New Grower +Speed Auto by Sweet Seeds (1st grow)

[Original Lowryder #12]

I think @hope2grow has the right idea. I had a similar issue where I thought they were being overwatered and kept watering less. Looked just like yours did. Turns out it just needed way more water and I was drying her out. Pot was super light. This is when I started to gauge when to water with lifing the pots for water weight. Got her turned around but it took about a week of proper watering to fully recover. Hope that helps some!

 

[hope2grow]

Yes i have a strong feeling she's thirsty as well, but most people told me it's overwatered so i stopped watering much. Now i will water very well until runoff and add some Bloom nutes, will post an update in few days. Thank you very much for the help!

No problem m8.. just remember.. it doesnt matter how much u give her as long as u let the soil dry out/let the plant use the feed.. before u water again she'll be fine.. get that cycle down and its plain sailing.. im gonna guess that a water to run off will see your plant through for around 72 hours.

 

[Rasterman]

@OM2 if you're not sure, water her to saturation. She'll perk right up. Wait until she gets wilty next time and water her again. However many days that takes, start watering her to saturation at the halfway point.

 

[OM2]

Update: week 7

Finally she perked up I guess she was just thirsty and hungry for bloom nutes, i still have to learn the watering practice. Now i watered until runoff with 6L of water and it took her 2 days to perk up.

Added:
Half dose BioBloom 0,5ml/L
Third dose BioGrow 0,3ml/L
Little bit of BioHeaven and Alg-A-Mic, just 1ml of each into the whole canister of 6L
Sprinkled some bacteria Plant Magic Granules over the soil surface before watering.
Stopped adding Silic Boost and Root Juice, and i will slowly increase the Bloom nutes.
I stopped adjusting pH to 6 or 6.5, now i only adjust to 7 and let the soil lower it further. pH from runoff is exactly the same as it goes in.

Temps 27C day, 23C night
Humidity 50-55%
Light at 50% power, 40cm from canopy

 

[Need4Weed]

I haven't grown in dirt for several years, but it just so happens that I'm doing a run in CocoLoco and from my understanding, you treat it just like growing in dirt. I had a bag left over from an experiment I did mixing 10% CocoLoco to coco/perlite. Another reason I decided to use it was because I knew if I treated it like dirt, it would require much less water and I could take it easy for a grow and not work so hard, lol. With all that being said, I wouldn't dream of watering without checking pot weight first. I always heard that when growing in dirt the dry period was just as important as the wet period.

 

[OM2]

Yes i've heard about the wet/dry period as well, and many people told me that my plant looked overwatered. I was worried about the roots, so i left it to dry for a week. But it was the opposite and it needed water instead, and the soil became too dry. But it's my fault, i wasn't watering properly since start, burned her with Fish Mix and i was late with Bloom nutes, but now hopefully i will get the hang of it. Now the plant is perky and she's doing fine, at least much better than last week. She is not droopy and wilting anymore and the yellowing became slower. Still some messed up leaves but i will leave them until they become fully yellow, then i'll pluck them out. The pots still have some weight, i will water in the next few days when they are light.

P.S - I added these 3 small plants later, sorry for not including them in the diary because they were just for fun, training and variety. I didn't know what will be with them, but they're also doing nice and i'm keeping them for sure Maybe i'll get a bigger box soon, we'll see. Two of them are around 4-5 weeks old, and the seedling is around 1 week old, all in 4 liter pots. From top to bottom:
Sweet Gelato Auto
Another +Speed Auto
Auto Psychedelic by Bulk Seed Bank

I really could've train that main cola better lol, it's a lot taller than the rest but now it's too stiff to bend it more so i'll probably leave it like that.

 

[hope2grow]

She's looking a fair bit happier now m8

 

[OM2]

It's almost week 8, about 3 weeks of flower

Since 2 days ago the leaves started yellowing again even more rapidly than before, and she's wilting again. To me it looks like potassium and magnesium deficiency but i'm not sure.
I watered today with 6L of water at pH between 6.5 and 7, and added:
BioBloom 1ml/L
BioGrow 0.5ml/L
Little bit of BioHeaven and Alg-A-Mic


Is she really that hungry for Bloom nutes or do i have a problem with some lockout? Now i'm worried about the plant, it still has a long way to go but most of the leaves are yellowing. I'm not sure will it survive to produce buds until harvest. And once the leaves are yellow it's impossible to bring back the green color right?

Could it be that the light is too strong, or maybe not enough light?
Migro recommends 18cm height, but i keep it at 40cm height at 50% power because i thought it's burning the leaves. I can't figure out the light height and intensity. Measured the Lux with my phone at 30000 lux average, i don't know if this is good or not.

Very demotivating.. I'll buy some pure K nutes and epsom salts and try it next watering, but i'm losing my hope a little bit. And i've read somewhere that organic liquid bottled nutes can't be flushed like synthetic nutes, so i don't know if flushing would help. And if she's really that hungry i might make things worse with flushing. And it doesn't make sense to me that she would require a flush because i added only small amounts of each, and i used BioHeaven and AlgaMic on small plants in seedling and veg without problems. I think maybe something is wrong with BioGrow or FishMix, maybe they're rancid or something but i don't know the difference between rancid and fresh Biobizz.

What you think, does she have a chance to survive until harvest and produce buds?

 

[hope2grow]

There's definitely an issue there m8.. assuming that your trying to keep this organic I don't really know what to advise.. sorry

 

[hope2grow]

This was my experience of biobizz nutes many years ago m8.. I only used them the once!!