Flowki
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Try a coco/perlite mix, make sure you are not compacting the coco. Once rooted feed every day half strength in small 1L ish pots, keep the pots as close together as possible under the cfl. Try to bubble your nutrient solution for at-least an hour before each daily feeding.Can someone help a here people on her saying they've vegged for 4 weeks and there plants still look bigger than mine I've been vegging for 9-10 weeks from the moment a cracked me seeds and mine look like this
As the leaves grow outward move the pots outward to give them space, as soon as the cfl no longer covers the plants (roughly a 1 foot square area) use the 400 and go up to your full strength feeding. Keep moving the pots outward every couple days so leaves are very slightly over lapped but not crowding each other. Once the pots are forced out to a point where you can fit in your final size pots, up pot. Or if you top, do that then move plants as close together as possible again, give them another week in the 1L pots to recover from the topping then up pot.
During the first week in final pot water 1L per day and then start watering to run off every day after that. You need to try and keep the coco wet so that the run off you are getting is true run off and not flooding run off, feeding daily limits flooding more. If you are feeding daily remove the run off as soon as it's finished.
If you decide to feed every other day then you definitely need to water slower, give the big pots 1L and wait 15 min or so to allow the coco to soak, repeat that again if they are at the point of heavy feeding (3L+). Then when you feed the rest, the run off you get is more likely true run off from nutrient soaked coco and roots. Even feeding every day will require this phased watering once you get good at building roots as they will dry out that fast.
With the pots you use try to put the first L in as fast as you can so it fills the entire top surface of the coco. You may see some run off doing this but it's flood run off going down the sides so ignore it. You want to get those sides of the pot wet so that the coco sponges out stopping subsequent L's running off in the same wasteful manner. You pretty much want to feed the rest in the same quick pouring way, difference being it's forced down through the coco getting more to the core, but that takes time hence the multi phase watering. Pretty much guarantee you they will take higher volume feedings and yield more by doing that. As tedious as it is..
Sorry I should add. The only exception to pouring the L's in fast is during the first week in the final pot. It's better to pour that single L slower into the base of the stem to ensure the smaller freshly transplanted core is getting soaked. Moisture will sponge to the outer edges of the coco by itself, along with the roots during that week.
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