New Bag-seed Grow

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Originally Posted by jonnypotseed

what are you using for soil?

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We're using like 3 parts Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil and a 1 part some generic potting soil thats got a good bit of perlite. We started them in rapid rooter plugs but we didn't have the lid for the tray so that kinda sucked. Then we just stuck the 5 that survived out of like 28 in that dirt and they look badass now. I guess it stands to reason that we got the 5 strongest plants out of the 28 seedlings cause the others pussed out just because they didn't have water for like 5 days. At least thats how I rationalize not killing my friend for killing 23 seedlings lol. :rasta: :rasta:

looks nice

Dude, it's looking good. I just planted some seedlings into a pot identical to the one belonging to the largest plant, so I am feeling good about my choice heh.

Mary Jane is a fine looking cat, and she seems to know a good thing when she sees it.

Oh, you can get more light on your plants if you put some sort of reflective material right above those CFLs. I used aluminum cans I cut up. A lot of the light is wasted by going up, but with a reflector you can capture a lot more and direct it to your plant.

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Originally Posted by Cornelius

Dude, it's looking good. I just planted some seedlings into a pot identical to the one belonging to the largest plant, so I am feeling good about my choice heh.

Mary Jane is a fine looking cat, and she seems to know a good thing when she sees it.

Oh, you can get more light on your plants if you put some sort of reflective material right above those CFLs. I used aluminum cans I cut up. A lot of the light is wasted by going up, but with a reflector you can capture a lot more and direct it to your plant.

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Those light sockets came with round metal reflectors that work pretty good but we found that we get better light coverage without the reflectors, and all the lights cover part of the plants partially instead of it focusing back down. I guess next time around we'll put the reflectors back on and see if it helps.

Mary jane says high btw.

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Originally Posted by Anathema2121

Those light sockets came with round metal reflectors that work pretty good but we found that we get better light coverage without the reflectors, and all the lights cover part of the plants partially instead of it focusing back down. I guess next time around we'll put the reflectors back on and see if it helps.

Mary jane says high btw.

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Lol, I meant the reflectors focus light on a single plant which is pretty cool, but its actually brighter per plant with all of the partial light from other nearby lights when we took the reflectors off. So we do waste a lot more light but it actually works out brighter for the girls....lol

as to your several killed seedlings, you might suspect the Fox Farm soil ... it killed many of my young ones, before the nursery guy tipped me off ... Fox Farm is super-soil, but it is too 'hot' for some young starts ... immediately after switching to a mild soil, my new seeds took right off ... when they are ready for transplanting into a larger pot, they will go back into the Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil, it really is outstanding soil ... P.S.... better lose the cat, or you will find your plants destroyed, most cats LOVE to eat pot plants ... :smokin:

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Originally Posted by roadcam

as to your several killed seedlings, you might suspect the Fox Farm soil ... it killed many of my young ones, before the nursery guy tipped me off ... Fox Farm is super-soil, but it is too 'hot' for some young starts ... immediately after switching to a mild soil, my new seeds took right off ... when they are ready for transplanting into a larger pot, they will go back into the Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil, it really is outstanding soil ... P.S.... better lose the cat, or you will find your plants destroyed, most cats LOVE to eat pot plants ... :smokin:

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Lol, yeah we already found both those things out the hard way. She ate a few that germed on a windowsill the first grow we had kinda going outdoors. She's a good girl now and knows better and the plants stay out of her reach except for picture time. As far as the seedlings, we started them in that rapid rooter tray, and thats where they died. The only ones still living in plugs were transplanted to the soil and they all took off :) None of the dead ones ever saw a pot, poor guys. If you look back at my "It's a girl!" thread in the grow lounge you can see those little seedlings. They were started in fox farms ocean forrest soil and they loved it! We had some that it caused a bit of nute burn on the first sets of leaves and they looked kinda shitty but then 2 weeks in they started loving it too. So yeah, I agree, fox farms = too hot for seedlings.

Well, the one that was the runt is now the monster. Look at the fucking leaves on it. The one that was the biggest still has the most leaves and is fucking dark. Looks like a very strong indica, the other one leans kinda towards sativa. The two ones that look a little alike are showing pre-flowers even though they're under 24 hour light. Both of the pre-flowering ones look weird, like a minature big plant or something, while the other 3 show the same type of standard small plant growth pattern. We're pretty sure the retard is also a hermaphrodite, look at the pics, I'll post ones with the ball and the hair circled. The retard's leaves are kinda purpling at the top, and there is a shitload of leaves very close together, it just grows weird. Also, does anyone know if its possible to pollinate a pre-flower? Cause either that happened on the hermi or the hairs on one pre-flower are just turning red for some other reason? Well, here are the pics check this shit out:

1st pic: The retard. Check out that crazy rounded edged leaf. See the pre-flowers?

2nd pic: The other weird looking plant. Tis all female, no ball sacks to be found :D

3rd pic: Same one, more flowers.

4th pic: The retard, look at that ball. Its just to the right of the main stem in the crotch about midway up the plant in that clearing. That a male preflower or am I tripping? I saw one that looked a little less ballish with a hair sticking out and I saw a bunch of regular female preflowers too.

5th pic: Also the retard. See the hair turning red? This is on the same plant that has that ball.

1st pic: The retard. Top angle. Check out that dense bush of leaves coming out the middle, and notice they have a few that are starting to purple? I dunno if its just genetics or some deficiency. This plant just confuses me.

2nd pic: The ex-big one. This is from some "blueberry" midgrade we had that had a few seeds. The big one from the "It's a girl!" thread looked just like this one when it was a baby. Well, we topped it before it got quite this tall.

3rd pic: This one was the runt. Its from that small white square container in the first pics. Once we put it in that big pot, it decided to swell.

4th pic: This one I topped today just for shits and giggles. Will post updates as that plays out.

5th pic: This one is all female. Its forming what looks like secondary tops out of the crotch of the big fan leaves. Pre-flowers everywhere along the main stem and the stems of the secondary top looking parts. I like how this one is shaped, you can see it better in the pics of them in their room.