The other forum is a bit boring, tbh. I just can’t seem to stop checking this forum. I’m a junkie, I guess.
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I agree, the actions over here. I’m glad your a junkie 
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Hi Betty, thank you for jumping in! Yes, I’m pHing everything. Need to get more gallon jugs and an extra pH meter so my husband can help lol. I’ve got 9 plants, each in 5 gallon pots and only three 1 gallon jugs. Tedious. But I’m definitely noticing results with all of these changes/suggestions. Worth it! I’ve got some root control stuff that I’ll try putting in with their next watering.
I’ve ordered some 10 gallon pots that will hopefully be here soon and I can do the transplant on my big ones. I can’t imagine I would need to transplant my autos to anything bigger, though, right? They aren’t supposed to get very big in the first place?
The improvement my ladies have seen over the past week-week 1/2 is almost embarrassing 
If they’re big now, I can only imagine what will happen when they’re in 10 gallon pots 
I’m glad they’re still growing nicely even though I haven’t done well with the pH and all that good stuff!
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Definitely! With 3 months of grow time and double the root space? Yup ur gonna have some trees
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I grow my autos in 5 gallons. I would say they should be fine. I do see some growers use 7 gallons for Autos but they don’t like to be transplanted. I think Betty was possibly referring to your photos. Happy growing
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Good to hear they’re responding to the pH change.
Your Autos should be just fine. They’re going to start blooming very soon, I think.
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Ok for sure, thank you everybody! I’ll transplant my big ladies as soon as the pots get here.
Does anyone know wtf this is???
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So about the roots…I went and checked the drainage holes on my pots to see if I can still see some roots poking out. But I don’t see them like I originally did. However, I did notice that on at least one of my plants, where the roots are exposed to air via the drainage hole, they’re green. I thought roots were supposed to be white though. Is this a sign of a root problem or do they turn green when exposed to air for awhile? I don’t have pictures right now because I’m not home, but I can get some later
They will air prune themselves coming out like that hence the color. Brown is the color you don’t want your roots.
Ok cool. I’m trying to fix enough problems right now thank you!
Also no idea what either of those bugs are. When in doubt. Get em out!
That’s basically my motto. I got rid of the first weird thing but I’m pretty confident the others are ladybugs. Looking at their lifecycle and whatnot, that seems to be them. I released a bunch of ladybugs last week so it makes sense
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Ahh yea in that case u may be on to something. Dont wanna hurt the lil soldiers
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For sure.
So I’ve got some concerns. I’ve definitely noticed improvement in my ladies, and I know damaged leaves won’t repair themselves. However, I’m not 100% that all of these cases are new. I have these various yellow/yellowing leaves in various spots. Many are down low, but on one of my plants, these cases are about halfway up.
On ilgm I remember reading that the curling leaves are a sign of N toxicity (I had that backwards when you and I were first talking about it PurpNGold), and I’m not really seeing those curls anymore. Instead I’m just seeing this various yellowing and the burnt edges. So is this Nute Burn or some kind of deficiency? I gave them their ILGM Growtime nutrients on Sunday and a foliar feeding of calmag on Monday. The last time they got nutrients before that was 6/8. They’ve had 2 neem oil sprays: one last Thursday and another this last Sunday. They’ve been getting plenty of water pH’d to 6.5. The last time I checked runoff was on Sunday and all plants were between 6.4-6.5.
What does this look like and what does everyone think I should do? I know l, I know, KISS. But again, I’m having a hard time telling if these leaves are old cases. I don’t THINK they are—I think at least some of them are new which makes me think I need to do something. Advice? Thanks again for any and all help!
Wow. And just saw today that three of my white widows have some new growth coming in red like this. What could this be? It’s not normal, right?
Also my northern lights auto is awfully droopy up top
Sorry But, i notice you say you watered 2 or 3 gallons, I have 5 gallons of soil in 7 gallon bags and in coco , anyway it is 4 gallons before I get any run off when watering?? Plus your outside.
Hi there. No, I give them 1-2 gallons and now I get plenty of runoff. A few days ago or last week or whenever, I wasn’t hardly getting any. But now that I’ve been watering 1-2 gallons each day, I get enough. And yeah, it’s outdoor but in pots and soil
That seems like a lot every day? Is the pot drying out by the next day? The pic above looks over watered with droopy and swollen leaves.
Hi there. The droopy picture is my young autoflower. My autoflowers haven’t been getting 1-2 gallons a day—my photo monsters get 1-2 gallons a day. My autos only got transplanted on Sunday and their soil hasn’t dried up enough for more yet. I gave them a little water for good measure last night after I had taken this picture (I made the mistake of not watering enough when my photos were younger because the soil seemed so wet but it was never seeming like they needed more. Eventually we realized they MUST have to have more water than that so we gave them some and they shot up.) I only give them water when the top few inches of soil are dried out, which with their size and how hot it’s been here in Southern California, they’re guzzling it down. I’ve been watering them at night, though, because usually I’ll come out in the morning and it will seem plenty moist, but as they spend the day in the sun, by the evening when the sun starts going down their top few inches are light-colored and dry again. Depending on how dry/how far down I have to dig for moist soil determines whether it’s 1 or 2 gallons.
I checked runoff on all my plants last night. My photos range from 6.39-6.54. My autos, unfortunately, were closer to 5.5, so I need to get their pH higher (any suggestions on how best to do that?). My autos have some curls on some of their leaves so I worry they may have N toxicity.
The other pictures I took of all the yellowing are on my photos and are a big concern. One of my plants had these yellowing leaves reaching halfway up her stalk while the rest have yellowing leaves keeping toward the bottom. (Her pH is 6.54) Does it look like she’s got Nute Burn or a deficiency? I’m having trouble figuring it out and don’t want to do anything to make the problems worse. Here’s her from a distance and some of her leaves up close:
