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my first grow 250 watts cfl
This is my first real time growing investing any money into it,besides just throwing seeds in some miracle grow under a few low watt fluorescent tubes.It's quite strange how those plants seemed to be better off. i guess mine are doing okay,im growing under a 200 watt max lume 6500 k cfl,and two 2700 k 26 watt cfl's. I just re-potted them into 5 gallon pots,i feel like i did this a little early,but with good reason i started them in 6 inch clear plastic pots,i was told after they were a week old clear containers plus light equal algae,plus i started to see the roots pushing against the side of the pots.They all took the transplant very well,didnt seem to shock any of them, inside the 5 gallon pots im using happy frog growing medium mixed with roots organic(i believe thats what it's called)soiless. It's about 75% HF and 25%roots organic,I was a bit distraught at first when i moved them to their new homes and tested the run off water it tested low 4's,but come to find out if you put the perlite and roots organic at the very bottom like a small layer for drainage this causes you run off ph to be very low,so i tested the soil run off with no roots organic layer at the bottom and tested 6.5 exactly. I introduced them to less than quarter strength botanicare pro grow 3-2-4. I have no idea the strain,its some bag seeds out of an ounce of some real dank headies,all of them appear to be the same except one has very different traits and i believe it to be a different strain idk how, unfortunately that one is showing the slowest growth due to me damaging the roots about 3 days back,it had the smallest root system of them all. My room is always between 75-80 never higher,i have a fan for ventilation, and one of those reflector's you put in the windshield of your car around all the pots,it for sure helps reflect the light back to the plants. Some almost all leaves have a wavy look to them,i can't put my finger on what it might be, I have checked everything and found it to be satisfactory the plants still are healthy and growing rapidly so it's no affecting growth,they just dont look as pretty.It's not a big deal to me,but if anyone has some suggestions as to what may be causing it, all feedback is very appreciated and will never go un-looked. Any questions feel free to ask,if anyone could tell me how to post pics i would def do it.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
these plants are all 7 days old,the one with the straws is the one thats looks alot different from the rest,i could be wrong though,im just a noob
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
Day 8 all the kids made a huge turn around all the leaves straightened out from their wavy jagged look,they look amazing nice and perky and happy looking I think they may have been root bound. All plants are showing new leaf growth,they love their new pots. Everything is on point and I have no complaints, if they are happy I am happy. I will post pics in a few days.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
Day 11 huge improvements, plants are taking well to the new pots, and growing rapidly. Have not watered since the transplant to 5 gallon pots, Hasn't needed it. I spray the leaves with bottled water with less than quarter strength botanicare 1 time a day before night cycle, and then the next I spray with carbonated water to help with co2. Other than that not much to report.Attachment 287026Attachment 287027Attachment 287028Attachment 287029Attachment 287030
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
Day 15, they are growing so rapidly I come home from work,and they have a brand new full grown set of fan leaves with another pair already halfway grown. Being this is my first time growing the rate at which they grow is amazing to me. Still in the same pots, using the same lighting, and also still using botanicare pro grow 3-2-4. One plant is seriously lagging but, def hanging in there.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
the first pic of the last two i posted is the one that is really growing slowly,if anyone has any advice on how to give it extra care and catch it up to speed please let me know
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
Billy,
All the advice I've seen says if you have one that's coming in late or a little slow, try rotating your plants under the light, if it seems he's starting to catch up and another is slowing down, I would re arrange my lighting.
They're looking REALLY good though!
