should i transplant to bigger pot now?
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well what can i do to make it grow more? i have 2 23watt daylight 6500k cfls and 2 29watt softwhite cfls..all about 2 inches above the plant..should i just get more daylight cfls and forget the softwhites? total lumen output is about 6000 maybe a bit less...
im not looking to grow my plant super fast..ill be happy with it if i grows to maturity at all...thanks guys. i wish i never bought MG organic...but i didnt have any other choice because my lowes sucks..and i hate home depot..
im not looking to grow my plant super fast..ill be happy with it if i grows to maturity at all...thanks guys. i wish i never bought MG organic...but i didnt have any other choice because my lowes sucks..and i hate home depot..
darkdestruction420
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not much, i think we covered all the bases and fixed any problems you have that we can pretty much, now you just gotta be patient and wait for it to recover and take off. as for ferts, thats more difficult to tell, it depends on how fast your plant grows and uses up the nutes in the soil.
gobears4eva
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I have MG Organic CHoice Potting Mix and there are no nutrients in this soil so maybe hes using the same one im using
darkdestruction420
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yeah their are-
Grows plants twice as big organically. All organic ingredients. All natural fertilizer provides both quick and slow release feeding for up to 2 months. Contains nature s own bionutrients.
Ingredients:100% Organic Potting Soil All Natural.
Size: 16 Quart
Grows plants twice as big organically. All organic ingredients. All natural fertilizer provides both quick and slow release feeding for up to 2 months. Contains nature s own bionutrients.
Ingredients:100% Organic Potting Soil All Natural.
Size: 16 Quart
gobears4eva
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i ust read my bag and it dosent say anything about feeding the plants for 2 months or anything but it does have some nutes in it just a tiny ammount though unlike other MG soils.My mistake at first i didnt see the thing on the bottom,but still theres way less in this soil then any other MG soil!~!
DaveCoulier
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You can always make your own soil. Home Depot carries Natures Helper soil conditioner. Its partially composted pine bark fines(fine as in texture). Mix it up with some Sphagnum Peat moss and Perlite and you've got a soilless mix that drains great, superb aeration, and you get to decide what nutes to put into it. All of these things can be bought from there.
PM me if you're interested in discussing it.
strain stalker
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well i just read the bag and the fertilizer in it is a ratio of 0.10 - 0.05 - 0.05 so thats very little, right? also the two leafs are turning yellow. should i feed it or wait? its starting to grow again and i placed it under its lights...
DaveCoulier
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I have a hard time telling whats enough, whats alot, and whats not enough with values like that on soil bags. Its not like the larger values we find on fert bottles that are easier to understand.
Heres a link about soils from www.mandalaseeds.com that will help you out a little. Oddly enough they do recommend miracle gro organic soil. Go figure.
As for the yellowing leaves, I doubt its cause the soil doesn't have enough nutes. How often are you watering?
http://www.mandalaseeds.com/html/soil_guide.html
DaveCoulier
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Yellowing of the lower leaves is a good sign of over-watering in young plants. I know this very well. If you start to get little brown spots as well, then you have almost certainly over-watered.
DaveCoulier
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They wont recover, but hopefully they'll stop getting worse. In my experience, they end up getting worse till I lose them, but the rest of the plant stops showing symptoms once fixed.
You shouldn't let any peat mixture become totally dry. When dry, peat is hydrophobic, which means it will repel water, so you need to learn the right point at when you need water. Learning when to water is more of an art than science
Are you able to stick your finger up into a drainage hole? The outside of the soil will look dry, but further in there probably is sufficient moisture for the plant.
Over-watering is probably the reason why your plant is growing slowly. It'll stunt it like theres no tomorrow.
DaveCoulier
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It'll grow still as long as you get everything figured out. I fucked up plenty of times on my first set of plants, and they're all healthy strong plants that are in flowering now.
Check out my album, and you can see the plants from early stage where I was fucking up alot, to them shortly before going into flowering.
alright great thanks Dave! i know marijuana plants are pretty hearty..
jigfresh
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Hey bro... the one thing you need is patience. I'm not trying to say "don't ask questions"... that is a good thing. Learning is good. But you aren't going to make the plant shoot up in growth if you keep messing with it. Just let the little girl (hopefully) go for a little bit. If she has problems then adjust things... but if she looks healthy just wait and see what happens.
I think the growth is slow, and the other problems all are from over watering. I don't do soil, so I'm not sure, but it would make sense to me.
It's a cute little plant, you seem to be doing a good job so far... trust your skills and let her be for a week or so.
Trust me... this growing thing takes much much much patience.
TheDifferenceX
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If it's taller than the pot, yeah, i'd repot it... Great chance to eliminate any stretching there was once it sprouted...