First grow â?? a learning experience

[tjgrower]

Hi all! For my second post I want to share my first growing experience with you. Iâ??ve never done this before as Iâ??m sure many first time growers have said before. As of tomorrow it will be 60 days. My facilities are not the best but itâ??s seemed to be barely adequate at the very least. I have 4 plants growing; the pics below are of the biggest. Iâ??ve done my homework and from what Iâ??ve seen my plant seems to be kinda spindly, yet thriving. Iâ??m sure it could benefit from more light but the setup I have right now is as good as it gets for the time being. And no, Iâ??m not showing you guys my grow area because itâ??s too embarrassing, I know it could use improvement, lets just leave it at that. lol:)

From the start they have been getting 24 hours of light. I will start a 12/12 light and dark period when Iâ??m ready to enter the flowering stage. That is something I could use advice on, by the looks of this plant how much longer should I give this plant to grow before entering the flowering stage? I just repotted this plant today, it was sharing a larger pot with the 3 others, now it can thrive on itâ??s own. My camera is obviously top of the line; hope it will do. Let me know what you all think!

[tjgrower]

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[MOBABN]

Those are at 60 days???? A bit stretched, im guessing its all having to do with lights....i know your setup is embarrassing and this is your first time but im on my first grow right now too.... definatly ghetto lookin mine is lol yours cant be that bad. Anyways let me know what lights your using

[tjgrower]

Yeah I know, not perfect but I have high hopes for her. I have a couple coiled florescent bulbs I think 40watts or so each and a bulb from one of the back yard security flood lights I pilfered, they really started picking up when I added it. Maybe as time goes on I'll show everyone the shame of my growing area! hehehe!

[faithlessxxx]

If theyre from seed you shouldnt flower them until they start to show signs of sexually maturing. If sexually mature clones: whenever the size suits you.

[tjgrower]

OK, so I sat back and thought about it my lighting sucks too hard and I had a flash of insight. I have several security floodlights around my property so I snagged a couple more and replaced the florescent bulbs, which were only 30 watts a pieceâ?¦ sad I knowâ?¦

Now I donâ??t know how many watts the floodlights have but it a helluva lot more! Now that I have better lighting Iâ??m slightly less embarrassed to show my grow area, donâ??t be too cruel when ya see it! lol Two of the lights are very white, the other is very orange/yellow. Iâ??m hoping it will give my poor light starved plants a better chance. :D

[faithlessxxx]

check the temps quickly, if they're above 33c youre hurting them.

[tjgrower]

I'll have to get a thermometer but I'll nice and cool with the fan. Any drooping you see is probably due to the transplanting I did today...

[Dutch Masta]

Those are some weird ass looking plants. two 26/100w CFLs can be purchased at wallmart for $6. The ones you have now may be the wrong lighting spectrum, you want bright ass 6500ks. But no worries, you can save those ones you have if they are 2500k or so, for flowering. Also those lights are quite far away from the plants.

[Lord Dangly Bits]

The type of light he is using puts out a BUTT LOAD of heat for the amount of light he gets. If he moved them much closer, he would fry his plants.

Listen to Dutch Masta,
Get the CFL lights. They are the new type of condensed fluoresces lumie lights. ( little tube lights) all curly. They are cheap and work well with vegging a plant. And put out very little heat, You can put them about 1"-2" from your plants.

I still find it hard to believe your plants are 60 days old. They are very small, and very stretched. not bushy at all.

LIGHT, PH, LIGHT,PH, LIGHT,PH..... SOIL. These IMO are the most important for a soil grow. Your lighting SUCKS.. I wish your lighting was a woman, I would date it. Sorry to give you ruff love, but it does. Go to Lowes hardware, or Homedepo and buy some CFL's like these KIND people have said.
Either that, or thow them outside. I used those type of bulbs for my first 2 weeks of my first grow. I did as these people said, and OH YAH.. my plants took off!!!

Best of luck on your grow. I really hope it works out for you.

[tjgrower]

Well I'm gonna have to get those lights so I'm gonna see what (if any thing) I can get from these plants and start again. I'm gonna start turning the lights off for 6 hours and see what effect it has. If I only get 1 bud I'll be happy for my 1st grow... just as long as it's not all for nothing!:( Thanks for the advice and tough love guys!:stoned:

[postmandave]

Listen mate your thread title says it all my freind do as you said use this as a learning experiance and do your thing no matter what lights you are using .getting cfls would defenetly be the best optoin to get the best from ur plants olr a hps when the finaces permit .they are light straved hence the spindly stock and small leaves but you are enjoying yourself right? thats what its all about and tellin you mate never be embaressed of trying no matter what the state of ur eqipment or grow area its all about having fun and smoking the end product and you will improve through time so will ur eqipment grow area and yeild . be safe and enjoy . the postman.

[TheHump]

Don't take this the wrong way, but your plants look like they are on the set of a 1970's porn.

[faithlessxxx]

Those can easily be moved to new lights and come out fine. Just do it within a week.
Repot quite a bit up the skinny stem in bigger pots with 50/50 perlite/earth and put under some fluors and they'll come out nice.

[MOBABN]

Don't take this the wrong way, but your plants look like they are on the set of a 1970's porn.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :S2:

[dirfjiggler]

Don't take this the wrong way, but your plants look like they are on the set of a 1970's porn.

hahaha

[tjgrower]

Yeah, I'll post here again, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

[boscom]

HEY,YOU SOULD LISTEN TO THOSE GUYS GO WITH cfls I HAVENT GROWN YET BUT I HAVE BEEN READING FOR 4 DAYS STRAIGHT I WOULD SUGGEST YOU READREADREADREADREADREAD.I LEARN SOMTHING NEW HERE EVERYDAY peace out.