Nutrients and LST

Okay, I’ll keep my questions simple. My Auto Tangerine Dream is 3 weeks old. Growing outside in Black Gold soil. Just transplanted to a 5 gallon fabric pot with about 25-30 % perlite about 5-6 days ago. Since being transplanted she’s been growing like a weed. Lol. She’s pretty short I think, but I’m not sure how tall she should be. I do know from my research that not stretching is a good thing. She’s very healthy and green and I’ve just been giving her purified water. Anyway, I know when people ask questions they get told to do some reading. Well I have and there’s too much info making my head spin. I’m wondering when I should start giving her nutes and which kind would be the most simple without buying ten different bottles of nutes. I was looking at the FF trio and Advanced Nutrients.

Also, I’ve read about LST and I’m not sure if it would be a good idea. I don’t think she’s tall enough right now. She seems to be growing out more than up. Is that a good thing? All I know is I must be doing something right when she looks that healthy and happy! I don’t want to muck it up by doing a lot of excessive and unneeded nutes or training. Any advice would be appreciated! I will post pics but I can’t find my charger cord for my computer and I need to get an app to scrub my EXIF.

 

Yeah, I learned about turning location info after I’d taken my photos! And they were taken Dailey at the same time. Today I used my camera with my macro lens which I will do from now on. Now just gotta find that damn charger! Oh btw, under the close up from my macro, I can see even better that they’re healthy. I ask about nutes because my girl is playing catch up after growing very slowly for the first 2 weeks. Compared to other’s plants, which I’m trying to avoid, she still has a way to go before I think she’ll be big enough to flower. Being an auto that’s not far off from what I’ve read.

 

I think it would depend on your camera. With mine, I’ve only removed EXIF from my computer and adjusted time and date on EXIF from my camera. I’m going to get one of those apps for scrubbing exif. If you have your cameras manual, you could look there or if you don’t you can google the model of your camera and should be able to view/download the manual. If you ever have any questions related to photography, I’m really into photography and may be able to help!

 

So, what do I look for as clues for her needing nutes? There’s so much info on nutes here, but if anyone has links to post here that are basic (short) with pics of different deficiencies I would be very grateful! She doubled in height in one day. Still kind of short, but she has still more leaves every day. It’s awesome how much faster she grows now since transplanting! Thank you for your help and advice!

 

Oh, I also have a question about watering. So far, I haven’t had any issues I could see with over or underwatering. Now that I’ve got her in the 5 gallon container of soil mixed with perlite in a fabric pot, I’m unsure about when I need to water. I spray the leaves twice a day with ph water. And so far I’ve watered more around the plant the right under it. I moved her this morning and I think the pot felt lighter. That’s how I judge when to water with all of my other plants. But I know with perlite and fabric pots you water more often. And I’ve read cannabis is really picky about watering. With all of my other plants I’ve been growing, herbs and veggies, all I’ve done to them is water and used organic Miracle-Gro soil. No nutrients. And they’re all doing fine. I even had one of my strawberry plants dry out to the point where I thought for sure it was dead. And it fell down upside down and I put it back in. Within a day, it fully recovered and was green and healthy again. Is MJ so much more difficult to grow than that? I mean, I transplanted too soon and it didn’t go well, but she was healthy the next day and has never shown any issues and has just been growing great. I guess what I’m getting at with this overly long post is this. There is a college semesters worth of stuff written that you need to grow MJ. I just wonder how much is overkill and unnecessary so I don’t needlessly spend too much money. And the nutrients I’ve read about are a lot of money! I do like the idea of the nutes that take the guesswork out. Like the separate grow and bloom bottles. But I see so many other nutes that are recommendeded and it’s a lot! Sorry for such a long post!

 

Nice shot! I took beach sunset photos a few weeks ago but with my cell phone. I live 15 minutes away from the beach. You would think that would be my favorite subject but I mostly use my macro lens. I can’t wait to use it when it’s getting close to harvest time!!!it will probably help to decide when it’s time to cut. I love using my macro lens to photograph my girl. When you see that close up you really know how well your plants doing. I absolutely adore my camera! And I’m pissed I still can’t find my power cord to my laptop! Grrrrr......I didn’t take any shots of her yesterday and I wish I did because she’s growing fast now. Making up lost time. I wonder if a plant starts out sporting a seed helmet for a couple of days causes some growth delay.

 

I bought a dual moisture and ph monitor and it does not work!!! I have another ph monitor that works. I’m going to get another moisture meter. That was a bummer. You water every day? I watered her today and before that it was maybe 3-4 days ago. Not counting spraying the leaves. Really I’d rather ere on the side of not enough than too much water from what I’ve read, too much can cause problems and too little is easy to fix. Did you do any LST?

 

When I get my seeds in- supposed to be here today-I’m going to try starting 2 and hope neither is a dud. I had one dud in my last batch from Growers Choice so hopefully that won’t happen again. But I decided to use different methods on them to experiment just for fun. It will be interesting to see what difference there may be. I’ll just have to keep careful records. I’ve been pretty much hands off with my girl so far. I want to use root stimulator on one, and LST. Maybe other things that I don’t know about yet because I’ve been doing research for the stage I’m currently in. Speaking of. When does your plant go from seedling to early veg? I think I might be close to veg. Sorry about lack of pics. I will post later.

 

When you’re counting how many nodes you have, do you include those first two true leaves? Mine are really down low and much smaller than all of my other leaves. I know the Cotyledons fall off and that’s normal. What about the first set if true leaves? If I was going to try LST, I’ve read that you should have a certain number of nodes. Of course that number seems to be different on different articles. I wasn’t even going to try to do lst, but on my nodes, I’ve noticed what looks like tiny new growth that’s about to happen. If I did lst, that would expose that new growth but if Shes outdoors does lst work differently than indoors? I don’t want her to get too tall.

 

Based on what I’ve read and it’s a lot, when it comes to nutes and watering, too little is easily corrected, where too much can cause permanent damage. I’ll just have to learn the signs of deficiencies. Or slowed growth. I figure I don’t have more than a week before I need to start adding nutes. I’ve been looking at the FF trio, Advanced Nutrients, and Dr. Earth. So far everything I’ve done has been organic and I’d like to keep it that way. I’m also looking at bone and blood meal and icky things like that. Plus Cal Mag. I think? Tbh, I’m clueless on which nutrients to get! The only thing I know is that I’m going to start small and go from there.

 

Ok, so I no longer need to guess when she needs to be watered! I had moved her and thought she felt a little light and decided to just water. Well, after I watered she was way heavier! So now that I have the weight down, I think I’ll be good. I’m going to need to start keeping records on her for future reference. How old is your girl there? And what strain?