Ongoing First Time Auto Flower Grow In Soil...everyone Chime In!

And be sure not to let the pots sit in the runoff. I like trays for boots that people use by the front door. 2 plants per tray, 2 trays in my 3x3 tent.

Pick up trays and drain or use a turkey baster to suck it up.

It also helps with grow bags to put something under it, so it's propped up an inch or so to let air circulate under the bag.

macsnax said:

Yep, I have a few plants in 3 gallon grow bags right now. 1/2 gallon usually on Saturday then my nutrients on Tue or Wed.

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Ok so when you feed your nutrients, you will use the same amount of water then?

Yes, 1/2 gallon every the time.

When your plans get older and bigger, they will become more thirsty. By then you should have watering down and you'll know when to increase watering frequency and quantity.

and you should also try to moisten all soil equally that's in the pot. because roots only grow into places from where they can get water. throw all excess drain away to get rid of old fertilizer remnants which couldn't diffuse the root membranes. allow the pot to nearly drie out so oxygen can reach all roots and keep potential rootrot away from them. if the water-intervalls become too short you may want to transpant to a bigger volume. if you triple or quadruple the volume and water subsequently, it is normal to not water for a full week or even longer.

Thanks everyone for all the helpful tips and I will implement these tools to further my grow. I will keep sending pics and questions through out this process. This is a great community especially for the first time grower as myself.

Update:

31 days No nutrients just water...also ordered a larger grow tent...this tent is not tall enough.

Also someone mentioned to me on another post that my light should be closer to the plant...right now its about 16" what do you guys think?

Day 31

Uh dude....is it me it did your plant grow a lot? Lookin good man. Go back and look at your pics from the 10th.

I have no experience with led lighting. I'm sure there's plenty on here that can.

How long does it look droopy like that after watering?

So it looks like the fun part is getting ready to start! Lots of pistils to come and you'll see buds developing soon as well. With it starting to flower you might want to hold off a week or two then start lightly on some nutes with higher p&k. And super low in n.

macsnax said:

Uh dude....is it me it did your plant grow a lot? Lookin good man. Go back and look at your pics from the 10th.

I have no experience with led lighting. I'm sure there's plenty on here that can.

How long does it look droopy like that after watering?

So it looks like the fun part is getting ready to start! Lots of pistils to come and you'll see buds developing soon as well. With it starting to flower you might want to hold off a week or two then start lightly on some nutes with higher p&k. And super low in n.

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Yea the plant grew like crazy the last couple weeks, even I was surprised! The pics were taken about 3 hours into sleep so I guess that's why they looked so droopy. I haven't seen my plant droop after watering so far so I guess that's good. As far as the nutes, I was gonna start in about a week with the Grow nutes but maybe I should just go with the Bloom nutes?

Yep bloom.

That tent is plenty tall enough.... the plant is pretty close to full size.

Drop the light down ....

Quick update! Still no nutrients just water. I noticed today that one leaf has a brown spot on it. You can see it in the third pic. Anything to worry about?

Day 34

Nice, I see some buds starting to form. I would just keep my eye on leaves if it start seeing it in other places then I could be a problem. I would be thinking about some bloom nutes next week, start weak and work up.

macsnax said:

Nice, I see some buds starting to form. I would just keep my eye on leaves if it start seeing it in other places then I could be a problem. I would be thinking about some bloom nutes next week, start weak and work up.

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Yea I am going to start with the bloom nutes next week. If this brown spot shows up on more leaves, you think adding some cal mag would help?

That doesn't quite look like cal-mag. Your soil may be starting to run out of nitrogen, I would still go very easy on it since you are flowering. You might want to start adding some cal-mag with your bloom nutes too.

Quick question, I think I am gonna start adding cal mag with my bloom nutes tomorrow. Should I give the recommended dose on the the cal mag bottle every watering or should I start lower on the dose? I am noticing some leaves on the bottom of the plant are turning a slight yellow and also now some of the leaves on top of the plant seem to be curling inwards.

I tent to go light on everything at first. You can always add more, but if you add too much you can't take it back.

New tent set up finally! I am starting to see some purpling on the leaves on top of the plant. I just started today adding in Bloom Nutes. I started small with just 1ml. to around 3 1/2 quarts. I added some cal mag 2 days ago also. Should I add the cal mag at the same time with the nutes once a week and then just use water for the next watering and so on?

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