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
Plants are doing so well. Just watered today, the one plant iv'e been having problems with it growing retarded dead looking leaves is getting worse,im done with it I need more room in my closet anyways so I will be ripping it done tomorrow, just to give it time to see how it takes to the feeding. I have introduced the nutes slowly started with a little under full strength today,after slowly and I mean slowly introducing them to quarter strength and half strength. I will wait about another week and a half to flower tomorrow I will start LST on a few of them that are ready tomorrow after work. Same set-up same everything. Happy to say I definetly did run into a different strain out of my headie bag weed, the whole plant has that exotic leaf look with the cupped leaf around the edges of every plant, and no it is not a nute problem all the plants are fine and all ph's are checked this plant is just different and the cupping is very minute around all the edges,the stem also has purple spots. I am excited to see how she flowers. Pictures below guys, stay tuned. Any advice is always appreciated.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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This one is funny along with the unknown strain they lay down every night around the times the lights go off, plus i just watered today. Don't worry they are not dying,they will perk back up tomorrow
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Great looking plants its awesome watching them grow up. I had the same "issue" with the plant perking up and laying down, scared the hell out of me but turnedout to be nothing. I can't wait to see them flower, do you know if their all females? Good luck with everything i will be following all their progress
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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Originally Posted by andy8_5_85
Great looking plants its awesome watching them grow up. I had the same "issue" with the plant perking up and laying down, scared the hell out of me but turnedout to be nothing. I can't wait to see them flower, do you know if their all females? Good luck with everything i will be following all their progress
Thanks for taking an interest. They are just bagseed from some real dank headie.They are not feminized but it came from a good strain so I would expect them to be female. They are less than 3 weeks old so it's way too early to tell ,i will flower them in about a week or week n a half, I want to tie them down to get some more main stems before I flower them as I'm growing in cfl's. So i need to do all I can to increase my yield. Granted were talking over 50,000 lumens which is more than enough for my space but still, who doesn't want more. Lst is the way to go to get more for your money and save space. I should know sex in about 3 weeks hopefully so keep checking in. I feel like I have a 75 percent chance being females. I make sure ph is always on point along with temperature and I pay very close attention to what my plants are doing to catch any problems before it gets out of hand.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
Good to see the update here.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
Looking good, are you killing off the plant that has the jagged growth ?
Those plants usually fix themselves over time. I had one pretty badly deformed one too in my grow. It had to go as it was a real mess.
Nice grow, I'll be checking in on you to see how it goes.
Take Care
S.L.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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Originally Posted by silent leprechaun
Looking good, are you killing off the plant that has the jagged growth ?
Those plants usually fix themselves over time. I had one pretty badly deformed one too in my grow. It had to go as it was a real mess.
Nice grow, I'll be checking in on you to see how it goes.
Take Care
S.L.
Yes sorry to say I pulled and tossed it. It was really bothering me how ugly it was, and the fact I was giving it constant care and it just grew more ugly by the day. Revenge is sweet, I felt horrible after, but I needed the room badly, and since I have pulled it and made more room my other plants have been doing much better. I have recently tied them down and FIM'ed them, the two i tied down that were getting a little too tall for my liking straightened back out that day, and now my lower new growth is reaching for the top very quickly so that was a success. I FIM'ed today a little new with that method so se will see how it goes. Other than that all is well and thanks for the feedback. I will post pics later of the customized plants.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
All is well in paradise a few problems with humidity some of my leaves are pretty crispy at the bottom but I'm looking into ways to resolve it. A humidifier is just not fitting in the grow room, 400 watt hps is on its way in the mail plus I have over 325 TRUE watts cfl 2700 k for supplemental lighting during flower. Looking forward to what comes next, any comments or helpful tips is always appreciated.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
the 4th pic of that plant received lst as you can see the bent stem the other ones were too but it is a hassle to get the plants back in and actually fit without bending stems n leaves plus im too lazy to do it right now. Next time i post pics I will do individuals and more detailed shots. The 5th plant was FIMed and so was the 2nd.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
these would be my 3 new tops reaching for the light a product of LST. NOW the FIMed plants I had questions anyone that has ever FIMed before is this how it normally looks once it starts growing back, and also is it normal to take a while to bounce back, seems like it is taking a while. Thanks in advance.
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My star player the unknown strain ,and the stinkiest. Anyone any idea what strain it's derived from indica or sativa, my knowledge on this matter is limited.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
My vote goes to indica, and she(hopefully) is lo:thumbsup:oking pretty! Good luck grow bro!
