Forgot to ask. In the third pic, one of my LR2s came out with a 3rd cotyledon leaf. I'm pretty sure this is nothing to worry about, but just to make sure, has anyone ever seen this happen, and is it anything to worry about?
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Forgot to ask. In the third pic, one of my LR2s came out with a 3rd cotyledon leaf. I'm pretty sure this is nothing to worry about, but just to make sure, has anyone ever seen this happen, and is it anything to worry about?
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You're fine. It may grow a little oddly shaped for a while, but it's nothing to worry about. :jointsmile:
Looking good! I envy your setup!
I need some emergency advice. My setup just isn't working. It is too hot with too little dirt per plant and i am having to water these things every 4 hours. That and i'm pretty sure the heat is making the seedlings stretch, because the biggest ones are 3 inches tall now and only have cotyledons and 1 set of small leaves.
I am going to my grow sight tomorrow and i will be planting 1 of each strain to see what happens. The weather this week is supposed to be 70-80 during the day and no colder than 50 at night with a little rain.
I guess my question is this. Do my tiny little seedlings even have a chance? I imagine a few will survive, but i would hate to waste all those seeds (and money) because of my own stupidity. What can i do to help them out?
Sure they stand a chance, but remember that Mother Nature can be cruel. If a torrential downpour were to happen, your babies would be wiped out!
Maybe invest in some chicken wire to put around the plants, so no curious animals can eat them...
PS - If heat is simply the issue, there is definitely ways to circumvent it. For example, revamp your air circulation! Add additional exhaust fans to get that hot air out of there.
Heat is only one of the issues. There isn't enough dirt in each cup to keep the plants watered for more than 4 hours when the lights and exhaust fan are on. I think it's a combination of heat and the 80 CFM fan blowing on them that's drying them out and causing the stretching.Quote:
Originally Posted by Backpacker420
I'm about to re-plant all of the plants in a single large container filled with dirt. That way it will be easier to water them and the dirt will stay wet much longer. It will be a little bit harder to transplant them, but i think it will be worth it. They will also fit under the lights better, which they will like. I'll post some pics when i'm done.
p.s. i didn't have time this morning to plant those babies outside. hopefully they'll do fine in the closet for another week or two.
I would try to avoid planting them all in one container. Also, the streching si due to low light, not excessive heat, and their looks to be enough soil in those pots for them to grow for a few weeks; the heat is your problem there.
Peace
I don't think the light is really all that bad. 2 42w CFLs within a few inches of all the plants. I've heard of heat making plants stretch, and since it's close to 100 degrees in the box, i'm assuming that's what it is.
Regardless of all my worries, all the kids are looking pretty good so far. I'll post some pics tonight.
Peace!
Ok, so day 6 from germination and the kids are lookin good. Yesterday i added dirt to each container up to the top of the cup. Today i fed the plants with a very dilute solution of bloom nutes and rearranged the plants a little to take advantage of the lighting better.
I did not end up planting them all in a large container of grow medium and i did not end up planting any of them outside. I decided to just stick with what i have, and in 1.5-2 weeks when the weather looks good i will move them all outside. The roots on the plants are looking pretty good. They are starting to build up in the bottom of the cups and are white, hairy, and healthy looking. I didn't get any pics of the roots, but i'll try to get some for my next pic-posting.
If anyone has questions or advice for something i can do better, i'd love to hear from you!
Peace!
I finally solved my heat problem by adding ducting that brings air to the fan from cooler parts of the closet. Temp is now down around 89 degrees (instead of 100) and it seems like none of the kids are stretching any more. Hopefully i've solved that problem for good.
I'll post pics tonight when i get home from work.
lookin good DG!! cant wait to see the girls grow up...
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whiskeytango
did ya wanna ask me something? gotta blank rep from ya...
I guess i'm kinda new the rep thing SNS. I just thought you gave people rep if you thought they were doing a good job. :) I guess i'll have to figure that one out when i'm not stoned...
So here's my latest update. Day 9 since germination and the first set of true leaves are forming on the kids. I mentioned before, but all (100%) of the 18 seeds i soaked germinated within 2 or 3 days and are growing nicely.
The first 2 pics of the right and left side of the box were taken today, and the third pic was taken yesterday to show the basic roots of an average seedling in my group.
Not much else to report. If weather permits, i'll be moving the kids outside on 4-20, which is appropriate and possibly good karma. I'm thinking about going out that day and buying some chicken wire to build around the kids to protect them from deer and other pests.
