Okay i think i pulled the noob move

[Greenjello]

hey guys, well looks like when i transplanted i may have over watered. i saturated the young plants in thier new pots.

question : will they be okay? they dont look terrible at all, they look a little light green/yellowish on some of the leaves, maybe its stress i don't know. but they do perk up to the MH light. what should i do? i wish i could poast a pic, but i have noway of doing it right now.

it's possible the pots are too big for them, alot of them are on thier 3rd set of leaves, and the pots are 6 inches across and about 8 inches deep. so anyone that has experienced this please let me know. thanks

 

[Guest]

When transplanting it is important to "water in" the plants to their new home. This means pretty much exactly what you have done. Saturate the soil completely and most important slowly. Often pockets of dry soil will develope if water is dumped all at once. The term overwatering refers to the frequency of watering. Watering too often will definately cause a problem. If you have the an extra pot (the same size your plants are in) fill it will dry soil. Feel how heavy your pot is. This is about the weight you want your pots to be before you watering. Msg me with any more questions.

 

[Guest]

Breakup the soil (gently squeeze the sides of the pot) every couple hours to let air in. Give them a LIGHT breeze. Dont water again until they need it.

 

[Greenjello]

what would explain the light green.yellowish color some of my babies are showing?

 

[Guest]

Also what Rusty said. But for them only having the first set of leaves or so, that pot sounds big. I generally start in clear 16oz cups and transplant up to clear 32oz cups after they are well established, basically doubling the size of the pot every transplant.

 

[Greenjello]

yeah, i prolly mssed up right there. think i can still pull these out of it?

 

[Guest]

Too much water, not enough ferts, too much light, too little light.... Just give them a few days to dry out a little and then water them lightly with an organic grow fertilizer. They should perk right back up. I've had this problem with my Double Purple Doja Grow. I started them in 32oz cups right away and they stalled. I didn't have any 16ozers available that day...

 

[Guest]

OH and I would add some Hormex or Superthrive when you do water them again.

 

[Greenjello]

think they need nutes already? they are in fresh fox farm ocean forest, it says 30 days with no nutes. they are perky, just a little off colored. not all but some.

 

[Guest]

I wouldnt add any nutes for a while then... just Superthrive or Hormex the next time you have to water them... They should perk right up. You could also gently pull them and put them in smaller pots. It shouldn't hurt them unless they have really started to root already.

 

[Guest]

If you are using the foxfarm right out of the bag, I suggest you add at least 10% perlite to the mix. I even put about an inch of perlite in the bottom of all my pots to increase draingage. Now fox farm tells you how much fertilizer is in the bag. The N-P-K numbers are on the front or back of the bag. Its been a while since I've used it, however 30 days is a general statement. Cannabis will deplete the nutrients in the soil much much sooner. Your gonna have to do some research as to the source of your yellowing, unless you have a pic. I do suggest you feed once after the next watering. If you don't have much experience with ferts. Go pick up a balanced fertilizer. This means a fertilizer that has An even proportion of each nutrient. example (20-20-20). In fact peters 20-20-20 will do you just fine. Feed at half the recomended dose until you get used to the needs of your plants. Growem!

 

[Greenjello]

i know what m problem is now. i transplanted wayyy to early. after doing a butt load of research and staying up all night doing it, i have learned if you transplant before the plant fills the pot with a rootball, it will slow the plant down and put it in shock. Now i feel my plants are starting to pull out of it, but i will never make that mistake again, i have 9 ak-48's that look amazing in thier small pots and they will remain thier until thier rootball fills the cups.

i plan on getting some growbig and hormex this weekend, using just the hormex to help the rootmass, the growbig next weeks watering.

 

[Guest]

theoretically if you transplant a plant before the rootball has filled the pot, and you did it without damaging the plant, nothing would happen and the plant would stay the same.

 

[Desiderata]

Hey greenjello, my basic learning experience and reading forever has brought me to two basic laws of cultivating cannibas. OVERWATERING is the single most fastest way to learn by killing them by ignorance=NO BLAME, but still shame for loss of what could or should be.

