WonderWoman
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Hello all, i got 8 seedlings that are now 19 days since sprouting in jiffy coco pellets.
after like 2 days the roots started to come out of the bottom of jiffys so I decided to transplant them into my 15l pots with biobizz coco (ph 6.1 ec 0.3). I thought this may have been too early to transplant to such big pots but I've heard of people planting straight into the container that will be used throughout the whole grow.
the seedlings had stretched rather badly (almost 6 cm after few days, I know ) so I had to plant them rather deep so I could cover some of the stretched stem in the coco. I use 4-5cm of hydroton in the bottom, which was flushed with ~6 ph water before use. I then started putting the coco in inch layers misting it with 6 ph water to premoisten it before transplant. After transplant I proceeded to mist the top layer of coco for few days to keep it moist and to not to overwater the small plants with not so developed roots in big containers.
Everything seemed fine the first week in new pots expect for some strange curling in some plants leaves and one seedling that had deformed/mutated leaves. One leaf that never grew a pair for it and another that for some reason stopped growing whilst the pair of it is still going bigger.
After 14 days since sprouting, I started to give them mild 1/4 dose of AN Grow + Micro + Bloom PH perfect series with 1/1/1 ratio. It is suggested to use 2ml per liter but as I said, I used aprox 1/4 of it ~0.6ml per liter of each of those nutrients.
I fed the seedlings this light nutrient solution and after that day they haven't looked that healthly.
Specs: Some seedlings have leaves drying (brownish colour, bottom leaves) and some leaves are curling/twisting. Curling up and down randomly really. One seedling that seems to have it the worst has had it's first multiset of leaves, aka the second pair after cotyledons turn lightish brown spots from the beginning of the leaves. Both pairs of the leaves are affected with this. It is drying the leaves rather bad and the seedling seems to be drooping a bit. it also has some strange redish/brownish spots all over randomly. most of seedlings have this same problem too with drying/ random red/brown spots on both old and new growth. I'm thinking my ph meter is bugging me out resulting in the water ph being a bit off. maybe over 6 resulting in some sort of overfertilization of some things? maybe P?
I'm new to coco i grew in dwc bucket with rockwool + hydroton for some time so I'm not very familiar with handfeeding.
Im hoping i get this shit sorted fast so my little feminized ladies survive this and get to their automated autopot feed system so I can forget handfeeding from then on. I'm not even sure if I've maybe overwatered or maybe even underwatered them. the coco seems to be somewhat moist when I stick my finger 4-5 cm deep in it, but no coco sticks to my finger realy. is that sign of underwatering maybe?
And about flushing. If these little ladies are overfertilized cause of ph imbalances, can they be flushed with plain water till runoff? ive heard mixed theories on coco with runoff water. and we must keep in mind the plants are very small and undergoing stressful times and they dont have that developed roots yet so maybe hard flushing can harm them as in overwatering them?
help please :<
after like 2 days the roots started to come out of the bottom of jiffys so I decided to transplant them into my 15l pots with biobizz coco (ph 6.1 ec 0.3). I thought this may have been too early to transplant to such big pots but I've heard of people planting straight into the container that will be used throughout the whole grow.
the seedlings had stretched rather badly (almost 6 cm after few days, I know ) so I had to plant them rather deep so I could cover some of the stretched stem in the coco. I use 4-5cm of hydroton in the bottom, which was flushed with ~6 ph water before use. I then started putting the coco in inch layers misting it with 6 ph water to premoisten it before transplant. After transplant I proceeded to mist the top layer of coco for few days to keep it moist and to not to overwater the small plants with not so developed roots in big containers.
Everything seemed fine the first week in new pots expect for some strange curling in some plants leaves and one seedling that had deformed/mutated leaves. One leaf that never grew a pair for it and another that for some reason stopped growing whilst the pair of it is still going bigger.
After 14 days since sprouting, I started to give them mild 1/4 dose of AN Grow + Micro + Bloom PH perfect series with 1/1/1 ratio. It is suggested to use 2ml per liter but as I said, I used aprox 1/4 of it ~0.6ml per liter of each of those nutrients.
I fed the seedlings this light nutrient solution and after that day they haven't looked that healthly.
Specs: Some seedlings have leaves drying (brownish colour, bottom leaves) and some leaves are curling/twisting. Curling up and down randomly really. One seedling that seems to have it the worst has had it's first multiset of leaves, aka the second pair after cotyledons turn lightish brown spots from the beginning of the leaves. Both pairs of the leaves are affected with this. It is drying the leaves rather bad and the seedling seems to be drooping a bit. it also has some strange redish/brownish spots all over randomly. most of seedlings have this same problem too with drying/ random red/brown spots on both old and new growth. I'm thinking my ph meter is bugging me out resulting in the water ph being a bit off. maybe over 6 resulting in some sort of overfertilization of some things? maybe P?
I'm new to coco i grew in dwc bucket with rockwool + hydroton for some time so I'm not very familiar with handfeeding.
Im hoping i get this shit sorted fast so my little feminized ladies survive this and get to their automated autopot feed system so I can forget handfeeding from then on. I'm not even sure if I've maybe overwatered or maybe even underwatered them. the coco seems to be somewhat moist when I stick my finger 4-5 cm deep in it, but no coco sticks to my finger realy. is that sign of underwatering maybe?
And about flushing. If these little ladies are overfertilized cause of ph imbalances, can they be flushed with plain water till runoff? ive heard mixed theories on coco with runoff water. and we must keep in mind the plants are very small and undergoing stressful times and they dont have that developed roots yet so maybe hard flushing can harm them as in overwatering them?
help please :<