I'll probably post another pic update in a couple days.
Peace!
p.s. i moved the lights up an inch today because the plants right under the lights were getting too close. We'll see if this affects plant growth at all
Looks good. You seem to have worked out the kinks in your setup. I'll be looking forward to your progress.
Is 42 degrees at night time too cold for cannabis? I'm thinking it might stress the plants a little and possibly create hermies.
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Day 10 shows significant growth over day 9. Within a week, most of my plants will be jumping into full vegetative growth. At that point, I'll probably move them outside.
Pics!
p.s. as i type this post, i can hear police sirens outside. am i worried? Hell no! They'll never catch me :pimp:
These are the final pics of the plants inside. The weather is perfect and the kids are lookin good, so i'm goin today to plant them. I'll take some pics of them in the ground and post them later today.
pic1: box
pic2: LR2
pic3: Mango
pic4: Master Kush
pic5: Thai Stick
Wish me luck!
good luck man!!! get them girls in the sun!!
WT
Now THAT is my favorite shade of green!! :D
Nice pics.:thumbsup: I just wanted to comment on that I have heard that its better to slowly adapt the plants to the sunlight by giving them time outside for a few hours before transplanting them outside for good. Just so they aren't effected to greatly by the elements. But I've never really grown outside so, maybe I'm not a good judge on such things.:rastasmoke:Quote:
Originally Posted by dgsgandalf
I guess I'll know for next time. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ViperC6
I planted the kids today and they look pretty good. Still a bit small, but i think they'll make it. The sunlight was pretty dim today. Lots of clouds and such. I planted the LR2 and Thai Stick in a patch together, and the Kush and Mango in the other patch, then watered both pretty well.
I have a chart of which plants are which, but I'm feeling too lazy to mess with that right now. Here are some pics of a few plants in the ground and 1 of the LR2/TS patch all planted up.
I'll prob head back on Saturday to check shit out. Until then...
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Wow, i just want to say that i love Ganja.
I was sitting at my computer yesterday for 5 hours and today for 2 hours trying to write this paper, and it just wasn't coming to me. I kept deleting the shit i wrote and started a few times. Then i ripped on my bong i call Shiva (after the hindu goddess of ganga :thumbsup: ) and within 30 minutes i had written 3 pages of creative literature and completed the paper.
If it wasn't for this amazing herb we all love, i would still be toiling over that paper right now. Call it fuckin aderal, put it in pill form, but we gotta get it legalized. If any of you have read the book "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, you know exactly how big a thing it could be. For those of you who haven't, i recommend you do.
Anyway, enough with my stoner rampage. Good night everyone and happy chiefin!:bigsmoke:
I've done the same thig myself, but just read over it sober because I know I tend to ramble on if i'm high. I will have great points, but they need condensing.Quote:
Originally Posted by dgsgandalf
BTW, plants look great. You will really see some fast growing now. Just remember to keep them a secret.:weedpoke:
Peace:greenthumb:
Yeah, keeping your mouth shut is the hardest but most important part of growin ganja. 'Cause if it aint a secret, it aint gonna work!
Pics were taken yesterday. I went back to check out the patch after a heavy rain, and all the kids were looking happy, healthy, and larger. It looks like the transplant outside went off without a hitch. Good things...
Pic 1&2: TS
Pic 3&4: LR2
Pic 5: TS/LR2 Patch
For this one, i'm not sure which plants are which, but all these pics were from the MK/MG patch. I do know in the pic of 4 plants they are all Master Kush.
I also have a question. When should i start fertilizing the plants? Since it rained heavily right before i went to the patch yesterday, i didn't fertilize or water the kids. I'll probably start watering this week depending on weather, and i don't know when or how much nutes to add. Any advice?
hey bro, firstly you have some lovely plants there, they are going to grow into monstors, I hope they are spaced away from eachother. If they aren't I recommend LSTing them in different directions from eachother (for light and oxygen, etc).
