Your plants are beautiful. Are they autoflowers as well? What strain? I hope mine even look close to that. Great job. And I greatly appreciate your detailed response. May I ask what type or nutrients you used? And maybe when you first started feeding your plants them?
You're absolutely right. I think I will try LST out on a couple of the plants. I've currently just been tucking the large fan leaves and the new bud sites have been popping out of different spots in every direction. I started them all out at different times. So this would be a good opportunity to try LST.
And to answer your question, the foxfarm happy frog soil does contain nutrients. I have read many mixed reviews on it being hot soil or working great. On my first grow, the soil has seemed to really help my plants grow great in my opinion. I haven't had a single yellow leaf or deficiency I can notice. I haven't used any nutrients yet. Most people have given me their opinion stating I'll probably be good until around 5 or 6 weeks. Then I'll use about 1/8 or 1/4 suggested nutrients. The largest plant is about 26 days old and is about 14 inches as of now. Its growing about an inch a day if not more.
Thank you, right now I’m running 4 strains, all autos. The strains are:
1) Fast Buds Purple Lemonade Auto
2) Fast Buds Blackberry Auto
3) Sweet Seeds Black Jack Auto
4) Seedsman Candy Cream Auto
Ultimately Im no expert but I would say if happy frog is a relatively hot soil that you don’t or shouldn’t have to feed any nutrients for the first several weeks, but admittedly I don’t know how how that blend is. See if you can find out how hot it is, and that will give you an idea on if you should be adding nutes. I would say, if they continue to grow and don’t show signs of deficiency that you are okay. You could always try a super light dose of grow nutes just to see the response, but don’t overdo it. Better to under feed than over feed. That being said, when you transition to flowering you will want to be ready with your flowering nutes because they’re going to need it, but again, start with relatively modest doses and work your way up. Also, be ready to feed some cal mag around week 4/5 as the plants may begin to show some deficiency then due to all the work they’ll be doing to put out buds.
Im using all Bio Bizz nutes (organic bottled nutes) in bio bizz light mix (which is a starter mix for seedlings) and I started feeding root juice right in the beginning and at the beginning/middle of week two (I began using. an 1/8th concentration of the recommended dose of grow nutes and slowly upped the nutes as I progressed- I never got up to a full recommended serving of nutes but wish I challenged my plants to grow more in veg- oh well I learned for next time). I didn’t feed any flowering nutes until they were really showing lots of pistils, and admittedly I should have waited a little longer.