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What type of soil are you using? Are you using Grobuckets, if not do you have drain holes in those buckets?
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Using hi-pro soil. Yes I have holes in the bottom. However the meter reads wet for 3 days. Thinking of putting holes in the sides.
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Well, I would suggest Humic acid and BBP. It works great. Here is a picture of my Orange crush after 21 days in my Grobuckets using Humic Acid and 2 applications of BBP!
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Get with @TheMadFlascher about the humic acid and how to mix it up and apply it.
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The first thing I might suggest is starting your seedlings in a clear 16oz solo cup place INSIDE a red 16 oz solo.cup. Both with multiple drainage holes…
I would also suggest starting them in a Root’ Organic or something similar to a Sunshine#4 potting soil.
There is nothing wrong with growing cannabis in a 5 gal bucket, providing you’re using an appropriate medium that provides adequate air/water penetration. It’s just that starting small seedling directly in that much soil/media makes critical MOISTURE control very DAUNTING to say the least!!!
You would probably be MUCH MORE successful up potting a seedling with an established root system!
I’m more than happy to help you out…let’s use PM for our conversations and after that you may post whatever you choose!!
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If you are using ProMix (what you call hi pro) we really could talk!
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Hey don’t be afraid to drown them either, especially if you have drain holes. Make it easier for those roots to grow and get what they need. You can always skip a watering if you turn it into mud, the little ladies can take it.
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Well not drown 5 gallon buckets with babies. They need to establish. Them some big starter containers. Try starting smaller next time. Try what Flasch recommends.
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I was under the impression that autoflower should be started directly and it’s forever home.
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baker,
In most instances you have to read carefully…I believe the standard protocol with auto seedlings is they should be TRANSPLANTED into their final homes.
It certainly can be done by growers very experienced with their media, and varieties …it’s just that the solo cup method is much more successful and most often used…
You do have to transplant out of the solo cup BEFORE they’re rootbound, but that’s why you plant them in the clear cup placed inside the red cup…you can pull them out at any time and see both root status, and more easily see the irrigation status…FWIW
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That’s beautiful man
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You must be a member of that fb scroggers group…
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Scroggers, I never heard that term what does it mean growing outside in pots?
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Here’s an observation for you. You started your plants in what looks like 5 gallon pots. You asked if they were small for three weeks. There are so many different things that can be relevant. But for me what it boils down to in simple terms. For that seedling it is like planting it in the ground. It has an unlimited space for roots at this time of his life. So it sent the majority of its energy to growing roots because they hit no resistance. The pictures of your plants looking so small in the 5 gallon buckets at three weeks old were still fairly tiny. And then your next pictures which were 10 days later the above ground growth played catch-up. Now look at what you got.
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No worries. There’s a fb-group called “Scroggers” with scrogging fanatics. The reason I mentioned this is because the members over there add “NFSOT” to almost every post.
That’s an acronym for “not for sale or trade” @happilyretired 
Sorry to confuse you my friend @baker. Don’t worry about scrogging yet if you just just started growing. It’s a training method, one that you undoubtedly have seen before, where you tuck your branches under a trellis net. Enjoy growing some plants naturally first maybe, to get an idea of how they shape, how they grow.
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