MexicanSon
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Hello and thanks in advance because I know there is some real expertise on this forum.
So I'm a first time grower and I live in the Yucatan one of the hottest and most humid parts of Mexico. I acquired some autoflower seeds and managed to successfully germinate two of them: A white widow XXL and a Deimos XXL. The two plants seemed to be growing nicely on my sunny roof in 5L pots with a basic soil enriched with some compost and dried manure. I water well but only once the pot is quite dry, using tap water and some vinegar to push the PH to around 6 to compensate for the local soil which is a little chalky and maybe just above 7. A full week has passed since the first two tiny serrated leaves appeared on each plant but now the Widow seems to have stunted whereas the Deimos is going from strength to strength.
The Deimos has now sprouted a second pair of serrated leaves and is looking generally larger and slightly greener, but the Widow has been roughly the same size for about 3 days and the second set of true leaves came out looking like tiny coiled tendrils and don't seem to be developing much at all. Also the first set of true leaves point noticeably upwards and not outwards. I hope I have detected this problem in time to save the plant. I have a small bag of what looks like coco, peat and perlite which is unused, if the Widow is critical should I maybe repot to a solo cup and some of this light starter mix? I am going to share some close up photos of each for comparison, in which you should be able to see the wierd tendrils that the Widow (first photo)
has produced instead of a second healthy pair of true leaves which the Deimos (second photo) 
now has.
So I'm a first time grower and I live in the Yucatan one of the hottest and most humid parts of Mexico. I acquired some autoflower seeds and managed to successfully germinate two of them: A white widow XXL and a Deimos XXL. The two plants seemed to be growing nicely on my sunny roof in 5L pots with a basic soil enriched with some compost and dried manure. I water well but only once the pot is quite dry, using tap water and some vinegar to push the PH to around 6 to compensate for the local soil which is a little chalky and maybe just above 7. A full week has passed since the first two tiny serrated leaves appeared on each plant but now the Widow seems to have stunted whereas the Deimos is going from strength to strength.
The Deimos has now sprouted a second pair of serrated leaves and is looking generally larger and slightly greener, but the Widow has been roughly the same size for about 3 days and the second set of true leaves came out looking like tiny coiled tendrils and don't seem to be developing much at all. Also the first set of true leaves point noticeably upwards and not outwards. I hope I have detected this problem in time to save the plant. I have a small bag of what looks like coco, peat and perlite which is unused, if the Widow is critical should I maybe repot to a solo cup and some of this light starter mix? I am going to share some close up photos of each for comparison, in which you should be able to see the wierd tendrils that the Widow (first photo)
has produced instead of a second healthy pair of true leaves which the Deimos (second photo) now has.