First Grow, 500$ and a dream

Day 25
My plants are still doing awsome now, I have flushed them again and they are all very healthy still. They drink like there is no tommorow, and i have been able to keep the door on my cab closed for the past week. I crushed on of my plants alittle while ago and it was looking pretty grim but, it has bounced back and is now perky and healthy looking. Im starting to be able to smell a slight odor when my face is near the plants, I hope they dont get too stinky, but if they do my carbon filter is ready to go. I have also added Co2 using a 4 gallon water container a kilo of sugar some bread and yeast. The plants really seem to like it and growing even faster then i thought they would.

Picture time

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John

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Paul

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George

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Ringo

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Pewee

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Co2 can

Good job man, I've only got through your first few posts, but you seem to be doing better then a lot of first time growers who get "deer eyes" and pop seeds before they are ready.

i've done that plenty of times :)

Hey joe,
just keepin up with ya. You might be surprised with the one that got crushed. I had one get mangled early on and turned out to be the bushiest girl I've seen. Its what convinced me to start LSTing on all.

well I was looking at some other grows and noticed that my plants didnt seem to be sizing up to other peoples grows of the same age. So I decided i was going to add some more light to try and speed things up. So i hung a lamp to the side of one of my plants and put in a small 27watt white cfl and a tube along the back. I came back the next morning and noticed that one of my plants had drastically leaned towards the white cfl, and it had 2 larger more powerful CFLs closer to the top of it!. This really made me think and I started looking at spectrums. Turns out my big powerful cfl's are 2700K red light, which vegging plants dont like very much. So I went out and bought 6 6500k CFL's and put them in. Went to work again and when i came back HOLY COW!. each plant had grown almost an inch and bushed out by atleast an inch also. Im relived though that the 70 bucks i shelled out wont be wasted cause these lights are apparently good for flowering.


As for LSTing i did not even know what that was, but i looked it up and that seems like an interesting idea. Would I increase my yield by LSTing? Cause i have lots of vertical space.

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Can see my cabinet glows bright blue now hehe.

Transplant DAY!!!! Well i got tired of using this miracle grow shit and decided that today would be a good day to transplant!!. So i went and bought a 40pounds bag of cow menure and a 40pound bag of Humus/ Peat moss mix and made a mix of 60percent menure 30 percent humus and 10 percent perelite mix. I then transplanted my plants from 1gallon pots to 3.3 gallon pots. I then used some powderd root stimulants all over the roots to help things along. I repotted and gave a heavy watering. The plants look a little anoyed but so far they are ok, and now that they are in a good soil mix im sure they will really start growing. Here are some pics of the new improved plants.

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Hopefully this will also solve the leaf browning problem that I have been having. If i can get them to keep growing nice like they have been, I will be able to start flowering in a week or two.

Dilligent logging, JoeShmoe! And, your plants are looking good too.

Shov

I too used MG during my first weeks. It was forever dropping in PH. I had to flush once every 2-Weeks just to bring my PH back up enough.
I do believe that you would increase yield indoors with LSTing. You can still start if your stems are still soft. LSTing allows us to shape the plant around the curve of light coming from your bulbs. Meaning more exposure = More bud. Just think of this.. Your very bottom branches are by default farthest from the light. If you were to tip the plant on its side then those bottom braches now become your top braches(closest to the light).
Outside this really isn't an issue cause the sun rotates to shine at all 180 degrees.

BTW you shouldn't bother switching to flower until you see alternating nodes. Its one of the first signs that the girl is mature enough for it.
Looking good. :thumbsup:

Day 36

Well its been 36 days into vegging, and I took your advice zcomp and started Low stress training. I gave the plants a good watering before i started. I made anchors using pieces of wire from my dryer hose and used them to anchor down the main stalk of my plants. They have been like this for 4 days now and all the branches and shoots are now growing upwards. Rather then training the plants around in a circle im training it in a straight line since my plants arnt big enough. One plant is trained out of its pot and into the back of the next pot. My grow now looks more like a huge bush then and one plant hehehe. I am going to let them veg for another two weeks before starting flowering. I am anxious to know which are male and female.

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Oh yeah baby. They look good. I don't try to have a plan when LSTing anymore. I just LST what I think will work best for my lights. I have a light meter so I have actually witnessed the curve of light from my bulbs.
Another point for ya, Now that you started LSTing, you'll notice they may become "side shoot maniacs". Thats a good time to decide which cream of the crop to take a clone from. Be sure to label each clone so you don't forget which one belongs to which.

well its day 40, and I have been trying to sex my plants, out of 5 plants I now for sure that two are female. There are two that I think are male, and one is to young to show preflower yet. I took clones of the two males and stuck them in glasses of water, I put the glasses under my bathroom sink in total darkness. I am going to try and get them to start flowering. Although i know next to nothing about clones im hoping this will work, since the cuttings i took had preflower of some sort on em. I also took some pics through my maginfication lense. Its getting mega crowded, so Im almost hoping that there is a male in there so i can chuck it for space :).

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