Ph of Pro mix before planting newly germinated seeds

I agree, I’m not going to transplant for maybe up to two more weeks. My lights cannot be moved down so I used one gallon pots so I could keep them up under the lights for a few weeks. I planted the seeds (germinated) real shallow. Then I buried the stretched stalk. I’m thinking the roots are more advanced than the top. I can now see roots in almost all the holes in the bottom. The three plants that are smaller I can only see roots in two of the holes. If I could upload faster I’d send multiple pics. This is almost the smallest plant. These roots are noticeable from three holes. This little beauty is even branching already.

. They were yellowing so I have fed them for a second time in two the two weeks they have been out of the dirt. I really don’t want to hurt them and I’ve been told not to feed a few times but I think the roots are more advanced than the plants appear. p. Hey, alright. Downloaded great. Here’s a pic of the splitting stalk. I think it should be evidence of good root growth. Thank you for checking in with me. I appreciate your input. Don’t give up on me. Pots are going dry, I’ll probably give them just water this time.

I had a Gold Leaf pop yesterday. The tap root is already poking through the bottom of the rockwool cube :smiley:

Bam, she wants to go.I’ll be buying some soon. :slight_smile:

I have the feeling that they are small for their age so I exposed the stalk that was buried and found no roots had grown. Not even bumpy yet. In the past roots have grown from there and the stalk was bigger. Although I’ve only watered them twice in two weeks, maybe that wasn’t enough to make roots gro from there. I’m afraid of fungus nats again. That’s another reason I switched back to pro mix instead of soil.

Buy some Liquid Karma. This what I use for seedlings, clones propagation and plant stress.

http://www.amazon.com/Botanicare-Liquid-Stimulant-0-1-0-1-0-5-1-Quart/dp/B000X5Y1KM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462362435&sr=8-1&keywords=liquid+karma+quart?tag=greenrel-2

Hey thank you for that. I’ve seen it on the shelf. I’ll look into that.

… they are much happier today. I mixed up some nutes and instead of adding ph up I thinned the mix with filtered water ph around 8.0 until ph was 5.7 then put a little in each tray and let them pull it in. Where there are no roots I didn’t want to add more nutes. Man they really responded to that. Without advice I may not have worried about too many nutes and just added to the top. Thanks.oh, they are 19 days now.

Looking good. Don’t over fertilize them. Be careful :slight_smile:

I have an issue I wonder if you’ve dealt with. My one gallon pots seem to stay heavy too long. Maybe it’s genetics but I have plants that look like they need cal mag but the medium still seems to heavy to water. Last time they were drenched from the top was 12 days ago.. Before I went to bed I raised two of them up to 13" under the light from 17. This morning they did not appear to have stressed from that. this curly leafed plant is the only one that looks like that. Any thoughts ?

I got a little sidetracked. I wanted to mention the difference of appearance between plants. There are two strains with one out of three of each strain looks troubled. I have a pic of the plant from pic number one from recent two pics that is twelve hours later and it shows good speedy growth. Now saying uploading 0% and won’t let me cancel to try again. I just hope I’m not seeing speedy symptoms too.

. There got it.

. This plant was the fastest to grow but the first to yellow. They have all had the same attention.

Thank you pigSquishy. Your post was very informative. I’ve found that sometimes the correct answers aren’t black or white. Lateral roots are exactly what I need in those big one gallon pots. Next time I will fill the pot to allow first roots to start from the upper half of the container. I started from 1/3 of the container from the top and bury the young stalk for lateral roots, but this time the pots are so big the burried stalk dries out long before the container is ready for another watering. Yucca root, yes I have been considering foliar feeding for individual supplementation. Because I haven’t been able to water often I’m hoping this next feeding will give the car-mag. The feeding schedule told me to put three top dressings on in week two but I’ve been holding back on the nutes. Do any of my leaves look can-mag deficient to you. Spots start out looking like just a slightly lighter spot on the leaf that eventually turns brown. I believe I have a good handle on the environment so far. I have also brought them closer to the lights. Been two days now and they are loving it. I wonder if they will perspire any faster being closer. If they perspire faster does that mean they uptake nutes faster ? If so can the plant metabolize nutes at a faster rate. My last crop I checked the roots after harvest to find the only roots in the container were new ones made when I added five inches of dirt to the top of the pot because I thought the necrosis was due to being root bound. These new roots grew down the outside and also occupied the bottom. The center of the mass looked as though there were never roots there. Clones had fungus nats right when I brought them home. Flies were buzzing bad in the room. Do you think the nats could do that kind of damage. I’ve had around six different gardens over the years and never had to deal with pests. Don’t be too concerned. I will only use info once I totally understand it will help and why. You have been a great help . This allows me to triangulate good knowledge and faze out bad habits.

Thanks for the info and encouragement. I just dipped the girls in bug blaster from ILGM. Well it’s been six hours. I can still see these black things that seem to be chewing little paths on the surface of my leaves. Does it take a while for them to die ?

Curly tips = over fertilization. I was afraid of that.

I was wondering why that one plant was like that.

I thought that plant may have been where the bugs can from.

Would you know why some plant were more susceptible ?. I’m thinking it may have something to do with root vigor. Although, the most aggressive grower was a S.S.haze. it’s stalk was the biggest and it was the tallest but yet it is one that seemed be the lightest in color. Yellowish all over.

I wish I could get an X-ray of these containers to see the roots.