Day 18. The plant isn’t growing much. I let it dry, and watered with nuted water. We’ll see what happens.
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Does anyone know what can be the reason for not growing for a such long period of time? My last plant had 10 leaves at this age.
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Can you keep the reversed plant or plants in the same room as the females and just cover them with something like a pollen sack once they get close to opening male flowers. Then remove them and collect pollen and just throw them out afterwards?
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The plant has bran new 6 leaves, but bad news is the 3-4 leaves are curling up. What does that mean?
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Might be too much heat for it, or possibly too much nutrient. What did you feed and how strong?
It is definitely growing slowly it could just be the strain. Usually once they hit a certain point with more leaves they really take off.
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Man, I don’t normally give advice on soil grows, cause I can’t grow in soil (and even hydro is debatable, haha).
Having said that, I’ve abused my share of soil plants and here’s what I’d be thinking about:
- Is my water pH in a good range?
- How hot and humid is it? If it’s really hot and dry, they might be drying out.
- How much am I feeding it? How frequently am I feeding it? Should I be tweaking how often I water between feedings?
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I read somewhere that cold temperature can pause the growth. I fed it with the same kinda nute that I used to give to the first plant. But this time I made a new one
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So has the temps drooped from your normal high heat, and humidity outside environment?
I think you have a lot of problems for growing outside, you are in an equatorial region with high heat and humidity, as well as lots of rain, and only 12 hours light a day normally. I think your best option is to grow them inside your apartment, where you will have at least some better control of its condition even if its just a better watering and light schedule. Then when the plant is big enough to deal with those outside conditions put them outside to start flowering.
You can make a light using LED screw in light bulbs and a timer, if you dont have air conditioning in your apartment then they will be still dealing with the high heat and humidity but it will be better than outside. Then you can also implement a better water and nutrient schedule.
At the moment if you feed them one day and it pours with rain, the nutes will just get flushed out unless you can make some kind of green house on the apartment roof, where you are putting them, to give them more protection. I think with your outside environment, you will be constantly struggling to get a plant growing from seed out there.
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Yes cold can also slow growth, but I thought it was always hot where you are? What’s the average temperature lately?
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I’m no expert especially not with soil but in hydro we don’t start feeding nutes until 3rd set starts coming in because it burns the crap out of the plant. Plus the cotyledons have enough nutrient in them to get your plants ready to receive ferts. Anyways like i said im no soil expert by any means but seems premature on feeding nutes to the little fella
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Hey Shadey, I think you’re right. Probably I should try autoflowers during the dry season. Now it’s raining every other day. I found out that the plant died today in the morning. It died completely the same way as the previous one, just the top fell off.
I will definitely change the nutrient dosage, and will try my best with autos.
Thanks all.
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Sounds more like they are damping off with all the humidity and moisture.
It’s caused by a type of fungus and loves wet or moist soil with a more abundant nitrogen source. It blocks the roots from absorbing nutrients and water and the plant just collapses and dies.
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Take a picture of the damage on the stem. It will help. Us to identify the exact problem. I have a feeling shadey is right, but pictures can nail it down.
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You also might want to consider some kind of indoor micro hydro grow approach.
Check out the Madscientist's 4th Annual 16oz Cup Competition 🏁 thread to see some amazing things people are doing with DWC in 16oz cups. Throw a few LED bulbs in and you’ve got yourself an indoor grow that won’t take up much space.
If you grow autos then you don’t even need to worry about a light proof area - just put the grow somewhere convenient and tend to the reservoir and wait for it to finish.
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Sorry to hear about ghat bro. The environment that the plant grows in is the most important thing and I think maybe you’re getting too much of a good thing like moisture.
Really rainy weather is tough on most plants but you can find genetics that suit your environment. Don’t give up. Grow one inside. Doesn’t take much of a light really. It’ll be easier to get it to the one month stage and much stronger in case of stresses. Just get good soil that drains well. peace
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Hi guys.
I started practicing again. So far planted one cbd auto.
I planted one 2 days ago, today I saw that the first feed leaves have been eaten by some insects.
What can I do to solve this issue?
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I have boiled down garlic and hot peppers before, then diluted that into water and sprayed. The bugs don’t like the taste.
Those should be things easily accessible to you.
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nor do the rabbits
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I used to also soak cigarette butts in the mix. Nicotine can be used as an insecticide from what I understand. That was the oldschool way, I didn’t figure that suggestion would go over well but it works.
Rabbits and deer can be a huge issue when growing guerilla style.
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