Growing Really Slow! pics included

[Thedillestpickle]

Hello, I am started in my first grow, I have 10 plants under a 400w MH and its nice and close, just over a foot from the plants. They are in coco coir and Im feeding them with house and garden cocos A B base nutes and black chrystal and liquid gold (Dry flower products) and up until now I thought I was doing really well. They are giving off a faint smell of skunk and they look very healthy. My temps are at 76 all day and then at night drops to 74. Sounds perfect to me, so I dont know what the deal is but they are growing really slow when I compare them with other plants I see on RIU of the same age. They just barely have 3 leaf sets, Im wondering what could be making them grow so slowly? Ph is 5.8 and ppm is 650. I have a fan blowing on them, RH is a steady 50%. I let the coco get very dry between waterings. Maybe I need to use some rooting hormone? Or are they ready for a stronger dose of nutes? what can I do to boost their growth?
They are now three weeks from seed.

Any advice is appreciated, thanks

 

[MRGreenThum]

Well my only advice is:

1.Dont love your plants to death

2. Patients is key, give them time they look healthy. So I wouldnt recomend to try and make them go faster, you might kill them.

-MRGreenThum

 

[budybong]

3 weeks from seed they look pretty good! Are you compairing them to 3 week seeds or 3 week clones big difference! Bsafe

 

[Indicator]

hey pickle, I'm curious if they are 10 days or three weeks? Just noticed where you said 10 days under another thread. I ask mainly as I have some that are 12 days old that look about the same size. Thanks

 

[ML75]

hahahaha it does SEEM soooooooo slow doesnt it??

 

[Thedillestpickle]

yea that reference in the other thread was either old, or i used older pics to try and get an idea what was happening at that time, either way ignore it, they are now 20 days from seed, 20 days that almost three weeks, I see some of the other plants at 3 weeks they look like they could be put into flower already... geesh these ones just taken their time I guess.

there is one particular thread with a first time grower who was showing off his plants from seed and thats when I realized they are going slow, his 2 weeks olds were killing it with like 5 nodes and I look at my 20 day olds and 3 sets and im like wtf? he was also growing in ebb and flow whereas I am in cocos.

thanks guys, I know they look healthy, just wanted to get an oppinion if there was anything wrong here, so I could maybe fix it. I dont want to be stunting their growth you know.

 

[OldLuck]

They look awesome!! What is your light schedule? What strain are you growing? Next month you will be trying to figure a way to slow them down. lol That is a lot of plants under that light, do you plan on keeping all of them? What size light are you going to flower under? Great job man, much respect.

 

[RjDajoker]

hey what strain are you growing cause some strains are short early on and then they just take off just be patience and you'll notice it cause your setup seems nice

 

[Thedillestpickle]

hey what strain are you growing cause some strains are short early on and then they just take off just be patience and you'll notice it cause your setup seems nice

Thanks guys its Kali Mist from serious seeds already can smell the reefer on plant #7 so im crossing my fingers its a female cause that one is going to be potent!

I bought unfemenized seeds after seeing so many reports of hermie plants with the fem seeds, Im really glad they had Kali in unfemmed because alot of companies arent even doing regular seeds anymore which is kinda silly.


My light schedule is 18/6, I actually started them at 17/7 as I figured this was more natural, giving the roots some time to grow.

Heres an update, of what they look like today, I think they are starting to get comfortable in the new bigger pots because Im seeing alot more foliage now, I also just set up my co2 generator and got er up to 1500ppm, so stand back hopefully they will be exploding with growth soon, Switching out the 400MH to a 600w MH conversion, tonigth when the lights go off. Im hoping I get at least 5 females but I know I cant bet on it. Ill be happy with 4, 3 would be a bit of a dissappointment however. and if I get 6 females Ill be stoked cause that will fit very nicely in the room. Im planning to flower under 2 600w HPS with a 400w MH set in between, cool tubing the HPS. I know its alot of light! trying to get a good yeild from these girls.

They are only at 650ppm right now. Should I bump up to 850 next watering?

heres some pictures so you see how they are starting to take off now.

 

[Thedillestpickle]

They look awesome!! What is your light schedule? What strain are you growing? Next month you will be trying to figure a way to slow them down. lol That is a lot of plants under that light, do you plan on keeping all of them? What size light are you going to flower under? Great job man, much respect.

Thanks OldLuck, it was actually your thread that inspired me to start this one... I mean just look at your plants at only 2 weeks! they kicking ass compared to mine even with an extra week of growth, we should see mine catch up soon though now with co2 and extra light

 

[Indicator]

Gonna have to check out OldLuck's thread. Your plants look real healthy pickle. I also am currently under 400w/MH, which does keep 'em short, so let's hope they are building these amazing root systems... right? co2 eh? playing w/the big boys! yeah, I'm jealous...

 

[Thedillestpickle]

Yea that genny was a bit expensive, but Im trying to set it up so I can seal my basement, and only have to burn enough co2 to replace the gas that is sucked up by the plants as well as replace the small amount that will seep through cracks and things along the ceiling and door to upstairs... Unlike venting to the outdoors where you would have to keep rebuilding the co2 level every few hours and wasting alot of fuel, I should be able to turn it on for just a few minutes a day and provide a good level of CO2 for almost no fuel cost. The only trouble is its only guesswork unless I buy a co2 tester kit. I just ran it for 25 minutes to fill the whole basement at 1500ppm, now I should be able to run it for only 2 minutes or so each day from now on to keep it roughly at that level, but its guesswork so after a week of running it I will try a test on it see how its doing, and might bump it to 3 minutes when the plants have more biomass and are using more co2. its gunna be trial and error, too bad those testers arent reusable...

 

[Jonny K]

Your plants look great. They will explode with growth very soon.

 

[Enzogrowspot]

Ya very nice, can't wait to see em grow ....

 

[Thedillestpickle]

Thanks guys. I will start a journal in a another couple weeks, Ill post an update in here for now until I get a journal. at this point everything is nicely set how I like it, the plant I experimented with giving 33% more nutes to hasnt shown any burns, it got 915ppm so next watering I am giving them all 900ppm. also did a control experiment giving one a Ph 5.3 and I see deficiency setting in on the new shoots, hopefully nothing permanent, but now I know what to look for. Ph 6.3 experiment isnt showing any side effects yet. and my control at 2/3ppm is showing deficiencies as well so definately ready to bump it up a bit.

should I be using a root excellerator?

I am also experimenting on one plant by mixing my AB mix at 2/3 A and 1/3 B it gets me a better NPK ratio, but who knows I might be depriving that plant of trace nutrients... will keep on eye on that plant.