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AdventurousJ

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Hello growers, my first year and I keep fighting with my 2 plants getting yellow at the bottom. I've let the soil dry out completely. 2 days ago gave them cal mag. I use fox farm big grow and big bloom. I'm 2 weeks Into flowering. I give nutes every other watering. I'm not sure if I'm giving to much or not enough. Should I stop adding nutes? I've never checked ph nor have the tools.
 

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TheWholeTruth

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AdventurousJ said:
Hello growers, my first year and I keep fighting with my 2 plants getting yellow at the bottom. I've let the soil dry out completely. 2 days ago gave them cal mag. I use fox farm big grow and big bloom. I'm 2 weeks Into flowering. I give nutes every other watering. I'm not sure if I'm giving to much or not enough. Should I stop adding nutes? I've never checked ph nor have the tools.
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id pull those yellow leaves off, gets some more light and air going around the base. Have you got a picture of the other plant too. By the way wat strain are you growing please ? From the looks of it it looks quite sativa. You probably need to go to a bigger pot for a sativa of that size, your only in week two, itl probably get much bigger.
 
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AdventurousJ

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TheWholeTruth said:
id pull those yellow leaves off, gets some more light and air going around the base. Have you got a picture of the other plant too. By the way wat strain are you growing please ? From the looks of it it looks quite sativa. You probably need to go to a bigger pot for a sativa of that size, your only in week two, itl probably get much bigger.
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Also I just got done clipping about 8 leaves off it before I even sent you the picture.. every week I've been cutting 8-12 leaves off the 1 plant
 
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TheWholeTruth

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AdventurousJ said:
I really wish I had waited.. but I just gave them 1 gallon each water. In 2 days I will feed hopefully I don't make them worse. Thanks for the reply
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Intresting, they dont look like og types. If they are they probably just need abit of cleaning around the base and air and probably up potting. They only seem to be yeallowing were its clustered, but the leaves elswere top to bottom are green nice. Just clean it up and see how you get on.
 
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Oh one other thing i noticed. Just stick to your grow feed till you start seeing pistols. Start adding the bloom feed bit by bit wen you see pistols coming everywere.
 
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SBNDB

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What size pot? Looks small. You should at least have 20 gallons absolute minimum 15. You’ll have to water twice a day outside for the next 6 weeks in a small pot. I’d put them in bigger pots asap. Or dig a hole and put them in the ground.
 
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AdventurousJ

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SBNDB said:
What size pot? Looks small. You should at least have 20 gallons absolute minimum 15. You’ll have to water twice a day outside for the next 6 weeks in a small pot. I’d put them in bigger pots asap. Or dig a hole and put them in the ground.
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These are in 5 gallon pots, maybe I went wrong there, thanks for the tips next year will go bigger and better.
 
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AdventurousJ

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AdventurousJ said:
These are in 5 gallon pots, maybe I went wrong there, thanks for the tips next year will go bigger and better.
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I've watered them lastnight, today pots feel dry little moist deep down tomorrow is heat advisory again. Not sure because of my yellow leaves I want to give nutes but don't want to create more yellowing
 
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mandocat

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Overall you look pretty good to me! Cannabis in soil tends to eventually use up those bottom early leaves and they die off. Maybe in other mediums as well but I can't speak to that. I am also watering alot, a 100 degrees out every day, but I am in the ground with a few inches of hay mulch on my plants. Still, I am watering every 2 days right now, slow dripping about 10 gallons of water per plant.
 
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AdventurousJ

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mandocat said:
Overall you look pretty good to me! Cannabis in soil tends to eventually use up those bottom early leaves and they die off. Maybe in other mediums as well but I can't speak to that. I am also watering alot, a 100 degrees out every day, but I am in the ground with a few inches of hay mulch on my plants. Still, I am watering every 2 days right now, slow dripping about 10 gallons of water per plant.
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Thank you very much mandocat. Makes me feel much more comfortable with my grow. I am interested in the way you have your plants layered with mulch and hay, why is that? What are the benefits?
 
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mandocat

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AdventurousJ said:
Thank you very much mandocat. Makes me feel much more comfortable with my grow. I am interested in the way you have your plants layered with mulch and hay, why is that? What are the benefits?
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Mulch is a way to keep the soil cooler and help it retain water longer, and this encourages more worms and their beneficial activities. It also helps to keep the root zone cooler which lowers stress on your plants. As an added bonus, hay or whatever organic material you use, will gradually break down and feed the soil. You can't put too much mulch on a plant, in my opinion.PXL_20240704_124925300.jpg
 
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mandocat

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mandocat said:
Mulch is a way to keep the soil cooler and help it retain water longer, and this encourages more worms and their beneficial activities. It also helps to keep the root zone cooler which lowers stress on your plants. As an added bonus, hay or whatever organic material you use, will gradually break down and feed the soil. You can't put too much mulch on a plant, in my opinion.View attachment 5407963
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Mulching also suppresses weeds, which means less work weeding!
 
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AdventurousJ

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Tomorrow morning I plan on giving my girls the nutes they need. My soil should be dry enough for feeding. I made a rookie move. My plants are in a greenhouse and I just discovered white mold on the ground. Instead of taking out my plants and risking the neighbors plus damaging them I left them in the greenhouse and turned off the fan and sprayed white vinegar all over the ground. Now I am reading that people use white vinegar to kill weeds oh no! I didn't get any on my plants but the greenhouse smells like vinegar do you think my plants will be effected?
 
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DeadHeadX

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I would not put vinegar in your soil, other than using a little as ph down or whatever. The white mold you describe is not necessarily a bad thing when you’re working with living soil. I’d repot them also, as someone else suggested. They will use up any nutes in the soil very quickly. Good luck.
 
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