So, I am new and over fertilized not knowing just to use charcoal with my soil and not coffee beans, which in all of the smallest and worst looking of these that made it in my bunch last, I experimented with and put a layer of coffee beans after the first bag of happy frog soil along with the charcoal and then filled the 5 gallon pot up to the top and fertilized it once more with coffee beans, charcoal, and DE. The coffee beans I know were a mistake and are causing either nitrogen burn, nutrient burn, or nutrient lock out. Some of them are so young, should I just throw them out? Are they gonners? They two best one’s only got a full fill of soil and then the layer of fertilizer a bit later on in their lives. The healthier the later as you can see in the picture. I am using every kind of nutrient for this phase you can imagine, for both watering and topical. The soil always remains at such a high moisture rate and it seems like I should hardly ever have to water, but I have been doing so every couple or few days. I just flushed them, or attempted to. I also have a hydro setup, where the leaves are all bendy, but it could be the strain. I do not know. I would have thought that just following the nutrient directions on the back would have been good enough to get the plants in good health. I will post a picture of it later. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Cannabis is a tough plant to grow, and it certainly seems to take some trial and error for the more aggressive intended growers.
The seedlings look fine. I suggest learning about pH and PPM. You’ll need to add zero nutrients to Happy Frog, which has plenty of nutrients for the first 4 weeks. Feeding after that should be managed via PPM monitoring.
The biggest issue I see is that you aren’t going to be able to grow cannabis part the seedling stage with those lights.
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Hey @justinsloan you are trying to hard. Your seeds will provide all the nutrients they’ll need for the first couple of weeks of growth. They will need to establish a root system in order to attempt to take in nutrients from the soil.
What I’ve learned from my grow experiences is you need to provide the basics for the first few weeks of growth. Too much will overwhelm the plants and too little will be just fine. Once the root system is developed, about four weeks, you should be able to add a trace amount of nutrients. With the soil your using, some planting mixtures contain nutrients, you should be able just fine until week five.
I work on stabilizing my medium, I use hydroponic DWC, with beneficial microbes. These microbes will colonize your root system and break down organics in your soil and provide a happy root system. Your Happy From does contain these microbes and nutrients so just water when needed and let the soil dry between. You can use a probe or just lift your pot to determine if your soil needs water.
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So, do you think that most of them are gonners? What would you have to say concerning hydroponics and nutes for the first few weeks? Is it okay to put in the recommended amount on the bottles when you first put them in the hydroponics setup?
what do you mean about the lights? It is a setup that I have for spares from my hydro setup. I usually use red and blue to sprout and then switch to that color that you see. You do not think that I should throw some of them out and restart?
Like @MidwestGuy said those lights might be good for seedlings and early veg but not for flowering look at led lights like HLG, Spider farms, Mars etc. I wouldn’t throw them out cannabis plants are pretty tough plants.
Well, they change colors, which is good for flowering. I cannot have a light that I have to hang which is the problem. I figured that these lights should be good enough, they are just LED lights. Yeah, I wont throw them out, I just feel bad because they would all be a bazillion times better if I had just used the soil and water. I have been germinating with the assistance of nutes and soaking the rockwool cubes in nute water first for a veg and seedling state.
I would keep the nutrients at 1/4 strength. The amount of photon flux(light) isn’t enough to power the photosynthesis process to warrant normal levels of nutrients and water. You’ll need to get your light closer to the canopy of your plants and deliver as much light as you can.
To many plants if you can not upgrade your lighting.
You can rig up some king of rack system to suspend your lighting over if you want to grow some nice solid nugs.
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Hang and inexpensive LED full spectrum grow light and you can grow one or two plants.
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The seed connect people had a sale going on and they have some amazing strains and ilovegm sent me some free seeds from another experience that I had, which would leave me with Runtz, which is what you see from ILGM.com and then Black Mamba and Purple African Magic(some exotic strain with Jurassic era like THC level found in the jungles of Africa growing wild it sounds like), so I think I am just going to keep the strongest two of the bunch that is seen here and put them in a different area and start new from all that I have learned with more of a variety.
I think that I am just going to just actually put the entire bunch down and start over. I think anything that grows out of anything on here at this point is just going to be a mess to deal with and hardly put out anything good. It is unfortunate, but that is a good lesson learned in my studies in the science of growing cannabis plants.
