6 Days old, are they growng Slow?

White Berry

When I first started them in my humidity dome, under fleros PH 5.8 nutes 200PPM and they shoot up like a rocket. Then put them in a bubbler with same PH/PPM under 400W mh Light. It seems as they slowed down.

So, I did some research and read that you should not use nutes for first 2 weeks. So, I flushed them and put them in none nute/PH water. its been 2 days and still growing slow.

Then I heard to PH the water from the getgo. So, today I PH'ed to 5.8 and I said what the hell, I'll add some superthrive and I added 30PPM of nute. I can't see 30PPM nutes burnning the plants. Res temp as of now is 71f bit high, so I will add some ice to get it to 65f. Room temp is at 73-75F. The relative humidity is at 65%. I read somewhere that this is the target range for this stage.

I hope I'm not stressing the plants from all these changes. heres what they look like as of today.


(Res Temp)







I Think they look healthy. They where getting abit yellow when in the nute water, when I flushed, the next day, they started to get greener.

Thanks

dont give em nutes for the first couple of weeks. they look fine. they grow slow until the 2nd or 3rd set of leaves and then take off like a rocket

sittinherebored said:

dont give em nutes for the first couple of weeks. they look fine. they grow slow until the 2nd or 3rd set of leaves and then take off like a rocket

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Oh I see. Guess it needs to build a root system I guess. More Leaves = more solar energy = faster growth

Superthrive is ok Right?

what about the 30ppm nutes I added? should it be ok with only 30ppm?

that looks about right the plant will be 2x that size in the next 7 days, by the 3rd week they will be flying! feed 1/4 strenth nutes for the 1st 2 weeks then up it to 1/2 strenth for another 2 weeks then full strenth from then untill harvest. I have never had any problems doing it that way

p.s 500 PPM for seeds and clones for the 1st 2 weeks

9inch bigbud said:

p.s 500 PPM for seeds and clones for the 1st 2 weeks

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500PPM seems abit high. On my GH nutes it say for seedlings & cuttings 1/4 tsp - 1/4 tsp - 1/4 tsp per GL of the 3 part nutes. This comes out to 200PPM

Even then I thought that was to high

I'll wait till they get there first true set of leaves. Then get it to 200PPM

Then see how they respond.

I think I found the problem. I have hard water. I get the PH to 5.8. the next day its at 6.4 or so maybe higher. And the leaves look abit yellow.

Today, I checked the PH every 2 hours and I get it to 5.4 few hours later it up to 6.0 I'm like damn! I keep keep adding PH down all day to keep it at around 5.5. and the leaves are now getting a nice dark green again.

PPM on water before anything was 200ppm Damn water has PH buffers in it to keep it at 7.8 - 8.0.

Maybe thats way it was growing slow.

P.S the other day, the roots on the white berry is looking great! in just 6 hours of dark the roots growen about 3-4 in out from the netpot. I was stunded.

SOGrowing said:

I think I found the problem. I have hard water. I get the PH to 5.8. the next day its at 6.4 or so maybe higher. And the leaves look abit yellow.

Today, I checked the PH every 2 hours and I get it to 5.4 few hours later it up to 6.0 I'm like damn! I keep keep adding PH down all day to keep it at around 5.5. and the leaves are now getting a nice dark green again.

PPM on water before anything was 200ppm Damn water has PH buffers in it to keep it at 7.8 - 8.0.

Maybe thats way it was growing slow.

P.S the other day, the roots on the white berry is looking great! in just 6 hours of dark the roots growen about 3-4 in out from the netpot. I was stunded.

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Maybe you should start going to smallmart and get bottled water by the gallon or something?

did you ph the clay pebbles before you started?

p.s
500ppm is fine.

Lucky... Mine have been "growing" for 8 days now and I don't even have a sprout...

need roots to get new growth. and i see no new growth. yes hold off on the nutes. good luck

juggaloclownz187 said:

Maybe you should start going to smallmart and get bottled water by the gallon or something?

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I have a 15gl res. and a 81gl res on my main DWC. I need some kind of fliter that can connect to my hose.

today I checked the PH, I set it to 5.1 lastnight and it holding at 5.6 now.

I also got the res temp to 67f lastnight with a 2letter frozen bottle and its still holding the same temp

everynight i'm going to add the ice to keep it down. Should help with root growth.

The res temp in my 80gl is at 68f and has been there for over a week