Please bear with me I’m a blog virgin! My water is always 6.2 to 6.4 with less than 10 PPM, planted five Blue Dream seeds(ILGM)on New Year’s Day and have five beautiful 6-inch girls, on day 21 transplanted to 6.25 gallon pots in Fox Farms half oceanforest half lucky dog always exactly 7 pH, using 1800 watts at 5000 Kelvin(daylight). After reading the blog I have held off giving them nutrients. This soil combination seems to drain very well so I’ve been watering about a quart in the morning and a quart in the evening watching my moisture meter. Could this be a cal/mag deficiency because of the soil combination, lack of PPM and LED lights any help would be greatly appreciated.
Look like burn ffof is a lil to hot already for seedlings/small plants ive never heard of the other soil but if it has nutes in it also your soil maybe really hot with both soil nutes mixing together
Hard to tell to be honest it we cna narrow it down.
Sounds like your doing everything right so far, I just want to ensure your aware if your ppm is less than 100 no need to PH your water the soil will adjust it automatically.
In soil always PH water/ nutrients between 6.3-6.8 shooting for 6.5 (when the water has pole 150+ ppm at least)
Google or YouTube how to do a soil slurry. This is the most accurate way to check the tds/ppm of your soil (each plant should get their own sample) as well as PH. This is no more important for PH as normally run off water an be tested for ppm.
Let’s start there.
Your leafs are twisted and that normally means PH issues, looks like they have some slash back on them but depending on how hot the soil is it could be a burn as well although looks different so it’s lower suspicion for me at this moment.
Tag me with your results @ Nicky (no space)
I tried what you guys said and did a soil slurry and started to keep track of my numbers. I also recalibrated my wiztech instrument and all of my pH readings were slightly high. Feedwater was 5.84 pH and 16 PPM runoff was 5.9 pH and 3800 PPM don’t know if that’s good or bad. I tried several times to do the soil slurry test and I was getting a reading of 6.25 pH and 65 PPM. I had skipped a day and a half watering I don’t know if that had something to do with it but I went back to watering a quart in the morning and a quart in the evening and everybody seems to be chipping up, very bushy and full. They are all adding New Growth as we speak. This Friday will be 4 weeks and they are all 7"-9". Still haven’t give them any nutrients, thoughts. @Nicky @Treasurestoy
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The other soil I am using is Fox Farms Lucky Dog K-9 Cube it was recommended by a nursery. I was using Fox Farms Strawberry Fields but it’s hard to get ahold of and the nursery said mixing it 50/50 would give real good drainage. @Nicky @Treasurestoy
30%perlite (minium), is a must for airey soil and good drainage.
Not sure what’s going on with your soil slurry ppm but the run off ppm combined with the soil slurry PH tells me you have lots of nutrients and are in the right PH range. Just keep giving it ph’d liquids at 6.5.
Don’t give any nutrients.Tim that ppm drops to like 1200 or 1000
Well from what ive read it seems that everything looking ok except ppm like nicky said. So hot soil the phd only water should help after the water dilute the nutes in soil.
@JustJMandDD how’s your grow going now
Both you and Nicks info showed me what to look for. The plants with bad leaves are healing. Today will be four weeks, picture day! I was really stressed trying to figure out when to feed, you guys made it simple. Plants are 8"-10". 6.1-6.2 ph in and runoff has been hitting 5.8-5.95 (thoughts?)and 14 ppm in to 3380ppm out, down from 4000’s. I’ll keep you posted.
@Nicky @Treasurestoy
Ok thats great im glad you got it going in the right direction but your ph going in should be higher in soil your in range but very low and the run off is out of range try to water with 6.5 -7.0 no lower than 6.5. Other than that if you ever need me tag me. Happy growing
You need to come up with a better watering plan, watering a little bit too often keeps the roots from developing. Now that they are in big pots you need to water slowly and thoroughly until you get some run off. Waiting until they are almost dried out before watering again will encourage the roots to search out the moisture. Probably 3-4 days between waterings in 6 gallon pots and small vegging plants.
Just an update gentlemen. All appears to be well in the land of Blue Dreams. At 6 weeks the girls are all between 22" & 24". Water is now ALWAYS 6.5 and because of the hot soil I’m only in the second week of nutes. It took that long for the runoff ppm to get between 1100 and 1000. I’m going by the FF schedule and EC/TDS/CF amounts, even though it sometimes takes more than the recommended tsp’s to reach the proper levels. I recently purchased a Blulab Truncheon reader making things so much easier. I’ll post some numbers soon, just don’t have my logs in front of me. Just started watering/feeding every third day, down from every other day. They still drink in the H2O, it takes a minimum of 3-4 qts to get any runoff which I check every watering /feeding. They all have gorgeous white roots growing out the drain holes! Chose a fat bushy as a mother and will be cloning in a couple of weeks. For only 6 weeks these plants seem big, is this normal or a fluke and what’s your opinion on the switch to flowering. On a side note, the four in 4" pots in the foreground, in front of the mother, are 2 week old Super Skunk already at 3.5". Again, thanks for all the help. @Nicky @Treasurestoy @CMichGrower
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Looking good