Noob_waterer
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Pretty sure they’re overwatered, just need to know if it’s worth continuing with them or not.
The plants in question are Cream Caramel Autoflowers on day 30 since planting the germinated seed.
The growing medium is soil, and not the best quality, mixed with perlite 70:30.
I started them on an 18/6 light schedule and moved it to 24/0 at around day 20.
The temperature has been 22-25 degrees Celsius and 50-55% RH. Before I changed the light schedule to 24/0 the temp was dropping to 16 degrees at night and peaking 80% RH at times, so I decided to just go 24/0.
I have them elevated on plant feet sitting in saucers and I remove all water as soon as it stops.
The lights have been sitting between 18-24” from the soil, and I was using at the time one Mars Hydro TS-600 per plant, in a 120cm x 60cm x 120cm tent. Now I’ve rearranged the grow tent to distribute the light among all 4 plants. (2x Cream Caramel, 2x Northern Lights)
I’ve been giving them far too much water from the start, watering to run off every time, even saturating the entire soil thoroughly to run off just before I planted the seeds. (So stupid, I know. I’m a noob.) I would water every 2-3 days, give or take. I wasn’t feeding them any nutrients.
They looked reasonably perky and healthy not even a week ago, and have slowly curled more and more. They’ve also gotten very light green coloured, they were previously a nice rich dark green.
One is far worse off than the other, but both still smell pretty strongly and have shown sex signs, and lots of little white hairs.
I watered them last 24 hours ago before I came to the conclusion that I likely chronically overwatered, and am waiting for the soil to dry out completely before I decide what to do with them, hoping that they bounce back.
I’ve got the 2 northern lights autos growing in 100% coco, they’re on day 16 and are thriving at this stage. They even look more happy than the cream caramels did at their stage. I’ve been feeding them half strength a+b nutes + half strength cal mag every couple of days when I water, making sure some run off comes out, and they seem to be doing great. I bought an EC/PPM meter today, I’ve just gotta figure out what to do with it lol. All I know is I need it.
Its disappointing I went with soil, I did it because I thought growing in coco would be more difficult with the whole having to feed nutrients every watering. It turns out to not be that difficult, and coco seems to be good for an overwatering type like myself. Hopefully I go okay with the coco because after this experience between the moisture and the fungus gnat infestation, I’m not using soil again for a while if I can..
I Just want to know if it’s worth continuing, if they’ll recover or not, if they’ll go on to produce bud, and anything else I’ve done wrong please let me know.
Your help is greatly appreciated!!
The plants in question are Cream Caramel Autoflowers on day 30 since planting the germinated seed.
The growing medium is soil, and not the best quality, mixed with perlite 70:30.
I started them on an 18/6 light schedule and moved it to 24/0 at around day 20.
The temperature has been 22-25 degrees Celsius and 50-55% RH. Before I changed the light schedule to 24/0 the temp was dropping to 16 degrees at night and peaking 80% RH at times, so I decided to just go 24/0.
I have them elevated on plant feet sitting in saucers and I remove all water as soon as it stops.
The lights have been sitting between 18-24” from the soil, and I was using at the time one Mars Hydro TS-600 per plant, in a 120cm x 60cm x 120cm tent. Now I’ve rearranged the grow tent to distribute the light among all 4 plants. (2x Cream Caramel, 2x Northern Lights)
I’ve been giving them far too much water from the start, watering to run off every time, even saturating the entire soil thoroughly to run off just before I planted the seeds. (So stupid, I know. I’m a noob.) I would water every 2-3 days, give or take. I wasn’t feeding them any nutrients.
They looked reasonably perky and healthy not even a week ago, and have slowly curled more and more. They’ve also gotten very light green coloured, they were previously a nice rich dark green.
One is far worse off than the other, but both still smell pretty strongly and have shown sex signs, and lots of little white hairs.
I watered them last 24 hours ago before I came to the conclusion that I likely chronically overwatered, and am waiting for the soil to dry out completely before I decide what to do with them, hoping that they bounce back.
I’ve got the 2 northern lights autos growing in 100% coco, they’re on day 16 and are thriving at this stage. They even look more happy than the cream caramels did at their stage. I’ve been feeding them half strength a+b nutes + half strength cal mag every couple of days when I water, making sure some run off comes out, and they seem to be doing great. I bought an EC/PPM meter today, I’ve just gotta figure out what to do with it lol. All I know is I need it.
Its disappointing I went with soil, I did it because I thought growing in coco would be more difficult with the whole having to feed nutrients every watering. It turns out to not be that difficult, and coco seems to be good for an overwatering type like myself. Hopefully I go okay with the coco because after this experience between the moisture and the fungus gnat infestation, I’m not using soil again for a while if I can..
I Just want to know if it’s worth continuing, if they’ll recover or not, if they’ll go on to produce bud, and anything else I’ve done wrong please let me know.
Your help is greatly appreciated!!
