Completely lost here

[Arnis&Weed]

They are actually only 7 inches in length

yes bro but just make sure you letting the plant have time to dry out a fair bit and if you look at my thread this is a commom thing with me sometimes just 1 girls a pain also when you lift your pot make sure theres no smell around ya roots on dont think you will and if you check my thread you will learn from

I will look for it and read it for sure. Thanks again

 

[Arnis&Weed]

Airdome should run continuously not every 15 minutes and it should mirror your light schedule. I’ve run without the airdome in both a 50/50 and 70/30 mix with no problems but roots are massive around the dome when I do use it. If you’ve been bottom feeding for a few weeks you shouldn’t top feed because you’ll just push the toxic salts to your roots. Don’t bother testing or worrying about ph at the pot, the res ph is the key. Ideal res ph is 5.8, 5.2 is too low. Your problems are most likely not following instructions to wait until leaves reach edge of pot. Pay attention to new growth not old leaves, if new looks good you don’t want to be adding extra stuff just because a leaf or two are yellow. I also use ro water with a & b and calmag in coco. I use 5ml per gal of calmag the whole grow, first week or two I’m using a/b at 10ml/g, going up to 14ml/g in flower. From early to mid flower I’m adding big bud for a couple weeks, then pk boost one week, then overdrive til finish. Your plants look good just avoid any extra stuff you may be thinking of

yes bro but just make sure you letting the plant have time to dry out a fair bit and if you look at my thread this is a commom thing with me sometimes just 1 girls a pain also when you lift your pot make sure theres no smell around ya roots on dont think you will and if you check my thread you will learn from my mistakes too

So I turned off the res, dumped the water out of the pots, I left the air dome on figuring it would help with the dry back
So I have read not to top water due to salts residue becoming toxic. Should I do a couple of flushes to get rid of the salts?
No smell of root rot

 

[PeaceLove&Buds]

I’d never flush salts to the roots but that’s just me. I’d wait until whatever dryness it is that you need achieve to feel happy and turn it back on. I think us growers tend to form our own opinions based on our experiences but tent conditions/environments/feed are always different which leads to various opinions one subject. My experiences tell me that turning the pot on early and lots of early defol were going to give you a somewhat stunted plant anyways. But also some plants burst later in life. My plant is 50 days old and just started stretching a few days ago for example. But live and learn man, next time just wait til she’s around 14 days old to turn it on. I’d suggest looking into the tray2grow if you like the pots. I love them. No air bases, root sock or airdome needed

 

[BII]

They are actually only 7 inches in length

You haven't shown your tent. But with such small plants and presuming you originally allowed space for them to be more normal size, if you have the room consider starting more seeds.

Next time just use coco or a proven soil. Maybe use a light-type soil that will get you through most of grow phase with just watering. I see no reason to abandon Canna A&B base nutrients. Just start out low and work up to whatever dosage range is proven for autos, often about 1/2 the recommended (photo plant) dosage.

Otherwise, since you are just getting started, consider further simplifying things, such as when I used AutoPots I abandoned using the reservoir, valves and piping after a few grows and just filled the bases manually with freshly mixed nutes. This will give you (vs. a dumb plastic valve) control of your watering, and allows better wet to dry cycles vs. the wet to somewhat less wet cycling with the AutoPot valves. And just like in nature with water collecting deeper in soil vs. at the surface, I bottom fed from the very start.

 

[Arnis&Weed]

I’d never flush salts to the roots but that’s just me. I’d wait until whatever dryness it is that you need achieve to feel happy and turn it back on. I think us growers tend to form our own opinions based on our experiences but tent conditions/environments/feed are always different which leads to various opinions one subject. My experiences tell me that turning the pot on early and lots of early defol were going to give you a somewhat stunted plant anyways. But also some plants burst later in life. My plant is 50 days old and just started stretching a few days ago for example. But live and learn man, next time just wait til she’s around 14 days old to turn it on. I’d suggest looking into the tray2grow if you like the pots. I love them. No air bases, root sock or airdome needed

