HI I transplanted clones into 1 gallon pots yesterday. I have one that's growing haywire and was wondering if I should do anything to it . I got 6 all started standing tall after first night besides one being a little sad. Soke leaves have a yellow tone and some look pretty dry. ( got the clones from a friend) any suggestions on what I can do to help the yellow and or help the dry leaves or do I just need to wait a week or so for them to adjust to the new home? Temps 27.6 degrees, humidity is 38% . . Air cooled 600 W Mh bulb running 18-6 is 26 inches above the top of plants.
Transplanted clones into 1 gallon pots
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First, raise the light to at least 36 - 48 inches above the canopy, you will burn plants that young with a strong light so close to the plant. Even while flowering, that light should be 36 inches above the canopy to avoid problems. Less really is more here.
Second, I personally would use a quart size pot and then transplant to a gallon pot, it's difficult to water properly when the plant is too small to use all the water in the pot in 3-4 days.
I start clones in the small pint size pot on the right and work up to quart then gallon size pot on the left. Notice the holes drilled in the sides for maximum drainage and oxygen to the roots, something else to facilitate proper watering.
In any case, be patient and wait at least a few more days for the plants to recover from transplanting before you try anything else.
Second, I personally would use a quart size pot and then transplant to a gallon pot, it's difficult to water properly when the plant is too small to use all the water in the pot in 3-4 days.
I start clones in the small pint size pot on the right and work up to quart then gallon size pot on the left. Notice the holes drilled in the sides for maximum drainage and oxygen to the roots, something else to facilitate proper watering.
In any case, be patient and wait at least a few more days for the plants to recover from transplanting before you try anything else.
Thanks for that!! I'm going to add some wholes to the side of the pots right now. Cheers
Xcoregamerskillz
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What's your grow medium, bruh? Also, fabric pots are the bee's knees for drainage and air. You gotta watch em though because they will dry out your medium faster (more medium exposed to air). They're great for root growth though.
Using happy frog in the one gallons and will be transplanting into 10 gallon fabric pots filled with ocean forrest after about 3 weeks and using some organic nutes throughout veg
I just had to transplant from 3 gallon fabric to 5 gallon fabric after only a month vegging, they were taking water every 36 hours and I am just about to start flowering. I didn't want to be watering every 24 hours or less a month from now, so I transplanted to 5 gallon pots. The roots looked really healthy, I was worried because it seemed like I was giving them lots of water, I typically only water every 3-4 days after weighing each pot on a scale - but they are loving it.
Xcoregamerskillz
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Yeah, the downside to fabric is increased plant watering, but the upside is explosive growth. The roots go crazy so the plants do too.
Yes, explosive is right. This batch is taking as much water now, at the end of vegging, as my last batch was taking water at the end of flowering. I did a ton of LST and FIM'ming on these ladies and the overall development of the trunk and roots is incredible. My real problem now is controlling humidity, even though it should be much easier than August, I don't want buds too large or I might get bud rot again. It did not affect most of the plant, only a couple of the largest colas on two plants, but I still have to be careful.
Here they were on August 15, 2020:
August 26, 2020:
October 5, 2020:
Xcoregamerskillz
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You have fans blowing across your canopy and good exhaust?
Oh yeah, I've got three small fans blowing on the canopy, a 6" AC Infinity exhausting the tent and all the ports have either 4" or 6" duct for passive intake. The problem this summer was summertime humidity, I knew it was a risk and I know when it happened, we had a heat wave over 90 degrees for three days. Without air conditioning, I had to hope for the best. Believe it or not, it hardly ever gets up to 90 degrees where I live.
This summer, I had a 4" AC infinity adding intake air as well, I run the lights at night to take advantage of the lower temps. I've got it under control now, but I still feel like super huge buds are a risk, albeit a risk I am willing to take. I would've started flowering already but I am waiting to have a Rinnai heater installed for the room this winter, and I only have a space heater right now to keep the temps up while the lights are off. This will be my first winter in this room. I'm not risking any issues with too low temps, been there, done that.
This summer, the 6" fan was exhausting the tent directly outside, and I had all the windows in the room open with box fans, now I am exhausting into the room and I have two 4" fans on one controller exhausting the room based on humidity. I have a small veg tent in the same room so I want to exhaust both tents into the room and then exhaust the room with the two 4" fans. I can set the controllers for temp, humidity or both. So far, this is working pretty well and allows me to pull air from the rest of the house. I don't want to pull cold air from outside this winter, too much condensation. We'll see how it goes as the weather gets colder.
Xcoregamerskillz
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More sophisticated than any setup I run.
Thanks, I'm kind of a gear head and I'm disabled so I literally have nothing else to do. It makes me happy.