KchristianL
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My plants are 3 weeks old and starting to yellow I'm growing in coco coir and have just watered them today I cant understand why they would be starting to turn yellow
Need advice for a new grower
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BobThe420Builder
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Coco needs watering/feed daily with 1/4 strength nutes
Move the light a bit closer as well
Move the light a bit closer as well
KchristianL
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how much water would you suggest I give them daily or just drip some in
KchristianL
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Is there any way I can transplant from coco to fox farms spoil without killing my plants
KchristianL
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I also started my nutrients two days ago I'm nervous to do much cause this is my first time growing anything
BobThe420Builder
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Probably should have done some research on growing in coco
KchristianL
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I watched a few things but the internet lies that's why I finally came here I heard coco retains water the best and is the best for first time grows I was surely lied to cause its turning into a hassle
BobThe420Builder
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No
Your just not doing it correctly
Your just not doing it correctly
KchristianL
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Well thankyou for the advice I'm happy I came to this site before I kept reading on other shit might start a new grow in fox farms soil for a easier time
BobThe420Builder
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Fox farm is not a begginers soil
Hard to judge the plant since it has all the nutes in it
Yer better off in coco to learn in
Hard to judge the plant since it has all the nutes in it
Yer better off in coco to learn in
KchristianL
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Ok I added more notes lowered the light gave more water an will repeat
BobThe420Builder
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Feed every day with 1/4 strength nutes till you get run off
KchristianL
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On it now I just hope these guys can bounce back
GreenestBasterd
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Seeds that small really don’t need much water and overwatering can cause yellowing.
That’s quite a big pot so lots of coco to dry out.
You may want to start them in smaller pots in the future and the pot up to a larger container.
That’s quite a big pot so lots of coco to dry out.
You may want to start them in smaller pots in the future and the pot up to a larger container.
GreenestBasterd
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Not much yet
polishpollack
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unfortunate that you can't take showers in order to grow doobage. 
You can switch to fox farm if you want. it's actually designed for indoor grows and it makes things very easy provided you don't add more fert unless you are sure you have to.
there's two kinds of soil by fox farm, the light warrior and ocean forest. light warrior is what you want to use for such a small plant at first, the when it's about 10 inches tall or so, you transplant into ocean forest.
light warrior soil has a lighter amount of nutrients and designed to get a plant started. so what you'd do is get that soil into a pot that's about the same or a little smaller that what you're using there. the pot size is important as you don't want it to be too large, which would make removal more difficult later on. when the plant has grown for several weeks, you pull it out and transplant into a very large pot, like 10 or 20 gallons for example. You fill that container with ocean forest soil and just add water. if you make the mistake of adding fert to this hot soil. you will do the same thing many people do which is make the mistake of over ferting that sucker and it will go yellow and die. plants go yellow when they are struggling to stay alive. they go yellow when they have too much food and yellow when they don't have enough, so people here get confused and think that just because a plant is yellow that it needs more food. this is not always the case.
anyway, you plants are very small so it's easy to dig around them now, pull them out and put them into light warrior. you shouldn't have to add anything except there is not nutrients in that coco so once the plants are in light warrior, put some of the warrior soil on the top of the coco and hit it with some water to wash the nutrients into the coco. Do this several times as days go by to ensure that there is some nutrients in the coco until the roots are long enough to get into that warrior soil in the container. follow this and you should have good success. you really can't put a seedling right into ocean forest as the that stuff is designed for long term indoor growing and loaded with fert to last a long time. the plants have to be more established so around 12 inches tall or so will be about the time you consider transplanting.
ocean forest is actually designed for beginners and everyone else so to say it's advanced soil is kind of silly. it's designed to make things easy. you just have to understand it can't be used for very young plants or the plant will overload and die. you have to use large containers to last the entire life span. this way you don't have to give additional fert. you simply depend on the soil, provided that you use enough of it. if you use small containers, the soil will run out of nutrients before the end of the flowering cycle and you'll have to add some. the hard part there is that people always add too much and kill plants in doing so.
You can switch to fox farm if you want. it's actually designed for indoor grows and it makes things very easy provided you don't add more fert unless you are sure you have to.
there's two kinds of soil by fox farm, the light warrior and ocean forest. light warrior is what you want to use for such a small plant at first, the when it's about 10 inches tall or so, you transplant into ocean forest.
light warrior soil has a lighter amount of nutrients and designed to get a plant started. so what you'd do is get that soil into a pot that's about the same or a little smaller that what you're using there. the pot size is important as you don't want it to be too large, which would make removal more difficult later on. when the plant has grown for several weeks, you pull it out and transplant into a very large pot, like 10 or 20 gallons for example. You fill that container with ocean forest soil and just add water. if you make the mistake of adding fert to this hot soil. you will do the same thing many people do which is make the mistake of over ferting that sucker and it will go yellow and die. plants go yellow when they are struggling to stay alive. they go yellow when they have too much food and yellow when they don't have enough, so people here get confused and think that just because a plant is yellow that it needs more food. this is not always the case.
anyway, you plants are very small so it's easy to dig around them now, pull them out and put them into light warrior. you shouldn't have to add anything except there is not nutrients in that coco so once the plants are in light warrior, put some of the warrior soil on the top of the coco and hit it with some water to wash the nutrients into the coco. Do this several times as days go by to ensure that there is some nutrients in the coco until the roots are long enough to get into that warrior soil in the container. follow this and you should have good success. you really can't put a seedling right into ocean forest as the that stuff is designed for long term indoor growing and loaded with fert to last a long time. the plants have to be more established so around 12 inches tall or so will be about the time you consider transplanting.
ocean forest is actually designed for beginners and everyone else so to say it's advanced soil is kind of silly. it's designed to make things easy. you just have to understand it can't be used for very young plants or the plant will overload and die. you have to use large containers to last the entire life span. this way you don't have to give additional fert. you simply depend on the soil, provided that you use enough of it. if you use small containers, the soil will run out of nutrients before the end of the flowering cycle and you'll have to add some. the hard part there is that people always add too much and kill plants in doing so.