are 5gal pots big enough for organic grow?

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piratebug

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They look nice, but I would top dress and give them a bit more nitrogen during week 6 and 7, because you can literally see that the plant is moving the nitrogen it has in its lower leaves upward because it cannot find enough in the medium! In other words, for me, they're yellowing to quickly!
 
the native

the native

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piratebug said:
They look nice, but I would top dress and give them a bit more nitrogen during week 6 and 7, because you can literally see that the plant is moving the nitrogen it has in its lower leaves upward because it cannot find enough in the medium! In other words, for me, they're yellowing to quickly!
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topped dressed with blood meal a few weeks back,and just been plain watering them,mayb another top up.they have been yellowing very quickly tho.chur
 
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Tinfoilbarb

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Just something to ponder, i would remove all the yellow fan leaves, they are not doing much in the means of photosynthesis now , better to remove them to feed the greener lower bud leaves with light , this will fatten those buds up faster, at the movement those yellowing leaves are just light blocks to the greener leaves below that need the light, the leaves growing off the bud support bud size and weight the most. Then again im a big fan of fan leaf defoliation (fan leaves with stalks, all gone) and I would have removed all of them in veg (sometimes twice) just before flip and again in mid flower. This encourages the energy/carbohydrates to flow to the "bud supporting leaves", thus the bud supporting leaves grow larger and catch all the light , fan leaves are really only useful to veg to support fast structure and root mass in the seedling to late veg stage.. you will find most commercial growers of crops do this practice one way or another to increase dry matter, most fruit and veges these days , the growers are payed based on dry matter calculations, thus light to fruiting wood is important. heavy leaf canopy shading fruit/flower sites = lower dry matter.
 
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the native

the native

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got 5oz from 4 plants, little bit disappointed but learnt heaps .thanks everyone for your input and knowledge.:cool:
 
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