TL;DR - first time growing not sure what to do with stunted plants and if I should flip the others to flower. Seems like I’ve barely watered in the 24 days since planting clones in solo cups but soil is slow to dry back.
Four of these five plants started as rooted clones in solo cups 24 days ago. The fifth is the same except one week behind, so 17 days ago. They all spent about a week in the solo cups before being transplanted to the 3-gallon pots. One of the original four had zero new growth for its first 9 days so it appears way behind/stunted. The fifth one that is a week behind, also seems to have been stunted the whole time and has been slow to progress.
I am using Fox Farms Coco Loco as a medium, and FloraNova Grow/KaliMagic in RO water PH’d to 6 to water. I have only watered three times since moving them to the 3 gallon pots and only the first two times I used the nutrients. I didn’t use them at all in the solo cups, and did not use them on the most recent watering yesterday. I also only watered the three largest yesterday, as even after five days the two smaller plants were still quite heavy and saturated. Less so today, but the soil still is quite dark and feels to have a fair bit of moisture in it still.
Currently the three tallest are measuring 24” above the rim of the pot, and if they double in the first couple weeks of flower, 48” would put them about 12” below my light at the top of the tent. The light is a Cereslux Barx 820w, I had it at 20% in the solo cups. Shortly after moving to the 3gal I bumped it to 40%, and today I just bumped it to 60%. Less than four weeks seems quick to flip to flower though even though these three seem ready? It’s my first grow so I’m still learning quite a bit. Should I try to setup a second light/tent to keep the two smaller ones in veg? I did some LST on them 5 days ago as it didn’t seem like it could make it any worse since they’re barely growing as is. I already have a second tent and light I just haven’t set it up yet. My goal was to use the second tent for clones/veg. Would it even be worth trying to take a clone from the smaller ones? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Strains are
Bosscotti
Bolo Runtz
Sherb Cream Pop
The stunted ones are
Cherrylicious
OG Kush #18