First grow, Yellowing leaves ! Help!

SoMe_EfFin_MasS_HoLe said:

Your seedlings probably were burnt a bit. I've read and have been told that soil is a bit hot in the beginning. Also, before you water give the pots a lift to feel their weight. After you feel the weight water them. This will help you decide how much water is in the pot by weight. Another way, use .25L of water for each gallon of pot. So if it's a 1 gallon pot, its .25L 2 gallon pot would be .50L of water and so on.

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Lethidox said:

Happy frog does have nutrients in it. it contains less nutrients then ocean forest however. Ocean forest they say should last you 3-4 weeks without needing to feed. with happy frog i believe it is 2 weeks.

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Gotcha. Makes sense. He started getting deficient after three weeks or so if I remember right. He’s got a big pot with small plant so I bet it the nutes in the soil will go further if he waters it more and more evenly. Definitely time to give em a good feed though . Something even balanced npk preferably.

Danjac you were right, I had a lil more water with nutes in a gallon jug. I decided to pour it in areas that i have been missing. The one plant that has been drooping, popped up some overnight. They def just need some good watering. Whenever the soil is dry im going to be giving them that half gallon

Ranthavandross said:

Danjac you were right, I had a lil more water with nutes in a gallon jug. I decided to pour it in areas that i have been missing. The one plant that has been drooping, popped up some overnight. They def just need some good watering. Whenever the soil is dry im going to be giving them that half gallon

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Good to hear. Just water the pot evenly across the entire surface. Pay attention to leaf droop/raise allover the plant, coloring at the newest growth tip and how long it takes pot to dry. If overwatered, it will show you droop leaves starting at top usually. I’d stick to maybe a cupunder a half gallon if it takes to long to dry this time but you should be good. If on the right path, those wrinkly dark leaves should straighten out a bit and new growth will have the praying look

danjac82 said:

No the soil isn’t too hot. It would have showed much earlier. They came up fine and were fine until they got about a month old. He has several deficiencies and needs to feed. Your recommendation of .25 liter (1 cup of water) per gallon ..I’m sorry but that’s way off. According to your calculations, a 5 gallon pot would only need barely more than a quart of water. That will barely moisten the top 3-4 inches of pot decently. 5 gallon pots can take a gallon or more.

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if he is using happy frog no way in hell is the soil hot. happy frog is i would say ideal for starting seeds compared to FFOC. FFOC on the other hand is debatable many claim it is too hot for seedlings others say it is fine. i grew once in FFOC no issues regarding soil being too hot but i had over watering issues that killed off my plants via root rot

danjac82 said:

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Gotcha. Makes sense. He started getting deficient after three weeks or so if I remember right. He’s got a big pot with small plant so I bet it the nutes in the soil will go further if he waters it more and more evenly. Definitely time to give em a good feed though . Something even balanced npk preferably.

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i started mine in big pots as well at some point you can even check it out in my grow log how small they were to the size of the pots. all i did was simply water less instead of watering the entire pots. i got about a 2L watering can i just fill it up and i believe i watered 1L per plant. i did this for the longest time until they got big.

at 3 weeks in happy frog i would start feeding already. also if your watering to drain you need to take into consideration your basically leeching the nutrients in your soil this in particular reason is why some people who run super soil do NOT water to drain because super soils are meant to feed your plants throughout majority if not the entire grow if your watering to drian your basically slowly leeching your nutrients out.