Hi, this is my first soil grow (grew all hydro) switched to soil, for the reason of it being less maintenance, and rather just watering every 4 days. I tested two different methods, rapid rooter and planting directly into the soil, I am using Fox Farm soils (Light Warrior, and Ocean Forest) as well as Fox Farm liquid nutes and dolomite. Well the attempt at direct soil with a pure mix of perlite and light warrior turned out well with the seedling sprouting weirdly, with only one true leaf coming of the chute, there is a little nub of a second leaf forming slowly. Now for the rapid rooters, both strains germinated and sprouted quickly. As soon as I saw a tap root poking out of the bottom of the rapid rooter I transplanted each seedling to a solo cup (using 2 cup method for easier transplant), I used two different mixes. The first mix was for the Afghan Kush, I used 70% Light Warrior and 30% Ocean forest, with perlite layer on the bottom. For the Pineapple Chunk I did a mix of 50/50 with a layer of perlite at the bottom. It seems so far that the Afghan Kush is growing more aggressively foliage wise. I transplanted the rapid rooters into a solo cups on May 17th. The direct soil seedling sprouted on May 18th. How do the health of my plants look so far? I have question for runoff Ph, generally I have that the runoff Ph when I do water, is around 6.0Ph is that alright for soil? When there seedlings at least? Also watering schedule for seedlings generally I can tell by the weight, but I worry that the rapid rooter is retaining more liquid than the soil, I am worried about root rot in general. My bottom line question on watering, should I just go by the weight of the pot compared dry to wet and how many days I skip not watering, rather than worrying about the rapid rooter?
for their age they r looking fine, Keep in mind different strains will do different things, as in growing wise, different heights ,growth speed of veggie and flowering etc.. PH is good , dont worry too much about PH unless u r seeing some leaf issues, Ive done a few grows and never had to check PH, The watering is correct how you r doing it , wait until the top soil is dry and the cup or pot is light, compared to wet, at the norm its 2-5 days between watering depending on growing medium . Root rot mainly happens much further until the grow , as long as the pot is big enough and u r allowing some run off water then no worries, and majority of the time its more concern for hydro growers (water) then us soil growers. best of luck
