Avering
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Sweet! Do you reckon I should plant them in their final pots then? I have some 2 gallon, 3 gallon and 5 gallon smart pots. Would like to grow these plants as big as possible
Third times the charm...
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JoeBlow5823
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Will be hard to transplant at this stage.... You will damage the roots because they are so you and isnt a ton of them yet. Almost have to wait until they are more developed.
JoeBlow5823
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This is how i start my autos.
Avering
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I actually can't lift the light any higher, but maybe I could see about some milk crates, and will see about a dome soon, must be a lot better for the humidity huh? I was thinking the dome will actually be much better, because the temp/rh meter I have in there reads for the whole tent and not just the small space in which the plants are at (bottom of the tent).. with the dome i could get the temp/rh reading for only inside of the dome.. thank you for pointing that out
Avering
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Thats cool is that a layer of sand on top? How do you go about watering them? So many people were telling me not to start in big pots.. but i actually did that my first grow attempt and the plants were growing well until i had to get rid of them. I 've been going by teaspoons and really pleased with how they're looking.. cause the second attempt to grow i believe I saturated the containers way too much.. I was not giving time to the plants and attention, and it showed, the plants were yellow, thin, lanky.. but these are green, plump and stout. I can tell they're getting ready for a watering though.. I was thinking I'll wait til the leaves are praying and the containers feel as dry as the same ones with dry soil. What do ya think?
Avering
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Thinkin ill leave em be then for a while after I water em tonight and set em to either 20/4 or you know, I actually was reading that 18/6 is popular for autos as well.. so was gonna read up on what are the advantages..
JoeBlow5823
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More light = more growing. They dont need a dark period. I just give them a little squirt of water every day or two i dont know exactly how much but very little, especially when they are real small. I use fabric pots but the last grow i kept them in plastic grocery bags until the plants got decent size so the soil stayed moist but not wet.
The shit on top is called Gnat Nix. They dont make it anymore. Its actually recycled glass, keeps that top layer perfectly dry. The closest thing i could compare it to is like gravel but much much lighter, it floats more than dirt when watering so it stays on top.
Chuckafunk
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Lmfao you can certainly have too much light. Plants only absorb a certain amount of photons a day.
Avering
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Alright I'm starting over straight into a 5 gallon with my last seed, Fugue State from Mephisto Genetics.. going to take good care of her.. put her in there with some fox farms ocean forest and sprayed a few times where i planted plus the container..lets see what happens
