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I've just flushed her and she seems to respond preatty well, the leaves went from droopy to ok in an hour. but the bottom leaves are all droopy, they all have some yeallow margins and some has brown/red/yellow/green colors. almost like a rastafarian flag ya know ;)
how much time should now pass till the first fert ? and what solution should I use ? I don't want to screw up again.
Glad its looking better,
Now I would leave it alone as far as using ferts for a while. Let it recover coz it sounds like it has gone through quite a bit of stress. I actually only fertalized my plant once during its veg state. I believe that as long as the soil is at a well balanced PH level, theres really no need to fert, atleast not too much during vegging. Just use plain o'l water for a while and only use fert if your plants starts showing signs of nute defficiancy as discribed in the link Das provided above.
The flowering stage on the other hand, I have fertalized every 3rd watering with a bud and bloom mix, 10-52-8, high in phosphate coz they consume a lot of it during flowering.
Good luck!
Oh and if you dont have one already, get yourself a soil PH tester, they're not expensive and very useful if your in doubt of your PH. I bought mine at a local nusery for $20.
Use a 18/6 light schedule too if your not already.
i'm using 24/7 , is that bad ? the thing is that on the CF package there is writen that they are not compatible with timers for some reasons, and switching the light's avery night and morning at same time would be problematic.
what is nusery ? I didn't find ph tester in gardeners shop , I only have whose paper testers but they are very inaccurate, because you will only see the difrence in color if the ph is +-3
the leaves in lower section are yellow or brown so how will I see the N definecy if they are already yellow ? should I cut whose off ? because they won't recover anyway I guess, they are not dried already but droopy as dead ;]
24/7 is not bad if your starting out seedlings and clones, but once the plant gets established I would switch them to 18/6, only coz this is a more natural light cycle for plants and wont stress them out as much as a 24/7 cycle would. If using a timer is out of the question then I would just leave them on the 24/7 cycle then, kinda strange you cant use a timer on those lights..
What I meant to type is nursery, or garden shop, same thing. You can sometimes find ph testers at hardware stores such as LOWES, ACE hardware, etc.. I would call ahead and ask first, it'll save ya the trip. The basic ph testers have a metal rod probe, and a meter.
Keep an eye on the new growth of the plant for nute defficiancy. As far as the dead leaves, I would leave them there and let them fall off naturally only because cutting leaves can leave the plant exposed to deseases and fungus. If you do cut leaves though, leave about 1/2 inch of stem.
Slayah the light, might not be enough, u should get a HPS 400 watts or more, other wise yourll be lucky if you get 1 bud for a whole plant... i recomend you like dave to put your plant in a 18/6 light cicle... otherwhise the plant can compleate its whole natural dayly cycle...
the kind of seeds indica or sativa, it dosnt mather in my experience, i just hope you have a good strain...
Good luck man!
400 HPS for 1 plant ? hmm If I put 5 24W CF's on flowering, like 1500 lumens each, would it be enought ?