Hello Dude, Scotty, Guru and the rest of you,
I have recently popped a couple of strains from ILGM and they are failing to thrive. I have them in plastic beer cups (holes drilled into the bottom for drainage) in a rack over a drain pan. I have basically all vivosun equipment in the tent(4×4). they all popped about the same time and all stalled out a few days after popping. I am using a General Hydroponics go box for nutrients with recharge. I have been using the nutrients at 1/2 strength. I have not been able to PH the water because my dumb ass broke the PH meter unboxing it, but a new one with a ppm unit is on the way. I have been using tap water (central Florida) that sits in a 5 gal bucket with an air stone bubbling away, every time I use water I replace it and it bubbles for about three days before I take more. I believe my shitty soil may be to blame or perhaps not the best quality genetics or even better my pH is fucked. The strains are MK Ultra, GG, and Blue Dream. I have a couple that are limping along but I am wandering if it is time to accept the loss of $10 a seed times 10 seeds and start over with some better genetics. I have ordered some Magpie from seeds here now hoping for better results. on my next attempt I plan on using better soil like fox farm ocean forest but don’t know when to start with the nutrients. also don’t want to start seeds in that hot of a mix. should I start them in jiffy pods or some weak soil mix IDK so I am hoping someone could give me some advice. This is my first indoor grow I have only grown outdoor with the universe actually being the grower in the past.
I am a new grower and I am looking for a strain to build some confidence with. I am a medical patient in FL. I stick to Indica strains because strong Sativa fucks with me. I was looking for a recommendation for some under $30 seed packs from seeds here now that will tolerate my inexperience. If anyone could offer some direction to an easy growing Indica that is cheap enough that I can have a few failed attempts I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks for wasting your day trying to figure out what I am asking.
Jinx
If I understood correctly you fed the sprouts after they popped? That is a mistake. You need to let the seedling become a mini plant before any serious nutrients. You should also be sprouting them in a nutrient-free media to start. just water and light to start. Not intense light either. Once they have a few sets of leaves you can give them a very mild nutrient solution. Good luck!
While I agree with RASUFA above, I’m just as concerned with the general environment… Temp, RH and distance of light to seedling.
No pictures? We understand stalled but are they dying or just not growing. Light and over water come to mind. Shitty soil, what’s that mean? Nutrients are usually not necessary for at least a couple of weeks and keep the ppm under 500 this early in life. Maybe a little recharge when the cups seem light. Using synthetic nutrients require phing, your better off not using them until you can properly adjust ph or they might not be plant available.
If you’ve got a clone dome put them in it once they are in the beer cups. If you don’t you can put a clear bag over the top of the cups. The idea is to give them the high rh they need, as seedlings they get their nutrients and water from the air until roots are established. Keep the soil damp feeding with weak Recharge and other microbes. Foxfarm OF is good for 3 weeks, if you up pot using FFOC then it’s good most of the way through veg with only light nutrients. For all intent and purpose consider it used up by flower time unless you up pot again right before flipping. Happy Growing 🙂
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I’m about ready to chop an OG Kush from ILGM and its been a beast so I could’ve just got a lucky one but I only dropped 1 seed and it popped and grew just like a weed. All the others, who are far more knowledgeable than myself, have talked about what I consider is the main problems. It’s definitely possible and perfectly ok to start seeds in Oceanforest just don’t feed for at least 4 weeks from sprouting, I believe nutes too early certainly had something to do with the seedlings not surviving. Seedlings are always good their first week and usually up to the second week from sprouting. There’s not much info on your watering, just in case I always wait for the top layer of the medium drying out for a day and that keeps me from drowning them at helps to ward off problems of wet medium. And there’s no info on your lighting, you don’t need much light at all on seedlings, sprouted the ILGM OG under a 315cmh set about 24-30 inches above the solo cups so not to burn them to death. I’d say don’t give up on the ILGM seeds if you have any left due to the cost of those, but that said there are plenty of cheaper with just as good genetics or better. Best of luck, and next time love em a little less. We’ve all Elmyra’d plants at some point don’t get down on yourself or the genetics too much.
Hello everyone,
Thanks for the feedback from my last question I have since started running a humidifier in the room. I have put sandwich bags over the cups also. the plants are under a vivosun VS2000 (200w) and growing in Black Gold potting and raised bed soil 0.07 0.03 0.03. I also got a new ph meter so I mixed up nutrients like I have before and they came out to 875 ppm @ 5.6 ph so I added 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda bringing the ph to 6.7.
Thank you DGC,
Jinx
I don’t believe the seeds are the issue. I’ve had amazing luck with a few ILGM strains. It sounds like the things you are concerned about are what’s causing your problems.
Also you may want to grab some dechorinator or a filter to get out chorine and chloramine. Bubbling buckets for days could be introducing bad microbes. Which compounds the issues.
You guys are awesome thanks again