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Hi guys,
Just a little update. Since a day or two with the 2x600w's + adding 4" intake fan I feel they are already looking a little better. Sure I can see either where new growth is starting (little tiny new shoots near top nodes, or its predlowers? Hope not preflowers! Anyways gave them 1/4 nutes with ph of 5.8 and there more green am sure. Anyways will post update photos in next few days to show you all. Temps currently 29 degrees!
Just a little update. Since a day or two with the 2x600w's + adding 4" intake fan I feel they are already looking a little better. Sure I can see either where new growth is starting (little tiny new shoots near top nodes, or its predlowers? Hope not preflowers! Anyways gave them 1/4 nutes with ph of 5.8 and there more green am sure. Anyways will post update photos in next few days to show you all. Temps currently 29 degrees!
Jypsy Dog
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It aint preflower.
xtsho
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Those plants should be much bigger for three weeks. Most coco has nothing in it. There may be prebagged coco with some nutrients but the compressed coco I use has nothing in it so I use 1/4 - 1/2 strength nutes when reconstituting it. They need food to grow.
I always start my seeds in small plastic nursery pots of soil and then transplant into coco once they get to the second or third node and have filled the pot with roots. The small amount of soil doesn't hurt anything and gives the seedlings enough nutrients to get a good start without the fear of over or under feeding in coco while they're still babies. I've started seedlings in straight coco but letting them get started in small pots of soil has been more successful for me.
The 2.5" x 2.5" wide and 3.5" tall pots are just the right size. By the time the plant has 2 to 3 nodes the roots have filled the pot and are coming out the drain holes. It makes a nice little plug to put in three gallon fabric pots of straight coco that's been pre-soaked with 1/4 - 1/2 strength nutrients. I'll usually have roots coming out the sides and bottom of the fabric pots within a week.
I always start my seeds in small plastic nursery pots of soil and then transplant into coco once they get to the second or third node and have filled the pot with roots. The small amount of soil doesn't hurt anything and gives the seedlings enough nutrients to get a good start without the fear of over or under feeding in coco while they're still babies. I've started seedlings in straight coco but letting them get started in small pots of soil has been more successful for me.
The 2.5" x 2.5" wide and 3.5" tall pots are just the right size. By the time the plant has 2 to 3 nodes the roots have filled the pot and are coming out the drain holes. It makes a nice little plug to put in three gallon fabric pots of straight coco that's been pre-soaked with 1/4 - 1/2 strength nutrients. I'll usually have roots coming out the sides and bottom of the fabric pots within a week.
What is it mate? Growth?It aint preflower.
They should be bigger but mistakes happen as novice as me, defo learned for next time. Do you think I could still yield an oz a plant dry atleast if I get things going better at this stage? Will the stunt maybe just delay the finishing time so they could end up not too bad?
xtsho
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You know what? I just realized that you are growing auto's. I read that in your first post but for some reason I wasn't thinking. I've only grown a couple autos and from what I gather you want to plant directly in the final pot. I didn't with the two I grew "I did what I always do" and I got well over an OZ on each of them. But they were way larger at three weeks than your's are.
The problem you might run into is them starting to flower while they're still small. Nothing you can do about that. Just feed them at reduced strength and work up as they grow. You'll want to feed them every watering but don't over do it and over fertilize. Many people think if they dump more on the plants they'll grow faster. That's not always the case.
You seem like you have a handle on things now. They should start growing more and you'll harvest some bud soon enough. I won't even speculate as to how much per plant.
Good luck and happy growing.
Jypsy Dog
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Yes. Auto's will show further along.
Hi guys. Here's another couple of pics 2x days later again. So I have a couple of questions if somebody have have there input.
1) these were planted 4x weeks ago in the pots. I wrote down that I forget the first week so I class these as around 21x days? /3 weeks? Is that right?
2) as you can see these have been stalled/stunted. Is there a chance that everything was kind of frozen ie- I could treat these as 2 week old or something and they will potentially grow into decent yielding plants still? Or due to stunt are they gona flower soon/be small?
Just looking for advice. Many thanks
1) these were planted 4x weeks ago in the pots. I wrote down that I forget the first week so I class these as around 21x days? /3 weeks? Is that right?
2) as you can see these have been stalled/stunted. Is there a chance that everything was kind of frozen ie- I could treat these as 2 week old or something and they will potentially grow into decent yielding plants still? Or due to stunt are they gona flower soon/be small?
Just looking for advice. Many thanks
Dabber68
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They look better still small. I say you don't have enough light for that many plants (autos love light), I have 6 and my set up is 900 watt Mars II, 6 par 38 full spectrum and 400 watt 2700k CFLs in a 39"x39"x63" space. Really just guessing as I'm only on my first grow and still learning myself.
Hi people. Here's some updated pics. These are the smallest plants I've ever grown in my life lol, I've had ones way bigger in soil/coco before however due to environment/lacking of nutes etc things paused at week 2 until now week 4
Currently 30 days old from being planted in coco.
I have actually started to see sex signs on some of them!
I have no idea what the outcome of these will be but it's too late to give up now may aswell try as can't grow January due to personal things so this my last shot until February! I do hope I get at least 10oz lol I lowered the 2x 600w hps last night and they seem to be ok! I am now at a point of feeding with canna a and b every day or two at most! Temps still can get a little high but I've managed to contain it at 34 for the last couple of days! If I don't get too much yeild I'm not too bothered just wouldn't mind having a good smoke of auto glueberry at xmas etc. How much taller/ bigger do you guys think these could get? Should I chop and kill the smallest one?
Currently 30 days old from being planted in coco.
I have actually started to see sex signs on some of them!
I have no idea what the outcome of these will be but it's too late to give up now may aswell try as can't grow January due to personal things so this my last shot until February! I do hope I get at least 10oz lol I lowered the 2x 600w hps last night and they seem to be ok! I am now at a point of feeding with canna a and b every day or two at most! Temps still can get a little high but I've managed to contain it at 34 for the last couple of days! If I don't get too much yeild I'm not too bothered just wouldn't mind having a good smoke of auto glueberry at xmas etc. How much taller/ bigger do you guys think these could get? Should I chop and kill the smallest one?
