NSNYGC - First time! Two autos in soil!

[weedabix]

Thanks Nanook! I'm less worried now! I was thinking of growing in coco next time - just to see the difference.

[weedabix]

So the little PE didn't seem to recover and in a last ditch attempt, I potted them both up yesterday - they're now in about 1 gal pots with a hotter soil. And as it seems they are doing alright. The old leafs of the pe are looking horrible and she's going to struggle a bit but my hopes are high that she's managed to get through it. Both plants show some signs of deficiencies or excess of whatever sort - I hope they'll be better soon. It looks like they are really trying to grow fast now and I hope they'll fill up that new pot quickly!
It's now day 15 since they firs saw soil and day 16 since I dropped them.

[Nanook]

They look fine, will recover don't worry :) and loads better than my wife's ones

[weedabix]

So two days after transplanting to larger pots with biobizz allmix soil (rather than light mix) the bd is still thriving, the pineapple express is still struggling. This must be some sort of deficiency or nutrient lockout - but then the bd doesn't seem to bother at all. The difference in growth of the two is now getting really apparent. And the new leafs on the PE are already showing some sort of deficiency. Looking at charts, it looks the most similar to the pictures of Mg deficiencies. So the plan right now is to wait until the soil has dried out a little more and then to feed it some nutes - biobizz grow (I believe that's just expensive molasses). So if you have some ideas, hit me up.

I am using tapwater which I let sit for a couple of hours to let the chlorine exsolve, and I am not pH checking the water but I might do that soon.
If I am right about the Mg deficiency, should I give her an epsom salt foliar spray? If so, what concentration for this?

These are the girls this morning which is day 17 I believe.

[weedabix]

Or is it just the remnants of the previous issues that are growing out? The center of the leafs is shiny and a bit curled with some browning or rusty spots developing. The new leafs that are coming up look healthy (but so did this set of leafs when it arrived).

[Keeno]

Hey weedabix,

I wouldnt be jn film panick mode just yet. These are resilient plants and you will often have a issue early on that wont bother them to much. Whatever is going on they will hopefully grow out of in the near future.

They are still a little light so a epsom salt foliar feed wont hurt them. I use 2 x tsp per liter for mine. Give em a good soaking l, trying not to saturate the top layer of soil in the process. I'll check in and see how it's going.

[weedabix]

Thank you Keeno!
Always appreciated what you're doing here!

[weedabix]

Thank you Viz! That is super helpful!

[weedabix]

Hi all,
a quick update! Today it's exactly 3 weeks since they sprouted! So 22 days since I wet the seeds! Since the pineapple express had massive issues I tried some things. What did it in the end (hopefully ... fingers crossed) was probably just changing the soil. I did give it a spritz with epsom salt - and I have now fed them both. Last night I topped the blue dream! Scary it was but I had talked to you guys in the chat which prepared me well - thank you! So I snipped it with my nice new snippers and she only let out a very short squeal of pain (yeah she did: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv ... 0.full.pdf) but she has recovered now. I won't put the pineapple through the same ordeal but rather prescribe a low stress yoga sesh. I want to start LST with both of them soon - I might seek you out in the forum again!
I have both fed them with 0.5ml/l grow by biobizz which is half of the recommended dose. They seem fine. My light is about 55cm away.

So as much as I think they could be bigger and pe could be healthier - I think I'm back on track.
here are the pictures, including the makeshift data logger I'm working on (see my post about that - it's coming along nicely.

[Keeno]

Topping looks spot on Weedabix, she is flying along.

The other one looks ok with mew growth. All the damaged leaves you will be removing in the near future anyway. Sometimes these fussy girls end up the best. Nice work mate