Very poorly girls, root bound?

Greenthumbgrower1986

Greenthumbgrower1986

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Hi all, I have some very sick girls. They are all fast bud autos grown in 6.5l pots with bio bizz light mix and biobizz nute line, also adding calmag pro in as well. I use tap water that's stood for 24hours and phing at 6.8. Is this caused by root bound?
 

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They should be putting their energy into making buds though. Routbound isn't exactly a bad thing as long as you increase feed frequency. There's a good thread somewhere titled...beds are for fucking, small pots equal big buds.
 
mooray said:
They should be putting their energy into making buds though. Routbound isn't exactly a bad thing as long as you increase feed frequency. There's a good thread somewhere titled...beds are for fucking, small pots equal big buds.
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Do you have any suggestions on what may be the issue then as I'm giving full strength nutes
 
with autos you should prob just use 3 galls imho I got two gsc autos still haven't popped them their like almost 2 years old who knows but if I were to pop them I would just set them in my veg tent and let them go till they start showing flowers then throw her into my flower room but that's how I would do it
 
You may have a drainage issue then, because there's no way those lovely roots should be holding water for six days.
 
At the next watering, hold up the pot and make sure the water flows out the bottom within I dunno...you should probably see something come out the bottom within ten seconds. It's one of those things where a little experience helps. Like if I'm watering a solo cup, I might pour in a half of a solo cup with water and I'll get roughly half of what I put in, back out. I had some drainage problems in solo cups this spring where I didn't poke big enough holes in them and I put in a half solo cup of water and only a few drops were trickling out, I knew something was wrong. So, I'm kind of banking on a little of your own experience to know what looks right coming out the bottom. And if the pots are sitting in a tray, make sure the tray isn't holding any water.
 
mooray said:
At the next watering, hold up the pot and make sure the water flows out the bottom within I dunno...you should probably see something come out the bottom within ten seconds. It's one of those things where a little experience helps. Like if I'm watering a solo cup, I might pour in a half of a solo cup with water and I'll get roughly half of what I put in, back out. I had some drainage problems in solo cups this spring where I didn't poke big enough holes in them and I put in a half solo cup of water and only a few drops were trickling out, I knew something was wrong. So, I'm kind of banking on a little of your own experience to know what looks right coming out the bottom. And if the pots are sitting in a tray, make sure the tray isn't holding any water.
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I defo think it's a drainage issue as they are holding water and root mass is very hard.. Soil at bottom of pot looks dry. Should I transplant and loosen root mass before transplant?
 
I think that's pretty much your only course of action. Just be gentle when you're softening the root ball and if you're not comfortable with it, then just skip it. The new soil surrounding the plant will wick the moisture away and it will stretch out on its own. And when you water, it'll help to water around the imaginary line where the old soil and the new soil meet. It'll help the roots want to seek outward to get food.
 
mooray said:
I think that's pretty much your only course of action. Just be gentle when you're softening the root ball and if you're not comfortable with it, then just skip it. The new soil surrounding the plant will wick the moisture away and it will stretch out on its own. And when you water, it'll help to water around the imaginary line where the old soil and the new soil meet. It'll help the roots want to seek outward to get food.
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Great, appreciate the advice. I'll do that tomorrow thanks
 
I'll also add, don't act too quickly whenever a clown on the interwebs (me) gives advice. Always good practice to hear from a few other folks, which I'm sure will read through this and chime in shortly.
 
mooray said:
I'll also add, don't act too quickly whenever a clown on the interwebs (me) gives advice. Always good practice to hear from a few other folks, which I'm sure will read through this and chime in shortly.
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Yeah I agree, had a few folk on Instagram tell me it's definitely magnesium deficiency... Sometimes you never know what to believe
 
Instagram has a lot of flatbill bro's, but I see what I believe are a good amount of smart and experienced growers here.
 
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