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    #1
    Junior Member

    Help me please! 1st time grower.

    Hi all,

    Sorry if this is in the wrong spot, please forgive me.

    This is my 1st time growing cannabis. I got these two clones about 5 days ago.

    Here's what they looked like then,
    http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/2311/picture108r.jpg
    http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/8203/picture109.jpg

    and here's today.
    http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/5792/picture168i.jpg
    http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9608/picture176j.jpg
    http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/3944/picture177.jpg
    http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/157/picture179f.jpg


    What is going on with them? I have 1 35Wat (packaging said they were 100Wat equivalent) warm white
    fluorescent bulb on each plant about 1 1/2inch from the plant. Is this too close? Are these bulbs
    a sufficient lighting source? Along with the color change, the soil seemed a bit dry this morning.
    So I gave them a little extra water but the plants is still turning yellow.
    How do I know how much water to give these things daily with out killing them?
    uber125 Reviewed by uber125 on . Help me please! 1st time grower. Hi all, Sorry if this is in the wrong spot, please forgive me. This is my 1st time growing cannabis. I got these two clones about 5 days ago. Here's what they looked like then, http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/2311/picture108r.jpg http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/8203/picture109.jpg Rating: 5

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    #2
    Senior Member

    Help me please! 1st time grower.

    turn your ISO down next time genius

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    #3
    Senior Member

    Help me please! 1st time grower.

    scrumby must be referring to photo speed. Looked ok to me.
    The little yellow spots are magnesium deficiency. I suspect the broader yellowing is nitrogen deficiency. Some people have not understood what I'm going to tell you and I'll probably get flamed for saying this here again, but... here goes.
    A good solution for indoor soil growing is to fertilize with an organic powder fertilizer. For example, Foxfarm makes a fert that is very good, with a high bacteria and beneficial fungi content. Dr. Earth is one and so is Whitney Farms. There are different versions of fert made by each company, but all you typically need is the "All Purpose" version, or Foxfarm's "Fruit and Flower" fert. The way these work (and they're perfect for growing in soil), is the fert molecules are too big to be taken in by a plant's roots, but the bacteria work to break the fert down to small molecules that the roots can absorb. Also is the help of fungi in assisting the roots in taking up these fert molecules. Foxfarm also makes a good indoor growing soil as well. What you do is put about a cup of powder fert in your plant container for every two gallons of soil and mix well. If you're using a 5-gallon bucket, use two cups in four to five gallons of soil and mix well. These ferts can be used for pretty much any soil grow as I understand it to be. You shouldn't need any other form of nutrition. If you want to add a little Superthrive or some other booster, that is up to you but go easy with it and you really shouldn't need anything anyway. You should be able to find these ferts in a grow shop or decent hardware store. You want to read the contents on the box and look for words like "bacillus" which is bacteria, and "mychorrizae" which is fungi.

    I guess in the past some people here have been confused as to what I was talking about when I said powder ferts. Even though I thought I made the names of the products plain enough, I got flamed by The Image Reaper, telling me that you never put powder ferts in soil and that my ideas were very wrong. The interesting thing is that these companies go out of their way to make their products the best the can. If the ferts didn't work, the products would never sell. So if Reaper wants to tell me I'm wrong, he's also telling the chemists and biologists at the factory that they are wrong too. Personally, I don't think they're wrong. If you were to take a chemical fert and put it directly in soil, you might have some problems. But the bacteria in organic fertilizer slowly works to break the ferts down, which creates a time-release kind of action in the soil. It is not a process of slamming fert into soil because the stuff won't be available to roots until the bacteria work on it. This is how nature does and what you're really trying to do with an indoor grow is mimic nature. You could grow with a chemical, lab-made kind of fert but organic really is a better way to grow. Give the plants time to grow and you'll get great results.

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    #4
    Senior Member

    Help me please! 1st time grower.

    So you decide to start the fire first, well done. I'm sure you are taking Reaper out of context, and for the record, it's pretty spineless to namedrop in a thread that the person isn't even involved in.

    Looking at the pics, my first question is what kind of soil are you using, and what kind of mulch do you have on the top of it. Do you have any idea of the Ph of the soil or water?

    If there are any nutes in the soil whatsoever, and the clones have only been in it for a week or so, I highly doubt it's a deficiency. More likely a ph lockout or something causing the nutes to be unavailable. Need some more info to help you out tho bro. Go to the plant problems forum and fill out a troubleshooting form as a reply to this thread. Don't want to tell you anything for sure until we know all the variables.

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    #5
    Senior Member

    Help me please! 1st time grower.

    First of all, Irydyum, Reaper wasn't taken out of context. He flamed some of my posting and promptly closed the thread so there could be no more discussion. Only problem is... Reaper is the one who was wrong. I think it's pretty spineless to defend someone without checking the facts. And next time be careful what you post because the reputation you save could be your own. If you'd like to read it for yourself, click here.
    http://boards.cannabis.com/plant-pro...-my-plant.html

    By the way, the persistant focus on pH in these forums is laughable. pH is the least of your worries, provided you do a few simple things.

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