over watering ?
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jordisgarden
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wait till it drys out and as far as my watering goes. keep a journal and my plants are in 5 gallon buckets they get a half gallon each every 4 or 5 days. i wait till the soil is pretty much dry, but not bone dry.
jordisgarden
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i use one every day to check here it is
one of my plants stopped growing and i couldnt figure out why till i got this. it was a gift from god himself.
one of my plants stopped growing and i couldnt figure out why till i got this. it was a gift from god himself.
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neef
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i wish my stalks looked like yours. one day hopefully they will one day. how far do you water till on your meter? for example mine says 1-3 is dry 4-7 is moist 8-10 is wet, and i dont know weather to water till it gets to wet, moist, or till its a certain number. any advice?
jordisgarden
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you bet your ass they will look like that soon, i promise. what are you using for soil?.
here is what worked awsome for me. i take a 5 gallon bucket. i add 1/4th perlite, 1/4th vermaculite, 1/4th seedstarter soil (no nutrients----you add those later on) 1/4th sphagmnom and pete moss mixture. mix it all up in the 5 gallon bucket. get the mix nice and even. the perlite and vermaculite make it so the soil will run out extra water very efficiently. then i water them every 4 or 5 days 1/2 gallon of water with fox farm grow big, and once they are into veggeatative growth i hit them with fox farm tiger bloom starting 3 weeks before i start flowering. seriously with the recipe i gave you that mix is a recipe to sucess. i swear it will make such a difference. now when i water i water till its all moist. watering first around the base then going outward toward the edges of the 5 gallon bucket . you dont need to water it so much that theres a river running from the bottomof your buckets. once you start a good watering cycle, after a few waterings youll be able to tell by the weight of the plant when you pick it up on weather it needs to be watered.
the watering thing is tough, if you dont have good drainage and water sits down in the rootball. salts build up and ph gets fucked, and the plant stopps growing. i have one plant that i stunted from watering too much and 6 months later its finally coming around. its a year old plant now though and its just flowering now. i couldnt figure out what was wrong with it till fdd2blk told me lay off the watering. when i let the soil dry into the red every time now and my plants are flourishing
now my stems are as thick as my thumbs easy and if i needed to i could stake a vampire with one.lol
in my last picture im pinching the stem between my fingers and rolling it untill the insides start to crackle, and break down. not snapping it but crinckling it. it causes your stems to get huge. also if you look at that pic i cut the top growth of the branch and 2 more branches grew out of it. thus doubling the bushiness and the bud spots. so wet is too much moist is good . what size buckets you have whats the temp in the spot and whats your soil mix, oh and what do you have for lights?
here is what worked awsome for me. i take a 5 gallon bucket. i add 1/4th perlite, 1/4th vermaculite, 1/4th seedstarter soil (no nutrients----you add those later on) 1/4th sphagmnom and pete moss mixture. mix it all up in the 5 gallon bucket. get the mix nice and even. the perlite and vermaculite make it so the soil will run out extra water very efficiently. then i water them every 4 or 5 days 1/2 gallon of water with fox farm grow big, and once they are into veggeatative growth i hit them with fox farm tiger bloom starting 3 weeks before i start flowering. seriously with the recipe i gave you that mix is a recipe to sucess. i swear it will make such a difference. now when i water i water till its all moist. watering first around the base then going outward toward the edges of the 5 gallon bucket . you dont need to water it so much that theres a river running from the bottomof your buckets. once you start a good watering cycle, after a few waterings youll be able to tell by the weight of the plant when you pick it up on weather it needs to be watered.
the watering thing is tough, if you dont have good drainage and water sits down in the rootball. salts build up and ph gets fucked, and the plant stopps growing. i have one plant that i stunted from watering too much and 6 months later its finally coming around. its a year old plant now though and its just flowering now. i couldnt figure out what was wrong with it till fdd2blk told me lay off the watering. when i let the soil dry into the red every time now and my plants are flourishing
now my stems are as thick as my thumbs easy and if i needed to i could stake a vampire with one.lol
in my last picture im pinching the stem between my fingers and rolling it untill the insides start to crackle, and break down. not snapping it but crinckling it. it causes your stems to get huge. also if you look at that pic i cut the top growth of the branch and 2 more branches grew out of it. thus doubling the bushiness and the bud spots. so wet is too much moist is good . what size buckets you have whats the temp in the spot and whats your soil mix, oh and what do you have for lights?
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neef
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lights- 250watt md
container- 2 gallon (just transplanted)
soil- 1/2 mg seed starter, 1/4 perlite, 1/4 kellogg ammend
temp- 76 F
humidity- 31% (i know it low but i dont know how to rise it)