First Ever Grow, Need Advice Plez!!!

Thanks for the reply stinkyattic and maryjanehaze.
As far as an update on my grow. As you know 10/12 of my seeds germinated. 1 week after planting in cups, i transferred two of them permenantly into the ground. Very big mistake. Three days later, one of them was completley eatin (assuming snails) and on the other one, all the leaves were gone so i yanked it. One of the germinated seeds popped through the soil but stopped growing and turned brown. (I'm thinking it might have been a 'J' shaped root but who knows). One of them never popped through the soil. So thats four down so far. :( One of them had some major snail problems (or i assumed so cuz i saw a snail crawling on the edge). There were holes (small) all over the leaves to the point where although all the leaves were intact and the shape was still existant (hope that makes sense), 75% of the surface area was gone. I have five left, but they look B E A utiful. Hopefully to get some pictures up later today

Sorry I never got those pictures up, my camera isn't working right
I have some bad news anyway.
So I thought I had an insect problem, I really had a cat problem....
So I go out tonight to get my 5 plants in their little beer cups to transplant them into 1 galleon containers. (Three of them look like shit, two of them didn't have leaves and one of those two was brown) :( .
So I get them out and transplant 3 of them. I'm walking back out to the place where I keep them, out in a field, and I hear a jingle. Then I hear it again. At this point I am thinking shit, shit police (luckily, I went without my plants to scope the place out first to make sure no one was hiding in the bushes.) Anyway, I come within 10 feet of my grow spot, and I see a cat sitting dead center of my growing area. I just stand there. I walk 2 more feet towards it. It doesn't move a muscle. Its eyes are huge. The damn thing looked like it was on ecstasy. (You know when cartoonists make "puppy eyes" all big and watery? The cats eyes looked like that but evil). The cat was white with patches of brown, except its mouth. I know this sounds freaking crazy but I couldnâ??t' tell if it was silently hissing at me or had its mouth close. All I know is I high tailed it out of there. I donâ??t' know what I am going to do, what do you all think?

I don't know why, but cats like to claw and chew up plants, including cannabis plants. If you have outside plants and there are cats nearby, your plants are going to take some damage, if they survive at all. I have five cats myself, and the only thing that keeps my plants alive are doors between them and the plants. Heh.

just one of the disadvantages of growing out doors,that is one reason i chose to grow indoors.

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Originally Posted by maryjanehaze

cfl's are great and evrything, but I'm tired of everyone saying you need them. I have been successfully growing lowryders under 2 standard 125w household flo. tubes and they've been growing great. :thumbsup: .

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A flourecent tube is the exact same type of light as cfls. A cfl is just a twisted up flo tube. It is much easier to concentrate a cfl then a tube so ppl use them.

oh yea and your soil is way way to wet in your last pics

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Originally Posted by jamstigator

I don't know why, but cats like to claw and chew up plants, including cannabis plants. If you have outside plants and there are cats nearby, your plants are going to take some damage, if they survive at all. I have five cats myself, and the only thing that keeps my plants alive are doors between them and the plants. Heh.

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what do u mean u dont know why cats like to claw and chew plants if u were a cat would y rather chew on kitty grass or cannabis. No contest. Mine love the stuff they follow me about when Im with my plants n try sneak in with em when Im not looking.

Very intelligent animals:dance:

Ya a little to intelligent if you ask me...

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I gave up the grow tonight. After finding a place where cats didn't go, I had an inspect problem. I tried spraying insecticide but after the flowering started to begin I stopped. Just tonight i went out to water, and there were two grasshoppers sitting on my female MJ. If it wasn't for so many animal and insect complications, i would of had a nice grow! After they were transplanted, one shot up to 13 inches and the other to 14 inches. But girth wise, the plants are pathatetic. Interesting enough tho, it doens't seem like the insects like to go after the male, which to me seems really wierd. Anyway, unless a miracle happens tomorrow, I'm going to rip them up. I'm going to dry them out and make 10 firecrackers out them just for fun (i know i know it won't work, but eh, it will be an interesting experiment tho). Thanks for all your help everyone.






And cats do love MJ leaves lol:
http://www.waytoomany.com/vids/weed/catnip.php