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Apexsmoker420
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Hey friend saw your thread asking for help. Thanks for keeping such detailed information and records.
What are you using to read moisture levels? I am not sure if I read correctly, but you watered two plants a gallon between them? And another between the other two? So each got half a gallon?
You said these were 3 gallon or 5 gallon pots?
Well, they look over-watered and not big enough for those pots yet in my opinion, but I don't know what you're using as a moisture meter. Be sure that you're putting the probe real far down to the bottom of the pot to take those readings. Cannabis doesn't like its feet to be kept wet for long, and even if it's dry half-way down the pot, if it's moist all the way down for very much longer than 5 days, the plant tends to suffer. The leaves begin to get droopy while still remaining full of turgor pressure ( as opposed to the wilting droop you'd see from underwatering ).
I'd also suggest bumping your pH up on the feeds. In soil you want to be more in the 6.5 pH range. I'm not sure where you read to go for 6, but that's more for soilless (Promix, Sunshine, etc. ) or coco than for soil. Ocean Forrest, you definitely want to be in the 6.5-6.8 range. I do see some common tell-tales that point to pH like the ridged looks on your leaves.
To check I would let them dry out nice and well, wait until they JUST start to wilt to water them again. When you do pH to 6.5 and use about half of what you've been giving them, so 1 quart ( .25 gal ) each or just until you see run-off. In my experience pots that size don't need half a gallon of water each feed, especially with plants that size in them, but just give enough water that you see it start to come out of the bottom. A lot of people say to water to 25% runoff to avoid salt buildup but it's easy to over-shoot that mark so for now just water until you JUST see runoff starting to come out so you can rule out over-watering.
Ocean Forrest is also pretty rich already so stay in that 200 ppm range you're feeding now. It's definitely NOT a deficiency, so don't be tempted to add more nutrients at this point.
Good luck with it, hope it helps. Post updates, I'm subbed.
Hey thanks for the info! The probe is a 4-1 soil probe I got online. It’s nothig special but it does the job and works pretty well.
I have two 3 gallon pots and two 5 gallon pots
The plants in question are in one of each
Also they are getting half a gallon each give or take the 5gal gets a little more.
I don’t agree with you on the pot sizes being to big but to each his own.
I will take the advice and adjust PH. I have pretty much been following close to how I did it my first grow and I used low 6s and everything was great.
I will adjust though because I do think that was some of the issue.
Also I have been getting about 20% runoff with a half gallon each. But I will monitor it better and adjust if needed.