I am Going Insane - Please Help!

[sandie66]

Three plants. All the same strain. All germinated from seed at same time. All popped at same time. All 39 days old. All still very tiny!!!! All treated exactly the same way....

Plant #1 - Show a lot of yellowing. It seems to be moving up. Top growth is great and little tiny new growth all the way up.

 

[sandie66]

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Plant #1 - Shows a lot of yellowing. It seems to be moving up. Top growth is great and little tiny new growth all the way up.

 

[sandie66]

Plant #2 - A little bit of yellowing. My runt. Again top growth is nice and so is side growth....

 

[sandie66]

And finally plant #3 - She is the prettiest and the most healthy. No yellowing. Great top growth and nice side growth....

 

[sandie66]

Okay, now these are the babies. There are auto-flowering (the big girls are photos). These are 13 days old. I just repotted these today from solo cups and the roots were beautiful. At 13 days old, I think these are tiny too. So why are only 2 of my big girls yellowing when everything is exactly the same? And why are all of my plants so tiny? I have added and added more and more light and I am prepared to add even more CFLs as just soon as I can figure out how to get more in there comfortably. Should I pull up the runt and the yellow one and concentrate on the pretty one? But then again they all have such lovely new growth, That I really don't know what to do. I know people, but I don't want any of them coming over to tell me what they think. None of their business. Anyone?

 

[vostok]

You really need to impart the vital details ..
like:
Strain
Soil
Lights
ya know the simple stuff..?

but if ever in doubt ..FLUSH the rootzone with air temperate ph neutral water, 3 times the volume of the pot, allow to drain in dim light or overnite, next time or if experienced consider adding 30% perlite to that soil mix..!

 

[sandie66]

I know I've said this before. Each big girl has 2 23 watts daylights, one above and one on the side, plus 2 23 watt softwhite that they share. The seedlings are sharing 2 23 watt daylight and 1 23 watt softwhite for now. I want to add more this week, but like I said, I have to think about how to do this. The soil is just an organic mix of sand, peat moss, perlite, composted greens, etc. No nutes in the soil. I have fed them 3 times so far with Expert 15-30-15 at 25% strength. Lights are on 18/6. Temps never go above 81, but usually 78. Not sure what else to say....

 

[sandie66]

Guess I should have...

Big girls are Femmed Bubblelicous photos from Nirvana. I've looked everywhere to see if maybe they are just really slow growers or what.

The babies are 2 Bomb THC Tomb autos by Herbies and 1 Black Sugar Rose auto from Herbies.

 

[FiddlersGreen]

I know I've said this before. Each big girl has 2 23 watts daylights, one above and one on the side, plus 2 23 watt softwhite that they share. The seedlings are sharing 2 23 watt daylight and 1 23 watt softwhite for now. I want to add more this week, but like I said, I have to think about how to do this. The soil is just an organic mix of sand, peat moss, perlite, composted greens, etc. No nutes in the soil. I have fed them 3 times so far with Expert 15-30-15 at 25% strength. Lights are on 18/6. Temps never go above 81, but usually 78. Not sure what else to say....

if this; https://xn--grnstue-r1a.net/gallery/userImages/44/65-44c54010.jpg , can be trusted, then i vote for a phosphorus deficiency

 

[sandie66]

That should be Bomb THC Bomb.

 

[Snype]

Pots look big for seedlings. Probably been overwatering. With big pots like that, you only need to water a little bit so that water just hits the roots but not all that empty soil.

 

[sandie66]

if this; https://xn--grnstue-r1a.net/gallery/userImages/44/65-44c54010.jpg , can be trusted, then i vote for a phosphorus deficiency

Hmmmm. I thought it was a nitrogen deficiency at first, and took that as my sign to start feeding them. Now looking at this chart it looks more like a zinc deficieny.

 

[sandie66]

Pots look big for seedlings. Probably been overwatering. With big pots like that, you only need to water a little bit so that water just hits the roots but not all that empty soil.

They are like .79 of a gallon and I just put then in there today from solo cups. They had lots of nice roots when I transplanted them.

 

[FiddlersGreen]

Hmmmm. I thought it was a nitrogen deficiency at first, and took that as my sign to start feeding them. Now looking at this chart it looks more like a zinc deficieny.

could be i went with phosphorous because it is the only one on the table that show the splotchlyness that the first plant is showing, zine seems only to show at the edges, but like i said im going strictly off the diagram

 

[Snype]

The pictures of the seedlings in the 5th post look like they are in 1 gallon containers.

 

[waveguide]

just concentrate on getting ph right. don't be all expert about deficiencies from look like pictures.

and how insane would you like to be after you've been helped

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[sourpuss]

Looks underfed. Increase feed by 30 percent id say. or till your leaves are medium to dark green.... should start shooting now if fed properly. U wanted quick growth. Big pots and lots of roots with optimum conditions.... u gave it the bigger pot so sit back and feed it properly... its gonna shoot quick.... shooting is great for the start of flower... also transplanting isnt good during flower.... lol.... youll figure it out.... keep at it.

 

[sandie66]

The pictures of the seedlings in the 5th post look like they are in 1 gallon containers.

.79 of a gallon and they are auto flowering. They were moved today and had adequate roots going on.

 

[sandie66]

Looks underfed. Increase feed by 30 percent id say. or till your leaves are medium to dark green.... should start shooting now if fed properly. U wanted quick growth. Big pots and lots of roots with optimum conditions.... u gave it the bigger pot so sit back and feed it properly... its gonna shoot quick.... shooting is great for the start of flower... also transplanting isnt good during flower.... lol.... youll figure it out.... keep at it.

Ok. So I've only fed 3 times so far. I should add just a tad more to the water? And I don't plan on repotting again. The photos are in 3 gallon and the autos are in .79 of a gallon. It's not that I want quick growth, I just look at other's pics and it seems like they should be bigger. And especially the autos If they are at 13 days now, how in the world are they ever supposed to automatically start flowering at 3 weeks? Doesn't seem possible.

 

[stihgnobevoli]

looks like combination hunger and prolly too dry. i would lift the pots and take note of how heavy they are. and then i would mix up some food at a little stronger rate than what you're been feeding em. 50% more to double the ratio. water once and soak the whole pot through with it and then don't water again till they get as light as they are right now.

my 2 cents.

just to be clear i'm talking about your bigger seedlings not the new ones.