Looking for a Second Opinion My Yellowish and weird looking leaves

[Erdericks]

I believe I have a Over-watering issue, but might also be complications with my plants, Umm Transplant. Lemme Explain.
All my current plants were Sprouted and planter into Soil, they were growing pretty good, but i decided i wanted to grow hydroponically.
I went against many reccomendations and removed them from their Small Soil cups (SOLO Plastic cup with slots and holes in them)
knocked off all the soil and rinsed the roots as best i could, some came more clean than others, since the transfer to the new big pots
filled with them clay looking balls, they have all grown easily more than twice as fast. but I have 1 plant thats old growth is yellowing but
new growth looks great.


This plant here.

The only other Concern I have is this






I know I likely have a few different Strains. Because I am currently growing junk I found donated by a friend. New Good seed to come Soon,.
Currently thinking White Widow, and Carmalicious.
Assuming this all goes well.

These are all from my hydroponic Dripper system, I am currently watering every 30min / 30min off all day 8am-2am dark from 2am-8am watering 3x during 2am-8am.

I assume yet again 30min/30min is way too much but thinking maybe not. I also run an air stone in my reservoir. stone runs while pump runs.

Any Observations / Diagnoses / 2cents Would be Awesome

Almost forgot these are about 3 weeks old now (Almost)

 

[cruzer101]

Not to worry.
I was expecting to see the lower leaf yellow. That would have been an indication the plant was sending the rooting hormones down and needed the stored nutes in that leaf but that isnt the case, I see the tips burnt, That is usually a sign of over nutes, Could be a couple things, One, that strain is just nute shy and doesnt need that much, the second is maybe that one had some nute residue from the soil. Either way, as long as the new stuff looks good your OK. Keep nutrient strength around 500ppm and pH under 6.0 till flower then you and go higher like 900ppm 6.5 with hydro.

Oh ya, I assume you are watering 30 on 30 off cause the timer. They make cheap ones that are in 15 min increments too.
I tried several different cycles, I'm running 15 on 30 off now in my hydro, works well enough I think.

 

[Erdericks]

What do you think about growing in rock wool cubes instead of the pellets i'm using? The guy at my local hyro store sold me on them instead of rockwool. but i'm thinking for blooming how to move my current plants to the ebb/flood unless i move the entire pot (roots growing out the bottom of the pot. I will take a few clones from the best of these plants, and just bloom the rest. Due to these being seeds from the bottom of a bag... I don't plan to keep them longer than my WW or carma seeds come in and are producing. the tutorial I semi copied was mr green's I grow chronic available on youtube. he had several bits of bad / old outdated info. however I do like the idea of the rockwool being easier to move clones with.. but my hydro guy said it was harder to grow with or in due to ph levels of the rockwool and he has 15yrs+ experience bla bla bla so I did it his way, kinda. But I am ready to put my new sprouts in my readyrooters and then to either my expanded clay or rockwool cubes.

 

[newb weed grower]

MAN ALL THAT SOUNDS PRETTY COOL
srry caps too lazy
im not growing hydroponics atm
but i do know all advice given so far sounds spot on

 

[cruzer101]

I like the hydroton (clay pellets) you are using. Growing in rockwool alone is not that easy,
Boomer does it and has had problems with pH, over/under moisture, stems rotting, nutrient def, shit like that and he has a few grows under his belt.
Start them in rockwool then move to hydroton sure but to flower out in the stuff, Na, pain in the ass.

Better yet, look into Rapid Rooter cubes. I think there is no better way to start them and they dont come apart down the line. Saving you the trouble of unplugging sprayers if you go that way. They work fine in fill and drain setups, just be sure the fill water line come to the bottom of the cube and doesn't submerse it.

 

[Erdericks]

I like the hydroton (clay pellets) you are using. Growing in rockwool alone is not that easy,
Boomer does it and has had problems with pH, over/under moisture, stems rotting, nutrient def, shit like that and he has a few grows under his belt.
Start them in rockwool then move to hydroton sure but to flower out in the stuff, Na, pain in the ass.

Better yet, look into Rapid Rooter cubes. I think there is no better way to start them and they dont come apart down the line. Saving you the trouble of unplugging sprayers if you go that way. They work fine in fill and drain setups, just be sure the fill water line come to the bottom of the cube and doesn't submerse it.

I have the rapid rooters allready that was step 1 for certain, however to go from that to rockwool or to hydroton was the hard decision. like right now i know in rockwool if i can figure out the ph issue, i can root it fully then sent it to hydroton to keep the mom going, but for clones they would goto rapidrooters then rockwool then into the bath of hydroton in the ebb / flood blooming area. or at least thats the "plan" however many of my seedlings that were put directly into hydroton are rooting out the bottom of the pot. when its time for them to get bloomed should i just bury the entire pot into the ebb /flood system? or try and remove the pot? pot removal is dangerous. heh,.

my new seeds will goto rapidrooter then to pots with hydroton (mom's) clones would goto rapid rooters then to ??

Option 1:
Rapid rooter to rockwool (4"Cube) to grow all it's roots and veggy till it goes to Blooming room, where it will be buried into the hydroton ebb/flow'

option 2:
Rapid rooter to hydroton in a pot, -- grow to move to blooming room pot and all,..


Either way I got plenty of pots, and 3 strips of rockwool cubes (returnable)


Thanks for the reply

 

[NewGrow60sToker]

Here's a link to pretty good guide with pics.
LINK: The Complete guide to Sick Plants,pH, and Pest troubles! - International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums

 

[Erdericks]

thanks for the link, checking it out now.


Thats such a scary posting, so many harmful things. but amazing amounts of information relating to diagnosing issues,. thanks for the link.

 

[*BUDS]

everthing seems on track. thatplant looks like it was once in shock but now its ok, and with what u did with transplanting, suprised it didnt die of shock.

 

[Erdericks]

everthing seems on track. thatplant looks like it was once in shock but now its ok, and with what u did with transplanting, suprised it didnt die of shock.

The Odd thing is none of them seemed to be effected by the washing of roots and repotting into the hydroton, except a slight drooping of leaves for a day or 2.
that plant with the yellowed edges and new growth, was yellowing before the transplant. the new growth started after the transfer to hydro.
my big ? is still

What are these?

They were all planted same time, bag seed.
they are so small still, and don't seem to be growing but look healthy.
I'm just gonna let them go till they either die or do something lol.

Do some plants just not grow well?

 

[cruzer101]

Oh, well if you are starting with rooter cubes and have been successful transplanting directly into the clay pellets then there is no reason for the rockwool. I put the rooter cubes in the rockwool for two reasons, one is to buy some time, give the roots a bit more space to grow before transplant and to make the transition smoother. Mother plants generally require different nutrients amount then your growing girls. Rather then mixing nutes just for her every time you water I found it much easier just to put her in soil mix like FF ocean forest. The nutes are in the soil and its pH balanced, just water with tap.

 

[newb weed grower]

some seeda arent ment to grow but a plant
not so much
some are just really fineky

 

[cruzer101]

Yea, some are just duds and never amount to much.
I had one that was a small girl (about half the size as the others not a real runt) all through veg but then 1/2 way through flower she just exploded with buds and the yield was just about as much as the others. If ya got the room and are not concerned with the amount of plants your growing then keep them. If not...

 

[Erdericks]

Hah, as soon as we started this discussion, they started coming up. Bout damn time lazy stoner plants.. Hmm I guess I can forgive them LOL I'll try and take a pic later, weird how they suddenly started growing.

 

[Erdericks]

Turned out to be males LOL