New grower.. Need advice.

DukeFluke said:

There's some terrible advice being thrown around on forums, even after all these years. And this above is some of it.

If you don't know your trade, learn it before giving people advice. The plant is hungry, not burned.

This plant needs a basic feed of 1.0ec and it'll start growing nice and green. That's it. It's as simple as it gets. Growing coco is no more complicated than growing with compost.

Don't transplant into pots that are too big for it. 3 Gallons is too big. Put it into a 1 liter pot - or one quart in your measurements. And feed it with 1.0- 1.2ec of base feed. Stick with that basic formula and you'll be alright

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So I did just go to the 3 gal from solo cup and they have tripled in size within 2 days. Pretty awesome because after you suggested going to a quart sized pot I figured they would be stunted for a few days. Been feeding them fox farm GB and BB at 1/2 strength for the last 3 waterings and they are an awesome deep green... sorry for the dumb question but what is ec? And how do you measure it?

The reason I say go into the right size pot is because it cuts out potential watering issues. If you go into a pot that's too big and saturate it, you'll have large areas of stagnant coir, which isn't healthy. There's nothing wrong with going straight to final pots straight away, as long as you're careful not to over water, which it looks like you have been.

One little tip, in future when you're potting up, try and bury as much of the stem as possible, right up to the bottom leaves. Roots will form from that stem and the base of the plant will be stronger.

EC is electrical conductivity. It's just a universal way to measure feed strength with a tds/ec pen.

DukeFluke said:

The reason I say go into the right size pot is because it cuts out potential watering issues. If you go into a pot that's too big and saturate it, you'll have large areas of stagnant coir, which isn't healthy. There's nothing wrong with going straight to final pots straight away, as long as you're careful not to over water, which it looks like you have been.

One little tip, in future when you're potting up, try and bury as much of the stem as possible, right up to the bottom leaves. Roots will form from that stem and the base of the plant will be stronger.

EC is electrical conductivity. It's just a universal way to measure feed strength with a tds/ec pen.

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Thanks for the help, starting to have some fun now. They are beginning to give off a sweet smell.

Nice. Good luck

How close am I to determine sex of plant? Will it matter if I top before knowing sex?

Nope. Top it now and it'll grow nice.

You're not far off. Nice and healthy too

Another noob question here... Light intensity... I have a spider farmer sf4000 and a sonofarm pro series 2000. They are at about 30” running the 4000 at 60% and the 2000 at 80%. I downloaded a lux app and I’m up around 18000ish. Sound right or should I crank them?

Questions- first pic- will that little ball identify sex for this plant? Second pic- will this plant have four main colas?

DukeFluke said:

The reason I say go into the right size pot is because it cuts out potential watering issues. If you go into a pot that's too big and saturate it, you'll have large areas of stagnant coir, which isn't healthy. There's nothing wrong with going straight to final pots straight away, as long as you're careful not to over water, which it looks like you have been.

One little tip, in future when you're potting up, try and bury as much of the stem as possible, right up to the bottom leaves. Roots will form from that stem and the base of the plant will be stronger.

EC is electrical conductivity. It's just a universal way to measure feed strength with a tds/ec pen.

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Any advice here? I feel like I’m over feeding... I feed every other watering at full strength... they have taken everything I have thrown at them. I’ve been running at 100% light intensity for 3 weeks now. How do you think they would react if I went to feeding once a week. I switched to flower on wednesday. I haven’t even had one yellowing leave yet.