There are two plants:
1. 2 1/2 week old White Widow (I think... and I think it's Indica pheno). I am growing in a peat moss pelletin a peat moss cup(used as the basket) hanging into a small aeroponics container/res. It is basically a small tupperware container mostly filled with 2/3 gallon of faucet water with nutrients and an ultrasonic fogger delivering it to the roots above the reservoir. I saturate the peat moss every 3-4 days. The timer i've been adjusting but it is generally on for 15 minutes every 4 hours. The first week my first 2 sets of true leaves were a little saggy but mostly dark green and very healthy looking. This week the 3rd and 4th set have been yellowish with a pin-needle sized brown at the tip(i think, hard to see) and the 5th set growing out is looking really yellow and the plant has begun to sag a lot. A few days ago the roots started hanging into the solution, I pulled them out about a day and rested them on a sort of boat on the reservoir so that they would only get misted, figuring maybe the problem was overwatering/nute burn. I looked around for more solutions and decided maybe it was an Iron deficiency and put just a bit of Miracle-Gro All-Purpose plant food into the solution a few minutes ago(I dont want to turn it into a plant-of-steel or kill it by trying to put an iron supplement or something and that was all i have for nutrients with iron in it).The older leaves are still dark green but starting to lighten up just a little bit. The yellowing is between the veins (closer to the veins is greener). The plant was growing excellently short and leafy (starting 5th set of leaves and its only about 2 inches tall) but has started to slow i think.
2. 1 1/2 week old Strawberry Cough. I was growing it into a peat-moss pellet and transplanted it at about a week old into a 3 gallon pot of 2/3 Scott's Potting Soil and 1/3 vermiculite. It has been growing about half as fast as the White Widow (2nd set of true leaves are only about .25cm big) but i figured that was because it is mostly sativa. I have been watering it with only tap water by saturating the peat moss every 3-4 days and then the bucket when i transplanted it. The 2nd set of leaves are looking a little yellow and the tips of the first leaves have a yellow tint to them as well. This is my baby and out of a pack of 5 feminized seeds (40$ from the Dr.Chronic) it was the only one that grew. It is not sagging at all.
My lighting is:
1 26w(rated at 100w) cfl light for each plant 6-8 inches from the top
My nutrients for the White Widow in 2/3 gallon of tap water are:
Miracle Grow Transplanting solution (very tiny amount in the reservoir)
Advanced Nutrients Grow (I'd say a little less than half the recommended)
Miracle Grow All-Purpose Plant Food (just put about half a teaspoon in today for iron)
No nutrients yet aside from that in the peat moss and Scotts soil for the Strawberry Cough.
There is no fan for either of them. Each one is closely surrounded by 2 pieces of paper taped into a cylinder. The temperature stays about 70-75 degrees.
My questions are:
1. Why is the White Widow saggy?
2. Why are the new leaves yellowing?
3. The strawberry cough is looking a lighter green/yellow than the White Widow was at its age. Is that because it is sativa or is it not getting enough nutrients?
My guess is that i was overwatering the White Widow so it was sagging a little bit and once the roots fell into the water it started to become waterlogged. The recent slow in growth and yellowing is probably because of too much water with not enough nutrients. The Strawberry Cough is probably slightly yellow because of it being sativa and not having gotten any nutrients yet.
1. 2 1/2 week old White Widow (I think... and I think it's Indica pheno). I am growing in a peat moss pelletin a peat moss cup(used as the basket) hanging into a small aeroponics container/res. It is basically a small tupperware container mostly filled with 2/3 gallon of faucet water with nutrients and an ultrasonic fogger delivering it to the roots above the reservoir. I saturate the peat moss every 3-4 days. The timer i've been adjusting but it is generally on for 15 minutes every 4 hours. The first week my first 2 sets of true leaves were a little saggy but mostly dark green and very healthy looking. This week the 3rd and 4th set have been yellowish with a pin-needle sized brown at the tip(i think, hard to see) and the 5th set growing out is looking really yellow and the plant has begun to sag a lot. A few days ago the roots started hanging into the solution, I pulled them out about a day and rested them on a sort of boat on the reservoir so that they would only get misted, figuring maybe the problem was overwatering/nute burn. I looked around for more solutions and decided maybe it was an Iron deficiency and put just a bit of Miracle-Gro All-Purpose plant food into the solution a few minutes ago(I dont want to turn it into a plant-of-steel or kill it by trying to put an iron supplement or something and that was all i have for nutrients with iron in it).The older leaves are still dark green but starting to lighten up just a little bit. The yellowing is between the veins (closer to the veins is greener). The plant was growing excellently short and leafy (starting 5th set of leaves and its only about 2 inches tall) but has started to slow i think.
2. 1 1/2 week old Strawberry Cough. I was growing it into a peat-moss pellet and transplanted it at about a week old into a 3 gallon pot of 2/3 Scott's Potting Soil and 1/3 vermiculite. It has been growing about half as fast as the White Widow (2nd set of true leaves are only about .25cm big) but i figured that was because it is mostly sativa. I have been watering it with only tap water by saturating the peat moss every 3-4 days and then the bucket when i transplanted it. The 2nd set of leaves are looking a little yellow and the tips of the first leaves have a yellow tint to them as well. This is my baby and out of a pack of 5 feminized seeds (40$ from the Dr.Chronic) it was the only one that grew. It is not sagging at all.
My lighting is:
1 26w(rated at 100w) cfl light for each plant 6-8 inches from the top
My nutrients for the White Widow in 2/3 gallon of tap water are:
Miracle Grow Transplanting solution (very tiny amount in the reservoir)
Advanced Nutrients Grow (I'd say a little less than half the recommended)
Miracle Grow All-Purpose Plant Food (just put about half a teaspoon in today for iron)
No nutrients yet aside from that in the peat moss and Scotts soil for the Strawberry Cough.
There is no fan for either of them. Each one is closely surrounded by 2 pieces of paper taped into a cylinder. The temperature stays about 70-75 degrees.
My questions are:
1. Why is the White Widow saggy?
2. Why are the new leaves yellowing?
3. The strawberry cough is looking a lighter green/yellow than the White Widow was at its age. Is that because it is sativa or is it not getting enough nutrients?
My guess is that i was overwatering the White Widow so it was sagging a little bit and once the roots fell into the water it started to become waterlogged. The recent slow in growth and yellowing is probably because of too much water with not enough nutrients. The Strawberry Cough is probably slightly yellow because of it being sativa and not having gotten any nutrients yet.