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Ok...i have 3 small plants about 3 inches high now...would it be ok to transplant them into their own indiviual growing pots or is it too soon...i looked all over the posts and i have also came up with one more question because i am a bit confused..
Flowering? is this the state i am in? and also...i just bought 4 cfl's....2 75 watts and 2 100 watts...and i am going to start a box...about how far should the plants be from these lights...with wattage and all?
HI STICKY...
TRANSPLANT NOW...
use a soil 80%, perlite 20% mix... perlite will prevent over watering... It is also a good idea to put a piece of newpaper down at the bottom of your growing container and fill the bottom 1/2 inch with perlite before putting in your grow medium (soil perlite mixture)..
using 1-3 gallon containers is probably your best bet.. if you have the room always go bigger..
your best bet is to get the 42/150 watt cfls that are sold at walmart and home depot.. about 8-12 dollars a piece...the more lights the better!!!!
you want to keep these lights less thean 1 inch from your plants. YES, LESS THAN ONE INCH!!!! for every 1-2 inches you distance your lights from your plants, you are reducing your potential yield by 33.376548503%..
MEANING.. if you keep your CFL lights 6 inches from your plants.. your 12 gram cola will only be 3 grams... YIKES
iloveyou
NO you are not in the flowering stage..
keep your lights on your plants for 23 hours a day until they have at least 4-6 nodes.. this is called the vegetative stage ... (google NODE)
iloveyou
When you have 4-6 nodes, switch your lighting regiment to 12 hours of light and 12 hours of UNINTERUPTED darkness.. this is called the flowering stage...
and NOW you KNOWM
Ok...i will be putting them in containers today...but now another couple of questions...i know how some feel about the MG potting soil...but when you told me about the perilite above...it says watering control...i have that in the MG soil so should i still get perilite????? also...when i do finish putting each plant into their own container...i will have room right now...but how will i get my plants to grow out and not up????
Alright, the MG soil mixture probably contains perlite, or some mixture that provides drainage. However, your girls are gonna need a lot of drainage so they don't drown. I'd definitely put in some more perlite, though I am not familiar with the brand of MG soil you're using (I like soil-less mixtures, little more work, but more control). The reason why perlite's so cool is because it does hold water because of the stone-ish texture, but it also allows for fast drainage, as well as nice airation (is that how you spell that word? is that even word?)
A lot of people have problems with MG because of the time-released capsules. With time-released capsules, you never really know the true N-P-K and any given time.
The height and width of your plant depends on two things. The first is genetics. If you have yourself a sativa, you're not going to be able to get it very short and keep maximum bud production. If you've got an indica, then you're one step ahead to a small, bushy plant. After genetics, you can shape the way your plant will grow by pruning.
Now to get into pruning, there are two seperate methods to successfully keep your plant small and bushy. At about the third week of veg, prune less than half of the plant's branches. This is done by cutting the plant at a 45-degree angle to the shoot you wanna cut. NEVER, EVER prune more than half at ANY time. Also, don't just prune one side, prune around the plant. Now, at about 4 or 5 weeks, if you see that the plants you pruned have successfully split and are now growing two healthy new branches with leaves, you can prune the other half now. In about two or three more weeks, you should notice that your plant has started growing outward rather than upward. This is because you're forcing your plant to grow all of its shoots early. Don't expect any more center nodes, though. You can keep pruning from here if you want, though I myself would stop. Then again, I'm not very good.
The other method is called training, or pulling, and I think I've heard another few names for it. It's pretty easy to explain, a little bit harder to pull off successfully. The theory behind it is, you bend your plant. You basically tie a piece of string on to your main stem, then attach the other end of that string to something that will hold the plant down. Anything will work, especially bricks, which tend to be heavy. Really heavy. Break your foot if it falls on it heavy. If you don't like bricks and like taking risks, you can just tie it to another part of your plant. You're just trying to keep that main stem, where your main cola will develop, down. If you do it successfuly, not only can you grow crazy styles out of your plant, but you can also get a lot of bud from your plant. I've never tried this method, because I'm really new to most of this and because I'm scared, so I'm probably not the best guy to present this to you, but I'm sure if I've left anything out someone can fill you in.
Well, it's 4 in the morning, so I'm going to bed. I hopefully didn't leave anything else, I'll check back in on this when I wake up. Good luck!
DON"T USE MIRACLE GROW...thats an easy enough statment,right?
whys that?
cause its filled with slow release nutrients that can cause probs like nute burn
some have success with mg soil and some have disasters with it
it is one of them subjects here on the forum that comes up quite a lot
do a search and you will find a bit more info on it
cheers all :)
If you do use Miracle GROW.. LOL.. which I have used...
LOL
http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=48343
read this thread
iloveyou
Knowm.
Next question...but first...damn that was some nice lookin bud in that thread....i hope i can just get a 1/2 of that amount...but anyways...how many times a week should i water these plants...i am going to go to walmarts today and get some perilite for my soil, to add to the 80/20 mixture of soil and MG....put 1/2 cup or a lil more in each 1 gallon pot...hopes for the best...i love my babies...and i will be sad when it comes to kill the boys...but ill just look at it like i have to...they were born to die...but anyways...i just completed the building of my very first grow box...its beautiful...i have 2 batches of seeds growing...one that i started about 2 weeks ago....they are about 3-4 inches tall...and another batch started about a week ago...(the plants from about 1 week ago...after only one night in my grow box...went from not showing...up to almost 1-2 inches high...)....anyways, knowm...i read the post you putt for me to read...very well done...i can tell you loved your plant...as well as i love mine...i even put some music on for them downstairs...they dont like beetoven...they like Disturbed and Staind...HAHA....but anyways...just mostly wanting to know when and how much to water the older ones...suggestions still wanted and very well needed by any one....PEACE
ok...just read a thread about sexing...but a little confused still...wtf is a hermie...a male and female? thats weird...but anyways...the confusing part is what do i do with a hermie? kill it? set it in another grow box for seeds? or leave it with the females? also...i would like some more elaboration on how to tell sex...dont want to fuck this grow up...
Stick... if you are going to use MG, do not fertilize your plants (general rule of thumb)..
another thing.. if you use MG... water with 8.0 ph water...
3rd... you will water every 3-10 days.. depending on how big your plants are and at what temperature you are growing IN..
If the top 2-4 inches of your container is bone dry and the container feels light, it is time to water... if the plants are drooping, you waited to long..
When you do water... saurate the soil.. use at least 1/2 gallon of water for each 3-5 gallon container.
: )
take some clear pictures of your plants... close ups of the NODES (joints) and maybe we can see what sex they are...
yes you kill hermies... : ( ----sorry
I would love to post some pics...but i am not rich enough to afford a camera...sorry...and i do not think they are even close to give a sex yet...they only have the first nodes right now...i sing to them to help them grow...probably should sto pthat...since i cant sing for sht....LOL
you can transplant i had to transplant wen they were just a week old or so and then 3 or 4 weeks into it i transplanted again and they are just fine so you should be fine
Back before I started hydro, and didn't know what I was doing, I used miriacle grow. My plants seemed to really like it and yours should to unless you do like most people and over do it with more ferts. I think there are better fert. choices though.
Oh yeah, and you can transplant whenever you want, as many times as you want. If you don't get into the roots, the plant will never know the difference until the roots reaches the new soil.