I was always taught you shouldnt nute a plant before it's got its first set of "adult" leaves but if the soil your working in is low in nutrients, I'd want to find a good vegging nute and try it in very low doses to start (you can't hurt adults with a low dose, but be careful seedlings are sensitive as I'm sure you know)
Peace 2 u my friend,
Denial
i wouldn't nute for a while.... and the kids look great! good luck on the outdoor venture:thumbsup: how close to the coast? might wanna check your air salinity whenever you can...friend had a couple die outside down south
WT
I can't wait to see these things grow.
they'll... be giants... <quivers>
They look pretty good I think you had a good idea to grow legit grass around the plants so they don't look to obvious in brown soil. I think you grew them kind of close together I would say give them at least 6 feet in between and never more than 4-5 in a single location. Other than that they look pretty green and I am jealous it is pretty much snowing here in Ohio and I have to wait a few more weeks to move some babies outside. I would start looking for nutrients online I have found some cheap liquid nutrients on eBay and a few other online stores
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I'm pretty far in from the coast. Far enough to not have to worry about salinity. You'd have to be either very close to the east coast or down in the everglades to get salt in the water/ground.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnSstealth
I actually didn't space them too far apart 'cause i figure about half of them are gonna be males and will get the chop. This will leave more room for the females to grow. If there are several females all bunched up together, i'll def LST them to spread out the budding sites.Quote:
Originally Posted by denial102
So the kids second big test is approaching. It's supposed to be in the 30's and windy tonight at the grow site. Once again, i'm really not that worried because the grass i piled up around them should protect them from the wind, and I doubt it's actually going to freeze... knock on wood...
They stood up to the first test beautifully (torrential downpours) so hopefully they'll be ok.
I'll probably head back to the grow site on Tuesday to check out the kids. Pics then...
Peace!
It's now day 17 since germination. All the plants are looking pretty good. None were killed by the cold weather last night, and most look like they've grown since i planted them.
I don't have a whole lot to say. I'll probably start fertilizing them as soon as they all show positive vegetative growth. Maybe this weekend?
I saw a small bug (who knows what kind) on the leaf of 1 of the plants. It didn't look like a pest, but i killed it anyway.
Here are the pics. MK/MGo
More pics. These are of the TS and LR2. The LR2 has slimmer, longer leaves, and the TS has the fat, short leaves. Looks like some uber indica to me, but it's supposed to be a mix of Thai sativa and some kind of skunk. Who knows...
lookin good.hope they continue to progress!:thumbsup:how much light do u think ur plants r getting?
I was there this morning at around 9:30 AM, and at least half the plants were in full sunlight (i have a few patches). They have some small trees around them, but they won't be blocking much of the sun light. Hopefully it will be enough.
Would it be a good or bad idea to post pictures of the area around my patches for you guys to see? Someone could use them for incriminating purposes...
Also, as i was walking through the woods today, I saw 2 rabits and think i heard a deer. All my plants were fully intact. I think there's enough soft green stuff growing around the kids to protect them from becoming the appetizer for some animal's lunch...
i wouldnt post pics of the grow area.with the technology the cops have in ga bein you never kno what to expect(friends dad is a cop and tells us about it).big bro is always watchin.
cant wait to see the harvest
You might wanna consider surrounding your plants with some sort of fence just to make sure no critters ruin what could be a beautiful harvest. Chicken wire spray painted black is almost invisible.
I'm planning on going out to the patch either tomorrow or Sunday. It hasn't rained since maybe Monday, and i'm planning on fertilizing and watering the plants. It's supposed to rain on Monday as well, but i figure it never hurts to water more when they're outside...
In another two weeks, the LR2 should be showing sex and i'll be reducing the size of my patch. Anyone know exactly how many weeks it's supposed to take to show sex? Today would be day 20 since germination.
Updates tomorrow.
Peace!
p.s. Sunday is 4-20. As if EVERYONE on this site didn't already know that...
I went out to the patch yesterday, and the kids are doing fine. All except for the one i found dead... I was looking at the patch thinking, there's something wrong here, then i realized. I had to look around in the grass, but i found the dead dried up leaves of one of my MK plants. Oh well. There wasn't enough room for all of them to grow anyway...
I didn't end up watering them. Apparently it rained a qtr inch the night before and the soil was pretty well saturated. That, and the fact that i'm still not satisfied that all the plants are in full vegetative growth yet, and i don't want to burn any of the young ones.
Pics. These are of the dead one, and the MK/ Mango Patch.
More pics. These are of the TS/ LR2 patch. If you look closely, the 2 TS plants are already growing noticeably taller than the LR2 plants.
Of the 2 pics i took of the entire patch, which one do you guys like better? I used 2 different camera modes, and i can't decide which one i like...
your plants are going to be very crowded in about a month or two I would suggest keeping them at least 3 feet apart because the roots will spread like a slut with aids. Some of my plants that are outdoors are about the same size as yours I am waiting another week before I am going to give them diluted nutes. I will try to get some pictures tonight but dont know how well they will look with no flash.