Problem: Yellow/light green leaves.
Medium/grow method: Sprouted rapid rooters. Transplated in Mother Earth 70/30 coco/perlite mix as soon as the taproot left the rapid rooter.
Feed and supplements used: Used 1/8 strength Botanicare Pure Blend Grow 3-2-4 to precharge each planting pot with 2L of light solution 2 days prior to transpanting. Starter watering with a little bloom city 2-0-0 cal-mag 2 days ago. No real change.
Water source: RO water, pH 6, TDS of plain water is like 3-5 PPM.
Strain and age – 3X Auto Gelato, 1x Dwarf Low Flyer (QCS) - sprouted on 9/14, so around 15 days old.
Climate: Initially used a humidity dome, but may have overheated the seedlings with a heat pad. They emerged and were pale yellow. Removed the heat pad and they went to healthy green in a day. Room temp was 85F day and 78F night for first week and a half. I have since decreased it to 80F day and 74F night.
Light used: LED light (Mars FC-E6500), started at 300PPFD, one stretched so increased to 370 PPFD using IPAD app. 2 days ago I went back down to around 300.
-Additional info: Well, I’m not sure if I screwed these plants over initially by starting them out with an overheating situation. Also took their humidity dome away after transplanting and they stayed at around 50% humidity for a few days until I put in a humidifier to keep things around 65%. Could also be the mother earth coco mix I used. Most users rave about it, a few others complained about dead seedlings.
I think my best bet may be to scrap this grow, thoroughly rinse/buffer the coco, and raise the seedlings in smaller pots for the first 2 weeks at least before transplanting. I “self diagnosed” as a nitrogen deficiency, so I’m desperately added 1.5ml cal mag/gallon to the water. I have not tested the runoff because I’m using GH drops and it isn’t easy to grab a sample for the tube.
Was all excited too, as this was going to be my first autopot grow…not going well. Soil was ridiculously more forgiving to a new guy.
Medium/grow method: Sprouted rapid rooters. Transplated in Mother Earth 70/30 coco/perlite mix as soon as the taproot left the rapid rooter.
Feed and supplements used: Used 1/8 strength Botanicare Pure Blend Grow 3-2-4 to precharge each planting pot with 2L of light solution 2 days prior to transpanting. Starter watering with a little bloom city 2-0-0 cal-mag 2 days ago. No real change.
Water source: RO water, pH 6, TDS of plain water is like 3-5 PPM.
Strain and age – 3X Auto Gelato, 1x Dwarf Low Flyer (QCS) - sprouted on 9/14, so around 15 days old.
Climate: Initially used a humidity dome, but may have overheated the seedlings with a heat pad. They emerged and were pale yellow. Removed the heat pad and they went to healthy green in a day. Room temp was 85F day and 78F night for first week and a half. I have since decreased it to 80F day and 74F night.
Light used: LED light (Mars FC-E6500), started at 300PPFD, one stretched so increased to 370 PPFD using IPAD app. 2 days ago I went back down to around 300.
-Additional info: Well, I’m not sure if I screwed these plants over initially by starting them out with an overheating situation. Also took their humidity dome away after transplanting and they stayed at around 50% humidity for a few days until I put in a humidifier to keep things around 65%. Could also be the mother earth coco mix I used. Most users rave about it, a few others complained about dead seedlings.
I think my best bet may be to scrap this grow, thoroughly rinse/buffer the coco, and raise the seedlings in smaller pots for the first 2 weeks at least before transplanting. I “self diagnosed” as a nitrogen deficiency, so I’m desperately added 1.5ml cal mag/gallon to the water. I have not tested the runoff because I’m using GH drops and it isn’t easy to grab a sample for the tube.
Was all excited too, as this was going to be my first autopot grow…not going well. Soil was ridiculously more forgiving to a new guy.
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and GH feedcharts for example. Very different. Half strength might work with one nute line up, but be totally wrong for another.
