Raiz' First Grow Log - 3 White Widow Seeds from Nirvana

[raizla]

It's that time of the day again. I think the growth is accelerating a bit. It's tough to tell when I'm always checkin on em. Gunna try a bit larger res picture. Let me know if these pictures are too big guys, I can always tone it down.

I think the soil has finally stopped receding. I took your advice t3hn00b137 and instead of the normal watering, I misted them until water came out the bottom of the cup. I'm wondering if my tap water is ok. In these higher res pics, you can see some white spots on the leaves. I'm pretty sure that's residue from drying water. What do you guys think?

I may have to rethink my stance on rockwool. Even though it took longest for the germinated seeds to sprout through the rockwool, it provides a good base for the roots. When I'm watering Camara (the seed planted directly into the soil) the soil will sometimes shift a bit and she'll be leaning to the side by the time I'm done watering.

On to the pics!

Camara




Watson


Scarlet

[raizla]

No watering today. I adjusted the fan a bit so that it wasn't blowing on the cups so much. I want the air circulated, but not a windstorm.

Lastnight I installed a temporary stem adjuster on Camara. She's been leaning to the side since my first watering knocked her down, so with a little help, she's straight now. It's just a garbage tie bent around the stem and the edge of the cup. I moved it a bit, and after just 1 day, Camara seems to be staying in her new position. I'll leave it a few more days though, just to keep her steady.

I think I've made the decision to go scrog. With three plants growing under a T5 fluorescent light, it seems the best way to get light to all the buds. Also, reading smoove's threads (on another forum), I was pretty convinced.

Camara


Watson


Scarlet

[jtsik330]

How many lumens are those bulbs? How many inches away do you keep the lights? If the lights are within acouple inches you should see growth pretty rapidly. They look great for 10 days my guess in the next few days you should start seeing some nice growth. When I began giving my girls 24/0 I saw growth every 8 hours. Its good to get the bulbs real close that way the nodes are nice and tight! Stretching was rough on me when i was using cfl's but you got some nice space. Be patient and the end results will be better...I did some pretty sweet LST'ing, a SCROG would be sweeeet with your setup!


I'm sticken around for this one:jointsmile:

[raizla]

Yeah jtsik330, a scrog is definitely the way to go on this one. The T5's are 5000 lumens each, so 6 of em gives me a total of 30,000 lumens over the grow area. The cups are so small I'm sure they're not getting 1/8 of that light to the plants at this small stage. The lights are about 3 inches above the plants. The leaves are coming in right on top of one another currently so they must be getting good light. These are White Widow though, so I expect they'll start to take off soon.

My only worry is flowering with the T5, but since this is my first grow, I'm just going to risk it. I plan on changing either 3 or 4 of the 6 bulbs to 3000k when flowering starts.

Oh, and the plants aren't actually 10 days old. I just started counting when I started the grow log, which was before sprouting, so I guess the plants are 7 day old sprouts.

[jtsik330]

if you would love to see those girls explode hit em with 6500k bulbs during veg. I was sent 5000k bulbs by mistake and I could drastically see the difference in growth.2700k has proven to be the best during flower for me.

[raizla]

Hrmm I suppose I didn't make it too clear, but the lights are actually 6500k lights with 5000 lumens of output each.... and yeah, it looks like 2700k is the sweet spot for flowering. :thumbsup:

So, I'm not going to water today. The first set of leaves was a tiny bit droopy yesterday, so we'll see how they look by tomorrow night. :wtf:

I went to the store today and bought some Grow Big, Big Bloom, and Tiger Bloom (the Fox Farm Trio!), as well as a basic General Hydroponics pH control kit. I plan on using a high quality pH meter eventually, but until I find a great deal, this kit will do for now.

A couple interesting observations:

1. The leaves all have very very tiny white dots on them if you look closely. At first I thought it was the water I was giving them leaving residue on the plant, but I haven't watered for a couple days, and even the new growth has these little dots on the leaves, so it must not be the water. Any clues anyone?

2. The first set of leaves have an extra crease in them besides the one going down the middle of the leaf. Is it this way for all cannabis plants, or something unique to WW or even unique to this strain of WW?

Questions I don't have answers to... :i feel stupid:

Camara




Watson


Scarlet




The goop!

[raizla]

So I tested the tap water I've been giving them. The pH is between 7 and 8! I'm glad I found this out now before I started giving them nutrients. Before tomorrows watering I'm going to adjust to 6.3. I noticed a bit of yellowing on Watson's leaves... it's hard to see in the pictures. I wonder if it's because he's thirsty, full, or needs a pH adjustment.

Oh and I also added a drop of acid to see if it would change the color. BAM! Immediate drop to ~4.0. The water turned bright red. At least I know the stuff works.

[t3hn00b137]

I am not positive, but you may want to check your roots. I started noticing droopiness, off colored leaves, and leaves that started twisting at about the height that yours are at.


TehNoobletimp:

[raizla]

Really? They're only about 9 days old now. Could it be time to transplant?

[raizla]

So tonight was the first pH adjusted watering. First I tested the water than I had sitting in the spray bottle for a couple of days. This tap water had a pH between 7 and 8 somewhere. Time to lower it.

I added pH down solution, about 6 drops. This got spray bottle to a pH between 6 and 6.5. Good enough to water all three cups with.

Next I tested the runoff from the first plant, Watson. The runoff pH was about 7.0, so it wouldn't do me any harm to lower the pH a bit more for the next watering. I went ahead and got a gallon of water ready sitting at a pH of about 6.2.

The plants were looking a bit droopy after 3 days without water. I wanted to wait until they perked up a bit before snapping some pics, but it's a slower process than I thought, so y'all get some droopyish leaves tonight.

Oh, and these plants do NOT seem to be getting taller. They're just throwing out leaves on top of leaves on top of leaves while staying short and stubby. Is there such a thing as too much light? Maybe a 6 lamp T5 2 inches away is too much?

Camara


Watson


Scarlet