So now at day 16 from sprouting and we’re just not growing (not as I see others of this age), stems are thin, have some leaf discoloration happening. Do have some that show new leaf development, guess I truly don’t know what to expect, just comparing to others on the forum. Strain is train wreck ILGM, Temps 77-80, humidity constant at 65, hydro system with fast drip to slow stream running 30 minutes ever 4 hours. PH tap water in 9 gallon reservoir is checked in morning and adjusted from high 6’s to 5.8 and plants are top watered as roots are not out of 3" baskets yet, same process followed in evening. Have GH nutrients, the trio, also have GH call mag. Yesterday evening added 10ml of CM to the res., mix calls 1ml per liter. I have 36 liters, so I added only 10 to try and improve what I have guesses and compared pictures to calcium issues. Running led lights 18/6, at 33" above plants, leaf color issues were prior to the cal-mag. Any help, comments, advice will be most appreciated
I’m not a hydro grower but when my sprouts got pale green like that they were hungry. I have very limited experience but it looks like they are using up the N in the lower leaves to survive but I’d get some more experienced advice from others on here. I’m sure they will be along shortly to help . Good luck
What is your feeding schedule?
What’s lights are they under and how far?
@peachfuzz knows hydro so does @OldSchoolGrower
@DoobieNoobie can you guys take a look?
Looks hungry.
Agreed on hungry. What are your base water ppm and your res ppm? How much of each bottle did you use?
How high are your lights above them?
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For one thing you don’t feed seedlings, that’s most likely why they look the way they do. stop doing that just add water only.
I don’t grow in coco but there are many other’s here in the forum that do and i know someone wil jump in.
My res ppm is 241 right now, my tap water is 110. I have only added cal mag 1 time this past Thurs and at 1/4 the strength, the color was present prior to this. Is there anything I should be doing, that I am not
I guess it might be debited but I would be using a quarter tsp. of each ( micro,grow, bloom) and a tsp.of Cal mag per gallon right now . I am a little concerned about the fact that you don’t have any roots coming out of a three in. Net pot by now though.
If your nutrient solution is at 77-80 degrees you might have a root rot issue
Maybe I have done it wrong? I put a layer of the clay pebbles in the basket first, the the Rockwood with plant, the surrounding with more pebbles. I just removed one that looked of the worse, just to inspect. There are many roots out of the Rockwood but not entangled in the pebbles nor seem to be going down thru yet. The roots however are snow white and wet, I will go get a res. Temp now
If your roots are nice and white it’s not root rot so try giving her a little food .
Temp is 74.2 in res., looked at another plants roots, they also are snow white and plant shows same yellowing patches of first leaves. One plant of which the cotyledons are still some green and the other ones have all but fell off
@Gardenguy
Sounds to be hungry to me as well
Res temp a little high. It doesn’t hold as much oxygen there. You can probably correct it temporarily by dropping frozen water bottle in there. Also, dont let your ph creep up into the high 6’s.
You’re currently feeding by drip, how far below bottom of net pot is your water line?
If the cotyledons are dryed out you definitely need to feed it
@MattyBear @dbrn32 @DoobieNoobie @Gardenguy @peachfuzz @GreenJewels @blackthumbbetty my system doesn’t hold water, the pipes are sloped and feed directly back to the res. The drip line is drilled thru the pipe and into the top 3/4" of the basket. The water flows down the pipe by gravity. I am currently running the system on a timer, running 30 min every 4 hours. I am very great full, for all of your time and effort put forth to help and share your wisdom and experience. I feel that I have since found out that I didn’t choose the easiest strain to start as my first grow.
So the root system will just be dangling in the air?