leaves had gone a little lighter. I thought that feeding molasses during early veg was ok because I've seen successful growers doing so on You Tube but perhaps not. I've got the Fox Farm nutrients on the way so maybe I'll flush before I start using them. I'll wait to see if anybody else gives me some advice on this though.
Thanks for your advice and yes, I do think I have been massively underwatering my girls, I've watered them today but prior to that I've only given them a litre of water each since transplanting 3 days ago. You're saying that when I water them I have to do so until I have some run off? And you say these Hindu Kush plants look completely normal? That's a weight off my mind but the Northern Lights plant looks so small in comparison and that can't be normal but by the sound of it that's because it's so hungry?Hey there @IsanFarmer , Afghani Hindu Kush are notable for being short and stocky/branchy, had grown some in the past, amazing terpenes profiles, amazing genetic overall. I would not top them yet, wait for when they are 6-9" hight.
You're in for a great one!
They look hungry and underwater to me, I mean you need to soak the whole media so the roots can grow into it, they don't grow into dry media, than let the soil dry back before the next watering (first 2inches of soil is bone dry water again to 5-10% runoff).
When your nutrients arrive do a 1/4 strength feed per week. The next watering between feeds can be with molasses only 15ml/5L and no nutrients.
Between 3-4 days dry back.cycles is pretty good for organic soil.
Also relax and have fun learning to read them, they gonna thrive for sure just be a little patient
Let's be a little more scientific, install photone app and calibrate it to your light model ppfd chart. From there with the app calibrated your plants can be taking easily 300ppfd at canopy level for this stage. That's a better approach to light intensity in modern days, much easier too :-)Here's my guess.
That's a lot of light for plants that small. Those would still be under a 2-foot T5 seedling light in my garden. The light level is holding the plants down. They're literally staying low to reduce how much light they have to process. They're light colored because the nutrient uptake can't keep up with the light level. I'd move your light to the top of the tent and dim it down to 10 or 15 percent. When the tops are praying an hour before lights-out, it will be time to turn the lights up a bit.
About over and under watering: Over-watering is watering too often, not giving too much water at one time. In soil, I water to run-off when the pots get light. You're in big pots for the size of the plants, so your correct watering frequency should be a lot longer than you might expect.
May I ask why flush organics media and molasses? You gonna take a lot of the carbon out, essential for a organic media to flourish. IMHO bad advice.Get yourself some PH test strips and test your water. Then test your Fertilizer solution. When you flush the Molasses test the run off.
See where your at. I looked up your potting medium but could not find anything on it. So you need to do a little ground work.
When growing one must make up his mind weather he is going to grow organic or grow with man made chemical fertilizers with NPK numbers on the bottle. Anything with an NPK is designed to bypass the natural food web and feed the plant directly rather than feeding living soil and having the life in the soil provide the plant. These are 2 different systems.
I'd suggest that you flush the molasses out of your pots.
For the next 2 weeks treat these plants as seedlings. Feed something like 5-15-5 once a week. This will help get the roots going so they can handle the next phase. Mix 1/2 tsp of Cal-Mag in 1 gallon of water. Add the 5-15-5 Water with this solution twice 7 days apart. You can keep it in a jug with a lid.
7 days later. Switch to a higher nitrogen mix 1/2 strength.
Mix 1/2 tsp of Cal-Mag in 1 gallon of water. Add the Nitrogen fertilizer, measure carefully. 1/2 strength!
Water with this once a week for 3-4 weeks then up the Nitrogen fertilizer to full strength.
You can mix a gallon and keep it in a jug with a lid on it and use it once a week. Then make more when needed.
Your plants should take off and grow.
This should get you going.
Maybe turn the light down a bit more. These plants are very compact.
This is usually caused but very high light conditions. They are very young, give them springtime light rather than Dog days of summer.
What I would do is replace molasses to a pure humic acid product, did it many years ago, more carbon and many more benefits than molasses, the microherd in the soil like humic acid more than molasses in the long run.May I ask why flush organics media and molasses? You gonna take a lot of the carbon out, essential for a organic media to flourish. IMHO bad advice.
Here's my guess.
That's a lot of light for plants that small. Those would still be under a 2-foot T5 seedling light in my garden. The light level is holding the plants down. They're literally staying low to reduce how much light they have to process. They're light colored because the nutrient uptake can't keep up with the light level. I'd move your light to the top of the tent and dim it down to 10 or 15 percent. When the tops are praying an hour before lights-out, it will be time to turn the lights up a bit.
About over and under watering: Over-watering is watering too often, not giving too much water at one time. In soil, I water to run-off when the pots get light. You're in big pots for the size of the plants, so your correct watering frequency should be a lot longer than you might expect.
Get yourself some PH test strips and test your water. Then test your Fertilizer solution. When you flush the Molasses test the run off.
See where your at. I looked up your potting medium but could not find anything on it. So you need to do a little ground work.
When growing one must make up his mind weather he is going to grow organic or grow with man made chemical fertilizers with NPK numbers on the bottle. Anything with an NPK is designed to bypass the natural food web and feed the plant directly rather than feeding living soil and having the life in the soil provide the plant. These are 2 different systems.
I'd suggest that you flush the molasses out of your pots.
For the next 2 weeks treat these plants as seedlings. Feed something like 5-15-5 once a week. This will help get the roots going so they can handle the next phase. Mix 1/2 tsp of Cal-Mag in 1 gallon of water. Add the 5-15-5 Water with this solution twice 7 days apart. You can keep it in a jug with a lid.
7 days later. Switch to a higher nitrogen mix 1/2 strength.
Mix 1/2 tsp of Cal-Mag in 1 gallon of water. Add the Nitrogen fertilizer, measure carefully. 1/2 strength!
Water with this once a week for 3-4 weeks then up the Nitrogen fertilizer to full strength.
You can mix a gallon and keep it in a jug with a lid on it and use it once a week. Then make more when needed.
Your plants should take off and grow.
This should get you going.
Maybe turn the light down a bit more. These plants are very compact.
This is usually caused but very high light conditions. They are very young, give them springtime light rather than Dog days of summer.
Mix 1/2 tsp of Cal-Mag in 1 gallon of water. Add the 5-15-5 Water with this solution twice 7 days apart.
Your fox farm trio will be plenty and perfect.I've got the lights set up this way because both the manufacturer and many of the channels I follow on You Tube say this is what you should do with this light at this stage. I'm not naïve enough to think that that makes it conclusive but with the greatest respect your opinion with the light seems contrary to what I'm being told? I have seen videos where growers keep the light up much higher but most seem to have at a similar distance to me at 50% power? I have turned it down to 25% this evening though to see if it makes any difference so thanks for your advice.
I really appreciate your advice but you need to understand I am a novice and therefore don't understand some of what you've said. The water for my last two feeds was adjusted to 6.6 and 6.4 respectively. Are you trying to tell me that I can't mix the way that I have been feeding so far with the nutrients that I am yet to receive because one method (molasses and seaweed) is organic, and the Fox Farm nutrients are synthetic? I'm showing my ignorance here because I really had no idea that was true! As for nutrients and NPK ratios, do I have to look for a product that is already 5-15-5 or can I make this up myself? That may sound like a really dumb question but I am a newbie. I live in a country where it is difficult to get nutrients and I can't find any on the Internet here with that ration.
Also, I don't understand some of your directions?
Could you explain the above in more detail please because I don't understand this bit? I'm waiting for the Fox Farm trio to arrive but you're saying they're no good to me right now?
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