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popolino77
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My led light has 3 fans on it to keep them cool
Does this 14 day old plant look healthy?
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My led light has 3 fans on it to keep them cool
fanleaf
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Canopy is the top of the plant.
fanleaf
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The top leaves (canopy) will be warmer than the rest of the room because of the lights beaming down. Keep canopy cool. Mid 70's to very low 80's for the canopy
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daa! i thought you were talking about the roof of my tent, im thinking about getting a co2 bucket and placing it on the outside of my tent and running a tube from thw bucket to the inside of my tent, do thoes co2 buckets work ? Will it help my plants deal with warmer temperatures and help them grow ?
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I have my thermometer around my canopy and the highest temp i seen was 84.5f but it usually says 83.1f but my thermometer definitely reads at least 3f hotter then it really is
fanleaf
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CO2 will help the plant deal with warmer temps yes but I think your sag may be coming from those little leafs dealing with 80+ temps at the canopy. She will be good man. She's just young and will deal with small issues much better as she toughens up. Your doing a good job.
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popolino77
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I bought alaska organic liquid fish fertilizer from home depot. My plants need watering today should i use the fish fertilizer today ? My plants are about 14 days old. Also does homemade co2 made out of sugar and yeast work ?
I wouldn't if it still looks like the picture in your OP.
A seedling in soil can do fine w/o anything but water for a while.
That is a good-sized pot for a seed. The reason it seems small is, it is busy building roots (hopefully). If you don't over-water it, it will do just fine. I'd guess it can go 4 weeks in that pot with nothing but the right amount of water. Then it should really take off.
The best advice I can give you is to start a journal instead of 14 separate topics in the FAQ forum.
Emilya Green
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I am surprised that no one has mentioned the true reason that you are experiencing slow growth... it is because of the size of your container.
These are deep rooting plants, and that poor thing's first job has been to find the bottom of that container. All of its energy has been spent on sending that first big tap root down to the bottom, and figuring what it is dealing with. You will start to see better growth now that this has been accomplished, but as far as developing a solid rootball, you may have shot yourself in the foot. There is no way you can water this thing normally right now, for if you saturated that ocean of soil, it would take 2 weeks for your little sprig of a plant to drain it. While this was going on, the lower roots will be underwater for an extended period of time and if you follow all the advice to use the lift method and not water until that container is dry, you will kill off your upper roots waiting for this to happen.
If you had started in a smaller container, say a beer cup, you would be seeing rapid growth right now and the rapid development of a root ball. Here, not so much. You have an extraordinarily hard task ahead of you, watering this thing correctly so as to entice out a root ball... and it could have been a whole lot easier, and faster.
My advice... immediately repot into beer cups... save this monster container for flowering.
These are deep rooting plants, and that poor thing's first job has been to find the bottom of that container. All of its energy has been spent on sending that first big tap root down to the bottom, and figuring what it is dealing with. You will start to see better growth now that this has been accomplished, but as far as developing a solid rootball, you may have shot yourself in the foot. There is no way you can water this thing normally right now, for if you saturated that ocean of soil, it would take 2 weeks for your little sprig of a plant to drain it. While this was going on, the lower roots will be underwater for an extended period of time and if you follow all the advice to use the lift method and not water until that container is dry, you will kill off your upper roots waiting for this to happen.
If you had started in a smaller container, say a beer cup, you would be seeing rapid growth right now and the rapid development of a root ball. Here, not so much. You have an extraordinarily hard task ahead of you, watering this thing correctly so as to entice out a root ball... and it could have been a whole lot easier, and faster.
My advice... immediately repot into beer cups... save this monster container for flowering.
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popolino77
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My plants are autoflowering i dont think i can transplant it, i been watering it evrey other day evrey 2 days depending how the soil feels,
Emilya Green
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ah, the dreaded autoflower myth. I will stand down on my opinion then about the container size, too many of them out there.
As far as your watering method, that will work for now, especially if you water lightly around the edges only.... but as that root ball develops, you are going to have to learn to water correctly.- Thread starter
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popolino77
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ah, the dreaded autoflower myth. I will stand down on my opinion then about the container size, too many of them out there.
If you are saying the main root is at the bottom of my pot then i have definitely have not been giving it enough water i been giving it 4 to 6 oz a feeding to each plant thoes pots are 1 3/4 gallon, should i water untill i see water come out the bottom of the pot
Emilya Green
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absolutely not... not yet... you will have a drowning problem if you do that. Small amounts... keep the top wet for now... the bottom will get a little. Your goal is to entice out a rootball.
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So i been doing it rite then ? i think the growth is really slow they grew a lot the first 3-4 days then the growth almost stopped completely they grew very little since those first 3-4 days, i remember along time ago i planted a seed i got out of a nickel bag and in 2 weeks it was like 5 times the size and alot fuller then these plants i got now
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popolino77
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I just noticed on the smaller one of my plants the the 2 small round leaves are yellow with brown spots, is this bad and is so can it recover from that ?
fanleaf
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Those naturally dry up and fall off when the plant doesn't need them anymore.
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popolino77
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Thanks for telling me i was about to tear the plant out and start over. How come the leaves on my bigger plant did not turn yellow yet ?
fanleaf
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They will. The 2 round (cotyledons)always dry and fall eventually.
Emilya Green
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Dying and yellowing leaves at the bottom are your first canaries in the coal mine... they let you know when your roots are in trouble in veg. I look on it as a matter of pride when I can keep my cotyledons and my first set of true leaves green, until I am ready to trim them off before flower. They do not have to nor should fall off or get yellow...
as above, so below.
Treat your roots right,
and the leaves never yellow.
as above, so below.
Treat your roots right,
and the leaves never yellow.
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The plant is small but its got its first set of true leaves they are really tiny though my smaller plant is half the hight of the one i posted on the picture but it more developed , tonight is the first night i did not open my tent every half hour to check on my plants and my tent's temperature is 3 farinhight cooler then usual i guess by leaving my tent closed I'm letting my fans do what there supposed to
