Hello everyone. First time grower here looking for some help and/or suggestions. Im currently growing 4 plants, 1 Gold Leaf (bottom right) and 3 Northern Lights feminized. Since I am new, I am not of what is necessarily a good or bad look for plants outside of discoloration and whatnot. My Gold Leaf plant is looking a little rough (stunted and has curving leaves as well as some yellowish spot on 2 of the leaves that just started right before I transitioned from a 4" container to 1g container. All 4 started germination at the same time in a cup of water and started sprouting within 3 days and had all 4 in the 4" containers on 10/19/22. If anyone can provide some feedback/help that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Setup Tent: 3x3x6 Light: California Lightworks Solar System 550 LED light with spectrum currently set to R44 W65 B99 (transitioning toward R49 W99 B99) for veg. Exhaust: 4" 190CFM fan w/charcoal filter Circulation fan: 6" AC Infinity Oscillating Heater: Vornado
Temp: ~75 (lights on), 68-70(lights off) Humidity: ~65 Water: Tap for watering, distilled for humidifier Soil: Fox Farm Ocean Forrest Nutrients: None at this time
Looks to be doing pretty well. The leaves do strange things sometimes when they are small. If the color looks good don’t worry about it too much. If you are having yellowing on some leaves i’d suspect over watering or ph being off. How often are you watering. With that soil it works well to soak it down real well and then let them dry out before watering again. Maybe a close pic of the spots on the leaves.
Thanks for the reply. I typically water them when the soil dries out which is about every 2-3 days right now. I watered them today. I didn’t completely soak the soil since they are still fairly small. I have this fear of mold growing. Im not sure on the ph. I bought a Bluelabs PH soil pen but waiting on solution to arrive to calibrate. I will post a close pic tomorrow.
Welcome aboard. Fear mold later in flower. Improper water more of a concern. They look happy. Still young and growing. Keep on doing what you are. When good growth spurt happens she will ask for feed and water. Stuff is easy to grow.
You need to water the entire container and not just around the plant or else you will have a stunted root system. The roots on auto’s grow very fast and need moist soil to grow into . One of the biggest differences in a small auto plant to a huge auto plant is proper watering in the beginning. Don’t flood it out, but water until there is a little that comes out the bottom. Proper ph is very important as well.
The one that was most concerning is the Gold Leaf on the bottom right. The others went and grew crazy all of a sudden. It is very satisfying watching them grow. I will take care to give them more water in the future.
You should water the whole container regardless if they are auto’s or photo’s. The thing with auto’s that people have trouble with is putting them in big containers and watering too often. The soil in the container should be moistened on any grow so the roots are not growing into dry soil. Getting roots going in the whole container early on is key with both kinds of plants. You want to saturate the entire container until a little comes out the bottom every time you water them.
Looks like that leaf is a little overloaded with nitrogen, it’s not really a big deal at all. Ocean forest is pretty hot, but once the plants get a couple sets of leaves they do just fine. Sometimes it will twist them up a bit, make them a little dark, burn the tips, but it’s generally just fine. Some say not to start in it but i’ve never had a problem, it just can damage some of the initial leaves a bit. Shouldn’t be having any deficiencies using ocean forest. Sometimes though ph being off can cause a deficiency as certain nutrients don’t uptake well if it is too high or too low. I’d look into being able to check and adjust your ph relatively soon and if you are watering with ph correct water and get them saturated well and let them dry out a little before watering again than you will have some healthy plants for the next 2-3 weeks i’d say, sometimes more before you need to start feeding. It’s not a bad idea to get a real cheap ppm/ec meter to check the runoff every now and then to see when the soil is getting low on nutrients and then when you start feeding it’s a good way to tell if you are getting a salt builup in the soil. Some people feed too soon using ocean forest. They say 4 weeks, but a lot of plants could go another week or 2 pretty easily. If you are transplanting than it will be at least another 4 weeks that you’d need to feed usually as well. It’s good stuff for the first grow to use to get the plants going healthy before having to do much of anything to them.
Looks like the others are thriving in the soil. Gold leaf just wants to be a diva I guess. I was researching the soil and looks like, as you said, after week 4 is where most start adding nutrients so I will continue to hold off until then. Hopefully the gold leaf will wake up a bit. I should be getting the calibration solution tomorrow and see what the ph is.
