hey folks! I'm at the end of week 4 on my first indoor grow in coco and perlite. i started these plants in 4 gal. airpots. for the 1st 2.5 weeks i watered every day just a ring around each plant with very light nutes and growth was pretty quick but very bushy and and short. beginning week 4 i started to do a full drench and drain with 1/4 nutes. i started to see some brown tips and some lightning of leaves. so under advise i raised my 1200w and 600w leds from 20in up to 24in. the leaf color isn't as bad but i find the leaves and stems are small for these plants with some red on them and still real bushy. only 6-7in tall and lots of little leaves. now i have heard mixed advise on coco. some say water a little everyday and keep moist. others say drench with runoff every 2-3 days and allow to dry between waterings. I'm thinking one or the other watering schedule is slowing growth. I'm at 1/4 strength of flora nutes with a full tsp. cal/mag every watering every couple or 3 days. phd at 5.5-6 with well water. as my plants did better with a daily light watering should i have stayed with the light daily waterings? they're at about 7-8in.now with lots of tiny 1in new leaves on spindly stems. I'm reluctant to upping the bloom nutes as they're still so small. I've only been able to do min. lst due to small plants. i have 2 n.l autos, 1 n.l blue auto. and 2 w.w autos. much thanks for any help.
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