After days of searching the internet for answers–and apparently not taking the right steps to solve the issue, I’ve decided to get some advice from those who know what they are doing before I make a fatal mistake. I am growing for the first time in ten years and honestly, don’t remember too much as it turns out from those earlier adventures.
Here are the vitals:
3 plants
Green Crack feminized from Homegrown Cannabis Company
Day 20 of lifecycle, emerged 3/30.
Medium: Nectar For the Gods #4 Soil in Solo cup
Nutes: NFTG Greek Regimen
4x4 grow tent
8" ventilation system
GrowPros HM660PRO light 24" above the canopy set to 75% power
Temp: stays steady at 75 F
Humidity: Stays around 40%
Slurry Test Results: #1 pH 6.8 PPM 294, #2 pH 6.7 PPM 240, #3 pH 6.6 PPM 240
Here is the rundown: My girls are on day 20 of their life cycle, and when they started out they looked really good. But it didn’t take long for their leaves to begin drooping and turning yellow. I searched the internet and it appeared as though I was either overwatering or underwatering them–I went with underwatering since I was only giving them a quick drench with a spray bottle everyday and the soil never got fully wet.
So on day 6 I took that opportunity to give them their first feeding per the NFTG Greek regimen feeding chart. I only gave them 60ml each and they seemed to perk back up, but began to droop again the next day.
Once the soil seemed dry again on day 11, I gave them 150ml each of nutes which watered them to 20% runoff. Again, they perked up for a bit and their color returned to normal, but soon began to droop again. I thought maybe I had overwatered them, so I waited longer to water until they were super dry–by the time I did, they were super droopy–and when I thought I shouldn’t wait any longer to water on day 17, I gave them 150ml of pH’d water only and checked the runoff which was right where it should have been. pH was 6.5, PPM were just under 500.
However, they never really perked all the way back up and have continued to droop ever since. Now they are starting to yellow and get spots on some of the leaves. And this whole time, their growth has been very, very slow. From the pictures I’ve seen of other plants at the same place in their grow cycle–they should be to the edges of the cup already and then some.
To make sure they weren’t sitting in standing water, I gently pulled one of the plants out of the solo cup to check the moisture level and root development. The soil was damp throughout, but not in any way soggy. And the roots have pretty much filled the cup and are beginning to swirl around the sides.
Before I do anything else–and potentially kill my future medicine, I thought I would get some input on what my next steps should be. Does this look like a watering issue? Or perhaps a nutrient issue? Are the cups too small? Is my light too low or too intense? I am completely confused as to what is going on here.
Thanks in advance for your help, and when I get the rust knocked off of my growing skills, maybe I’ll be able to return the favor someday. 
let me look through it all again
