[BadBee]

Hi, I’m using tap water which is pre-filtered here in Germany. Yeah makes sense that it could be a pH problem because the first time I watered I didn’t think to check the pH (been a while since the last grow and wasn’t back into my routine) but I used to always add a little lemon juice to my water because it was typically too basic. So I added a little lemon juice like always on the first watering. I checked my pH again before the next watering and it was pretty much perfectly 7 now, so I probably shouldn’t have added lemon juice on the previous watering. I don’t use recharge, it’s not available where I live I’m pretty sure. When I planted the seeds I dipped the pods into a micro-bacto water mix that was provided with the pods I bought, but since then I haven’t added any other microbial support.

[BadBee]

Hi thanks for your reply, the soil I used was from a previous grow that I sterilized because it had a fungus gnat problem. I added Mycorrhiza and perlite to the soil before I planted the seedling once it germinated. I had a Cal-mag deficiency in my last grow and heard you can never have too much, so figued it might be good to start it with a little bit. I won’t do that so early from now on. Should I still wait until day 12 to start doing fert, or since I may not have many nutrients in my soil from sterilizing it, should I maybe try and add something sooner to prevent deficiencies?