New Grower Any Feedback/Suggestions

[Renee19]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post. I have my first grow and i would like some suggestions. I have a 20 day old Auto Skunk that I just transplanted. (just found out not to transplant autos).
Medium: coco coir
lights: 3 vegetive growth clfs approximately 3 inches away
Ph: 5.9
Nutrients: 1/4 strength 19-8-13

About 24h after i transplanted i have spots on the leaves. I tried to diagnose them but they don't look like any pics that i have seen.
Sorry, I'm still trying to get the hang of posting pics. This is its progress over 5 days. The pics with the clear container are the pre transplant pics.

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[Trapper]

If you look closely at the spots and on the underside of the leaves, can you see any white specks?

It just doesn't look like a deficiency to me, but I'm not an expert and the pics are a little blurry...

 

[Renee19]

I haven't seen any white specs or bugs. I'll take another closer look thanks

 

[Reedroguez]

Could it be the leaves where damaged a bit while transplanting?

 

[Renee19]

That is a possibility. I don't see any spots on the new growth. Hopefully it doesn't spread.

 

[Renee19]

I read the light schedule thread and i see that it may be light stress.sIt's not overly hot in the grow box but the leaves do look a little dry. I am switching from 24/0 to 20/4 to hopefully reduce light stress. I will also move it a bit further from the lights. The nodes i think are too close together. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. I think moving it away from the lights will space them out a bit. Thanks for your imput everyone. I will update soon.

 

[Need4Weed]

Hi Renee and welcome to AFN. With the high price of soil, I too would like to be able to grow with coco. If you don't mind I'll follow along and try to learn a thing or two ... Peace!

 

[Renee19]

Thank you for following. This is my first coco and auto grow so i have a few things to learn as well.

 

[Renee19]

Ok, this is around day 23 i changed to a 20/24 light schedule last night. I have seen a lot of leaf growth, not really a lot of vertical growth. I just moved them a bit farther from the light. The older bottom leaves seem a bit dry.I'm not sure if that's normal. I don't see any spots on the new growth so that's good. I will try to increase my waterings to at least 3 times a day. Give them a little bit at a time. Maybe I'll use plain ph'd water every 3rd day.

 

[saneiegocali92]

Renee i am also a coco grower. I only give 1/8 strength roughly of nutes...i use GoBox nutrients from General Organics. Like the rest of the guys and gals up top said...just go easy on the nutes. Ive had two feedings in 4 weeks. Only because about half way down the grow medium i added top shelf fertilizer and that holds moisture well. Autos tend to get funky coloration on their leaves from the nutrients and as a coco grower all you need to do is within a couple days of noticing any spots or burns, run water without nutes through your medium. That will help your root base feed at a different rate. They wont be soaking up a concentrated amount of nutrients at once. But dont stress...my first grow with autos i worried about each and every thing that i noticed on the plants lol so just dont let it get passed nitro burn marks which is just the tips starting to turn yellow and then it works its way up leaves, burning a path towards the stems...thats what to watch out for. Just dilute your feed mix and always under feed if you anything. Autos are tough but will take a beating if given to much to fast. But since your growing in coco youll have great runoff to check your ph balance. Im not really seeing anything on those guys you posted pics of that would be a threat. But could be missing something. With enough TLC they will be big and bushy in no time

Good luck my friend and feel free to PM me if you have anymore questions regarding the grow or with coco/peat moss.

Sorry for the book...lol happy smoking Renee!