My plants are all in rockwool.ph 5.8 watered 3 times a day. Some have 1 or 2 shoots others have 3 or 4 lower shoots but all 15 have lower yellow leaves. First they were burnt, then deficeient, and now they've benn coming out of that for the past 5 days with a more dilute fertilizer blend.I am basically using 5 drops of 3 different liquid ferts to a 4l jug so 15 drops to 4l so that is next to nothing if you ask me but how much could a 5 inch plant really want right?? Do you think I should Put more like 30-50 drops per 4l of water or should i just keep it at 15 drops per 4l because I am scared of burning them again thats why I only put 15 drops in but then again I dont want them to be defficient. I have seen other peoples plants at 1 month and they are like 1 foot tall. Min are only 6 inches what the hell?!?!? Do you think I am being a pussy and should add more like 30 drops per 4L of water?? Plus I water 3 times a day so the roclkwool looks dry on top but still has moisture underneath they are in pots with hydroton rocks and I just put my 2 inch rockwool cubes into 4 inch bigger cubes inside the pots and roots were comming like crazy out the bottom of the small cubes.that was 5 days ago. Are they going to start growing fast any time soon or what do I have to do? !?!?!
Bro, I think instead of drops you ought to be going by milliliters, That drop method may not turn out to be so accurate, I would get a little measureing cup and start measureing the amount per 4L in mL.. like 5 ml per 4L, that is what I feed to clones, and then gradually work my way up from there.. Not sure how much one of your drops is, do you even know? is it a mL? Either way, I know how frustrating it can be to use the method everyone says go's rocket fast, and then end up with deficient/burnt/stunted plants, the key is to get them dialed in, And if you already flushed for a week(didn't you?) then you ought to be feeding them I'd say probly about 5-7mL of nutes per 4L of water... Those leaves at the bottom yellowing is the mobile nitrogen shooting itself to the top of the plant, They need some more food bro, Just ease it onto them..
Ya I basically just use the cap from the bottles to add nutes. I just hold it diagonaly and pour a tiny bit of nutes into the corner of the cap and then add it to the jug. I'd say about 1-1.5 ml of each but possible only .75 ml of each. I am very worried about over fertilizing again... I have them under a 400 watt mh with one 42 wat cfl on the side. I just recently transplanted the my plants in the custom made smallest rockwool cubes into the standard larger cubes that are about 4 or 4 and a half inch cubes. I am pretty sure that the plants were having trouble growing in those small cheesy cubes because roots had taken over. I don't want this to happen again. Also the 4 inch cubes get a heavy watering before bed usually midnight to 1 am and today when I woke up the cubes are still wet so I didn't water this morning.. I usually water 2-3 timeas a day but if they are still nice and wet should I ease off the watering a bit??
they sound pretty small, and you may be giving them too many nutrients. the yellowed leaves may be a result of that. water with just water for a while, then go back to nutrients