KikiRollsItUp
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Hi everybody, I'm having issues with my current grow. I have been lurking this forums for a couple years but finally created an account in the hopes I can find some guidance for the issues I'm currently having. My current issues is with a medium which is holding too much water, my pots are still heavy when I lift them 5-6 days after my last feeding 
I'm currently growing indoors, they are 6 autos (the pink labels to the left, NYC Diesel) and 6 photos (the blue and red labels to the right, AK 47 and Black Domina). The autos seeds' were put in soil on february the 4th and the photoperiods were put in soil on the 7th; yet there's a huge difference in growth. I'm running 3 mars hydro 300 w in a 4x2 tent (I know it's a bit over kill for this stage but I needed to raise temps inside my tent), the medium is a mix of soil and peat moss, lights are running 24hrs (I switched from 18/6 schedule 3 days ago because I wanted to keep temps high and because I was hoping this would help the soil dry faster).
I currently watered this pots on february 11th, so that was 5 days ago; when I lift them they feel heavy (they have lost some weight but not enough to warrant another water). The first 2-3 days I noticed significant growth, but on days 4-5 they stopped growing, some of them are showing signs of overwattering (the heaviest pots) and a couple of the autos are becoming light green instead of the deep green color they used to have...
I suspect the main culprit is the soil I used. I bought an 80LB bag of soil from Home Depot months ago, and unfortunately some rain got into it some weeks ago. I didn't thought much of it and used that soil mixed with some peat moss when I started this grow. I just recently read about how soil can be hydrophilic or hydrophobic, so I'm thinking perhaps the soil being so wet for so long has changed its properties and now it's hard for it to dry up?
anyways, I was considering transplanting into bigger fabric pots. I bought Coco Coir and Perlite today. So I was thinking about doing a 1/3 Coco, 1/3 Peat Moss and 1/3 perlite mix when transplanting; then next time I water I would try to mostly water the edges so mostly the new medium is the one getting the water (allowing the inner core [the current troublesome medium] to dry).
Any ideas? constructive criticism? is my diagnosis wrong? Can't really think about things I'm doing much differently from previous grows, other than the soil that got wet before this new grow.
Thank you for any help given!
I'm currently growing indoors, they are 6 autos (the pink labels to the left, NYC Diesel) and 6 photos (the blue and red labels to the right, AK 47 and Black Domina). The autos seeds' were put in soil on february the 4th and the photoperiods were put in soil on the 7th; yet there's a huge difference in growth. I'm running 3 mars hydro 300 w in a 4x2 tent (I know it's a bit over kill for this stage but I needed to raise temps inside my tent), the medium is a mix of soil and peat moss, lights are running 24hrs (I switched from 18/6 schedule 3 days ago because I wanted to keep temps high and because I was hoping this would help the soil dry faster).
I currently watered this pots on february 11th, so that was 5 days ago; when I lift them they feel heavy (they have lost some weight but not enough to warrant another water). The first 2-3 days I noticed significant growth, but on days 4-5 they stopped growing, some of them are showing signs of overwattering (the heaviest pots) and a couple of the autos are becoming light green instead of the deep green color they used to have...
I suspect the main culprit is the soil I used. I bought an 80LB bag of soil from Home Depot months ago, and unfortunately some rain got into it some weeks ago. I didn't thought much of it and used that soil mixed with some peat moss when I started this grow. I just recently read about how soil can be hydrophilic or hydrophobic, so I'm thinking perhaps the soil being so wet for so long has changed its properties and now it's hard for it to dry up?
anyways, I was considering transplanting into bigger fabric pots. I bought Coco Coir and Perlite today. So I was thinking about doing a 1/3 Coco, 1/3 Peat Moss and 1/3 perlite mix when transplanting; then next time I water I would try to mostly water the edges so mostly the new medium is the one getting the water (allowing the inner core [the current troublesome medium] to dry).
Any ideas? constructive criticism? is my diagnosis wrong? Can't really think about things I'm doing much differently from previous grows, other than the soil that got wet before this new grow.
Thank you for any help given!
