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What soil are you using? What are your watering habits? (How much water and how ofter) Pictures can be deceiving but it looks like your fabric pots are 5gal. Anything else about these plants you care to share? Your plants do show signs of over-watering like you stated.Good afternoon, everyone.
My name is weedshoes. I am new to the forum and new to growing, but not new to forums nor the plant. I love doing research and this new hobby should provide me plenty of entertainment in that regard, but I still like advice.
This is my best friend. She has been with me for a lot and looks out for me.
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I am in a legal state, 6k feet in the sky. It's pretty dry here.
These are my plants right when I brought them home. I am told they are pineapple express. September 2
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They were so green and healthy...
This them after a couple days in my closet.
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I think they were getting a little hot in there, so I bought them a tent.
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The tent is a Gorilla 2x2.5 I got on their labor day sale. Very satisfied with the build quality. Temperature in the tent stays about 68-72f, RH 35-40%. I have a 6 inch clip on fan down low and a 6 inch 440cfm duct fan turned down low pulling out the top.
They were holding onto water for over a week so I repotted into 1gal smart pots with Mother Earth Terracraft 9/16. I also started to ph my water to about 6-6.5. Out of the tap it's about 8.0, which is what I had been using until this point. This is 9/19.
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This is this morning.
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My light is an HLG 135 Bspec tuned down pretty far about 28 inches from the canopy. I think all the yellow is from a combination of getting too hot and overwatering with the wrong ph. I think the burnt tips are from the soil being a little hot for seedlings.
Once one of these matures this will become the flower tent with a 135 Rspec, and the Bspec will move into a 3x3 Gorilla for mothering, veg, and propagation.
Any comments or criticism is welcome. I look forward to getting to know some of you.
Thanks for reading!
Soil is Mother Earth Terracraft, recommended by a local grow shop when I went in to get an Ocean Forest type soil. They were in some general purpose potting soil 9/2-9/16, which had wood chips and held onto too much moisture.
Moving forward I plan to use the light pot/dry inch method. The new soil and pot seem to breathe much better. The plants seemed to respond positively by getting taller right away, but are still quite yellow. The pots are definitely 1 gallon. The plants are just small and the pots are on a wire rack. Those leaves up the stem are like little baby bonsai leaves. The stems look like they are getting lighter in color and growth seems to be speeding up, so I think they are recovering, but I am too inexperienced to trust my own intuition. The roots looked good to my novice eyes when I repotted 9/16.
- watered to 20% runoff 9/2
- probably 10 fluid ounces each 9/5 (really no good reason I guess)
- watered to 20% runoff again 9/16 with the repot, this is the first time I PH'd the water
- watered again 9/19 to 20% runoff because the top inch of soil felt dry and the pot was light.
I think it is beyond lame that I have the made-up strain from the Seth Rogan movie, but it's what was available and I figured a 50/50 I'll accidentally kill these anyway.
That's everything relevant I can think of for now. Please let me know if I am leaving out anything obvious.
Great tips and a good thread. The new soil in the 1 gallon fabric pots seems to be draining nicely. I watered 2 days ago. The pot is pretty light. I think I'll wait one more day.Course perlite ... but here's one that's even better...
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