Newbie Journal (1st Grow)

EmeraldReverie It's cute.

EmeraldReverie Strain: King’s Kush Auto (Feminised) By: Green House Seed Co Note: The wattage listed here is wrong. I couldn't choose 35w but that is what I am using. Planted in 3/2 in regular potting soil. I did give it a rather low dose of nuts: Buddha Grow about a few weeks back. Just 1/3 of a cup. Not sure if that's what make the leaves look a bit deformed as well. At one point they did go through some light stress, and unfortunately I wasn't watching out for the pH level during it's seedling stage. It looks rather stunted for a 5 week plant from other pictures I have seen but this is my very first grow. Comments, questions? Edit: Had a friend come over who has more experience with outside gardening. He said that the soil felt compacted and that the kush is over watered and the soil is not aerated enough. Suggested to take a small skinny stick and loosen up the soil a bit AROUND where roots may be and hold off watering even longer. Going to try and put it outside tomorrow in the sun as well to evaporate some. It's too small to transplant it into a pot with dry soil. Update 4/6 - I got the soil dried but maybe not enough to warrant it some water because the leaves drooped more about and hour later. I guess I didn't wait long enough. Do leaves recover from being over watered? What are some signs that I need to look out for that I can start watering again so this doesn't happen again besides the soil being dry. It was dry 2 inches deep which was a suggestion. Or is it not a over water problem? It got nutes only once and it looked like it got some burn on the tips so I switched back to regular ph water ever since. Update 4/8 - It looks worse. I didn't water it for a few days to make sure the soil is dry. I gave it ph perfect sensi grow A & B, 7.5 ml of each in a 1 gal of distilled water. I'm waiting to see if it perks up. There may have been alkaline residue left overs in the soil. I'm just as as stressed out as this plant, ha.

EmeraldReverie Day 38 (4/9) - It's still performing weakly. Still sick and stressed. I recently changed the water yesterday to pH perfect sensi A & B yesterday. I will transfer it to a cloth pot today out of the ceramic one that it's currently in. I've been prolonging it's light schedule because I think it switched to flowering instead of vegging but it looks like it's not working. It's still not exceeding 6 inches. I wonder if it's nute lockout? This plant is no where up to par where everyone else's plants are at in 6 weeks of growth. I'm reading and searching whatever I can to try and troubleshoot this problem but I'm just frustrating myself. Will switch to a stronger light source and if that doesn't help it any, which I doubt, I'll just toss it out. It's a lost cause. Or questions and suggestions are always welcomed. Guidance? No?

EmeraldReverie (Day 45) 4/16 - I gave it some cal-mag a few days ago, increased to 200 watt LED (bringing it to 235 watt in cabinet), and just giving it plain pH water with no nutes. With the leaves so deformed I don't know if it's experiencing nute lock or what. Too afraid to give it anything else. There are brown spots forming, and there are some yellowing. Not sure if I mentioned previously about transplanting it into a cloth pot with fresh soil but I also crushed eggshells and mixed it into the soil. I'm not sure what else to do at this point but wait. I think it might be going through root shock after the transplant.