Winter Indoor fun

Transplanted the third. Topped 2/3. Probably wont top 3rd until I see some clean uniform color.

Started stressing the stems a little in other 2 so lower leaves can get some light. I used Allen keys bc im poor, idk. Seemed brilliant at the time. Raised the light up to about 24" hoping for a little stretchy stretch.

Everything is going well. Wish they were growing faster, may upgrade light to a Spider Farmer SE3000.

Wild how you can see growth week over week, but daily you almost debate on if anything is happening. Sprouted an ICCxCaramel Cream from Humboldt. It was a $2 seed

Growing. They are overpowering my Allen Keys now, so I will probably have to do pull out the zip ties soon. Mostly feeding with BPN seaweed, calmag, and PH'd water. Im using maybe 1/4-3/8 recommended amounts of each per gal of water.

Dealing with gnats, either root aphids/ fungus gnats. Seems to have went down after neem oil, oj/vinegar, and yellow stickys.

FatherNelson said:

What does dolomite lime do and what is its effect on ppm/ec ?

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Adds calcium and magnesium, also just to help if you use vermiculite instead of perlite it adds natural silica which is a major part of trichromes production and what they are made of.

Fungus gnats ime are almost always related to your plants being too wet. Yellow sticky’s work amazing, but if you water on a schedule, stop and get used to the feel / look of lighter containers. That large of pot with that small of plant I’d guess you only need to water once a week.

Dboybudz said:

Adds calcium and magnesium, also just to help if you use vermiculite instead of perlite it adds natural silica which is a major part of trichromes production and what they are made of.

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Lime also affects your PH, where I live lawn care companies use lime to adjust PH in lawns.

Grojak said:

Fungus gnats ime are almost always related to your plants being too wet. Yellow sticky’s work amazing, but if you water on a schedule, stop and get used to the feel / look of lighter containers. That large of pot with that small of plant I’d guess you only need to water once a week.

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Im pretty good about letting it dry out well. The correct amount of water to feed with is always tricky.

I think its because I re-amended old soil to begin with. The transplant is a new "SS"

Dboybudz said:

Adds calcium and magnesium, also just to help if you use vermiculite instead of perlite it adds natural silica which is a major part of trichromes production and what they are made of.

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I thought about getting some silica, but I just didnt think it was really needed from how I am currently running. I want to make sure it drains well, so I avoided vermiculite.

I got a few things after reading this thread. H2O2 will kill the microbes and fungi you're trying to grow. Dolomite can only raise pH. It can't lower it but the microbes should handle the pH for you anyways. Dolomite is good though if you need more calcium carbonate to raise the pH. Usually you don't need to adjust pH in soil. However if you insist on adjusting pH citric acid is an organic way to lower it. If you have fungus gnats get some Microbe Lift BMC. That stuff works great for gnats. And is there a reason you're using distilled with your tap water?

Just a few observations, STOP FIDDLING WITH THEM, you're killing them with kindness and have brutally overwatered them at least in the begining. The plants should be 5 times that size at 6 weeks. Ditch the dome, get your temps up, you need to be in the high 70's to mid 80's for decent growth. Also drop you input PH to about 6.2 (actually if it's truly an organic grow PH doesn't matter much). Let the plants get established, then if you want to use teas and additives (most of which are snake oil) go ahead, but at that size they can't handle all the nutes (and water) you're pounding them with. It takes several days to a week for you to see any results, don't get anxious and start doing multiple things before giving the plants a chance to react, if you do, you won't know what helped or hurt. What kind of light are you using? Lastly, now that they've been transplanted when you water, water around the outside of the pot, not in the middle, you want the roots to reach for the water and expand in the pot. They are looking bettter, but, IMHO, still too much water. What's the white stuff on the leaves in the first picture? Don't water the leaves, if you get nute solution on the leaves it can burn them!

These plants are just barely 5 weeks old, FFOF recycled and amended with perlite, DE, and geoflora dry nutes, temp 75-85 daytime, 65 at night.

Kamau42 said:

I got a few things after reading this thread. H2O2 will kill the microbes and fungi you're trying to grow. Dolomite can only raise pH. It can't lower it but the microbes should handle the pH for you anyways. Dolomite is good though if you need more calcium carbonate to raise the pH. Usually you don't need to adjust pH in soil. However if you insist on adjusting pH citric acid is an organic way to lower it. If you have fungus gnats get some Microbe Lift BMC. That stuff works great for gnats. And is there a reason you're using distilled with your tap water?

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Just for the pH Balance really. I do aerate my water, so the pH probably doesnt actually matter. Someone else suggested Dolomite like, I dont use it currently. I just have FFOF, compost, earthworm castings, and some extra perlite.

I have 1 plant giving the weird light green on the outside, other 2 are solid. They are growing a little slow, but theyre healthy so Im not that concerned.

Plants be growing.

Mostly just giving aerated water. Every 2 or 3 feedings I'll add half dose of cal-mag and kelp.

Happy, healthy, and growing. Light is up
higher than I thought would be needed.

Noticed a little tip yellowing, gave a little healthier dose of cal-mag. Soil should still be healthy, so slight nitrogen nuking. Im not concerned at this moment.

@cannabiscrusader @Budzbuddha Thoughts fellas?

FatherNelson said:

Happy, healthy, and growing. Light is up
higher than I thought would be needed.

Noticed a little tip yellowing, gave a little healthier dose of cal-mag. Soil should still be healthy, so slight nitrogen nuking. Im not concerned at this moment.

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The one at the bottom looks hungry, not burned. Possibly a bit overwatered. Feed it and bottom water for a week and it should bounce back. Definitely put a g.i. Joe in that bubble cup, with a barbie on each arm.

LOL the bubble cup is a blueberry branch. I just cut it and threw it in to see if roots will grow. Without leaves I dont think it can absorb much light.

Bottom one just wants to be special. It gets same as others but has always wanted to be special..... Its lower growth is actually a clean color but im not sure wtf its issue is

The light was roasting the plant. I raised it up a lot and its doing a lot of better things.

New light is in! Dude gives a solid PAR all over the tent

Huge upgrade, congrats!

Just an update. I trimmed a little bit to get my canopy under control and took some clones.

Going to push N for the next few days. If I get growth Im looking for, may go into flower in 2-3 weeks.

They like that new light!