Flowering from seed?

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Originally Posted by sharkfinz

Incorrect.

Why do people want to complicate this?

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People like yourself?

Perhaps you meant to say that it's very important in soil grows, and VITALLY important in hydro grows. Yeah, I'm sure that's what you meant to say.

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Originally Posted by sharkfinz

I am growing with VERY basic equipment and I don't know the PH, I have never used any artificial nutrients and mine are quite happy.

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Is it safe to assume that your plants are less than one month old? Wait until you have to start feeding with "artificial nutrients" to keep the plant alive, then see how important pH becomes. How would you go about fixing a plant that's showing signs of nutrient lockout? Feeding it more nutrients? Just curious...

Ok so one of the first set of leaves broke off and the otherone is pulling strait up towards the light. Its about 1 inchtall and the second set has come through. What is making the first set pull so much to the light. It doesn't look like its lacking light but actually gaining a lot of power from it. Looking gren and healthy.

How far away is your light from the plant?

Make shur that ur light isn't too far away from your plant as this cud lead to stretching.

Since you using CFL's you can get fairly close to the plants with those lights(about 4-6in is good) because they dont give off too much heat.

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Originally Posted by BlazinINthe617

How far away is your light from the plant?

Make shur that ur light isn't too far away from your plant as this cud lead to stretching.

Since you using CFL's you can get fairly close to the plants with those lights(about 4-6in is good) because they dont give off too much heat.

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I vegged in CFL's my first grow (still ongoing but I have HPS and MH on order now.)

I grew with my cfls about 2 inches from the top of the canopy at all times. Really helped turn my plant into a monster. I suggest starting at 4" away and slowly start lowering until your thermometer peaks just a little over 80.. then back off by 1/2".

Ph is god.

The only way to safely grow without knowing your Ph is to have a stable Ph soil and not add anything to it. Which is about impossible.

I have yet to see a meter under $60 or $80 that works. I like the liquid drop color change tests.

O yea, and I just fucked up my plants by not knowing the Ph. Ha, thanks klondike :) :D:rastasmoke:

The light is probably about 3-4 " away in a box that I lined with mylar that is 4x4x6" and fits my one 23w cfl that I'm using for veg.....

I have decided I'm probably just going to veg only and take clone for outside. There are a total of 5 leaves right now. There should be 6 but when the second set was showing I accidently broke it off..... now the second set has come through and is looking very healthy.... a little yellow spots that are only noticeable under a magnafier are showing of on the blades of the leaves.....


And then finally the next set of leaves are showing well andhealthy.... it has barley started to branch and hasn't grown upwards much....

I keep LST'ing every3-4days wich I'm not sure if I should but the sprout was about one inch tall then I tied it over a little.... then again and again.... my guess is it should be about 2inch now but I keep it bent sidewayz hahahahah.