First time grower! Help needed with nutrients! Any advice is welcome!

Hi @Jimmy2Shoes, welcome to the community! All the advice given is fantastic. I wanted to share what I use as my pH up and pH down. After adding my nutrients to my water, I use Potassium Silicate (Silica) to bring the pH up, and I add Kelp extract to bring the pH down. Both of these are absolutely fantastically beneficial to the plant. the silica will make the cell walls stronger and silica is also the pre-cursor to trichome production. Kelp will provide plan protect, plant recovery, the list goes on.

… al the being said, Baking soda and vinegar also work to adjust pH, they are just not adding any additional benefit.

NOTE: Do not use lemon juice as it caries flavonoids that can cause imbalance in the soil.

Hey sorry for the wicked late response was on trains and subways all day but it looks like youve got some great advice from davil and rasta and would consider there input. Dont really have much else to add to there post since they pretty much covered it but just wanted to reply so it didnt seem like i just fked off and forgot about ya lol

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Wellcome to the community Jimmy!

I can’t help you with the fertilizer. But I had a look at growlog and I highly recommend you getting rid of that strings around your plant’s. Or at least make it more loose and make a piece of cotton between. Otherwise it could happen that the strings cuts through your plants.

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@Lynx_361, absolutely fantastic point, you have a good eye!

@Jimmy2Shoes , you want to use soft garden ties to train your plant, you can simply hook or wrap loosely them around the stalk/branch. I see in the pictures in your growlog, the string is tied around the stem wish not good at all.

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https://growithjane.com/growlog/unknown-strain-wpsbr

So I retied both plants down and took a few more pics

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Good job, I think there was an issue with the link you just posted, it didn’t go anywhere, so i fixed it to point to the first growlog link you shared above. I say the new pictures there, so I think I id a good thing :slight_smile:

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I have always been told to never transplant autos. You’re supposed to start them in the same pot you plan to finish them in.

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They are actually not autos. Tjat was a mistake on my part

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I was looking for that picture, and I found it again… You really should get something else to train your plants. :v:

I no longer have them tied around the stems, they are just loosely looped over the top now!

I would still use something else. Maybe a stripe cutted from an old shirt or something. Because there is enough pressure on the stalks to pull the plant’s down. And that pressure on such a small surface is just not good. But they are your plants. Do what you have to do…

Isn’t that the point of LST? I’m learning here so I’m truly asking

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Yeah. you want to pull them down. But you don’t want to harm the stalks. And by using such thin sting it could be that you visit your plants one day and have a cut there. I just mean that the surface where the string is touching the plant should be bigger. Just give a little padding.
:v::slightly_smiling_face:

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Ohhh ok thank you very much! I get exactly what you’re saying now. I’ll be sure to change it in the morning!

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Vinegar. But I would use ph down by gh

Yes and no… its Reccomended we dont transplant Autos and plant in forever home… However you can transplant AF Before the 3rd Node without amy issues using honey as a hormone properly when transplanting. I have done many and succeeded with 0 shock and great growth

Had seed from some real good bud found a one seed in a half pound GG4 was growing outside for 3 weeks now I have bought inside with a new grow tent from ac infinity 24x24x48 small complete set up ave temp 78 -81 humidity 55-58 I also put a trellis net two days ago also trans plant in to new fox farm ocean dirty 5 gallon Plant look droopy now not to sure why

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day 11 of Flower :bouquet:

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Ain’t it cute?:heart_eyes:

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