1 month old indicas

[userofclock]

so these are a little over a month old, 2 different strains, just some random kush bagseed.. the tall one is smelling DANK already and the small one is getting eaten :/ they get like 4-6 hrs direct sunlight and about 10 hours of indirect sunlight. their nutes consist of human nitrogen waste :) and they got their first dose of ethelyne today. so how are they looking?

[temujin8]

hmmm, Not to bad for a month, they look just alittle streached, I would find a place that gets another couple hours of direct light. you should also put them in bigger pots, or in the ground soon. Aside from the streaching get to the bottom of the little assholes that are munching your plant. do you know whats eating them?

[jsn9333]

I agree... it looks like it is definitely time to put them in bigger pots... if not past time to do it for some of them. That could be why they are stretching... they could be stressed from root-lock beginning to set in.

[userofclock]

no i dont know whats eating them, but i sprayed some bug killer around and on the pots but not directly on the plants, its just some commercial insecticide bought from the store, will it harm the plants if i spray it on them? and so far i dont see any roots coming out the bottom holes, but i am planning on repotting very soon, if theyre stretched will the bud be not optimal?

[temujin8]

hmmm make sure you dont get any chemicals on the plants! its best not to use the insectaside. try a solution of soap and water, I will look for an exact recipe if you want, you need to find out whats eating them though because different pests need different cures, but the soap and water shit should work just make sure you dont use much soap (just alittle and i think you use lye soap) and spray the tops and bottoms of the leaves. that should work.
If there are no roots sticking out of the bottom of the pot you should be fine, and as for the streaching, it wont effect yeild or potancy directly but you want a strong thick stem to support the weight of the plant when it gets older. to small your plant could snap in half from its own weight. only the taller one looks bad to me. you might want to tie it to a stick or something for support.
Just make sure you get them in better light, you should be fine.

[userofclock]

well i did make a brew of lemon peels, garlic, and hot peppers and sprayed it on and around my plants but i dont think it deters bugs for that long, i was thinking of LST'ing the tall one a little bit, to grow out instead of up because the stem is pretty flimsy. ill try the soap one tomorrow, do you think normal dawn dishsoap would work? thanks

[temujin8]

the brew seems like it would work. and LST doesn't seem like a bad way to bulk up the stem. have you heard of the straw method to strengthen/protect stems? and yeah i heard that a drip or two of dish soap should work i really wish i could find that recipe for you though... but i still cant find it

[userofclock]

thanks for everything im gonna try all these out and upload some more pics, maybe at 2 month mark or so

[userofclock]

ok so after giving them 12 oz of water each yesterday and spraying them good with ethylene/water, i went back today and they really hardened up, the stems and leaves got stronger, and the leaves bent downwards and kind of curled in.. its lookin good. is this from the water or ethylene?

[jsn9333]

ok so after giving them 12 oz of water each yesterday and spraying them good with ethylene/water, i went back today and they really hardened up, the stems and leaves got stronger, and the leaves bent downwards and kind of curled in.. its lookin good. is this from the water or ethylene?

What is ethylene, and where did you get it from?

[userofclock]

Ethephon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethephon)
Ethylene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene)

i bought florel brand ethephon from a popular auction website

[userofclock]

ok so they shriviled up and died after application of soap :( next season shall be better

[SouthernGuerilla]

yeah curling down of the leaves is a bad thing.

[jsn9333]

Seriously!? All your plants died? That sucks, my friend, sorry to hear that.

For next year, you may want to keep in mind that any soap solution should be extremely diluted. And in fact, I've heard it is best not to use common soap b/c you never truly know what exactly is in it. Sometimes it will work, sometimes it won't. Some companies even change their recipe from year to year. I recommend you either use a pesticide like Sevin, or an insecticide horticulture soap (and follow the dilution instructions carefully).

I know chemicals are "bad" and all, but if you use them lightly they can be a good thing. That's just my opinion. I recently used Sevin to stop grasshoppers from eating my plants (my grow log is in this forum), and I couldn't be happier with it. I'd rather have dead insects then dead plants, you know?

[userofclock]

thanks for the tipssssssssss!!!!!

[SouthernGuerilla]

I noticed one of my plants had leaves that curled downward after my dog pissed on/near it. So maybe it was from too much ferts or some sort of toxins?

[shadow218]

you should use like a teaspoon of neem to 32 oz of water and like 2 drops of soap to spray next time :p

[SouthernGuerilla]

you should use like a teaspoon of neem to 32 oz of water and like 2 drops of soap to spray next time :p


murphy oil soap.

[temujin8]

sorry about your plants... I feel real bad about it, because I couldn't get that recipe for you but I have a link here that will help you out next time.... =/
Homemade insecticidal soap recipe (http://www.essortment.com/all/homemadeinsec_rvhp.htm)