Did I FIM Correctly? 3 Week Old Plant - How long until recovery?

So today my plant is 20 days old since it sprouted. I attempted to FIM this plant a couple days ago. I used the pinch method instead of cutting, as I heard that it is less stress on the plant. I'm growing in Coco Coir & using Advanced Nutrients Sensi Coco Grow A&B @ 310 PPM. That's with tap water which is around 180 PPM. I have a 600W MH air cooled hood 18" from the top of the plant. 20/4 light schedule. Temperatures range from 79°F - 86°F, Humidity is around 45 - 55%.

I'm not exactly sure if I did the job correctly, as this is my first grow ever.

I tired to go off of this picture:


And pinched where the 'Fimm Cut Location' is labeled at the 5th - 6th node.

The only thing is, the plant just looks a little iffy to me, these pics were taken 2 days since I FIMmed. And to be honest, I'm not even sure if I even did anything but fuck it up, the branches have just grown out a bit.

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Did I FIM correctly? Any tips to help this plant? How long until recovery?

THANK YOU!!!

I always cut when I fim, but I think you're OK. Shouldn't be long to recover, give her a few more days and you should see some new shoots forming where you pinched it, or shoots below the pinches growing crazy. They're resilient plants, always finding a way to get bigger so I wouldn't worry about if you fucked up or not. Live and learn. Keep me posted.

MoMoGrows said:

I always cut when I fim, but I think you're OK. Shouldn't be long to recover, give her a few more days and you should see some new shoots forming where you pinched it, or shoots below the pinches growing crazy. They're resilient plants, always finding a way to get bigger so I wouldn't worry about if you fucked up or not. Live and learn. Keep me posted.

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Thank you! I just want my first grow to be as good as possible with the amount of money & effort put in to this setup, and I won't let a shitty FIM job fuck everything up, but I am glad to hear that she should recover fine.

The plant is looking a little better today. It doesn't seem as droopy as it was last night.

Some of your leaf tips and edges look a lil nute burned or something. Need to get that under control.

MoMoGrows said:

Some of your leaf tips and edges look a lil nute burned or something. Need to get that under control.

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Yes I know, I had the nute mix at 450 PPM previously which burned them because I'm a noob. So I got it down to 310 PPM and the newer growth looked to get a little better.

I now cut out the 180 PPM of tap water and went with R/O water around 10 PPM. The nutrients mix is at 140 PPM now and I'm waiting to see if it will recover before I raise the nutrients again.

Hopefully that will help with the burning?

Fim looks legit enough. Cutting looks tidier but that is already working. Just remember less is more when feeding, especially when feeding a stressed plant.

Yea should help. Don't be feeding her with every watering. Every other watering should work, or if still getting burned every 3 waterings. If it continues post a help thread and get better advice. You doing good so far bro.

MoMoGrows said:

Yea should help. Don't be feeding her with every watering. Every other watering should work, or if still getting burned every 3 waterings. If it continues post a help thread and get better advice. You doing good so far bro.

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Awesome! I'm very pleased to hear fimming & plant is doing well. I do not have the trained eye for healthy plants yet I guess but I will learn with practice lol

And are you sure I should only feed every other day? I've done a lot of research with coco coir grows and it mentions you should feed every day if not twice a day when the roots are established enough? I guess since I'm having a small nutrient burn issue I should water daily still but only feed every other day @ 140 PPM?

Now how long should I feed my plant with this nute mix for until I have to raise the nutes? A week? Or will the plant tell me what it needs?

Thank you!

Oh snap, about the coco coir I know next to nothing...guess I overlooked that part. I guess do what your research has taught you. I grow in soil, water every two or three days, and add nutes to every other watering. But since you are having nute burn issues I would start another thread with your pics asking about water and nute schedules.

Everything looks good. I only FIM the center shoot unless there is enough on other branches. Either way it sounds like you are on the right track. When you get the PPM's dialed in, is when you can feed every watering. I run coco and you have your PPM's right. Young I like 300-400 ( my water is 75ppm at the tap). Veg around 700, and flower around 1000-1200. I had my wife help me recently and too much molasses was added and the PPM's were just under 1600. I gave my wife the go ahead and regret it greatly. So less is always more. And since coco is basically hydro, variations in nutrients show pretty quick. I feel bad for my ladies which are doing ok but look not so great leaf wise. I learned a valuable lesson never more than 1200ppm. I feel like my yield will be affected as I needed to flush for a bit and work the nutes back up so that threw my nute shedule about 1 1/2 weeks. Lesson: When you get it dialed in. Don't fuck with it. Less is more. Best of luck.

I think you should have cut a little lower, but you should be ok, this is how mine looked 3 days after the fim, I used a razor blade for the cut.

Any1 know weather this has been a successful fim day 3 day 7 off veg