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
Today is the 21st and the kids are almost ready to be thrown into flowering, Just waiting for my 600 watt hps light and ballast to come in the mail. I now will have 600 watts HPS lighting and over 300 cfl for supp lighting. Everything is going good besides a few brown spots on the very bottom leaves of a few plants,and some crispiness but I am told this happens quite often to the first leaves due to a number of things such as major lack of light being one of them. Other than that only complaint I have is that this light needs to get here faster I literally running out of room for growth in the veg room so this light needs to hurry so they can go into the flower room and flourish. Any advice is welcome have not gotten any in a while.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
Just wanted to show off one of my plants I'm very happy with it's really doing good as are all the other ones, but this one is thriving. Will post pics of the rest soon.
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Holy crap those things look awesome! Still waiting for the light? Can't wait to see them start flowering. Good luck.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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Originally Posted by andy8_5_85
Holy crap those things look awesome! Still waiting for the light? Can't wait to see them start flowering. Good luck.
Got the light today my dude, came with a hps bulb, and a mh bulb .Unfortunately the mh bulb was broke, but fortunately the bulb I need for flowering is the hps so I switched them to flower today. I am very excited, but a little concerned with the heat I will keep an eye on it and see if it is an issue. Thanks for staying tuned, will post pics of the new room and light later today.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
Sweet deal. Funny how fate is that the hps didn't break. I wish i could help with the possible deficiency. But my experience is limited. I would say don't be too worried unless it spreads. Good luck
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
Everything is going good, things got a little hectic yesterday. I ordered a hps/mh light system online and it came in the mail, as I said the mh bulb was broke, then the next day I come home and the HPS is blown! So i bought a new HPS bulb and it would not work apparently the ballast that was only 24 hours old blew on me, and basically the moral of the story is be very wary when buying things online if it seems like too good of a deal it probably is you get what you pay for i guess. So I had to go to my local hydro store and buy a brand new 200$ magnetic ballast, I'm so pissed about this 200$ just for a ballast?! Ridiculous, but whatever gotta keep these girls going invested too much money to quit or cheap out now. Day 2 into flower I have been adding some epsom salt for what I think is a magnesium def, also adding a little 3% hydrogen to the water to give the roots a little more oxygen, some liquid karma and pro bloom, and last a very minute amount of dawn dish soap to get rid of these wretched pests, nothing serious but I have spotted a few and I'm tackling the issue now before it gets out of control. Thanks for the people giving their insight and rooting for me, I'm doing my best and it seems to be working pretty good. Thank you.
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
The first plant is a monster, straight up it has over 12 tops with my luck it will turn male, I really hope not cause i know it will yield alot plus I wouldn't mind cloning it, it's a very hardy plant. The rest of them are all doing perfect besides a slight magnesium def nothing serious,they look a little droopy cause I just watered them.I really have a lot of hope for these plants I have a feeling I will have 80% females. Everyone keep your fingers crossed for me. Tonight will be day 3 of flower
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
So I am starting to have quite a few problems and really need help here, I post in the forums but no one has the decency to help someone in need.I may just be over reacting but it's always nice to know whats going on. I am 4 days into flower and all my new growth on all plants is very light green some spots even yellow, ik this is a sign of a nitrogen def but I was told large amounts of nitrogen hold back flowering.Im now using botanicare pro bloom which does have 1 part nitrogen, I recently added epsom salt and very minute amounts of dawn dish soap cause it looked to be pest problems not positive but better safe than sorry also added very small amounts of hydrogen to my water. 1 plant has serious def issues the leaf is turning gold color and folding upwards and drying out at first it was at the bottom but it is now spreading.Im checking ph right now looks to be about 6.4 so i doubt it's a ph issue.Idk what to do I have heard it is sometimes normal for plants to start eating fan leaves when put into flower but this problem has been happening since before flower,the one plant seriously looks like it has a gold leaf. Did I do something or is there some sort of def i cant pin point. Please any advice is welcome
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
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my first grow 250 watts cfl
Hey Billy.
I am having trouble opening the photos so I can see the problem better.
The first thing I would say is to check your PH and see if any nutes are being locked out.
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Once you get the PH correct you should be able to solve your issue by looking on google for a "plant problems pest disease control chart".
Hope this helps.
