3rd Grow, 1000 watt HPS. One Pound or Bust

Actually I got an Exodus cheese instead of the Super sour Og. I will post pics of the plants later, I'm going to be chopping a few soon or tossing them outside...

Planning on germing all of the autos tonight, I'm not sure about the others yet though, I want to wait and figure out what plants I'm keeping out of the current batch. Also, I am considering building a 10-20 site mini Dwc cloner. I have all the equipment from my first attempt at dwc minus some new fish tubing and a the container itself. Since I have alot of new strains but only single seeds, I'd like to try my hand at cloning for the outdoor season or possible future SOG grow.

Also, I'm wondering what size pots I should use for my autos. I have access to 1,2, 2.5 and 3 gallon pots. My tent is only 5 feet high and will have non auto plants as well so that has to factor in.

Day 38, pics aren't great quality, I apologize. As you can see, the plants I've been having a ton of problems with. Two are growing great and the biggest one that's lst'd has shown preflower pistils...

Any ideas as to whats wrong with the others, are they burnt...It looks like a deficiency but I've been feeding them for the past 2 weeks.

Also, I germed the six autos, I didn't germ any of the others yet. I 'm looking for advice on which two strains out of the 5 freebies would be the best for cloning and placing outdoors...

Superbud
Kalashnikova
Grapefruit krush
Emerald Jack
Exodus Cheese

Yellowing of leaves usually is a lack of nitrogen. The mix does not look wet. There is something simple that is causing you problems.
Since you have a couple of them, try an experiment of some sort to see if you can correct it.
It has to do with watering. Either too much or too little.
Hense the droopy leaves

Well the leaves aren't that droopy compared to what they were like, I water every two days and I fed with 6 mls floramicro and 6 mls flora bloom and 1 ml cal mag.
I really think that should be more thn enough nitrogen. It does look like nitrogen deficiency, I've had this problem in the middle of flowering last two grows but never in veg...

I purchased a bag of promix and some perlite for my autos when they germinate.

The bag sat out all winter apparently and was still wet....I opened it and it had some green algae in it...Is there anything I can do with this.

I opened it up and left it out in the sun for the day as well as treating it was some neem oil/water/dish soap.

I'm hoping this will condition the soil but I've never put neemoil directly in the soil before. Any thoughts?

I'm considering topping my healthy unlst'd one, Either that or supercrop at 16 inches like I planned. It is about 12 inches tall now and on it's 9th or so node. Should I top it no , it has probable 6 or so shoots that will become buds plus the top one.

I am considering letting them all grow out and more and then super crop all the branches a week before flower, or topping now,and training the lower branches out so they can in turn grow shoots that will become buds. I want to ensure that I get a great yield as I flowered way to eary in my last few grows.

You water every two days. Try watering half of them every 4-5 days and see if they pick up.
If they do then they are being overwatered by going every two days.
I'm not familiar with your mix. But I have one in soil and I water it about every 7-10 days.
And i dont have any nutes. Just the Miracle Grow potting soil.
My hydro is running Advanced Nutes.

I was just looking at your buckets. Do they have drainage holes in the bottom of them for the water to run out of them into a tray?
If not then that could be a big problem. Your roots would be drowning and suffocating.

Yes I have drainage holes and I water when they are dry which was every third day now every second

It's every 2-3 days that I water....I checked my seeds after germing in paper towel for 36 hours and all three big devils had long tap roots so I rinsed my promix and let it drain; then I mixed in about 35% perlite and put them in there pots. I only transplanted the big devil autos because I have to sacrifice a few shitty plants or throw them outside tonight before I can plant the easyryders. 2/3 Easyryders have cracked, I'm hoping the other will crack by tonight.

I plan on keeping 4/7 PKs that are healthiest and then growing the 6 autos, I may put a few of the autos outside and start two of the other seeds as I want to get some nice genetics.

Right now in my 5 x 5 tent I have:

7 PK seeds from last harvest that hermied late. (40 days old) (Two confirmed female but I'm assuming they all are sinceI bought femmed seeds)
3 Random Bagseeds (4 days old)
3 Big Devil Autos

I used 2.5 gallon pots for the autos but due to room I think the others will only be put in 1.5 gallons.

Almost looks like underwatering. Weight the pot to see when its dry

Thanks, yah I have been weighing the pot, they all get fed the same and I weigh when they are fairly dry, atleast a few inches into the soil. I'm starting to think it may just be shitty genetics as these seeds were randomly found on the bottom of my curing jars like a year after sitting in a moist basement...

I don't think it's genetics. Get yourself a $5 moisture meter from Wal Mart. And you will know if its too wet or too dry.
After 3 grows you should be dialed in and growing a pound.
DWC is the easiest method I have tried.
Good Luck!

I haven't had these problems before I just didn't veg long enogh. I was wondering if I could foliar feed with a little dose of organic juice or will it burn the leaves

Go very very light. I only add a few drops to a litre.
Folar is a bad idea tho. I only use it for freshly rooted clones. Never spray the plant when the lights are on unless its far away. i spray before they go off.

I gave a super light does to the ones showing the most yellowing ands urprisingly they seemed to perk up a little.

I took two of my plants outside today, the ones that were in the worst condition. I don't know if they'll survive because it was calling for really nice weather and now it's pour rain. They also weren't hardened off at all. Other then that, it's day 42 for the biggest plants. They are doing well, hoping the other s start catching up to the two strongest growing plants.

Still looking for suguestion on what two strains would be best to germinate for outdoor purposes.

I have:
Super bud
Kalashnikova
Grapefruit krush
Emerald Jack
Exodus cheese

Does your mix hold water like soil or is it more like perlite and not hold much water?
The reason I ask is because if it's more like perlite then maybe you might wanna water daily but if more like soil then every few days.
I was just thinking about it and was wondering.

Im thinking they r just starting to drink more.they do seem to dry way quicker then soil. Three big devils have broken surface. None of the easy riders have yet and I found one seed eith a brown tap root on top of the soil. Appears I didn't bury it deep enough. Hopin the other two make it