Purple haze seedling (fem) 3 weeks old, recently transplanted. This seedling has been kinda odd straight from the beginning. First set of leaves were misshapen and always curled a bit down. Leaves are papery and curled, currently minimal development of branches (compared to other seedlings same age). The other purple haze seems to have similar issues although not as extreme and there is some development of branches.
I didnāt consider underwatering as I associate the curling leaves with overwatering. The plants are in fox farms potting mix and and also using their liquid fertilizer. I guess I need to increase there as I was using seedling dilution.
Which fox farm soil are you in? Looking at plant size and container size I imagine in happy frog or ocean forest they would still have nutrients available to them.
Looks like you may be running you QB on max real close to the plants too. Iād definitely confirm the PH of the runoff, but you may want to try dimming or raising your light more. Itās best to kind of ramp up the intensity of the light for such young plantsā¦ just my $0.02
So the last time I grew indoors I was using MH / HPS and I was told if it doesnāt burn your hand, youāre good (at least thatās what I remember). I had a very, very competent partner who handled almost all the technicals and this LED stuff is all new to me. The current setting passed the hand test easily.
So MH/HPS lighting will emit a lot more heat through IR, so thatās typically the heat youāre feeling on your hand from those sources. LEDs put out a ton of light, but most of the heat from them gets absorbed through the heatsinks, or dissipated at the board level, so you wonāt feel the heat on your hand the same way you will with HPS/MH. I know the temptation is to put the light as close to the plants as you can and blast them, because more is better, right? IME with LEDs, they will put out so much light that they can actually stress the plant a bit, from being blasted all the time. I try to find a happy level by dimming my light some and seeing if the leaves perk up and start āreachingā for the light, with their leaf tips pointed upwards. Then gradually raise the light levels until they can handle full blast. LED seems to drive the plantās metabolism pretty hard, I find they need an adjustment period. Hope that helpsā¦
If you donāt trust your soil then use pure cococoir or whatever dead medium works best for nutes.
So many people are having major problems combining two completely opposite growing methods.
It seems to utterly confuse the plants. Kinda like ordering a salad and a coke at McDonaldās, itās weird.
Synthetic nutes disrupt the balance the microbes and fungi attempt to create.
Choose one or the other and go all the way in that direction.
? Because Iām a dumbass? I figure folks seemed to like the brand well enough, and there is was in my local garden shop (the nice one, not home depot lol)ā¦the packaging was pretty, same brand and it matched. In my world that usually worksā¦like Garanimals. Iām not looking for super complex, Iād just like to not kill a plant that shouldnāt be too difficult to grow.
Have they been in Ocean Forest since the beginning? Or you just transplanted into OF? Iāve found OF to be little āhotā for plants sometimes, and the ph can be off. At this stage, all they should be using is water, imo. Thereās plenty of nutrition in OF to get them pretty big.
lol donāt be too hard on yourself. Weāre all learning here. I once called someone silly for cutting their plants down instead of just cutting the buds off because at the time, that made sense to me.
If youāre using living soil the dirt should take care of 90% of what your plant needs and you can do some extra with top dressing and fish emulsion, but using bottle nutes will kill a lot of things youāre trying to cultivate in a living soil Itā sort of like buying a hybrid and then putting racing fuel in it. The car isnāt made for it so youāre just spending quite a lot of money to put fuel into it that will probably do more harm than good.
