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call his ass and ask him what the base is,sure looks like coco to me,if it is there isnt anything for them to feed on at all,the holes in bottom of pots look alright for drainage,but if you have any doubt,drill more,if you stick a root well you just pruned it,it grow back,but coco isnt a good thing at all to let dry,it has to have feed daily sometimes 2 or 3 feeds,depends on your method of growing and plants wants,when i grew in it was twice a day to exchange feed and air and they did great,drainage is the key to any base of soil or soiless,have you done a ph test of the soil?id almost bet the ph is alkaline or close ,i went with 5.8 ph of feeds going in and feed twice a day,waking and going to sleep,they did great but a ton of work for a fat lazy man hahah,call his ass and ask what the base structure is made of and if any how much soil,you could also get a ph reading from when you just water to runoff,no feed,take a reading if good then give them a drink with feed to replace what you put inIm using pre fertilized soil that was a local grow shops homeade stuff. I have a air infinity extraction fan hooked up to a 6" carbon filter. One 12" osc. Lasko on floor. And on 8" monkey fan pointing up tpward 2 electric sky es300s on about 80% intensity. It seems like i could wait like a week before the soil wouldbe fully dry and i stuck a meter in there and it said dry so im not sure. Ive fed small ammount of gh micro, gh diamond nectar hummic acid, rapid start and super thrive. I think the soil the guy made just had poor drainage. So they wont fully dry. You can see i tried to add more perlite but i can only get it in there so much. I wanna transplant into more aerated soil but i feel it would kill them from shock :/
Weird. Anyways the guy said it was peat based soil he added worm castings and guano and stuff too.
Hmm actually i do have the biothrive line up. And bud booster. I just have been using the micro right now for the nitrogen. Also i have meausred the ppms and they were about 450 at the runoff :/It sounds like he intended for it to be fed with guano teas, etc. I've never done that. I wouldn't feed GH Hydro flora series. That's for hydroponics and soilless (peat and perlite, without the other stuff). I've grown that way and can guide you through a grow if you really wanted to do it. But, for this grow, I'd either research organic/composted soil grows. Or, I'd get some fertilizer used for soil growing (houseplants) that is a 1-1-1 ratio (example NPK label: 8-8-8). Cannabis grows fine with that ratio throughout the grow. You don't need veg nutes and flower nutes. (It might help. But, you don't need it.). Gen Hydro has their "General Organics" line. That would make sense for the soil you're using (if you like GH).
If it were me, I'd run down to Ace Hardware and spend $6 on MiracleGro "Tomato." It has an NPK ratio of 1-1-1.8. People hate MG. But, I've grown with this and it works fine. 1/2 to 5/8 tsp per gallon of water. (If I were you, I would get in the habit of measuring the runoff ppms using a TDS meter. If you overfeed, you'll see it in the runoff during transition or early flower. The PPMs will go through the roof. For me, 2500ppm is where lockout occurs. I try to keep it around 1800. Never above 2200. This saved me a lot of headaches dialing in the nutrient strength. I rarely measure it now.).
MG makes a "Bloom Booster" product too. You could bump the PK with that in mid- to late-flower. (Cut the "Tomato" amount in half, and replace it with a slightly less amount of the "Bloom Booster." MG's "All Purpose" is high in N. You can cut the "Tomato" in half and replace with a similar amount of "All Purpose" to increase N in veg. But... it will grow *fine* with just the Tomato ratio. Honestly, if I needed to bump N in veg, I'd add some fish emulsion. That would be healthier for the soil microbes than MG's "All purpose." (Something else you can do to help the microbes recover from your use of hydro nutes: add a pinch of ordinary kitchen sugar to the water. Not much. Less than 1/16th tsp/gal. That will feed the microbes.).
Also i have meausred the ppms and they were about 450 at the runoff :/
best way to check your ph is a slurry test,put about a inch of your soil in a jar fill it with water and shake for a few,then sit it down and let settle a little stick your ph pen in the water and see what you really haveYea actually i went back to thw store and they are out of bussiness. Weird. Anyways the guy said it was peat based soil he added worm castings and guano and stuff too. My intentions was to get them big enough to transplant and get it into lighter medium. I did also check the soil ph with a meter and yes is read like 7.5 but idk how accurate that thing is... i also checked the ph of the run off and it like like 4.8
I just have been using the micro right now for the nitrogen.
But i still can feel moisture in the pot :/Your plants are thirsty. Your medium looks like it is coco heavy. With the perlite added, it wont hold water well. Which is fine, but you need to keep the medium wet. Water it in the morning everyday with ..2-.4ec. As it grows you'll notice the pot get lighter faster. Eventually, you will need to water 2-4 times per day.
You dont need the es300's yet, too much light. That mars is enough for now until they get 6" tall or so. Keep it 18" above the seedlings
Thought I was overwatering but they just kept getting worse while I was waiting for the soil to dry. So i watered them a little and they are even worse
Thank you. Gonna let it dry almost fully to see what happens.. read what you said above
I don't know what's up with your soil because you don't know exactly what it is but you're treating over-watering with water, and I do know that that's not likely to work ?
It's displaying classic over-watering symptoms, there may or may not be other things going on but I would start by addressing that issue ?
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If you're sure you're in soil you should pH to 6.5; if your using GH you should use all 3 as directed on the label, but at 1/4 strength, not just one or the other and try to mix and match, however I wouldn't feed a plant that small in soil anyting yetIm using pre fertilized soil that was a local grow shops homeade stuff. I have a air infinity extraction fan hooked up to a 6" carbon filter. One 12" osc. Lasko on floor. And on 8" monkey fan pointing up tpward 2 electric sky es300s on about 80% intensity. It seems like i could wait like a week before the soil wouldbe fully dry and i stuck a meter in there and it said dry so im not sure. Ive fed small ammount of gh micro, gh diamond nectar hummic acid, rapid start and super thrive. I think the soil the guy made just had poor drainage. So they wont fully dry. You can see i tried to add more perlite but i can only get it in there so much. I wanna transplant into more aerated soil but i feel it would kill them from shock :/
These pots are a little smaller than solo cups. I thought they would be fine but, first grow. Live an learn ill have 2 get some solosAt that age the plants should be in solo cups imo. Solo cups hold less soil and will allow the soil to dry out properly between waterings. Once they bigger you can repot them into bigger containers.
Thing is it will go like 5-6 days before it gets dryIf you're sure you're in soil you should pH to 6.5; if your using GH you should use all 3 as directed on the label, but at 1/4 strength, not just one or the other and try to mix and match, however I wouldn't feed a plant that small in soil anyting yet
Edit: the soil looks like it should drain all right I suspect you're watering too frequently ? Square away your pH stop the newts and learn to properly water by filling a pot the same size & keeping it dry next to the plant and comparing weight by picking them both up is the best and quickest way I've found
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