Loosing all Confidence in my Ability to Grow

Ive used all my autos now as only had them so i had some smoke for x mas and none have worked lol. Have you done autos before corso? im so anoyed mate as everythings dying even my mobys photos arnt growing much now they seem to of stopped! Dont know what to think about it mate its really blew my head just last resort thinking the tent but im reading the guys who had problems seem to be white lined and this is silver..... dont know if there coming from abroad but id say so if there as cheap as this one! was chuffed with it too !

From the looks of the plants it seems there are either nutrient balance and/or ph problems. I also doubt it's the tent you're using. Some strains are plain touchy and tempermental. Not sure what all the popularity with coco is all about. I have used plain washed pea gravel for years and it works as well as anything. Have always kept PH between 6.5 and 7 and never had a problem. For a lot less expense and complication there are good hydro fert.s available that are organic based such as Eco-Gro and Botanicare Pure Blend. But as mentioned, sometimes you just wind up with some sickly plants that are genetically flawed and will never respond right to what you do.

Cheers jar man i went back to coco just for the autos as thought for a quick crop would hand water but everythings gone pete tongue!! I normally use clay pebs in a wilma but gone to oxy drippers for my moby dicks ans dis clay peb mix with coco to basicly use my coco nutes as didnt want to waste them and used coco and pebs before in the wilma and worked ok.... What do you mean by flawed? Also pea gravel? like from a garden centre?

no expierence with auto's but there is little to them from what i have seen...just like a typical plant that finishes quicker...those plants look like they are all stunted from lack of nitrogen..but that is hard to do..i have never tried coco but soil is almost idiot proof ..start with the soil and get to know the strain and after a couple successful harvests start to branch out(no pun intended) to hydro or aero or whatever you you like. good luck...do you check the ph after adding nutes?

Cheers pal , Yeh i check the ph after nutes and set it to 6.0 in coco ive also watered to run off and tested both ec and ph and seemed ok there too! just baffled mate to be honest

Ive only 1 coco grow behind me mate i think coco's easier than soil coz your in control and you know exactly whats going in it my ph is around 6-6.2 and i'm only using B.A.C. coco grow A+B on veg and hesi coco bloom and hammerhead pk on flower that its ditch the auto's mate its gotta be the problem anyway good luck

Cheers ghostdog think the autos are not my thing really now may stick to the norm lol

Corso312 said:

if you have any left to germ..try some in soil..

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This would be interesting. Hope you get this sorted tho...

well i think the consensus here is it is the substrate you are using... now dont get me wrong many of people have grown plenty of healthy plants in coco...

however there is something in ruderalis strains probably more so in the auto you have because they are extremely sensitive to pH levels and nutrients and or too little or too much at the seedling stage up until it shows its sex at or around day 20-30... then it starts to get hungry...

in order to save your plants at this point even though it is kinda late in the game to transplant even though you are probably gonna want to do it asap...

otherwise you might as well just scrub the grow so hey why not give them a chance and end up with at least some good bud at the end of all of this right???

first flush your substrate aka coco then take the plants out of their containers... then rinse off excess coco from roots then transplant gently into preferably if you have access to fox farm soil or somthing of an equivalent to light warrior or ocean forest... but do not wet the new soil as it should already be WELL moist enough right out of the bag... this will give the roots the chance to get their legs goin again and at a much faster rate so you dont lose the precious time that autos need to get the best flowering out of them...

then just simply im sure you have transplanted somethin before so you know the drill and just give them time and they should pick back up within a few days and will you have corrected the issue soon enough

good luck with the grow

cheers its got to be worth a shot will try that are these mediums frow hydro store or garden centre? sorry never used them before

well it depends if you are down in the states then just google fox farm and they have a retailer locator for whichever state youre in...

if youre somewhere else try to get something similar that has a good balance of worm castings perlite and preferably organic with NO time released nutes...

oh and they can be found at both hydro and garden/nursery stores

cheers dude

np anytime bud