Noob’n it up, repotting and feeding question. lil help please

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DeezBlunts

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Aite. I dnt post on blogs much I hope I put this in the right place. ... anyway this where I’m at:
Just repotted my 3 plants from red cups to 5gal growbags last night. I’m using FoxFarm Ocean Forest soil. I imagine the seedlings have ate up w/e nutes were in the soil in cup, yet the other 4gal or so of soil is fresh. Should I still begin a lite food solution to my water now or should I still give it a week or so? They are 12 days old. I don’t have a ppm meter to read levels yet. I must have not watered enough so I’m about to (just water)water them well now. So thanks for reading n hit me up.
 
DoubleAtotheRON

DoubleAtotheRON

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DeezBlunts said:
Aite. I dnt post on blogs much I hope I put this in the right place. ... anyway this where I’m at:
Just repotted my 3 plants from red cups to 5gal growbags last night. I’m using FoxFarm Ocean Forest soil. I imagine the seedlings have ate up w/e nutes were in the soil in cup, yet the other 4gal or so of soil is fresh. Should I still begin a lite food solution to my water now or should I still give it a week or so? They are 12 days old. I don’t have a ppm meter to read levels yet. I must have not watered enough so I’m about to (just water)water them well now. So thanks for reading n hit me up.
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If you're going from solo cups to 5 gallon pots, dont saturate the whole pot. Just water around where you transplanted it. Make her search for roots. As she gets bigger and bigger, you can expand your watering circle until the roots have reached the edge of the pot, then you can saturate the whole pot. They gotta have some oxygen at the root level. As far as feeding, feed them the same thing and up your ppm's as it gets bigger.
 
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DeezBlunts

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DoubleAtotheRON said:
If you're going from solo cups to 5 gallon pots, dont saturate the whole pot. Just water around where you transplanted it. Make her search for roots. As she gets bigger and bigger, you can expand your watering circle until the roots have reached the edge of the pot, then you can saturate the whole pot. They gotta have some oxygen at the root level. As far as feeding, feed them the same thing and up your ppm's as it gets bigger.
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Welp... I guess I watered a bit more than ur saying. I watered around just like that but my top soil was feeling so dry I moistened the top of it. Not saturating it completely and I’m sure the sides are dry.
i asked another grower I know he said I need to start feeding them by now. I began a 1/4 feeding of “big bloom” food. I hope I didn’t hurt them more than they can take.
 
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DoubleAtotheRON

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DeezBlunts said:
Welp... I guess I watered a bit more than ur saying. I watered around just like that but my top soil was feeling so dry I moistened the top of it. Not saturating it completely and I’m sure the sides are dry.
i asked another grower I know he said I need to start feeding them by now. I began a 1/4 feeding of “big bloom” food. I hope I didn’t hurt them more than they can take.
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You're feeding vegging plants "Big Bloom"?... ok, hold up homie. It's too early for a flush, but I guess you can just wait till it dries up, but you need to be feeding veg nutes, not bloom nutes.
 
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DeezBlunts

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DoubleAtotheRON said:
You're feeding vegging plants "Big Bloom"?... ok, hold up homie. It's too early for a flush, but I guess you can just wait till it dries up, but you need to be feeding veg nutes, not bloom nutes.
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..... fuck... well. Live and learn. I was following the guide that came with the nutrients. image.jpg
 
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Also, that seems awfully high PPM for week 3-4... seems like it would nute burn the shit out of them. I've fed it at 1600ppm once, and it folded it up like a cheap suit.
 
DoubleAtotheRON

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Personally, that's alot of shit to throw at a weed plant. It dont have to be that complicated. Most I've ever fed in was like 1400ppm and that was with CO2 at 1300-1400ppm, and all the light I could throw at it in a sealed room.
 
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MR. GiggleShitz

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Seedling have all the life force they need for the first 2 weeks. No nutes required.
Your FFOF has all the goodies it needs to carry your plants to the end without additional nute requirements unless your vegging and flowing in the same container for long.
Seem like you transplanted fast from solos to 5's.
 
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MR. GiggleShitz

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Little trick I used back in the day to know when a good time to transplant was to use a clear solo cup inside of a dark colored one. You can slide it out and check root development without disturbing the Fish bones...
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DeezBlunts

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MR. GiggleShitz said:
Seedling have all the life force they need for the first 2 weeks. No nutes required.
Your FFOF has all the goodies it needs to carry your plants to the end without additional nute requirements unless your vegging and flowing in the same container for long.
Seem like you transplanted fast from solos to 5's.
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The roots were all around the edges and bottom of the soil in the cups. They were ready. I’ll just use straight water following this and the light mix hopefully won’t negatively effect them too much if at all.
 
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MR. GiggleShitz

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DeezBlunts said:
The roots were all around the edges and bottom of the soil in the cups. They were ready. I’ll just use straight water following this and the light mix hopefully won’t negatively effect them too much if at all.
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Guess I'm just slow and showing my age.... that's some fast growth..... very nizzzze.
 
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DeezBlunts

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MR. GiggleShitz said:
Little trick I used back in the day to know when a good time to transplant was to use a clear solo cup inside of a dark colored one. You can slide it out and check root development without disturbing the Fish bones...
-not required but 2cents-
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! Experience is everything. As I read in like “no the light will hurt the exposing roots, then the simple genius of just putting it in a dark cup. kudos, I’ll keep this knowledge with me.
 
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