First grow log, second time growing!

[mythin]

Hello all, I've been a long time lurker, and decided to grow again. This is my first post, and this was my last plant: was so much fun to see her grow, and eventually smoke that I had to do it again. I made so many mistakes the first time, plant stretched quite a bit, but eventually recovered to a good looker.

Im about 10 days into my new batch, and I made the mistake of using Miracle Grow Organic potting mix. My seedlings are showing signs of nute burn, but on the flip side, they are growing at an amazing rate. I am going to transplant in about 4 days, I should have thought it through before i planted 3 seeds in each pot, I really didnt think they would all germinate, and now that they have, i have 3 really good looking plants, and 3 that are a bit slow out of the gate. I dont know if i should transplant all 6 to their own larger pots, or save the best 3.

Right now I only have 2 30w cfls, and they seem to be fine fore now. I am gonna go later this week and pick up atleat 4 more cfls and reflectors. I have also decided to grow in my air conditioning closet. It gets amazing airflow since its a large ac unit. We have a 2 story condo, so when a/c is on high, the airflow is amazing, and the temperature in the a/c room is a constant 70 degrees and i live in a very dry climate so condensation and humidity are no problem.

Hmm I cant seem to find the attach pictures button, maybe im retarded, so im just gonna use imageshack until i figure this out. Here are some pics of my current grow, day 10.









And my future grow space, after transplanting:

mythin Reviewed by mythin on 05-27-2007. First grow log, second time growing! Hello all, I've been a long time lurker, and decided to grow again. This is my first post, and this was my last plant: http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/9210/img0038custom2st2.th.jpg was so much fun to see her grow, and eventually smoke that I had to do it again. I made so many mistakes the first time, plant stretched quite a bit, but eventually recovered to a good looker. Im about 10 days into my new batch, and I made the mistake of using Miracle Grow Organic potting mix. My seedlings are Rating: 5

[rottenfork]

looks good you might want to think of seperating those seedlings before to roots get too long and tangle up!!! best of luck

[mythin]

yeah, i told myself id give them 2 weeks before i replanted them, but they grew a lot faster than the last time i grew, so i guess im gonna have to transplant them today. Time to make a trip to home depot

[stinkyattic]

HAve you been foliar feeding, or are you misting them with water that has a lot of minerals in it? I see some residue on the leaves that is worrisome.

Yeah get them seperated ASAP!! Use a tablespoon and try to get like a dixie cup worth of soil around each little root ball so you dont risk damage.

[mythin]

I have been misting them, its probably too soon to mist. I think the light is just drying up the water that ends up on the leaves. The water im using to mist doesnt have minerals in it, its 2 day old tap water i set out. Thanks for tip of using a spoon, should i do it in complete darkness, i saw somewhere that helps the roots stay free from shock?

[mythin]

Its been a long day. my local home depot was out of reflector clamp thingies, so I only got one, and I found out it doesnt even fit my big circular light, but whatever. I transplanted all my lil ones to their own containers. The three biggest ones got an upgrade, and the 3 smaller ones, took over the smaller pots. I put them into their new space in my a/c room. Its probably a little cold in there, what temps do weed like? im sure its atleast 65-75 in there, and there is constant air flow all day, enough to make all my plants jiggle non stop, is that ok?

Anyways, here are some pictures: (also notice that all 3 of my big plants have.... "hulked out" of their stem for better lack of a word. I mean they literally ripped out of their old stem, into a thicker meatier stem, is this normal?) the only thing i can think of is that I gave them one drop of superthrive 24 hours ago, and a few hours ago is when i noticed the hulking. I circled it on one of the pictures, though it may be hard to see.)

Day 12:


Oh, and starting today, my apt also started smelling of skunk. I think the superthrive also kicked their smell hormones into action or something, because over the course of a few hours while was gone, to the time i came back, there was a huge difference in smell. I think i may have to make a carbon scruber thing.

[mythin]

oh, gay, image shack resized all my images to a shitty size, gonna reupload to a higher res.

[mythin]

[mythin]

Im thinking that the plants will probably be in shock for a few days since i just transplanted them, I hope not, I used the spoon technique, and i used my hands to make sure no roots were interlocked, and for the most part, i didnt see any roots within the dirt balls that i made, so heres hoping they dont get shocked

[mythin]

One of my plants is looking awefully sick, i think its due to over nuits, should i flush it out with water? Ill take pictures when i have the chance, but im sure its recoverable.