First Grow Am I burning Them

So the time finally came for me to try some basic gardening skills and grow my first ladies. Im broke and have limited space right now so Im growing these outdoors.

The seeds I got were from some sticky a friend had nothing special want to get the basics down before I spend money on good strians.

The soil Im using is fox farms ocean forrest. And Currently using Nutes from fox farm as well. Grow Big and Big Bloom. I believe I started using the nutes too early. My plants have a yellowish tint to me not green like most the pics I have seen here.

I water the plants every two or three days and skip nutes every other watering. I use half of what Fox Farms feeding schedule says.

I did mix perlite into the soil for aeration and incase I have to flush the plants. The one thing I did do and regret now is put two earthworms into each pot. I figured they would help the soil and plants, and if they were still alive my plants were probably doing good as well. But now regret this.

I guess my question here is Am I burning my plants already?
Do i need to flush them?
Should i get them damn worms out?
Is my watering schedule right?

nraged said:

Is my watering schedule right?

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NO ! you don't water by a schedule you water when the soil has almost dried out. In pots that size I'd estimate about 10 days or more depending on your light strength.
If your not vegging with 6500 K light you won't get that deep green foliage.

1 I guess my question here is Am I burning my plants already?
2 Do i need to flush them?
3 Should i get them damn worms out?
4 Is my watering schedule right?

1 i would use just water for about antoher week or i would mix a real light root booster and after they get their roots established hit em with the nutes i would start off with 1/4 of what they say and work your way up

2 i would just use water for like a week

3 i dont know ive never heard ppl doing that i just go out and buy the castings so i cant imagine they cant hurt but dont know how well they will react with the nutes

4 have you ever heard of the knuckle test just stick you index finger in the dirt up to your 2nd knuckle and if it feels dry add water if moist water the next day.

whats your light set up?

j h said:

whats your light set up?

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he said he is growing out side

frmrboi said:

NO ! you don't water by a schedule you water when the soil has almost dried out. In pots that size I'd estimate about 10 days or more depending on your light strength.
If your not vegging with 6500 K light you won't get that deep green foliage.

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Im not watering by schedule just saying when i do water im cutting the recomended nutes in half not the recomended amount on fox farms feeding schedule. Thanks for the input

dont have lights growing all outdoors atm. Maybe next grow will have a decent setup.

u using ocean forest.... it has organic fertilizers in it... dont use nutes yet.. u could go up to 30-40 days without nutes with Ocean Forest.. i went 5 weeks without using nutes and when i did at 1/4 strength... u use P-K more during flowering and more N during veg... wich is perfect with ocean forest

yea my comment on lights my bad im a stoner like that...anyway yea im with lax i would check into the organic nutes and would just use water for the first month then go with the nutes

Not true with the lights, i vegged with a 2400k, just one and the plant took off, dark green leaves and very bushy, in the end i added more lights 4 cfl's adding up to 10,800 lum. now the plants doing crazy.

jrankin89 how many watts were your cfl's?

j h said:

jrankin89 how many watts were your cfl's?

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each one is about 24 watts.. = 100 watts, so it would be = to 400 watts.

Jrankin89 said:

each one is about 24 watts.. = 100 watts, so it would be = to 400 watts.

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I been thinking about switching to cfl's and making a grow box Just not getting enough sun outside because of the surrounding trees. the plants are stretching too much imo.

Jrankin89 said:

each one is about 24 watts.. = 100 watts, so it would be = to 400 watts.

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them are CFL's equivalent... they are really 96 watts total