First time grower and struggling.
My plants are bright green rather than dark.
I used fox farms (Happy Frog) soil, and I have fertilized twice with Fox farm (grow big).
I have the lights set for 18-6. They seem to be growing nice but I’ve noticed some of the leaves curling downwards.
I have a fan set up in the room for airflow and the room is set to 68°. I’ve seen it should maybe be warmer?
Any and all advice is appreciated.
At this stage, raise temps to 75-80 and you should see growth fire up.
What is their age? FF soil has enough to feed them 4-6 weeks as is. Don’t over feed, it will drop your PH and lock out nutes. Do you check runoff numbers?
Another thing I see is watering , you should water in a ring around the plant, that makes the roots search out for the water. Not up close to the stem…..when roots are fully formed, you can water entire pot, then let dry out between watering.
The big one was planted on 3/21
The two smaller ones were planted on 4/2!
Is the Happy frog soil from fox farms sufficient?
Happy Frog is usually a decent starter soil, BUT, I’ve seen several on here have stupid PH swings and bad PH out of the bag. I’m in coco and Promix, I feed every watering. Mabey some soil guys will chime in…..also, they will be lighter green when they’re growing, the dark colors will fill in as long as the nutes are right.
Welcome to the community.
Do you just recomment giving calmag for first 4 to 6 weeks if autoflower is in happyfrog?
You shouldn’t need much in soil, but a shot here and there certainly won’t hurt them.
@raustin @WonkaMan @Familyman @dbrn32 it’s been a while friends! Any advice for my cousin here? I think her lamps were way too close or something with the nutes, any suggestions
The node spacing looks kind of long to have light too close. Unless it was recently moved significantly closer I don’t think this is a matter of light being to close.
I think Growdoc was correct in mentioning that plant shouldn’t have needed fertilizer that early. I would suspect this or ph issue before light height. Or maybe watering practices off a bit.
Fox farm happy frog or ocean forrest is great once you run and amend a few times …look at mine apple fritter grow …that is in both mixed…if your environment isnt dialed in and do not over water which is probly alot of it plus a little over feed juslet dry out 2 days n water…give it a week or 2 before you feed again n the color should darken up…jus becareful with the fox farm trio line they will burn n yellow plants if you dont watch…do not over feed or they will yellow up n lock out
I personally recommend giving calmag in soil, especially if you have soft water and are running high strength leds…
Because my water is so soft. I have to feed calmag basically from germination. If you have hard water. You shouldn’t need it though.
I feed my seedlings calmag and root stim for the first 4 weeks. Everything else is in the soil/water
I have to wonder , if you have to do all that for it to be good, why not use coco or Promix, good right out of the gate……
It’s probably a little low for soil you’re working with. When you have the funds available I would get a middle of the road digital tester to take the guesswork out.
Every 3 days may be reasonable right now but really depends on how much you’re giving to know. I don’t trust the 3 in 1 tools, prefer to use reference weight of pot especially when they’re small. Soon as soil starts drying out you should be watering again at start of next light cycle.
Do you have one you recommend?
Sounds great! Going off weight of the pot is super helpful!
The last one I bought was apera sx620. But it was around $50 at the time, I think $70ish now. It’s been good to me but there’s probably people here equally happy with a less experienced product. I would snoop around some before just running out abd buying the one I have.
