Hey guys, I hope to find some help in this community. I just started growing weed indoors and it seems to not be in my favor. I germinated 5 seeds via the paper towel method and transplanted them to rockwool on a 3 gal bucket with a 6” basket filled with hydroton. Date of transplant is 05/30, it has been a few months but the plant seems to not grow. I am using bloom yellow bottle nutrients and have been following their basic feeding schedule. My setup is in a 80x80x160cm tent with (1) 600W Mars Hydro light, (5) 3 gal. buckets with airstones. Temperature in the tent ranges from 69-74F with 50-68• humidity. Water res temps are at 70-74F. Any leads to why my plants aren’t growing? Hoping that I don’t kill my plants. Please do comment or suggest on what I can do to save my babies.
Need help with what I’m doing wrong
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Lordhooha
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You’ve been giving them bloom nutrients and no grow? Water is too hot? whats the ph of the water and what ec/ppm are you feeding they look stupid hungry. Maybe start with soil as hydro isn’t your thing.
Hey man I’ve been balancing my ph with nutrihydro ph down to 5.8 every other day because my ph seems to rise back to 7.0 after a day or two. I started with 400 ppm during first week of veg but the plants seem to burn throughout the week. I just flushed the res with regular phd water and 2 drops of clonex rooting gel 3 days ago. Do you think it is too late to transplant them in soil?
Lordhooha
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Why are you adding clones? Are you using ro water? Those plants are looking at the grim reaper and they wouldn’t survive a transplant I don’t think. If your using tap water that’s why it raises back up. Are you using actual meters to check all this?
HobbyGrower72
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These look like they're suffering from all types of stress, which is why it's hard to pinpoint. Nute burn and light burn specifically.
That 600w lamp is enough to flower the entire tent 3 times over, so that light is wayyy too close to those seedlings. Get a free par meter app on your phone and raise the light height and lower the intensity, if you can, until you have around 200-400 PPFD on those seedlings.
They barely need any nutes at this stage. My advice is to starve them. They'll tell you when they want more. There is absolutely no benefit to overfeeding, in fact, the opposite. Good luck!
That 600w lamp is enough to flower the entire tent 3 times over, so that light is wayyy too close to those seedlings. Get a free par meter app on your phone and raise the light height and lower the intensity, if you can, until you have around 200-400 PPFD on those seedlings.
They barely need any nutes at this stage. My advice is to starve them. They'll tell you when they want more. There is absolutely no benefit to overfeeding, in fact, the opposite. Good luck!
Yes I bought the cheap vivosun ph and tds meter to check my water. I am using purified water from a water refiller since the tap water here is too polluted. With regards to the clonex, a friend of mine told me to do that in my flush. That’s why I opted to get more information here since there has been no improvement to my grow. I checked my water and it read 40 ppm and 6.50 ph. I’m totally upset with what happened to my plants man. You think there’s no chance I could save them?
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Appreciate this man! Will try this out
Your plants are starving. They need Nitrogen not bloom nutrients (P and K). I'd drop those res temps to 68. Best of luck.
Thanks for this! What ppm range do you think I should be in?
150 to 200 until they heal.
nflguy
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Sorry but I think maybe you're trying to run before walking (and I mean no offense by that). You mentioned this is your first grow? Before attempting hydo, maybe start with soil. Its much, much more forgiving of slight errors and misjudgements than hydro. After a run or two in soil to gain confidence and see good results maybe try a hempy bucket then gradually get into full blown hydro if that's your goal. Just a thought.
