My First Grow - Northern Lights CFL Grow

Honestly from what i'm telling from all the BIGGER plants in photos is just too low tds, needs more food, def all around you need a base veg formula asap! the base does have calc and shit, so i mean it will address all problems, if you used that for a feeding or two, then readdressed the problem i think you'd find much less problems! perhaps shit like calcium would be solved, the yellowing at bottom working its way up is N def, if you have all all purpose fertilizer, start feeding, start off low and see what happens, if you do nothing theyre gonna die, so you can only learn!

the smaller plants look good, so its telling me the plant is eating all in dirt then turning yellow and dying off, you need to add more food! im sure growth has slowed down now too >.>

 

can i be honest with you? my flowering plants are in 2gal pots and do you see how much bigger they are than you? i didnt write this in my jorunal cause embarassed ahah but about two days ago i took the bucket off the smallest to see root system and its fucking empty, there's nothing there, you wont get massive roots if you dont cater to them early on, which i obviously didn't on that plant, on the TD a day younger, the stem is twice is thick easily, i bet the roots are muchhhh more visible, but i was worried i may have stressed it when i checked it didnt come out as smoothly as i thought it would aha kinda broke in half, well the bottom part stayed at the bottom, luckily my plant looks to be doing okay and all is well, yes ideally bigger pot is better, but when you're starting and you dont have it perfect, you're not gonna fill that 2gal REALLY quick im still trying to aha

 

what you got to do is ignore the amount of bottle, because its not meant for what you're doing.. you start off slow, and read the plant, learn the plant, slowly boost it up until the leaves are fucking praying, when theyre loving thev light life is good, you know youre fine, until then very slowly increase the doseage

 

it's not going to be a instant change either, it's going to atleast take a day, maybe more depending on your medium, so its a slow process but maybe over the next month you'll be able to kind of gauge a doseage

 

you're absolutely right about that! if yuou fed earlier they wouldn't have lost the leaves and the leaves would have been collecting energy making the plant even bigger!!
 
onward, they are unrelated issues, the dots on leaves mean the plant needs calcium, not the roots need more room lol when you transplant and you pull the plant out of first container, (my td2 is getting dots on almost every leaf now its almost finished) if the root ball isnt so obvious in the medium like mostly white roots, you probably dont need to transplant unless you're going into flower and want to prep or something, 2gal is fine for months as a new grower aha you just need food so the older bigger plants dont die off, dots and other symptoms will start to show until you get a real nute made for growing ;-) or go through organic growers pages and look what they do to boost stuff, i know earth worm castings are used, but theyre as cheap as a bottle of nutes and id rather no dirt, anyways im not the person to ask if you want dirt advice, if you want hydro advice i can help, but the bottom line is you need to buy something now don't worry too much about the height as it doesnt matter, plants stretch, its really no indication of how much bud your final yield is gonna be, hell it might be proof your lights are too far away and your plant is stretching to get the minimum light it needs idk the situation, idk how your plants are looking. if theyre praying if they look mad stretched, idk! but what i do know is posting isnt going to cure the plants, you need to get them some food! i would keep it simple get a good base veg and flower it's that simple!

the leaves are the only indication without a meter if you're feeding properly, every plant has diff tolerances, so you really have to post pictures if you want answers ;-) 
 
if you keep transplanting using the same soil the roots will grow (And they do grow quick) to new soil and very quickly wipe it clean just as it did the original, probably quicker because it's tolerance and level of food needed is growing! so you really kinda gotta buy something to add to it, some people are using miracle grow, but im a hydro grower, once again youre talking to the wrong person ;-)

 

That's awesome! Good to know you didn't stunt anything haha

 

so what are you feeding them? miracle grow now? 

 

ever read about LST? might be time to learn my friend how to create a canopy

 

Yeah I'd tie them down man.
Any signs of flowering starting? And have the problems progressed any or just kept at bay?

Here's my collection at the moment.

1: group
2: blue mystic auto
3: same as yours (nl) but it has been neglecting to flower
4: big random female. Best in the crop by far.
5: Random crippled one. Didn't think it was going to survive. The leaves are curled and crunchy, they've been that way since sprout. Must be the phenotype, I kept it to see the kind of bud it will produce.

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i didnt think they were autos lol

 

Yeah I'm about to email the company. Two of the three didn't even germinate. And this third northern lights auto is a pitiful seed.

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look up super cropping then aha i do it a bit