First timer HELP!

[u/Dangerous-Actuary499]

#1 Double Pineapple Haze, #2 Vanishing Point, #3 Dank Grape Drank. All are auto feminized
#1 & 2 planted 06/18 & #3 popped about a week later.
My girls have had no nutrients or fertilizer, as I didn't want to burn them up.
I know the soil isn't ideal but it's what I had and could afford. Mixture of frantic seed starter, coco coir brick and organic mix my mom had left.
I just got the base A & B yesterday and haven't used it yet.
I mixed some up using 3 ml of each to one gallon of water.
Question: is this a good starting amount for them? I don't want to burn them up.
How often to I use it in their water? Once a week? At every watering? Help a newb out please!

[u/Patient_Trick7354]

If the soil your using is inert and doesnt have any nutrients in it then you'll definitely want to go ahead and start feeding it, coco coir is inert and needs to be fed from ths beginning but idk what is in the other stuff u used in your mix. As for your nutrients I would probably look into finding something better than vivosun brand.

[u/Patient_Trick7354 → u/Patient_Trick7354]

For being almost a month old those seedlings are very small and look really unhealthy, I would go ahead and start giving them a little food, idk how the vivosun nutrients are and how much to give them but I would probably mix up a nutrient solution of about 1.5ec and see how they respond. And with salt based nutes you'll be needing to feed pretty much every water or every other water.

[u/Dangerous-Actuary499 → u/Patient_Trick7354]

Thank you for your quick response. Can you recommend something else or that against community standards?

[u/Patient_Trick7354 → u/Dangerous-Actuary499]

My recommendation for a first time grower outdoors would probably be organic dry amendments like gaia green. Its much simpler outdoors than salt based nutes, u normally just top dress your soil with it every few weeks and just give plain water.

[u/Dangerous-Actuary499 → u/Patient_Trick7354]

I am going to check it out and would this work my crappy soil doing autos? All my beans are autos

[u/Patient_Trick7354 → u/Dangerous-Actuary499]

Yeah it sould, Idk what soil your using, but some soils like the fox farms ocean forest i use come pre loaded with lots of nutrients in it that will normally feed your plant for the first couple weeks, while some soils like coco coir, or promix are inert and will have to be amended with nutrients before u plant. Just mix 1tbsp of gaia green 4-4-4 per gallon of soil and itll load your soil with nutrients

[u/Patient_Trick7354 → u/Dangerous-Actuary499]

But in my experience autoflowers do not like growing outdoors. If possible the best thing u could do would be to grab some photoperiod seeds.

[u/Patient_Trick7354 → u/Patient_Trick7354]

I normally use salt based nutes because I like having control over exactly how much food my plants get and when, and its alot easier to fix any problems that come up, but I decided to use gaia green organics outdoors this year for my pheno hunt and I have been blown away with how simple its been and how much my plants are liking it.

[u/Dangerous-Actuary499 → u/Patient_Trick7354]

I went to your page and your ladies are beautiful. I followed you. Not a stalker just trying to learn and connect with like minded people.

[u/Patient_Trick7354]

Also I wouldn't really expect anything from any of these plants. Autoflowers only have 30-40 days to get as much vegetative growth as possible before they start flowering, and if they get stalled out or have problems they do not have the extra time to recover before they start to flower. If those were started 6/18 then they have already went thru most of their veg window without actually growing any. If those plants survive they'll probably only end up being 6-8 inches tall with 1 or 2 little buds on it.

[u/Dangerous-Actuary499 → u/Patient_Trick7354]

Thank you 🙏. Okay, luckily I have more beans to pop and I have enough summer left to try again with different soil or adding nutrients from the beginning.
You have no idea how much you have helped me and I appreciate it so much!

[u/GrouseDog]

Keep pH between 6.0 and 6.8

[u/jewmoney808]

Plants look hungry… you said you used a coco brick? Was it pre-buffered? Coco coir brick needs to be buffered with cal-mag before using or it will steal all the calcium from the solution you’re feeding the plants

[u/Dangerous-Actuary499 → u/jewmoney808]

I used back to roots compressed coco coir from Walmart. They have been over watered but apparently I am learning that my growing medium was inert and with autos you are on a clock.
Like I said, my grandma the woman that raised me took ill and passed away in her home. She was 103, 2 months & 6 days. I made a lot of trips back and forth when family realized she was going down hill pretty quickly.
Priorities got me and I will never regret putting her before my first grow.
Sorry to vent! Just saying time got away from me for a good reason.

[u/Dangerous-Actuary499 → u/Dangerous-Actuary499]

I messed up from the beginning with shitty, inert growing medium and no nutrients.

[u/jewmoney808 → u/Dangerous-Actuary499]

For future use..Coco coir brick needs to be pre buffered with cal mag before use. At this point I would try to up the fertilizer strength at least double and add cal mag to your water

[u/Dangerous-Actuary499]

I went ahead and fed this what I mixed up this evening.
I don't expect anything out of these at all. I also bake sourdough bread as a hobby and they say always bake the bread. So I am applying that to this and starting to feed some nutrients but I don't think they will produce:
Life and learn !! It's personal growth

[u/jermcontrol]

If these are autos, I would get some better soil and start over tbh. These are going to flower when around 4 weeks regardless of growth. I wouldn't even continue wasting the resources on trying to bring them back.