SierraKilo1313 Pre requisite: Sanitized mediumwith Silver nitrate and Hydrogen peroxide and pre buffered coco-medium with light nutes, silica and calmag , seed soaked in Bascillus and Potassium humate for 8 hours all sprouted with a tail.
Germination:
100ml drench with microbial solution(mycorrhizae,pseudomonas,trichoderma)after sowing into the cooco-medium pit. One is completely out and has a white spot on the cotyledon, don't know if it is due to condensation and had a burn. Any advice please feel free.
My first grow please help your fellow grower out if I am missing something.
What if the EC of my coco medium is 0.18 but the nutrient solution being introduced is EC 0.7, what am I supposed to understand with the above situation and what is the solution?
The ec of the coco is probably not nutrient related. Just ignore it. .18 is a lot lower than my tap water, lol.
The beauty of soilless is that ech time you fertigate with 10% runoff or more, you basically reset the nutrient solution around the roots and avoid buildup. So, any and all symptoms you see is 100% about you adjusting your formula to avoid those problems in the future.
I wouldn't just track EC. use a free app or website to calculate ppms of NPKCaMgS. If you know how much of each you feed, you can make more intelligent adjustments based on what you see. Within a grow or two if your first choice of fertilizers is a good one, you'll quickly have confidence to grow plants healthy from seed to harvest. Fertilizer isn't even on my mind when i grow. I try new things, but almost always revert back to my base formula. Systematically trying 1 or few things at a time -- like for a couple years i was trying higher levels of P and that was useless effort, so i stopped using the little P booster (0-46-0).
do the basics right and be systematic - whether coco or any other soilless medium. Always fertigate. Always get 10% runoff. While you may start with a reduced concentration with seedlings, it isn't necessary as normal soilless levels are safe - 1.2-1.5EC overall, not counting your coco or tap water.
You'll probably need to figure out vege phase - transition - bloom formulas, but again, if systematic, it won't take long to dial it in. I have my ppm break down in my recent diaries at various points.. think germ, flip to flower and the previous week or 2 weeks ago i shifted again... at FD 26 i cut feed by 50%, because of what i see in the plants and vege growth stopped, so it needs less going forward. a more drastic drop is something new for me, and hopefully it avoids overfed plants late flower. NEver a huge problem, but still want to learn to avoid it.
SierraKilo1313 1 GC last stunted survivor, 1 SG stunted survivor and remainder 2 SG and 3 SS are going good let's see where this grow will take us.
I tried germinating Gorilla glue 4 but both of them didn't push through after sowing them.
I might be doing something completely wrong while sowing. Can't push more seeds through germination because the rest of them are at different stages of grow and everything will fall apart.
Let's hope the 7 plants make it through fingers cross.
Review: Plants aren't as green as I would expect them to be either the medium is too inert that they are turning yellow and stunted.
So I tried fixing it with aggressive push of nutes and checked the EC and now it's at a comfortable 0.70 average among all the pots improving from meager 0.20.
👋 SierraKilo, very ambitious for a first grow. Gl🍀🤞. You might want to separate into 3 diaries. If you want to enter contests( which im sure you will) one strain per diary.. environments the same, copy paste to each one. Check home tab for contests, question location and so much more. Have fun 💚💫
@Natrona, No contests yet for me, need to work on my growing skills and get better at it. After the first three to four then I might get into the contest game.
@SierraKilo1313, Don't discount your growing skills,. You will be surprised. You are growing autos which and be finicky. 1) reduce nutrients to 1/2 the recommended dose. Watch for nutrients deficiency, increase if needed. Water sparingly, for the first week i mist 2x daily. Then gradually increase water amount but only every 3-4days. Autos can be trained LST some may tolerate topping but most breeders say to avoid HST wirh autos.
A couple of Gorilla cookies didn't emerge while running t hand on the top soil I severed it's root I'm hoping it will push through but have Gorilla glue auto on the side germinating so might be a slight switch in the strain profile.
Will update in a couple of days
