Trying again. Pro mix hp, 3 purple pope seeds from night owl. Any help appreciated.

kronicking421 · Mar 23, 2023

DAY 18: just finished giving them their first watering with nutrients. The plan is to do 1 more hand watering and then set up the autopot. I am using fastbuds nutrient chart. With the next batch of plants i am planning on giving them some velo kelp early on. Maybe even using it when wetting the pro mix.

kronicking421 · Mar 24, 2023

DAY 19: seems like the watering helped. I think they could have used more nutrients because they still look pale. Going to increase them a bit with the next watering.

kronicking421 · Mar 25, 2023

DAY 20: doesn’t look like much happened today.

chuckeye · Mar 25, 2023

Autoflowers can start flowering about now.

Start over....

Cheers

kronicking421 · Mar 25, 2023

chuckeye said:
Autoflowers can start flowering about now.

Start over....

Cheers

Thanks for the advice but i have decided to keep these going anyways. My plants usually end up vegging longer than normal for some reason. We shall see where they go from here.

chuckeye · Mar 25, 2023

kronicking421 said:
Thanks for the advice but i have decided to keep these going anyways. My plants usually end up vegging longer than normal for some reason. We shall see where they go from here.

Longer is Good !

Best of luck, I'm sure you'll at least get a taste and had a lesson in watering

Definitely give them a little more food !

Cheers

kronicking421 · Mar 26, 2023

chuckeye said:
Longer is Good !

Best of luck, I'm sure you'll at least get a taste and had a lesson in watering

Definitely give them a little more food !

Cheers

Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely give them more food. Update on the other 2 seeds. Looks like the root is starting to form.

chuckeye · Mar 26, 2023

kronicking421 said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely give them more food. Update on the other 2 seeds. Looks like the root is starting to form.

Looking good, plant them

Did you "wet" your ProMix HP yesterday ?

Actually ProMix HP drains so well you could do it now....

Cheers

xtsho · Mar 26, 2023

You'd probably have better success just growing in a decent premixed soil that all you need to do is add water. Save the promix/amended promix/autopots for another day.

kronicking421 · Mar 26, 2023

chuckeye said:
Looking good, plant them

Did you "wet" your ProMix HP yesterday ?

Actually ProMix HP drains so well you could do it now....

Cheers

I was just about to moisten it. I am not really sure if it is best to just moisten it while mixing it up than filling the pot than place seed and let it do its thing or after planting the seed pour, spray or drip a little water.

kronicking421 · Mar 26, 2023

xtsho said:
You'd probably have better success just growing in a decent premixed soil that all you need to do is add water. Save the promix/amended promix/autopots for another day.

Thanks for the suggestion. I think you’re right but i got the promix already. Also wanna try and figure this out. After i might just switch to coco because the plants went crazy when used as the grow medium.

xtsho · Mar 26, 2023

kronicking421 said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I think you’re right but i got the promix already. Also wanna try and figure this out. After i might just switch to coco because the plants went crazy when used as the grow medium.

Good luck with the freshly popped seeds. You need to get them planted. No need to let the root grow in paper towels. :leaf:

chuckeye · Mar 26, 2023

kronicking421 said:
I was just about to moisten it. I am not really sure if it is best to just moisten it while mixing it up than filling the pot than place seed and let it do its thing or after planting the seed pour, spray or drip a little water.

Fill your cups, Water to run off and plant your seeds. Then leave them alone until the cup starts to feel "light"...

Spritzing is useless, the seed will grow a tap root into whatever water is in the bottom of the cup. When needed, a small amount of water around the edges will encourage side growth.

I prefer yogurt containers with holes in the bottom And place them on a plant elevator so they have air flow on the bottom.

Cheers

kronicking421 · Mar 26, 2023

chuckeye said:
Fill your cups, Water to run off and plant your seeds. Then leave them alone until the cup starts to feel "light"...

Spritzing is useless, the seed will grow a tap root into whatever water is in the bottom of the cup. When needed, a small amount of water around the edges will encourage side growth.

I prefer yogurt containers with holes in the bottom And place them on a plant elevator so they have air flow on the bottom.

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Cheers

I am actually going to plant then directly into 3 gallon smart pots. The seeds are blue microverse autoflower. I am assuming i don’t want to water till runoff if that is the case. Also don’t know if i should add velo kelp for the moistening of the mix. Don’t want them to get stunted as they are already supposed to be a small and fast plant to begin with.

chuckeye · Mar 26, 2023

kronicking421 said:
I am actually going to plant then directly into 3 gallon smart pots. The seeds are blue microverse autoflower. I am assuming i don’t want to water till runoff if that is the case. Also don’t know if i should add velo kelp for the moistening of the mix. Don’t want them to get stunted as they are already supposed to be a small and fast plant to begin with.

Velo (?) shouldn't be necessary...

You could fully water or "wet" the container with at least half a gallon.

I did a test with my 5 gallon fabric pots, after fully watering they started to feel light after four days with no plants. My goal is three days...

Over watering with ProMIx is only an issue when you don't do a wet/dry cycle.

So overwatering is basically watering before it's time...

Cheers

kronicking421 · Mar 26, 2023

DAY 21: looks like they put on some new growth last night. Going to water with some nutes and hopefully turn on the system the after the next watering.

kronicking421 · Mar 27, 2023

DAY 22: the girls look like they are starting to get comfortable. Hoping that i get 2 more weeks of veg.

kronicking421 · Mar 27, 2023

Just lowered the light to approximately 2.75 ft above the canopy. It was hanging around 3.1 ft.

kronicking421 · Mar 28, 2023

DAY 23: the girls finally look like they are taking off.

kronicking421 · Mar 28, 2023

Putting up the last few pictures for an easier view of progress.

Trying again. Pro mix hp, 3 purple pope seeds from night owl. Any help appreciated.

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