From Novice To Expert, a Journey through the Green

[gbf4ever]

Plan on letting all of them dry out for a few days and see how they're doing. Just transplanted the biggest one today and it was almost root bound, so that may be something to watch as well.

[gbf4ever]

Plant with curled leaves is already looking better. Pretty sure It was over watering, although it is going to need a transplant soon. Any ideas on the yellow tips? Plant should need water tomorrow night/Tuesday morning so I think I'm going to try a 1/4 dose of my veg nutes.

My veg nutes call for 4 tsp/gallon of the MagiCal(magnesium/calcium/iron supplement) for each feeding. I'm considering adding a bit to all of my water since I'm pretty sure my tap water is lacking sufficient cal and mag. Any idea how much I should add? Was thinking a tsp per gallon, and slightly raise it if I notice any more deficiency's. Could this cause any problems? Should I consider adding it for every other watering?

Sorry about all the questions I've been having. I've learned so much from this site already and just don't want to screw anything up by doing something stupid! I'm definitely loving this hobby though. I started out just wanting to be able to save some money/hassle, and would have never thought it could be this fun and exciting. Thanks for all of the help you guys, and girls have given me:thumbsup:

[whoreable]

Smaller is better, you can always add more nutes, you cant subtract them so easily.

Looking good there young ninja.

Lovin the older plants :stoned:

[oline420]

Hey man is you have a water softner running either dissconnect it or filter your water. Plants get bad fast if there is too much salt. The stem will start to become red, probably not the problem now but something to watch out for in the future.

[gbf4ever]

Thanks who!

Oli- Don't have a water softener atm. Haven't had a problem with red stems, but I'll definitely watch for it in the future. I did have a few reddish stems on my seedlings, but only on certain strains so I'm pretty sure its just genetics. Read that red stems on seedlings of certain strains are pretty common. All of the older ones grew out of it within a week and a half.

The week old satori seedlings already are starting to smell! Kind of a floral/incense type odor, buts its very spicy at the same time if that makes any sense. It sort of stings the nostrils, but In a good way. All of the older plants that I've show pictures of are Hindu Kush, which are now starting to smell a bit. Not strong, have to put your nose really close to a leaf to smell it, but its very similar to the satori, without the spicy aspect.

For anyone that has grown these strains how strong are the odors during flowering? Any that especially stink or aren't too strong? Plan to pick up some carbon filters before I start flowering but still don't want anyone picking up on a certain delightful odor. No really close neighbors and a fenced in yard, but doesn't hurt being careful.

[gbf4ever]

Got my digital pH meter today and very glad I did. The pH of my tap water is around 8.5, and my pH adjusted water was only at 7.2.

The leaves of the one are starting to uncurl nicely, and I dont really notice any major problems on any of the others. Should I do a flush on my older plants with correctly pHed water, or just leave them alone and water them with water in the correct ph range from now on?

[gbf4ever]

tips of some of my seedlings started to yellow today. Gave them a light flush, and runoff was around 7.3. Should I give them a full flush, or will it work it self out within the next few waterings?

The seedlings are in 8oz party cups, and I flushed with around 8-10oz of water. Hoping everything will recover . Plan to give my older plants a pretty decent flush when they are ready for watering.

[gbf4ever]

Plants are looking great now. No yellow tips on the seedlings new growth, and all of the older plants are looking fantastic.

Took my best looking plant out today to water and check for yellow spots/mites/anything. Set it on the counter for a second while I checked the ph of my water and it slipped off. Fell about a foot and a half right on its side, and came most of the way out of the pot . This is what happens when you dont get to smoke for over a month. Picked it up put it back into its pot and replaced the soil that had fallen out. Gave it a good watering, made sure all of the dirt was off of the leaves/stems and put it back under the lights. Hopefully I didn't damage the roots too much, would hate to lose my best plant.

Other then that everythings looking great! I'll have some pictures tomorrow.

[gbf4ever]

Woke up this morning to find alot of my seedlings are developing brown spots . Did a runoff pH test on a few of them, and it came out at 7.4 using 6.5 pH water. Runoff was a yellowish color. Flushed them all with about 5 times their volume in water and could only get the runoff down to about 6.8. Runoff at the end was clear though. Hopeing they can bounce back. Any advice?

[jessejames12345]

They should be OK, just let them chill out for a bit after the big flush, ....maybe ( carfeully ) poke some holes in your soil with a bamboo stake or something to help get air to the roots.

but I stress the word 'carefully' dont want to f'k up and roots .