How do I know when they have dried back properly? Last night I dump everything in the pots except the fluid that was in the coco itself. This morning they drank up all the remaining water.I did wait till 5 nodes before I bent her over. The growth was already very slow. I fallowed what autopots says about not top feeding them so the roots will seek the bottom. I probably jumped the gun thinking I knew something I yet to see explosive growth. Apparently I screwed up outing earthworm casting in the coco. Which still doesn’t make any sense to me ( organic vs. synthetic) I my little brain nutes are nutes. But that is why I’m here. I have every intention to learn indoor. I also didn’t fertigate the coco just soaked and drained.

To be fair I was very interested in the tray2grow, but wife bought all this for me for Christmas and she didn’t know I was wanting the tray2grow, so I’m using what I have till I can upgrade

 

[Arnis&Weed]

You haven't shown your tent. But with such small plants and presuming you originally allowed space for them to be more normal size, if you have the room consider starting more seeds.

Next time just use coco or a proven soil. Maybe use a light-type soil that will get you through most of grow phase with just watering. I see no reason to abandon Canna A&B base nutrients. Just start out low and work up to whatever dosage range is proven for autos, often about 1/2 the recommended (photo plant) dosage.

Otherwise, since you are just getting started, consider further simplifying things, such as when I used AutoPots I abandoned using the reservoir, valves and piping after a few grows and just filled the bases manually with freshly mixed nutes. This will give you (vs. a dumb plastic valve) control of your watering, and allows better wet to dry cycles vs. the wet to somewhat less wet cycling with the AutoPot valves. And just like in nature with water collecting deeper in soil vs. at the surface, I bottom fed from the very start.

My tent is a 2x4x5 light and exhaust takes about 8-10 of space way. So I was hoping to keep them layed down to get the most bud sites available to produce without a top cola rubbing on the light. I got the tent off CL for free and everything else the wife bought me for Christmas. I’m attaching a video of my set up. Sorry the wires are not managed very well, but after fighting the mars controller for a month or so….
The light height is a question. I kept the light close as they were seedlings, and continued to move it up. I had it at 16 inches for a weak then lowered it to 14.5 inches after noticing that they were not reaching up
As far as I know my DLI/Par is right ,VPD is right. Apparently the nutes I gave them was to heavy as I did 2/3 of the suggested amount from Canna. I do have the room to drop another seed and some 3 gallon bud trainers pots. Been thinking that exact thing. That way I can do soil that I’m more comfortable with as I learn coco hydroponics. After these two are done I plan to redo the coco without anything but calcium/magnesium and lime if that is correct

 

[Entombed]

I think you have a good looking setup with nice equipment. Now it's just a matter of learning how to use it all together. You're not doing bad, just a couple hiccups. It's just like any hobby. You're gonna kinda suck at it until you get some practice.

Think if you bought a professional grade camera. You could read all the guides and tutorials but you're still not gonna go out and take perfect photos your first days.

 

[BII]

Or rather than using soil, you could just pre-charge/rinse your coco/perlite (presumably well-buffered by the manufacturer) with say 1/4 the dose you will use in late grow period, and in a ≥3 gallon pot you likely need not have to water/feed for several weeks.

To me, soil is too risky and complex, you never know what's in the soil or happening with it, and you can't easily correct soil nutrient imbalances, while most everything is fairly well controlled with coco/perlite and standard nutes.

 

[Arnis&Weed]

Or rather than using soil, you could just pre-charge/rinse your coco/perlite (presumably well-buffered by the manufacturer) with say 1/4 the dose you will use in late grow period, and in a ≥3 gallon pot you likely need not have to water/feed for several weeks or more. To me, soil is too risky and complex, you never know what's in the soil or happening with it, and you can't easily correct soil nutirent imbalances, while most everything is fairly well controlled with coco/perlite and standard nutes.

Are you saying pull the plant and recharge the coco? Then replant?

 

[PeaceLove&Buds]

Nooooo way lol I have to think he was just referring to you mentioning soil in a future grow