Looking for the experts to check in on my first grow. Day 17, strain is LSD feminized. This strain bought from ILGM was advertised as being a small and compact strain as my grow tent is only 3ft tall and 3ft wide. By the looks of it’s growth so far, it does seem to be compact. Agree? Do we look healthy? I am thinking it may be time to transplant? I would be transplanting into a 3 gallon fabric pot with Happy Frog soil and will add some perlite. I am thinking this will be large enough as the final container? Do I need to add nutrients after the transplant or does the soil have what it needs for the first “x” amount of months. Look forward to hearing back! Thanks and happy growing!!
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Compact yes… healthy yes… time to transplant IMO yes… I’m not sure about the final pot size tho. If due to tent size if you are going to have a short veg and not grow a large plant I think a 3 gallon will be fine as a final pot but if you are going to extend veg I’m not sure… as what’s under the soil has to be able to support what’s above ground. If this is an auto I would minimize number of transplants to minimize stress on the plant.
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Thanks for replying!! Yes, forgot to mention that’s it’s not an auto.
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You are welcome and great job so far… a 3 gallon pot I think should be fine… much respect… many growers here are amazing and helpful glad to have you. A rule of thumb that I’ve heard from majority of the respected growers here is if the leaves hang over edge of the pot its time to transplant.
Thanks! Any advice on adding nutrients to Happy Frog soil when transplant? I think I read that the soil should be good for 2 months with no nutrients but wanted to confirm.
Honestly I’m fairly new and I’m not even exposed to soil grows… but I have a few friends who can definitely help with this… @Nicky @imSICKkid @merlin44 @HappyHydroGrower @Unknown @Hellraiser @Arborholic
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3-4 weeks.
Do a slurry sample (google how), test the tds and this tells you how much nutrients is in the soil.
Once your below 1000tds basically you can feed but follow this chart as a rough reference for how much a plant needs. Then take that into consideration what a feed chart is telling you to feed. This will avoid nutrient burn from feeding to rich to fast.
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That is a confusing chart @Nicky it counts 3 weeks of strech and preflowet as growth I was like 5 week flower?
The charts bang on if you ask me.
I mean a photo you could veg for ever but this is a great auto chart and in reality could work for any photo grower who isn’t vegging super long.
Just my 2 pennies I’d give it a week or 2 , before trans plant, saw you mentioned using ffg, it goes have some nutes in it but I’ve haven’t got but a few weeks out of it now ffof will take you about 6 weeks most of the time, like @Nicky stated a slurry will tell you exactly how much.
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I wouldn’t run any soil more then a week or 2 without starting to introduce low levels of nutes to get plants used to higher nute level tolerance without burning so easy
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When I used Happy Frog, I started nutes right away at low levels -1/4 dose then moving to half dose after a couple weeks. I’ve seen nitrogen deficiencies in as early as 3 weeks when not adding anything to Happy Frog, but I do tend to push my plants more than most.
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This is great stuff! Thanks all. Can someone recommend a good nutrient product? I haven’t bought anything yet.
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Lol there hellraiser goes again copying my growing style … I swear 95$of what you say I do the exact same thing I dont like depkeating the soil it acts as a buffer
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Yeah but look at those girls lol. They thank you for it
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I used to recommend Fox Farms Trio for beginning growers, cheap, easy to find, works fine, the scheduled flushes can be a pain though. These days, I’d recommend Jacks 321 dry nutes, incredibly cheap when compared to bottle nutes and plenty of growers using it on this forum so won’t be any lack of help with it if needed. Can find 4lb kits of Jacks 321 on ebay for cheap that will last a long time.
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LOL, yes @fano_man, we’re brothers from different mothers.
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And I thank them for what they give me, a very symbiotic relationship indeed.
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I ran fox farms soils together, never just happy frog. I can say how long the nutrients will last for sure so that’s where the slurry test comes in.
Many overload with nutes early on, although if Hellraiser states hes done happy frog with 1/4 Jack’s then I would follow that advice.
I also recommend Jack’s nutrient.
I run hotter than even you though @Hellraiser lol but it may ve hurting my calcium uptake… Posting a update over there now
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I have ran 4 different fox farms
Light warrior
Ocean forest
Strawberry feilds
Happy frog
Happy frog is simply the best it’s better then mixing ocean forest and strawberry feild together which ive done also and I always push nutes right away
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