This is the soil/soilless mix I’m using. I’m ngl, it’s working really good! This seedling, I started about two weeks ago & I have not watered her since! I just watered the mix until it was like clumpy, not soaking wet & I put the germinated seed in the mix with the taproot down and voila! No water needed for two weeks!
Got it from Home Depot and been using it for the past 3 years. Always works wonders. But I noticed this 2 week no watering only happened because I’m in the plastic cup. When I use the peat cups, the mix dries up very fast, so I have to water like once a day
Gonna start giving the young girls nutes today! The one in the peat cup is in straight coco and the one in the plastic cup, I can’t remember if I put a little fertilizer in it, but we’ll see!
Looks like their both on their second nodes and 3rd set of true leaves forming
@Growdoc I have the nutes mixed with distilled water as a foliage spray, ppm is at around 600 & the ph is at 4? Can I bring it up to 5.8 with baking soda before I add ? Also should I add about 5-10 ml to both plants , then water till run off with distilled water?
You can adjust ph with soda, but I would not foliar spray them. They’re not quite ready to water to runoff yet, I would water in a ring near the outside of cups. This will make the roots come to the water. 600 ppm is plenty at their stage. Once the leaves are reaching over the outside of container, then water til runoff.
No prob bro! I don’t foliar spray them, I just started spraying/watering around in a circle like you said and it’s been working great! I can see roots at the bottom of the one in the plastic cup, I think it should be ready for transplant in two or three days, can you check the thread above and tell me what you think?
And yea I’m running a little experiment lol. The one in plastic, I have not had to water for the past two weeks! I just mixed the coco with distilled water and it’s been good since! But the one in the peat cup dries out really fast.
I let the inside of cup getter lots of roots showing before I transplanted. Several came out the bottom, I let them air prune while the root ball catches up.
Grow update! The two girls are about 2 & 1/2 weeks old and are looking about ready for transplant! I can see a lot of roots in the plastic cup, so that means the other one should look about the same. I am noticing the one in the plastic cup is getting purple stems… could this be from the cold? Temp in room is 79F – humidity at 60-80%. Most likely will transplant in 2 more days? I’m so nervous but these are def growing much better than my first two
Little to no purpling on the other. I noticed the fan was pointed on the plastic cup so maybe that caused the cooler root temp? Adjusting now, but so far, so good
The older girls are looking… lol. The one in the first pic I topped about 4-7 days ago and I’m seeing CRAZY new growth! She’s been in this 3 gallon pot for about 2 and 1/2 weeks now. I want to start LST, any help @Growdoc would be greatly appreciated. I think I topped her at the 6th or 7th node so that’s why she’s growing a little weird now? Some of the leaves of the new growth from the lower branches are twisting up.
My other girl has been damaged a little. When I transferred her to a one gallon pot, some of her roots were stuck to the peat cup I think this most likely stunted her growth and caused some of her leaves to dry up. Should I top her? It’s been about 3 days since transplant
If they were mine, I would count from the top pair of nodes and leave the first 3 and clean everything else off. Get some 8 in lawn staples and train each branch out flat when the branches are long enough. Let each branch grow to at least 2 nodes, clean the first one off and top above the second. This will give you twelve mains when grown. I’ve played with different amounts and 12 works well, 16 is about too many for growing in cages like I do with my trained and manifolded plants. You can do 8 mains, but you would only leave 2 nodes instead of 3. My cages are perfect with 8 , I can almost touch my 5 gallon pots together with them on cages, way more plants fit the grow room that way.
Also guys, it is safe for me to remove these leaves that have purple stems? I believe those are called the “fan leaves” right? Remove the leaves that are similar and leave the shoots that are reaching to the light right?
Fan leaves are solar panels that power that plant, purple stems are just sunburn on plants, Mine are purple right now. Leave those leaves on until third week of flower, then only remove ones blocking light from bud sites. Wrinkly swollen leaves are a sign of overwatering, be sure to let them dry back some before watering. They look good, they grow unbelievably fast in veg when they’re happy. Keep up the good work.
You’re really the MAN! thank you 100000x times my guy. But I think I made a mistake… I chopped off those big fan leaves😭 I hope I didn’t stunt her…they were blocking some of the other shoots
I wouldn’t flip her yet, you didn’t hurt her bad with that but I don’t take off any leaves until 3 or so weeks into flower and then I only take what is blocking bud sites that I can’t bend and tuck under . Leaves do the work on a plant, leaves them as long as possible. Figure your flip by her height, flip when she is 50-60% as tall as you want her, she will nearly double when she stretches, and it will happen fast!
Thanks growmie!! I appreciate it she was so small just 3 weeks ago. She’s def looking close to her age now ( 8 weeks ) not tryna do too much, do you think she’s good to flip to flower?
By the way, you can flip them anytime after they are mature enough, usually around 4-5 weeks, you just won’t get the yield of a larger plant. I’m growing smaller plants now, I flipped at 14 inches tall with no training on these. They topped out at 28-30 inches. I did that because I had 16 clones and wanted to grow them all out and more small plants will fit in my space . 16 fills it up, normally 6 will fill it up if grown out more. Using lst like you are, I’d let them grow a couple more weeks at least. I usually grow in modified tomato cages I made and I manifold them to have 8 or 12 tops. You can look back in my journal and see the results I get with them. I don’t usually train clones, too many to train at 1 time! Lol
lol. The one in the first pic I topped about 4-7 days ago and I’m seeing CRAZY new growth! She’s been in this 3 gallon pot for about 2 and 1/2 weeks now. I want to start LST, any help 
I think this most likely stunted her growth and caused some of her leaves to dry up. Should I top her? It’s been about 3 days since transplant
she was so small just 3 weeks ago. She’s def looking close to her age now ( 8 weeks 
I’m in a 3 gallon. I don’t really have a size limit do I? I keep hearing talk about “rootbound” and I’m scared lol