Hollatchaboy
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I believe if you're going to start seedlings in ffof, your watering skills better be on point.
Autoflower, 20 days old, am using fox farm ocean forest, not giving any thing else just water, please help
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Dreminen169
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GarageGardener69
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day 0. Also added some Myco to soil too
I believe I added about 8-12 oz of 444 to the about 60L of soil mix
GarageGardener69
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Yes watering makes a difference for sure. They’re like 28 days old and I’m just giving them 32oz of water now in a 3.6gal pot and I barely get run off with that little bit of water
GarageGardener69
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Found it.
42.5 L FFOF
16 L Perlite
8 L Earth Worm Castings
12 oz Dr. Earth 4-4-4
3-4 tbsp of Great White
Water pH to ~6.3-6.6
Citric Acid granules for pH down
42.5 L FFOF
16 L Perlite
8 L Earth Worm Castings
12 oz Dr. Earth 4-4-4
3-4 tbsp of Great White
Water pH to ~6.3-6.6
Citric Acid granules for pH down
GarageGardener69
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looking back I probably would add it later on but I wanted to try and charge the soil up a little before I transplanted to final pots
Hollatchaboy
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Sounds good. I water in 5% water to soil when they're small and up it to 10% when they get a lil bigger.
PadawanWarrior
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I'd water the whole pot if it was me. New roots could be reaching hot and dry soil, especially if you've never watered the whole thing. Just a thought. FFOF is kinda hot to begin with.
Hollatchaboy
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I probably would've just added the ewc and perlite to start off with, but as long as your plants are good, no harm, no foul.
Hollatchaboy
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Plus you want to keep microbial's active. They go dormant in dry soil don't they?
PadawanWarrior
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Well shit if you're adding extra shit that's not gonna help either right now.
PadawanWarrior
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Ya, I aim for moist, but not wet.
Hollatchaboy
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If nothing else, I always keep the top moist with just a lil spray, when I notice it's a lil dry. That's where the actions happening mostly.
PadawanWarrior
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I'm too lazy to keep the very top moist all the time. I water every other day and it's like 10% RH so it's not ideal. BlueMats would be cool, but I don't like the idea of a reservoir on the 3rd floor of my house.
Dorian2
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I agree. I was just showing how they should look at that point is all. Just for reference.
GarageGardener69
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But my stuff is growing well for now lol Maybe you mean the OP?
and for the water % to soil ratio. I’m at about 10% Will be fully soaking pots soon but need better catch trays. Can probably wet the whole pot with less than half gallon
PadawanWarrior
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Oh fuck, I thought you were the OP, lol.
Hollatchaboy
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10% rh?! I freak when mine gets to 49%. Lol
With a thick layer of barley straw, mine almost never gets dry on top. That's what's great about living soil though, you can get a lil lazy, and not have to worry.
GarageGardener69
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I can now confirm that you can “heat up” the FFOF mix. I have a rando seed that popped and I put in solo. Maybe 20 days old. Been watering the solo excessively to runoff so I don’t have to water it every day. Well. By doing that. Have a little nute burn on the few lower leaves. I’ll take a pic. I’m assuming that wetting the whole soil also wet up some of the ferts/nutes and caused an excess. What you guys think?
GarageGardener69
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little burnt. Still droopy after 24 hours Responding to the topping though so we’ll see!