First grow - Help me grow my baby, it's drooping!!

I meant to say 2 mm instead of 2" per day. I don't know why I typed inches, I was thinking millimiters... I was totally high, so maybe I do know why... :jointsmile:

I'm not an expert, but I think that if you've already found that the pot size you were using is getting rootbound at the bottom, it'd be a good idea to go to a larger pot... especially if you're having probs with too much nutes.

Thanks for your comment, pinkfloydfan

I actually gave a lot of thought to this matter. I gathered that moving the plant into a bigger pot when being so young would cause root bound in the future; also, the pot would not drain well at all (especially after having 65% Moisture Control MG). And going to a smaller pot was not an option since I would have to mess with the roots to fit the new small pot.

Thus, I decided to put it into the same pot size but putting a hefty amount of my soil mix at the bottom of it and surrounding the soon to come roots. Basically, the roots would be in direct and immediate contact with the new soil mix.

Anyways, I think my theory was right because the plant changed right away. Like no joke, today alone it has grown so much and all the new leaves are really green. This plant is 1 month old people!! The MG sucks balls!! The Happy Frog kicks ass! I really thought using MG wasn't that bad, but after actually trying it I realize how bad it really is. And FYI, I will transplant again, once I feel the plant is ready to increase in pot size.

Thanks to everybody for their advice, it was well put. I will keep logging in the progress. We could make this my log grow if one of the admins is willing to.

Hopefully things will stay good!

This was taken today.

Plant is coming out quite nicely thus far.

your setup is too much for a seedling. Seedlings need less drastic situation. Your setup results in too high a temps aroung your seedling, could cause heat burn and more importantly, if your plants survives, it will have more chance to become male or hermi. Keep your lights further and later bring them closer when the seedling has grown a bit more. Seedlings at that age need a mellow environment. (1 100w cfl 2-3 inches away is fine until later when they have more leaves.)

As for fungi infestation, using neem is a good idea. Kill the bastards before they spread although that type of fungi does not really pose a seroius problem for mature plants.

Temperatures were high before I bought the fan, and I think that was also part of the problem. But since I bought this fan and having blowing at the lowest speed directly to plant, the lights end up radiating much less heat.

I think I finally found the correct environmental conditions for the plant.

Update.

Plant has grown quite a bit since the last time I posted. It is growing pretty quickly everyday, but the plant overall is very droopy. I've been watering every 3 days and making sure the soil is dry. Also, a lot of the lower leaves have died and I've had to cut them off. You can see some big ones died in the pics. It's like the problem starts from the bottom and goes upward. And all the young leaves look great when they come out but then they start getting brown and yellow and dying.

I've started to feed it with nutes (Grow Big at 1/2) just yesterday. I am hoping it will improve things a bit.

I've been measuring pH with some strips I got from HD for aquariums. The pH of the tap water is 6.2-7 (it varies, but it might be the error margin of the strips). Runoff is around 6-6.2. It's hard to say. I should get a digital pH meter.

But I think the pH is definitely too low. Anyone know how I can raise it ASAP?

Please look at pics. All opinions are welcome.

PS: I think it might be a female judging from the pistils in one of the pics. Look up close and tell me if you agree.

Are you still running superthrive? If so, stop.
You can raise pH by adding a commercial plant pH up to your fert solution until it is about ~7.5 to bring a soil that is showing runoff 6.2 up to 6.7. But the normal way to deal with that is flushing according to the sticky at the top of this section.
You are definitely getting locked out by low pH- all the symptoms are there.
One last thing to check is your pot drainage. Pot needs a pot that drains well. If it has a catch tray built in, rip it off and feel up into the drain holes to see if there is soggy soil up there. That is often the case with those, and can make low pH problems MUCH worse.

Stinky,

Thank you very much for your reply. I feared that no1 would answer since the thread is wayy too long (sorry for that).

About superthrive, no I am not using it anymore. I used it a couple of weeks back and it helped promote new growth, but I stopped since I do not want to overnute the plant.

About the pH, I've flushed the plant twice within the last couple of weeks in order to try to raise the pH, but the tap water I get is usually more acidic than alkalyne. I need to get my hands on some product that will raise pH. Could you specifically mention a brand/product name that I can get in HD or Lowe's? I tried to look for stuff in their store but I could not find anything of the sort.

The pot drainage... I made extra holes when I transplanted the plant and I also put a 3/4" layer of Perlite at the bottom so that the soil drains nicely. I think it might be working because when I pick up the pot when it's been ~3 days from watering it feels pretty light. I've tried to see whether the soil is moist at the bottom but I can't since I have that layer of Perlite.

Let me know if you can help me.

Thanks again.

UPDATE

Bought some Hydrated Lime after work and mixed about 1 tablespoon in a gallon of 6.2 pH Water. I did a dip test and water came out off the charts, way too alkalyne. So I poured 5/6 of the gallon out and replaced with new tap water. Dip test... pH came out to be about 7.2

So I flushed the plant with this new water and measured the pH of the soil drainage... pH came out to be about 6.6.... PERFECT.

Also, I think it might be a hermie since I might be seeing some balls come out off the sides of the white pistils. Good news is I bought some reverse dutch master and will apply it after a couple days from starting flowering (which will be soon).

Wish me luck!