Dutch Passion Slow growing TD question.

Looks like there is some green growth on your wet coco surrounding the plants, algue or moss or alike maybe?:shrug:

I agree with big_buddha, give hand feeding a go and get in there nice and even, but first access that green stuff!
 
Hey guys thanks for the info. However I spent 2 weeks testing my setup before dropping beans in. I would drip like I am now then dump my pots once a week to make sure everything was soaked. Coco is very good at having a capillary action. That's why drip works so good. I have 5 drippers 4 on the outside and 1 next to the stem. And I achieve 10% runoff every day.

I thought it may be over water too so I tried feeding every other day and that didn't change anything except my coco getting way to dry. And the algue on top is just cause the soil is still receiving light. I don't doubt it could be something I'm doing wrong but like I said she's not showing any signs of being unhappy. She is just a slow grower and I was concerned that maybe she was retarded lol.
 
Truu,

I wish that I could offer some advice, but I know Zero about coco, sorry mate!!
 
Ok, only reason I mention to wet, you explained first paragraph sentence 3. Even though coco drie fast, you have to still watch seedlings and young plants with it. When you stated soaked, it makes me wonder if inside the pot there's alot of moisture yet that the plant cant handle.

Is your system 24/7 or timered?

When you go on to say daily 10% runoff I ponder even more.

I have used coco, hydroton, lava rocks, dirt, perlite straight, for grows.

Knowing the dry inside not top surface, and wet inside is important. If your watering as you explained, and literally dumped soaked soil, you may have to much water.

Stick your finger in there and see if it feels wet. If so back the watering off. if not, my bag. Just trying to help.
A cheap moiture meter may help as well as next time scale the smart pot full and wet. then scale it dry. If need be write the number down and length time to dry. I forget shit all the time.

I have seen plants take well to overwatered situations. By this I mean they appeared healthy but no grow. As soon as water was made less available I seen them fly in growth.

I wont go into detail, but an agent orange pulled some real crap with water with me, it almost liked nothing for water.

Hopefully you get it sorted out, best wishes.
 
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I agree, let her grow. Please let me know how it goes
 
Hey guy just keeping y'all updates. Well I decided to pluck her today. She flowered on Friday and began to grow at a very fast rate. Although she was only 2" tall she made it to the 4th node finally. Things were looking good until today I noticed that she was leaning on her stem. Upon further inspection I noticed that the stem that was above the soil was very stout and thick. Their noticed right where the stem entered the soil was as thin as a week old plants stem. At that point I decided to check out the roots and they seemed to be great. The rootball wasn't as big as I'm used to seeing, but nothing that looked like it would effect the growth of the plant. My HBD is still growing great. She's branching out great now. She still hasn't flowered wich is weird but hey that just means she's gonna be even bigger before she flowers.

I did my best but I just couldn't use anymore nutrients on a plant that wasn't going to make it. Ill be trying it again in the future. I'm running low on my blueberry stash! Thanks for the help dudes.
 
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