fern
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Hello there.
Five weeks ago I started growing a Critical by Dinafem, from seed.
It got stuck with a seed membrane during germination, but after a succesfull operation, the little one started to grow as intended.
Two weeks into grow I started noticing it was going pretty slow. I had just recently grown 2 very healthy and succesfull Automaxxes in the very same setup. I know non autos are slower, but I still felt there was something wrong. The soil I used on the later one was a pretty low quality: It didn't drain well and when dry, it hardened a lot. So i decided to transplant the little one (about on week three, when she was looking like just a few days old.)
I used 33/33/33 ratio leaf soil/perlite/compost-wormcasting soil, on which I've grown awesome tomatoes.
With the transplant I aded a very diluted rooting agent (twice as diluted as indicated in the envelope) to help her root.
And now, two weeks after the transplant, things aren't looking better. (see pics!)
She's growing her leaf sets, already arround node 4, but she's very very small, and very slow.
Her 1st set of true leaves and cotiledons dried up and fell, and now her fisr pair of 3 finger leaves are getting yellow and starting to fall.
Her top leaves are still healthy green, but with some paler green spots.
I've watched the regular nutrient deficit/excess simptom charts, but I just don't want to make a desition just on something that looks similar and end up killing her.
Can someone please help me get this girl going?
There are my growbox (60l x 60t x 40w cm) light specs:
50 CFL wats (25 cool light, 25 warm light)
50 LED wats
She's about 20cm away from the lights.
She's in a 3 litre pot with a 33/33/33 leaf soil/perlite/compost-worm-casting medium.
I water her with tap water (water in my town is very pure, and has stable 5-6 ph, never been an issue with anything I grow)
About 30 to 50 ml every other day, when the soil is dry.
Just fed her a tiny bit of rooting agent (NPK 2,5/10/5) once, very diluted.
The pics (remember this is a 5-6 week old plant):
Five weeks ago I started growing a Critical by Dinafem, from seed.
It got stuck with a seed membrane during germination, but after a succesfull operation, the little one started to grow as intended.
Two weeks into grow I started noticing it was going pretty slow. I had just recently grown 2 very healthy and succesfull Automaxxes in the very same setup. I know non autos are slower, but I still felt there was something wrong. The soil I used on the later one was a pretty low quality: It didn't drain well and when dry, it hardened a lot. So i decided to transplant the little one (about on week three, when she was looking like just a few days old.)
I used 33/33/33 ratio leaf soil/perlite/compost-wormcasting soil, on which I've grown awesome tomatoes.
With the transplant I aded a very diluted rooting agent (twice as diluted as indicated in the envelope) to help her root.
And now, two weeks after the transplant, things aren't looking better. (see pics!)
She's growing her leaf sets, already arround node 4, but she's very very small, and very slow.
Her 1st set of true leaves and cotiledons dried up and fell, and now her fisr pair of 3 finger leaves are getting yellow and starting to fall.
Her top leaves are still healthy green, but with some paler green spots.
I've watched the regular nutrient deficit/excess simptom charts, but I just don't want to make a desition just on something that looks similar and end up killing her.
Can someone please help me get this girl going?
There are my growbox (60l x 60t x 40w cm) light specs:
50 CFL wats (25 cool light, 25 warm light)
50 LED wats
She's about 20cm away from the lights.
She's in a 3 litre pot with a 33/33/33 leaf soil/perlite/compost-worm-casting medium.
I water her with tap water (water in my town is very pure, and has stable 5-6 ph, never been an issue with anything I grow)
About 30 to 50 ml every other day, when the soil is dry.
Just fed her a tiny bit of rooting agent (NPK 2,5/10/5) once, very diluted.
The pics (remember this is a 5-6 week old plant):
