Getting ready to slay a little girl

First time at DWC, pure rookie. Getting ready to kill off one of my seedlings because, well....she's ugly. Honestly though, this isn't the point of this thread. My main question is, under exact same conditions, if one plant appears fine and other presents problems, how do you go about addressing issue without screwing up plant that's fine?

Both plants are exactly 2 weeks from inserting cracked seed into rapid rooters. Same container, nutes, light, etc. One plant appears fine, other is my red headed stepchild. How to fix one and not screw up other? Or is this just a case of a screwed up seed? Both same strain.

She's been screwed up from day one, always lagged behind others with pale, yellow leaves. I wanted to give her a chance so I let her go on, thinking whatever the issue it would resolve itself. Doesn't appear she'll pull through.

So....better to just off her and not take chance on other? Or give her more time?

I'm always a fan of murdering small girls. just kidding, government. just kidding.

I'm not the most experienced hydro grower personally but I've seen plenty of plants that looked like yours and still figured it out. since the tote you have is massive for two plants I would just leave it and see what happens. my two cents.

Ok, she breathes a little longer. As to my original question though...you have two (or more) plants to a container, same conditions with nutes, temps, ph, light, etc and one plant is acting up. How do you address an issue with the one plant without affecting the other?

It will take a while for the good one to get crouded by the small fry - You could try again with another seed if you have it... Agreeing with Bluntsmith and have fun!

The Knave said:

Ok, she breathes a little longer. As to my original question though...you have two (or more) plants to a container, same conditions with nutes, temps, ph, light, etc and one plant is acting up. How do you address an issue with the one plant without affecting the other?

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this feels like an SAT question. not sure this is the best idea but I tend to treat the res for the girl doing the worst. it just feels like the heartier they are, the less the small changes matter for them. I have a tote with 8 girls and I regret it but I'm avoiding treating calmag deficiencies in some of the bigger girls because I'm afraid the smaller ones can't handle the PPM shift. at least in your case you aren't having to pick a poison.

also, since they're so small, aren't you top feeding? in that case you can just feed them differently.

Both plants are being fed from same pump...so same water flow/nutes to both plants. One tote, one pump, manifold to provide flow to each plant.

Here's my set-up

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The Knave said:

Here's my set-up
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what light is that?

in context of the other three girls it definitely looks ragged. maybe this is where the term bad seed comes from?

take a good look at the manifold setup and make sure it's the same as the others. other than that I'd sit on it for a little while longer. if she stays sad then (if you can) go buy a clone that can maybe catch up with the rest of the gang.

I killed my new born daughter because she was ugly too...my wife blames herself, probably shouldn't have framed her for it but she's ugly too.

On another note, I was thinking of upping to a 2 plant 1 res system but after thinking about this exact issue i said fuck it and went with scrog to maximize my space instead. Seems that you have more space though, I would personally just run two 5 gal buckets instead to loosen the hassle. I don't think their is any magic bullet answer to that question, seems like you are looking for one. You'll see some guys that grow in like 50 different 5 gal buckets probably for that exact reason. No matter what, when you tend to one you are going to be not tending to the other(unless they are both just as healthy) just kind of a problem with them sharing the water.

I'd be worried about that red headed step child bringing root rot to the res and thats hell...
Then again she could recover, my first grow ever was rough(lil less rough than yours) at that age but i brought her back, if you keep her alive just focus on the new growth only, that old crap will stay crappy and fall off

What I would, idk if this is the best decision cuz i think you're kinda in a pickle so no real perfect choice, do is start a new seed ASAP, like right now as you read this. And just grow out a new one, you'll be about 2 weeks off but if you're easy on nutes you probably won't be too far off. Also I'd top the current healthy one more agressively to try an match the new ones height(not sure what training you have in store).

Bluntsmith said:

what light is that?

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Just a 300w COB

Anon Emaus said:

I killed my new born daughter because she was ugly too...my wife blames herself, probably shouldn't have framed her for it but she's ugly too.

On another note, I was thinking of upping to a 2 plant 1 res system but after thinking about this exact issue i said fuck it and went with scrog to maximize my space instead. Seems that you have more space though, I would personally just run two 5 gal buckets instead to loosen the hassle. I don't think their is any magic bullet answer to that question, seems like you are looking for one. You'll see some guys that grow in like 50 different 5 gal buckets probably for that exact reason. No matter what, when you tend to one you are going to be not tending to the other(unless they are both just as healthy) just kind of a problem with them sharing the water.

I'd be worried about that red headed step child bringing root rot to the res and thats hell...
Then again she could recover, my first grow ever was rough(lil less rough than yours) at that age but i brought her back, if you keep her alive just focus on the new growth only, that old crap will stay crappy and fall off

What I would, idk if this is the best decision cuz i think you're kinda in a pickle so no real perfect choice, do is start a new seed ASAP, like right now as you read this. And just grow out a new one, you'll be about 2 weeks off but if you're easy on nutes you probably won't be too far off. Also I'd top the current healthy one more agressively to try an match the new ones height(not sure what training you have in store).

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Well, the original plan was to plant regs and cull any males that presented themselves. Start with 4 plants and if 4 females, great. If a couple males appeared then I'd still have a couple of girls to flower. At last second I decided on 4 SinCity Alien Nightmare fems, so losing a plant isn't that tragic. I like the idea of 1 plant per tote, but gonna try for 4 plants anyway.

A lot of firsts for this grow. First tent this size, first COB light, first time DWC. A work in progress, already thinking of what I may do differently next grow. I may go back to pots and soil if I screw the pooch on this grow. Time will tell and I am intrigued with hydro, so who knows?

The Knave said:

Well, the original plan was to plant regs and cull any males that presented themselves. Start with 4 plants and if 4 females, great. If a couple males appeared then I'd still have a couple of girls to flower. At last second I decided on 4 SinCity Alien Nightmare fems, so losing a plant isn't that tragic. I like the idea of 1 plant per tote, but gonna try for 4 plants anyway.

A lot of firsts for this grow. First tent this size, first COB light, first time DWC. A work in progress, already thinking of what I may do differently next grow. I may go back to pots and soil if I screw the pooch on this grow. Time will tell and I am intrigued with hydro, so who knows?

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Gotcha, was wondering if they were fem or not. I think you'll really like dwc once you see how fast they'll start growing when those roots hit the water! Good luck man!