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New grower, space bucket - seedlings problem :(

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notevenjoking

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Hello fellow growers,

thank you for reading and accepting me in this forum. Lets go straight to my config and what I'm growing, I would love to have an opinion from you guys in what I need to fix and what I'm doing wrong:

Seed: Super Skunk https://shop.ilovegrowingmarijuana.c...-skunk-regular

Where: Indoor + Space Bucket

Space Bucket config: http://imgur.com/a/iVDPP

- 5 gal bucket + 2 spacers
- 4 Philips LED 9W bulbs
- 5 mt LED strip
- Exhaust fan on the lid of the bucket
- Intake fan at the bottom
- Bucket is been black taped to avoid light leak
- Timer for lights on power supply

I have 3 seedlings inside the bucket at the moment, the oldest one is been transferred in the bucket on the 11th of January. The other seeds sprout few days later and transferred few days later, but they all affected by the same problem that I'm going to explain in a bit.

Temperature in the bucket is min 23 max 27

Humidity in the bucket is between 38 to 55

18/6 light schedule

Ph of the water is unknown

This pic is from the 14th of Jan https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6D...ew?usp=sharing
20th of January: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6D...ew?usp=sharing and https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6D...ew?usp=sharing
24th of January: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6D...ew?usp=sharing

A bit of history of the seedling (Let's talk about just one seedling, to avoid confusion)
- sprouted in wet tissue
- planted in normal pot mix soil in a small pot (the brown one that you can see from the pic), no nutrients, no perlite, nothing
- definitely over watered this baby, being a noob I was watering 2 times a day, until water would run off the pot
- noticing no improvement, I transplanted the baby in a taller slightly bigger bot with perlite and chicken manure and normal soil
- in the last 3-4 days I'm not been watering as much as before, I waited until soil was dry as and then spray a bit the top
- 24th of January I noticed a brown spot, leaves curving down since almost the beginning, and slightly yellowish, so I decided to add a bit of nutrients, fearing that was a ph problem related and nutrients deficiency. I watered with nitrogen nutrients.

Now, I'm stressing out, I have that feeling I'm doing everything wrong and I literally dunno what to do anymore. I know it's weed, should grow by itself, without much care, but hey it's my first time growing so I'm impatient af :D

I will receive this week or next week a ph testing pen, to see what's the deal with my water. I was thinking in buying a couple of litres of distilled water just to be on the safe side for now.

At the moment I switched off the LED strip and increased the night time by 2 hours, scared of maybe they were getting too much light.

Ok guys, hope you can help me :)
 
The pictures of medium looks like wood chips from a playground....definitely a ph problem...let the medium dry out before water...

When you transplant I suggest investing in some decent medium...something with better drainage...like coco and perlite...something better than what you have..

Is this your first grow?
Have you read the website attached to this forum at all...great info there
 
Hi Green75, yes I've read so much about growing, but I'm still not immune on making mistakes :) . The medium is a normal garden pot mix. As I stated in my original post, I did transplant the seedling in perlite, chicken manure and soil, and the drainage looks good.
 
I would still like to know how much vertical space you have to grow your one plant to harvest...what are your plans to keep plant short and not overgrow space...I only ask because I wish to help you do this...

Bottled water has good ph till you get your pen

Garden pot mix...what's in it? Any time release nitrogen in there...what's in it...if the pics I saw were transplanted already then there is not enough perlite in there...did you mix it...it looks bad
 
Thanks for your honest message :D

In terms of vertical space I have as much as I want, I just need to add spacers to make the buckets taller. Initially I had no spacers, so the lights were roughly at 20-35cm from the plants. Now I added a spacer so its around 50-60cm from the plants now. I reckon I will use something like this https://www.reddit.com/r/microgrowery/comments/5aq7iv/space_bucket_scrog/ when the plant is going to be too big.

I will buy bottled water then, thank you for the suggestion.

The potting mix is this one http://www.hortico.com.au/products/potting/hortico-all-purpose-blend-potting-mix/

I gave the plants, for the first time, a tiny bit of this too https://www.bunnings.com.au/powerfeed-1-2l-tomato-and-vegetable-fertiliser-concentrate_p2962110

Can you give me the % in terms of how much perlite/soil/manure I should use in a pot?
 
Spacers...glad you are aware...

Bucket scrog won't help you much in there...sorry

Your going to have to start low and wide training as soon as you get two maybe three nodes I would top her out pull her over and tie her down...my grow style would work great in your bucket...check out all my grows...especially the expired ones....seriously...then get back to me...good reads!! :-):-)

I'm going to bed...get at you in the morning...
 
hey notevenjoking , when you say you 'used' chicken manure do you mean that you put raw chicken manure directly into your mix? if so i'm pretty sure that's your answer....you basically transplanted into a pile of nitrogen... (see link for more info) can you tell me roughly what was the ratio of what you called normal soil to perlite to manure you used? i see also that you added nutrients, nitrogen in particular. that means that if your "normal soil" had normal nitrogen and you added manure and nitrogen nutes...well that's a LOT of nitrogen.... normally i would think flush with distilled water to flush the ntrgn but given that you said you also have been overwatering i don't know if flushing's a good idea. maybe someone with more experience than i have can step in here and help. good luck to you...and good luck w/the bucket--seen those on reddit and wondered how that went exactly....
 
well I can definitely see that your plants, at this stage would have grow a thicker stem, more leaves, and healthier... mine are fucked :(

and you have a higher ratio or perlite
 
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If you can afford to go coco perlite it works very well. The gwe site will tell you how to use coco. I'm using it with out problems . I made my own mix following gwe site.
Ps. You can find recipe for making good potting soil .
 
I think you need to let them dry out. These seedlings need very little water. The roots need oxygen as much as they need water. After the soil dries out, it will take the plants a day or two to adjust and recover. Not just dry on top, not just drained, but actually drying out. As the plants get bigger and have a lot of leaves, they will use more water. You can plunge your finger down into the soil and feel how wet it is. Your finger shouldn't feel hardly any moisture before watering again.
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