My First Ever Grow (Advice more than Welcome)

Alright guys...Here are some new pics.

The first is last night when I caught my skywalker in the act of breaking the soil. That's the best I could get. I'm having trouble deciding what setting my digital camera should be on to get the best pics.

The second is a close up of the above.

The third is my C99 X Neville's Haze on day two. The pics in my last post were it's first day.

The fourth is my skywalker now that it's up.

I'm finding it quite interesting to note the differences already. The C99's leaves are facing up whereas you can see that the skywalker has one leaf that goes towards the ground. They both look healthy, with slightly purpleish stems. What do you guys think? Same light, same soil and what not.

SoccerGal.......Im an Earth Juice lover in soil.....

In Foxfarm Ocean Forest soil.....I add at the first transplant 2:1 ratio of worm castings and perlite, 1 tablespoon of blood meal, 2 tablespoons of bone meal, 3 tablespoons greensand plus, and a touch of lime and seaweed meal (a tablespoon of each most times)......

Now the feedings from the beginning go like this ......altho' a lot of people think you can't burn with organic nutes and ferts....you can !!
....so I say this.....

I start the first feeding at Mild....using Grow, Bloom, Meta K and Microblast all at the MILD feeding dosage....but use it at 1/2 strength of mild.

I feed every watering so this is my method....it's basically smaller feedings every watering for 2 weeks.

Then I step up to MILD at full strength....2 weeks

.....I then step up to Normal, but the feedings are every other watering then.

I don't know the amount of feeding you make up or mix but I use gallon containers.
I mix the prescribe amount pH it and then pH a second gallon of aged water

....I then mix these equally 1/2 and 1/2 in another empty container. Which makes 2 gallons of pHed food for me......like I said ....it's my method and it works well.

It's a weed and will grow crazy like one....but treat it wisely

I'm trying to follow your feeding schedule...let me see if I have this right.

I had decided to use Foxfarm Ocean Forest Soil. I was going to do it as follows: 1/2 Foxfarm, 1/4 Vermiculite, 1/4 perilite. What do you think of doing that...and adding in the blood meal, bonemeal, dolomite lime? These are all things I know I have access to.

As for the feedings...Would this be a correct interpretation.

Week 1 - 3: No Nutes till 4 or 5th set of alternating nodes/transplant
Week 4: You said use the suggestions for mild, but at half strength. So that would be 1/4 tbsp of grow, 1/4 tbsp bloom, 1/4 tsp Meta K, and 1-2 tsp of the microblast (using as foilage spray). Or were you suggesting I make a mix of full strength mild...and also ph a gallon of aged water. Then put half and half in another container so that would yeild 1 gallon of the half strength mild mixture, and then add the remaining water to the 1/2 gallon of full strength mild mixture...therefore having 2 full gallons of half strength mix?

That seemed long winded huh? Just making sure I got it.

You do that every watering for 2 weeks.

Week 6: Switch to Mild at full strength still feeding every watering

Week 8: Switch to Normal but every other watering.

Ok...so you use the same mix all the way through. There is no change from vegetative stage to flowering? I'm curious about this. I know the Meta K is needed throughout the grow. But I was not aware that you were to continue to use the grow during bloom...or use the bloom during grow. Therefore...did I understand correctly that you use all THROUGHOUT the grow? It seems to me that that certaintly would be beneficial to the plant. So yes...Am I getting this right?


<~kinda out of it

Also...thanks so much for the input Rasta!!!!! :)

No comments on the fact that one of my seedlings looks like she's got her arms up in the air like "PRAISE JESUS!!" or the fact that my other one is obviously a lesbian cause she's got that leaf hanging down like she can't keep her tongue in her mouth? Anyone?

Should I be worried?

they look fiiiine

They're doing good growth wise. Not sure why only 2 of the 8 came up...but that's ok. I was only going to go ahead with 1 or 2...but was going to wait till they were old enough to sex. Now I have to just hope one or both are girls.

Not much more in the way of height, as I've kept my lights close, but the leaves are getting bigger. I'll post pics when there is a significant change. Oh and Organic Rasta, did I get it right?

Hey soccergal what kind of CFL's did you end up with? If you got
any of those 42 watt CFL's I recomended save those for flowering.
I just found out myself they are 2,700 which is warm.

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Originally Posted by yabatab

Hey soccergal what kind of CFL's did you end up with? If you got
any of those 42 watt CFL's I recomended save those for flowering.
I just found out myself they are 2,700 which is warm.

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I've sort of got a mix. I have a 42 W bulb that is cool spectrum 6500K. I also have 3 27W cool spectrums at 6500K. I also have two 42W warm spectrum bulbs which I'm not using yet. But I may include one of them with my grow to even out the spectrum some.

You can find them at Walmart though...They say Daylight 100. Cool Daylight Color. Like in the picture! I like these bulbs. The bigger 42W Daylight bulb has a really nice shape to it. So yes, Walmart and Home Depot.

So that said, I've got the three 26/27 Watters at 1600 lumens a pop. And I've got the one 42W daylight cfl's wich I don't have the package but think is 2600 lumens. And I think I'm gonna add one of my warm spectrum 2700K 2600 lumen warm spectrum bulbs. Which will be a total of 10000 lumens in Veg. And I have a small area and am just gonna be growing two plants.