I am normally a hydro guy but I wanted to grow a couple of different strains in soil from seed to make a mother of each type and decide which strain was the best.. Both have a beautiful fat leafed purple indica dad with one mother sour diesel and the other is grand daddy purple. I am currently in week three of flower and for about a week or so I have been noticing the smaller leaves cupping and curling a bit. I know they are starting to stress. All the large fan leaves are fine. I do have to water every two days as they are sucking the container dry. I have done a little research and have come up with the following:
1) plants are potentially rootbound. I have five plants from one to two feet tall max in a rectangular planter box that holds maybe six gallons of soil.
or
2) fertilizer burn. I am using fox farm at the recommended rate.
My question is does anyone think I should carefully transplant at this stage in the game (end of third week of 12/12. I could stop the nutes as the new soil would have plenty which would also get rid of the root bound problem. If I do transplant, do I need to raise the light for a bit so as not to shock them? Thanks in advance for your help.
1) plants are potentially rootbound. I have five plants from one to two feet tall max in a rectangular planter box that holds maybe six gallons of soil.
or
2) fertilizer burn. I am using fox farm at the recommended rate.
My question is does anyone think I should carefully transplant at this stage in the game (end of third week of 12/12. I could stop the nutes as the new soil would have plenty which would also get rid of the root bound problem. If I do transplant, do I need to raise the light for a bit so as not to shock them? Thanks in advance for your help.
