first grow log, I WILL need help

[cheapguy]

Was wondering whats up ,gives us a update mike

[michaelpeg]

Day 15 - Ok here is an update, I hope nobody pukes at the sight of my ugly plants, I fed them for the first time yesterday with half strength growbig ph of water going in was 6.7. I am starting to realize there just might be no hope for me. I have done everything by the book and I still have horrible results. I guess we will wait and see how the plants react to the growbig and hopefully they will start to take off.

[headshake]

how often are you watering? how much are you giving? how are you telling that they need water?


-shake

[michaelpeg]

i judge by the weight of the pot and kind of by how long it has been since previous watering, usually about once every 3 days. no overwatering here, I have overwatered many times in the past. forgot to mention that yesterday i switched back to tap water from distilled as the distilled water didn't help me with my problems whatsoever.

[jkilla420]

Stick your finger in the soil to just past your middle knuckle about 2 to 3 inches in if its not moist water. In a small container like that it may dry up quick maybe water every other day. Use nutes only once a week and you may want to wait until you at least have some 5 to 7 leafs or about 8 to 12 inches tall to add the nutes once a week.(They should be good on just water until they reach that size) Add them to your gallon of distilled water then PH Balance after adding the nutes, start off 1/2 to 3/4 what they call for on the nutes just to see how the plants will react.

[jkilla420]

Also when they are young you can get away with just using a spray bottle and spraying about 20 to 30 times to water every other day so your not totally saturating the soil.

[fourkicks]

keep your head up and bring those babies back to life. some soothing music might do the job and some tlc. no neuts there way too small too handle it.try to get them up a bit and bushier before you give them neuts mate

[michaelpeg]

Hey killa, thanks for taking time to help me. With my plants no nutes=death i have no choice to nute them or they WILL DIE that is a gaurantee. I haven't fed them until yesterday and that is the shape they are in. I know alot of people will agree with you about waiting until a certain node to feed but i constantly tell others to not listen to that because there is no way in HELL my plants would ever make it that far on water alone. I would stick my finger in the pot to judge moisture but with the pot being so small i dont want to penetrate a bunch of roots and also am not a huge fan of that because I find that most of the moisture is actually in the center of the pot where the roots are ( I find this out when I harvest and take the soil out of the pots often in the center will be a bunch of damp soil and roots even after i think there is no way they could still be wet) and as for getting them bushier, I dont know the definition of bushy, take a look at my last plants stems posted earlier in the thread, those aren't branches from a plant they are THE plants! however i do plan on topping once they get bigger. As for the soothing music, I may have to try that as I am running out of options and this was also suggested to me buy a former old hippie grower. We will see the results of the nutes and you may be pleasantly surprised, as far as I know I have never had nute burn, but then again i could be wrong as i dont really know what my plants have.:rasta:

[bickeybammer]

does your soil have nutes in it? looks like over nuting for sure.. are you using water that is through a water softener? use the water out of your hose outside and let it sit out over night ... your plants will survive off plain water.. ITS A DAM WEED! you can grow it without any nutes AT ALL

good luck :hippy:

[michaelpeg]

POST 420!

Hi Bickey, i have been using distilled water and calmag at 5mls per gal (or .66ml per 500 ml) and all my previous grows were with tap. I am growing in foxfarm ocean forest. No i would not be able to grow it without nutes and since so many people keep saying this I will show you all what happens when I dont nute, I will start another bagseed and it will die just for you guys.:thumbsup: and if you say foxfarm is too hot thats okay because I have some other soil that has no nutes and mostly peat and frankly I dont want to waste any more of my $50 small bag of foxfarm OC... Damn shipping

crap I forgot i mixed that peaty soil with some other soil on my previous grow, when i pick a small bag up i will let you guys know probably later today or tomorrow.