Day 24 first time grow. Help!

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January 15, 2026 at 9:19 am #5801

dlewis01
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Hey everyone. First time grower here trying my hand at indoor gardening. Ac infinity 4×2 ai+ setup with t7 cloudforge humidifier, t3 thermoforge heater, ionboard s24 light, s6 circ fan and 6 inch inline fan. I am currently on day 24 since sprout in my solo cup size starters. My plants are still extremely short and compact. They haven’t really bushed out or exploded with much new growth.

Growing in cultivation nation 70/30 coco perlite mix. GH flora line at 1/4 strength and using 1/2 tsp of recharge and 1/2tsp of stash blend mixed into a gallon and at 5.8ph.

i am starting to see noticeable droop on the lower leaves but no major yellowing, just not seeing the upward growth I see for other growers around this stage.
I am growing ethos cookies v2 from seedsman.

any help or advice would be extremely appreciated

January 15, 2026 at 9:19 am #5802

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January 15, 2026 at 9:21 am #5803

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January 15, 2026 at 9:30 am #5804

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February 25, 2026 at 8:34 am #5865

mrgrowit
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Sorry you never got a response to this; I haven’t been on the forum in awhile. How do the plants look now?

February 25, 2026 at 9:28 am #5868

dlewis01
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Thank you for reaching out! Big fan!
i am currently on day 65 from sprout. I had to make some adjustments as my left plant just couldn’t seem to catch up in growth as the right plant. My main struggle right now is my nutrients vs water with calmag only schedule. I have been using ai chats to help me mix and schedule my feeds and it seems to keep my plants healthy but I’m just not sure how to dial it into a schedule

February 25, 2026 at 9:29 am #5869

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February 25, 2026 at 9:29 am #5870

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February 25, 2026 at 9:30 am #5871

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February 25, 2026 at 9:33 am #5872

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I have the ac infinity auto watering pots but I am still waiting on the autofill valves to ship so I have just been using the auto watering pots as essentially runoff catches. I did a 1.5ec nutrient flush on my left plant as last nights runoff ec was over 3.06 ec and was able to bring it down to 2.16ec with a 2 gallon nutrient flush

March 4, 2026 at 2:53 pm #5883

mrgrowit
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Your plants look pretty good! It definitely sounds like you’re on the right track. So you don’t fill up the self-watering pots and just allow the wicking to happen?

March 4, 2026 at 4:35 pm #5885

dlewis01
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I ordered the autowatering valve to be able to run an external reservoir but it’s been a month and they still havent shipped from amazon! At first I was filling the pots with just RO+calmag and top feeding my nutrients but I was struggling with how i could test runoff with just the reservoir being full of nutrients.
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