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[folder52]

Hey guys, I want to show my status and get your opinion. Anything wrong with this lady? Should I train this plant somehow?

Setup:

• Autos, germination started on 01 December.
• Coco coir + perlite
• RH is ~65-70%
• Temp is 24C / 75F on average
• Lights: 18/6, 70%
• Watering every 3rd day with ~50% of recommended amount of nutrients, pH=~6.

[Slyvie]

Thanks for the advice! I have been PH'ing the nutrients water as well. I apologize for being unclear. The medium is coco/perlite. I was reading that the PH for coco should be 5.8 to 6.3 ish. Should it be 6.5 instead? I have a PPM monitor, but dont use it often. Once it recovers, like you've recommended, I will use it more regularly. I appreciate your input.

[Rootsruler]

IMO, you need to stop doing nutrient feeds every other feed. Feed nutrients at every watering period. Run 1/4 the recommended amount and keep increasing by 1/4 every week until you see the leaf tips start to brown. This is your indication to what the plant feed limit is at that stage of growth. Once you hit that point back your feed off 1/4 and continue until your plant gets bigger. You can test it again by upping the feed until the new growth starts to tip burn and adjust to your new limit.

For now, keep the amount you have where it's at. Once your plant recovers you can start testing to see where its feed limit is.

I measure my nutrient solutions using a PPM meter. The most I go is 1200ppm in Veg as an example. 1000ppm in flower.

You should be pHing your nutrient solutions not just the clear water periods but now that you will be feeding at every watering you just need to pH them all. 6.5pH is your target but you're in soil so soil has natural buffers. As long as you're close on either end you can go ahead and use the feed solution.

[Slyvie]

Thanks. Thats what I was thinking.

I give them nutrients via water. Im using the flora trio and cal mag. Im using the coco feeding schedule posted from this website. Giving it nutrients and then PH'd water every other watering. Except I hadn't increased the schedule/strength of course due to the issues. Lol

[Rootsruler]

No. Leave it where it is. Transplanting stresses plants out. Your plant is already stressed. Just water it accordingly and observe and learn. Is the soil already amended with nutrient or do you need to feed it nutrient when you water? If you are giving it nutrients what are they and how much are you giving them?

[Slyvie]

Thank you! That was a good read.

I thought I had overwatered it so I had cut back to just a little bit every 1 to 2 days. But after reading that, it seems like maybe I over corrected, thinking it was symptoms over overwatering. I will try watering more less times. It has been dry lately, the humidifier has been all the way up and when its been cold and dry, its dipped down to the 50's.

Do you think it be worth it to transplant it to a smaller container?

[Rootsruler]

Agree with SoOrbudgal. In seedling stage you want humidity in the 65% - 75% range. You're close so I don't think humidity is the issue but you may want to raise it a bit if you can. Early seedlings and sprouts don't have a big enough root system yet so they take in a lot of their moisture through their leaves.

Also, agree on watering. Please make sure you wet the entire media then let it dryback for a few days. Cannabis likes a damp to wettish soil. I use the light pot method to tell me when it's time to water again. Before you water pick up your pot and feel the weight. It should feel light. This is your indicator as to when to water. Over and underwatering are the two biggest issues that new growers make. Learn to when and how to water properly and you'll avoid a lot of issues.

I posted this so that people can get a better understanding of what happens in your soil when you water. Give it a read when you get a chance so that you understand how water affects your grow media and what are some of the things you want to look out for.

https://forum.growweedeasy.com/forum/growing-community/610794-watering-cannabis-explained-by-aqua-man

[Slyvie]

Thank you for your response! I'm actually not sure what the strain is, it was bag seed. I had planted 2 Bubba kush, photo and 2 bag seeds because I have been struggling and was curious if maybe the seeds Id gotten were poor. The 2 bubba's didn't make it, 1 bag seed didn't germinate and 1 did, which is the lone survivor in those pictures. The two seeds I just germinated are new seeds from a different place.

The light is about 24 to 26 inches from the plant. I will definitely be watering after lights on today. I appreciate your support! I will take it slower on the transplant of the new seeds and put them in a dome.

[Slyvie]

Help! I am a fairly new grower who has no found the right rhythm yet. I first tried hydro which I had better success with, but I did not like how much water I ended up going through a few power outages that didn't prove well for the bubble buckets.

I am currently using a coco/ perlite mix and the older leaves of my seedling are turning light on the edges. I thought I over watered it so I've cut back on the amount I water and there are two baby leaves growing. So that is exciting, but I'm still concerned about those leaves that are turning light on the edges.

Maybe I transplanted it too early and then over watered? she is in a 3 gallon fabric pot. Temp is pretty steady about 76 most of the time and RH around 55 to 65. I am using the flora trio and calmag for nutes, following the coco nute schedule provided on this site. I need to water today after the lights come back on (they will turn off here soon).

This plant is way behind schedule. I am using a 100 W LED vivosun light.

I've started two more seeds because im not sure about this ones health, but I dont want to make the same mistakes again.. any advice?

[Gaz21]

Oh had a peak of the roots. They look just fine. I'm thinking just A+B+CALMAG and CX Regena root but NO P/K but that will probably be a mistake. I reckon I can just ride it out as it is. But I'd love to get it right and know whats wrong. I also have a water pump in the rez just for circulation. I'm wondering if it's too powerful and causing the sludge? But if that's the cause of the sludge,would that cause problems in the plants?

[Gaz21]

I'm actually emptying the rez right now and giving everything a good clean. It's a 50 litre rez. And they've used half of it. There was some sludge. I'm just letting the fresh water settle a little more I did get the fresh water prepared yesterday . But sat here scratching my head thinking what to put in it.

[Gaz21]

No I don't have a mulders chart and wouldn't know what to do with it if I did. But I will do some reading up. Yes I keep getting sludge in the rez. I'm guessing sterile. I'm in coco/perlite and using a range called CX horticulture. I'm running them as directed.

[Rootsruler]

As you're in hydro, if the issue is progressing from top to bottom I'm guessing it's something in your res makeup. Do you have a Mulders Chart? Any gunk or sludge forming? Do you run sterile or live? Might be root related. How is your root health? Pic looks clean but I don't know if that's all the roots.

[Gaz21]

Potassium toxicity,throwing all the other nutes out of whack?? Thats what I'm thinking now. But I'm hoping for your thoughts before emptying the rez and remix with less potassium

[Gaz21]

So the first one is from one of the healthy plants. The other pics are from the sick plant. Which are in the order I took them off. Bottom to top of the plant. It seems it kind of started at the top of the plant. Which is another reason that I thought it was initially light stress. The leaves went a lighter shade of green initially. That was the first sign that I had an issue. Then the other symptoms came afterwards. It looks like one of the other plants is becoming lighter in colour now. But no other symptoms on that one yet. If you look at the first image. All the leaves was that darker green all through veg and 4 weeks of flowering until now end of week 5. (The last image is from the very top of the plant)