 

[Guest]

WHAT? Your first paragraph makes perfect sense:

Hey greenjello, my basic learning experience and reading forever has brought me to two basic laws of cultivating cannibas. OVERWATERING is the single most fastest way to learn by killing them by ignorance=NO BLAME, but still shame for loss of what could or should be.

But WTF are you talking about here?

And, NO ONE ever telling or warning us that there is no ONE way to cultivate except our own way that is possible for our own individual situations. The , no ALL the GREAT gurus, especially the real time courage bosses like rezdog/bog/jlp/CC/REFFERMAN/soma/gypsy nirvana/ALL THE SEED GODS/=breeders of high intellect and cosmic consciouness/...........underground is all the rest of us who choose to be our ownselves........G O D B L E s S the child who has his OWN!!!

Remember F O L K S, there can only be one REZDOG, one BOG, one CC, and that's where I find peace at the moment for ME. I'm only one person with a feeble mind, that really wishes the BEST FOR ALL seed KIND cultivators. We are no longer growers, do you all hear me?

Noone is saying they are greater than anyone else. And I know for a fact that I don't even hold a candle to those guys, but we are just trying to give good advice.

ALL plants require slightly different handling, that is common knowledge.

 

[Tandare]

size of containers

size of containers

I know if a plant is in a container that it has grown out of.
growth can be stunted.
I never heard anything said about a plant being in a pot to large.
One of my colombian plants is in a super large container from the day the seed popped and its growing fine.
I have noticed bottom leaves getting a tad yellow.
could the over size of the container used cause the leaf to yellow?

Would my plants be better off in smaller containers and transplanted as needed as the roots need more space?
Or should they be fin in larger containers from the beginning?
I think these questions will also help the original poster of this thread.
Tandare

 

[alGrenDh]

I've always planted in whatever size container was available to me at that time. Never had size issues. I've read somewhere on one of the threads about container size and growth patterns. Start small then work your way up in size and the plant's growth will keep pace with the root growth. Start too big and they spend more time growing roots than veg. One of these days I'm going to test this theory

Yellow growth on the bottom is usually meaning it needs nitrogen or it's nearing harvest time. Not a pot (pot in a pot?) size problem.

 

[strain_searcher]

This is not a complicated issue if you do the basics. Dont over water and if you do which sometimes happens either let them get dry and dont trip on the way they look until they have recovered ( if not you will hurt your plants by adding too much of this or that....... OR you just pull them and repot . Always lift your pots when they are fully watered and then again when they have a very slight droop. This way you can know where the sweet spot is and when to water.

 

[Desiderata]

Everyone's advice has been very good. I was drinking too much when I posted......I apologize, because I don't even know what my second para really meant.

Strainwhore, I love your name. Your right about squeezing the sides of the container to let air into the soil. I do that everytime after watering, and I use a skeewer to areate the top. If I have drooping from too much water, I even poke the skeewer into the pot down thru the roots to make sure oxygen gets in there. They perk up everytime from doing that.

Jello, too big a container for a seedling has cause long root times for me too. But my buddy did a first transplant from a 16oz styrofoam cup into a 5gal pot and the Hawiian/Afghani has a trunk the size of a thumb and breaks the transplant up to bigger size pots for faster growth, theory. Now I'm puzzled myself, except that he waited to transplant until there was a complete root mass in the cup. I figure that's probably why it took off like a rocket.

Strainwhore, what you said about too little this or too much that is right on for sure. It is a fine balance, to understand what one should do under immediate circumstances. I'm out of this size, these strains are slow to grow, wow this plant droops with water everytime......when some never flinch.

I'll admit, I probably was expressing some inner anger to all the contradictions from ten years ago about how to. And with the help as provide in this thread and from the breeders here, we can now get the "straight smoke on how too."

Smoke on bro's, I love you guys for all the great advice. Thankyou!

 

[strain_searcher]

I think if alcohol makes you mad then try to stick with weed. I mean that in a nice a friendly way.