Looks like an overachiever there in the back left corner. Looking good.Updating with another set of "pre and post feed with self-feed pots" pics , and for the record, NOT PREGNANT. I think the new little ones I was referring to were either my new pots or younger plants! One and done for me @ReservoirDog
But without further adieu...
AT FEED
30 hours post feed
That's the setup the Earthbox company recommends, though that suggestion seems to have more to do with keeping excess rains from washing out your nutes in an outdoor grow. It also offers shading for the soil and can help moderate temps but all that can be done with a natural mulch.
Welcome to the Forums and especially SIP Club, @Gidorah ! Great looking plants. First time growers usually have a problem with watering, not so much for you I see.
In almost all my grows with these containers I go through a 2-3 week adjustment period where the plants look droopy and overwatered like you are experiencing but then they take off. I grow in pretty small containers so that may have something to do with it, and both Krissi and Em think transplanting up from a Solo where they can build roots first might be a better way to go to more easily get through the transition.
I tried using SoHum Super Soil & Recharge on 1 plant. It did fine all through Veg, but about 4 weeks into flower the leaves got pale green & yellow. I was feeding Recharge at 5 gr. per gal. which is what the package says to use to Super Charge your grow. It says every other feeding. Did that to no avail. Tried feeding recharge every feeding for 2 weeks & still didn't help. Ended up feeding them with Mega Crop & now they are getting greener again. Organics is not my thing.
Thanks Az. My seedling didn't appear to be droopy. It was straight with its first and second leaves parallel with the ground. However, it's leaves we're a lime green color and its growth slowed. As soon as I added GF Bloom, it took off and greened up. Could be coincidence with the 2 week establishment period. Soil mix is 3 parts FFOF, 1 part organic soil and 1 part cactus palm mix. I've read FFOF is hot in nutrients so I diluted it 3/2 and could be a factor to the potential nute deficiency.
You're a master grower in the making!
Thanks to Azi for starting up this club!
Wow Krissi! Beautiful! I’m just about to start 2 autos in grobuckets. Can you tell me about how long I should expect to water from the top before they are big enough to reach the reservoir? When do you start feeding from the bottom? Thanks!You're a master grower in the making!
Thanks to Azi for starting up this club!
Oh and @Azimuth that bigger girl in the back with the vegetative plants is my Blueberry Autoflower in Pre-Flower. Thats why shes so large in comparison to the others
Figured I would come in and update my older girls again.
I am a soil based grower, FFOF. I do use plenty of soil amendments along with the use of my self-feed/water reserve pots. I top dress once a month with these same amendments that are added into each transplant: bat and seabird guano, earthworm castings, @DYNOMYCO, and now bone meal as well.
I can't say that everything these girls do is because of the pots but they sure do help with their overall health.
These particular Super Silver Crack photoperiods and Deelite autoflower are all sitting under the @Mars Hydro SP3000 so we are only using 300W to get these girls praying all the time. They are fed @Prescription Blend nutrients and received Humboldt's Flower Stacker at the start of week 2 of flower.
The health of these plants from the get go with these pots and their ability to feed on their own will has just increased with the use of the proper amendments and feed schedules.
Now at 75 Days from seed and 25 days flower, The Super Silver Cracks: Mo and Larry
Hi Will! Thank you so much for your kind words on my lady belles!
I do not expect my plants to reach the reservoir. I fill the reservoir so that the wickfoot is starting to bring up moisture from the bottom and then I water from the top so that run off goes into the wickfoot from the top. This merges the two sections and from then on water will wick up to the top automatically.
Thanks Krissi!
Thanks Emilya! I guess I’ll probably get a better idea when I do it myself, so sorry for all the questions, but how old is the seedling when you fill the reservoir and then water from the top to merge the two? Do I have to worry about it being too much water for the seedling? Thanks for your help!
I know I'm not Em but I do know that overwatering is a #1 seedling issue, especially in these types of pots. Have you thought about starting in a smaller vessel then moving onto the grobuckets?
Nonsense! You don't need to use a solo either, I use these 5.5 inch pots and they can stay in there for up to 14 days or so if necessary. Is your problem upon trasnplant or when they are growing in the solo cups?
I’m not exactly sure. I grew 4 autos… different breeds and breeders. All four stunted. They’re all small. It was my second grow. My first grow I started in 3 gallons fabric pots. They did pretty well. So I’m blaming it on solo cups! Ha! But I actually don’t know if it was that. So many variables with growing.
I agree with Em in the smaller pot beginnings, I don't think it had anything to do with the solo cups.
From seed it only takes a few days for it to reach the reservoir, and even less to have access to moisture since the soil above the reservoir will wick the moisture upwards. I don't grow much from seed but the last one I did I just watered once I think from the top, and right down the stem to get the tap root following the water. And even that might not be all that necessary unless you are outdoors in the wind.
