Uber Noob, How Are My Girls Doing?

[BigLollo]

Hello everyone!
I hope you and all of your loved ones are fine and healty during these "interesting times" of pandemic and global anxiety. I juped in here looking for advices on how to be a better grower and reading a lot of the threads and comments on this forum I think I'm in the right place indeed.

I'd like to know if by the look of it you could tell me something about my girls because I am a bit concerned about their health.
Two of them are Northern Lights Auto (the bigger ones) and the other two are Green Gelato Auto, all of them from Royal Queen Seeds. Except from the seedling they are 15 days old, the remaning one is just a week younger.

The Green gelato is the one I'm more concerned about, due to her slower growth and her being more on the yellow side. Hope this will turn out to be just my paranoid mind, but anything you could tell me would be awsome.

Infos:
I'm growing in super cheap coco brick (think it is ment to be for reptiles) mixed with some high quality bark.
I'm running a 400w HPS 18/6
My nutes are unbranded orchid nutrients (I know I know, but please be nice to me I lost my job and I'm broke to the bone), but my father who was a orchid enthusiast swore to me they are high quality.
I got ph pen and ph strips, no EC meter.

Temps are a bit too high ( 29°-30° Celsius when light are on, 20°-22° when off) but I'm looking for a portable ac that I can actually afford (not those garbage mini cooler).

Any advice? Is she happy and healthy?

I'm a total noob and my father, who actually is an expert in growing plants is old, tech resistant and far away so I can't get any help from him. I'm trying to do my best but I know I could do better with your help.

Thanks in advance for your time and patience.

 

[Fitzy]

Hello everyone!
I hope you and all of your loved ones are fine and healty during these "interesting times" of pandemic and global anxiety. I juped in here looking for advices on how to be a better grower and reading a lot of the threads and comments on this forum I think I'm in the right place indeed.

I'd like to know if by the look of it you could tell me something about my girls because I am a bit concerned about their health.
Two of them are Northern Lights Auto (the bigger ones) and the other two are Green Gelato Auto, all of them from Royal Queen Seeds. Except from the seedling they are 15 days old, the remaning one is just a week younger.

The Green gelato is the one I'm more concerned about, due to her slower growth and her being more on the yellow side. Hope this will turn out to be just my paranoid mind, but anything you could tell me would be awsome.

Infos:
I'm growing in super cheap coco brick (think it is ment to be for reptiles) mixed with some high quality bark.
I'm running a 400w HPS 18/6
My nutes are unbranded orchid nutrients (I know I know, but please be nice to me I lost my job and I'm broke to the bone), but my father who was a orchid enthusiast swore to me they are high quality.
I got ph pen and ph strips, no EC meter.

Temps are a bit too high ( 29°-30° Celsius when light are on, 20°-22° when off) but I'm looking for a portable ac that I can actually afford (not those garbage mini cooler).

Any advice? Is she happy and healthy?

I'm a total noob and my father, who actually is an expert in growing plants is old, tech resistant and far away so I can't get any help from him. I'm trying to do my best but I know I could do better with your help.

Thanks in advance for your time and patience.

The biggest thing I can say is get a cheap 9 or 10$ ph pen and ec/ppm pen off eBay bc coco it's picky I'm not sure most people understand ph so a .1 ph difference is actually a big difference and from personal experience with ph strips they suck they just aren't accurate and that will cause u problems as ur finding out. Even though your strips say 6ph it could be 6.2 and if that's the case ur plants will not be able to pull enough nitrogen cal mag ect with that high of ph. Ur temps are good lights on for now the first few weeks high temperatures and humidity is best for a solid start. As for ec that's another key thing as you have no idea where/how much to feed @ this early stage 250ppm is where I stayed around for 7 or so days it's important to feed within the first 2 days of it coming out as coco has no nutes available. With unknown nutes it's going to be very hard to figure out ratios so get ec meter or nutes pen is cheaper but that's gonna be ur best bet imho

 

[BigLollo]

Thank you for your reply!
I forgot to mention I germinated all of them in Jiffy pallets, then buried them into coco. For the ph, I have a pen as well (strips just to double check) and I tested both water I fed and runoff. Ph is consistent between 5.8 and 6.2.
My nutrients are unbranded but ratio are expressed on the bottles, I'm just too dumb and forgot to say that.

the first one is NPK 15-5-15 + 7CaO + 3MgO + traces elements; the second one, which I suspect is more for flowering is 10-30-20; and lastly I have a powder 30-10-10

I've been very cautious with dosage starting with a quarter of the suggested quantity and upping it slightly every day.

Is it of any help?

 

[Jpkindbud]

I was using jiffy peat pellets but the netting on them caused my russian auto to get stunted. I don’t waste anything so i hydrate them then use the media without the net in 3 oz plastic shotglasses i call it my “non-transplant” cup!