i need some help!

alright im pretty new to growing and i got some questions

i have had my plant growing now for 13 days it has two fingers one on one side and the other on the other side and its got a 1 inch stem deal.

should i be giving it any type of food right now or let it grow on its own, when should i start feeding it and what do you suggest i get.

i have my light on 12/12 is that good light for being in at 13 days the light i got on it right now is a plant light that my buddy gave me cause i couldnt get my flouresent light that my other friend has.

i just need some advice on what i should do to make a good grow. please help

You're not starting out the traditional way. Most switch to 12/12 after 4-8 weeks (alternating nodes) and most don't start feeding until the plant is 3 weeks old. Good Luck :pimp:

what should i have my lighting at i have read 12/12 so thats what i started at i need some advice

To start, most people usually go with 18/6 for veg. Then when they want to force flowering, they switch to 12/12. I don't want to discourage you, but you sound like you're not really ready to grow.

Some people start 12/12 right from the start, so you can do that. But if you want, you can put them in 18/6 until they grow up a little and then back to 12/12 to force them to flower and show sex. I'm assuming that your plants are still too small and have not shown sex. Let us know if this is not the case. I don't know if you know it or not, but you only want to grow females, cause males don't have any buds and don't even get you high.

i know what i am doing i know all about the male and female i have read so much about growing i just aint professional all the sites i have read dont say at the beginning of your grow set the light hours at so and so, i have read 12/12 14/10 and 16/8 but that was just for how fast it you want it to grow. i know alot about what to do when its in its older stages but not its young, i was just asking questions. i hear if you give it one hour of light in the the dark hours its more likely to get female is this true?

your going about it all wrong, i think you might be mixed up.. you should have them on eithe r18/6 or 24/0

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I think I'm going to pass out.

Bro, you're way off. I don't think you've read all that much before doing this because there is A LOT of places that explain clearly about the difference in photoperiods when vegging as opposed to flowering. Most people agree on 18/6 for veg and 12/12 to flower. There is also a LARGE number of places I could quote that say "absolutely NO light contamination during dark phase" and that doing that would not only NOT produce more females, but would produce more hermaphrodite plants (hermies - plants with both male and female characteristics that self-pollinate and therefore produce seeds).

We are not trying to bash you here at all, we are just saying that it would be very helpful for you to spend a little time in the FAQ section and the Basic growing section, or even the Indoor growing section. But just read a bunch before you go posting some information that might confuse someone else searching for good info.

Good luck man!

However, since you have a plant growing already...here's what I'd do to salvage it:

Get some CFLs (Compact Flourescent Lights) and put them close (only inches away) to your plant(s). Then set a timer to light the plant 18 hours on and 6 hours off. Then leave it like that for several weeks while you read up. If you are in soil, you should be ok to just leave it alone for a little.

Does that help?

TGF

Oh, and by the way, none of us are professionals either.

i really only went to google and typed in growing marijuana and it had a limited section to help me out, i was just going by what this one site said on the whole give it one hour of light to get more femalis in the dark period thanks for letting me know that its bad to do that, thanks for letting me know about the lighting ill read more on this site i am also new to the site so i didnt know there was that good of info on here thanks for the help

No, problem, bud. :D

Here's a pic I downloaded off the web of a nice budding female. I sure wish I had a plant to look at. :(

TGF

would it be bad to change my lighting to 18/6 after having it at 12/12

Bad? Well, first let me ask this. Did you start from seed or clone? I'm guessing seed. And if it IS from seed, you would almost certainly get a real crappy plant if you left it on 12/12. If the plant is actually growing, then it should be able to handle the switch back over. It might slow down in growth a few days, then start to grow one-finger leaves like it was just starting out, but that would mean that it is going back into the vegetative state. It should be fine. Then, you can grow it up to 1.5 to 2 feet tall and then swtich it back to 12/12 and it will start to flower. That's the 2nd best thing you can do right now. The BEST thing you could do right now, honestly, is start over the right way. BUT, I do not condone throwing away plants, so I'd at least try to save the one you've got and still start another one or two. You will be amazed the way the new ones will catch up.

Hell, you can even put it on 24/0 if you want. The more light the better right now.

TGF

it has two fingers and two more goring in the middle i have another plant to that has two fingers growing they look healthy i think it wouldnt be to hard on them to switch over, i started from seed

ive got my plants on 20/4 they shy away from the light after about 16 hours they point back up after they rest go fiquir