New Dude + 1st Time Grow Log

Hi virgin-grower21,

pictures would help but if I understand your post correctly, you are feeding the 5 day old plants with nutes already? If so, this is a bad idea. You should not use nutes until the plants are around 2 or 3 weeks old. That would be the problem there, they're not ready for nutes. Flush them with ph balanced water (no nutes) and hopefully they'll be ok. (I'm not sure if you were referring to the seed leaves though).

However, if I've misunderstood your post and you are not using nutes yet, it could be heat stress caused by having your lamp too close to the plants. 5 day old plants aren't strong enough to be blasted by a 500 watt HPS light, make sure it's a good metre away from the top of you plants for a while and then move it down gradually over a week or so.

Another problem could be the heat. A HPS in a closet could cause it to be very hot in there, perhaps too hot. Either way man, I can only recommend that you read, read, read as this is pretty basic stuff and can be found all over the forums.

Good luck.

Looking good zoid, that flush certainley seems to have helped. I don't know much about easybud, how long do they take to flower? Are they more indica? Yeah i'd start thinking about tranferring to bigger pots soon, don't think it's urgent but the sooner you do it the easier it will be, i've left one of mine longer than i should, kinda scared of hurting it now as its gonna be a little awkward. Oh and i let my pots get quite dry before transplanting, find its easier when they ain't so heavy and the soil don't break up much either keeping the roots undamaged, but i do gently seperate them around the sides a little so they can grow into the new soil easily. Dunno if i've read to do that or i just thought it would be a good idea, but it dosn't seem to do them any harm.

Keep up the good work ;)

Peace :rasta:

Cheers man. Easy bud is a indica/sativa mix (according to an overgrow strain guide) but it must be about 90% indica at least. I'm off on hols Sunday so I'm gonna have to get more soil and bigger pots this weekend! They're gonna be frickin' huge when I get back. I don't want to flower them until then because I've never flowered before and who knows what could happen. Still, that's a solid 2 months + of vegging, hopefully it'll pay off in terms of yield. Flowering is supposed to be 7/8 weeks so I think I'll overshoot Christmas by a few weeks! New year smokes!

Hey, nice plants, man. You can flip to 12/12 as soon as they show preflowers because then they'll be sexually mature.

Thanks. Yeah that would be now. I've got to decide whether to continue the veg period or flower now as my friend looks after my babies when I'm away. I'm thinking the vegging would be safer. Arggh, decisions! I know I'm gonna drive myself crazy thinking about my plants when I should be enjoying a mojito on the beach! :stoned:

You should set up a screen of green and have your friend keep them in veg til you get back. Think of the buds.....lol nothing gives me a hard-on like a nice even field of nugs

Yeah not a bad idea. I've read a bit about scrog, not fully understanding it though. Do I just set up the screen a few inches above my plants right now and let them grow through (in veg)? Seems like it would be a bitch when it comes to flushing though.

Nice grow:) 400 hps rocks:) When overgrow was up I read a few threads about 12/12 from seed I switched to 12/12 as soon as I got some rooted clones of all my plants kept track of which was which and as soon as I knew for sure A plant was a male or hermy chopped it Then the other plants I had for mothers if I got a good one:) I was growing from bagseed that I got from some killer mids

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Originally Posted by Zoidberg

Yeah not a bad idea. I've read a bit about scrog, not fully understanding it though. Do I just set up the screen a few inches above my plants right now and let them grow through (in veg)? Seems like it would be a bitch when it comes to flushing though.

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Yeah, as the plant grows up through the screen, you pull it back down and spread it out instead of up. Thus, the plant grows horizontally until it fills up the screen. You want to put 1 to 2 bud sites (tops) per hole. Then when you start flowering you quit pulling it down. This makes all the flowers grow up through the holes in an even canopy, so all of them get equal light and all grow big. No single big colas and little buds. You get feilds of buds. Do a search for some good grows on here. Actually, I'll do that and get back to you in a minute :) It would be a pain to flush but the increase in yeild is crazy. You could always just top....lol I went with low stress training but its all about preference. You could put a large tray under them for flushing and have them sitting up on a raised table that could drain (like the one I had in my CFL room) it wouldn't be hard. Let me know what you decide :rasta:

Hey Zoidberg,
Nice man. :)
We like. ;)