Firsttimernate123
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So you think I should let it be in the soil it's in...see if soil starch drying quicker and not worry about transplanting into different soil?
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HELP! Soil?
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Firsttimernate123
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Okay when I flush should I use my tap water distilled or spring you know purified.. no I got the town report from the water district and the chlorine and fluoride levels are both under 1% so I don't think that's an issue but when I add my foxfarm nutes it's because of the wrong soil Im using... Really makes me want to transplant it after I flush it ( the right way) ASAP!
GreenhouseEffect
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We all have different ways of doing things, and thats ok. If it were me, I would carefully flip the plant over in my hand, fingers supporting around the stem and top of root ball. Be very gentle, and if loose soil from that old stuff wanted to come out, I would just let it fall out of there. Then I would plant into the new soil. If you just transplanted again,leave them be.
Again, not saying Redwasp is wrong, just different ways of growing. Also, I am pretty confident in my transplanting skills, if your not that comfortable with it yet, then do as redwasp says for sure.
Seedlings really don't need a breeze, and it can hurt more than it helps, at first. Shut that fan off for at least a few day's, I think the bigger part of the leaf problem is caused by the fan, as I've done the same thing!!
When there looking good and healthy again, either point the fan at the wall, and let the air bounce back at them, making it less intense, or get an oscillating fan, I use both methods in my grow room. The time you really need the fan the most, is during flowering, but it is good throughout most of there life, except seedlings are easily damaged by it.
I would keep the light back at first, till they recover, don't want to much excitement at once for such little kids.
Again, not saying Redwasp is wrong, just different ways of growing. Also, I am pretty confident in my transplanting skills, if your not that comfortable with it yet, then do as redwasp says for sure.
Seedlings really don't need a breeze, and it can hurt more than it helps, at first. Shut that fan off for at least a few day's, I think the bigger part of the leaf problem is caused by the fan, as I've done the same thing!!
When there looking good and healthy again, either point the fan at the wall, and let the air bounce back at them, making it less intense, or get an oscillating fan, I use both methods in my grow room. The time you really need the fan the most, is during flowering, but it is good throughout most of there life, except seedlings are easily damaged by it.
I would keep the light back at first, till they recover, don't want to much excitement at once for such little kids.
Firsttimernate123
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Thank you very much I appreciate the input now when it comes to Flushing with the soil you know I have should I use distilled purified or my tap which is 450 ppm's?
GreenhouseEffect
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Personally I don't flush my soil, since I don't really use anything that can build up and need to be flushed out. But your case may be different with what you have, especially if you used more nutrients on top of what was already in the " Expert Gardener" soil.
What soil are they in right now?
What soil are they in right now?
Firsttimernate123
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It's day 17 but on day 14 I had to transplant using same soil to the next size up so it's only been 3 days but they're still alive! Should I flush with mineral water distilled or out of my tap at around 450 ppm's? I planned on going in buying some peat moss and foxfarm soil today and trying to transplant into dry/ moist soil. Thank you for your feedback
GreenhouseEffect
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Ok, so have you given them a bunch of extra nutrients lately? If you have, then maybe do a flush, before you transplant. Reason being, is that after transplanting, you will still have a bunch of that old soil in there, and if you also gave them lots of additional nutrients, then it would be way to rich, and burn them/cause problems later.
I would probably just use the tap water if it were me, distilled if you want to be super safe maybe, but really I think the tap is fine.
I'm also happy to have folks that flush chime in, cause I've never had to. You are basically just giving a bunch of water to wash out all the extra nutes, IF you added a bunch.
I think you can forgo the peat moss with that fox farm, but maybe add some Perlite to it( about a 1/4 by volume, this adds a little extra oxygen capacity to the soil, which cannabis LOVES.
Just be real careful and gentle when you transplant, cradle that root zone from the top, with your fingers around the stalk, let the extra soil just fall off if no roots are into it yet. If you do flush, It will be easier to transplant if they dry out a bit after.
Once those plants get into that Fox Farm, you can kinda stop worrying about the PPM and PH a bit, since you will be growing in a living soil, with a community of micro organisims that take care of all that stuff for you. Nature figured that whole part out for us a long time ago. When you are growing in Hydro, coco, or using something besides soil, though, that's when it becomes your job to keep an eye on all that stuff.
I would probably just use the tap water if it were me, distilled if you want to be super safe maybe, but really I think the tap is fine.
I'm also happy to have folks that flush chime in, cause I've never had to. You are basically just giving a bunch of water to wash out all the extra nutes, IF you added a bunch.
I think you can forgo the peat moss with that fox farm, but maybe add some Perlite to it( about a 1/4 by volume, this adds a little extra oxygen capacity to the soil, which cannabis LOVES.
Just be real careful and gentle when you transplant, cradle that root zone from the top, with your fingers around the stalk, let the extra soil just fall off if no roots are into it yet. If you do flush, It will be easier to transplant if they dry out a bit after.
Once those plants get into that Fox Farm, you can kinda stop worrying about the PPM and PH a bit, since you will be growing in a living soil, with a community of micro organisims that take care of all that stuff for you. Nature figured that whole part out for us a long time ago. When you are growing in Hydro, coco, or using something besides soil, though, that's when it becomes your job to keep an eye on all that stuff.