1st grow....expert supervision welcomed!

[guitarman42]

Growin pot is pretty ez its a matter of fine tunin to get yer buds big, frosty and tasty, My only advice to you, and this is the most important advice you will get is 1. Dont pull your plant early wait TILL YA got amber trichs. 2. Do not yank early. 3. Dont go googleing "early harvest" and try and convince yourself its ok to yank a week or 2 early. 4. Stop thinking about pullin yer friggin plant I told ya like 3 friggin times already. 5, DONT PULL YER FRIGGIN PLANT EARLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CovertCarpenter]

... with pix of those lovely little girls! I assure you, they're /not/ boring

Sux if you don't have enough lighting, but yeah, moving 'em around a bit so they all 'get their share' of the 'good' one is a good idea. Imho, making 'em dance is a very early form of LST, and therefore a Good Thing (tm).

If you're gonna go with the more linear (rectangular footprint) tent, then tube-style flouros make sense. If with the more 'square' footprint one, I'd reccommend CFLs, but in either case, add as big an HPS as you can to pound de buds. 600w would not be too big (with a good airflow), and 400 would fit well.

Have a buddy who used a 1000w MH with 8x4' Sunblaster flouros in vertical array around his tent (2' x 4' x 6' tall), from start-to-finish, and his stuph was killa. Verra killa. Please know that he had the MH in a LARGE cooltube.

[raizla]

Glad you were able to resolve your issues. Yeah, all the little mistakes we make in the first grow make the 2nd grow that much easier. We also usually have a lot more equipment (lights, nutes, etc) at our disposal to help us along.

[flyinhi]

Well, it's now 23 days since our seeds went into soil and after our little problems, the girls appear to be very happy.....making the parents very happy! :jointsmile:

The girls are now about 5" tall and have been returned to the tent now we have some extra lights. Due to restricted finances, it's only a few more CFLs, so we've got the T5s in the middle with the CFLs around about, and move the pots each day so they all get their fair share of good lighting. Certainly have to invest in more T5s for future grows though....but being a first grow, we gotta do the baby steps and learn from each one!

Also finally seem to have the temps and humidity stable....tried different things and then the weather changed to heatwave, so gone from struggling to keep our kiddies warm enough, to worrying it's too hot! A/C isn't really an option - rented house, and way too much hassle to get a system installed (though if we ever win the lottery (haha) then it's an option we would seriously look into!). But with input and extraction fans and little blow fans, things seem to be on an even keel.....temps are now a steady 80*F and humidity at 50-55%. Girls are being watered every 3 days or so, though haven't started nutes yet. Most likely will introduce some weak solution next week....seeing as we're using MG we know to be extra careful with adding nutes, so treating them like proper babies and will progress with the 'solids' a little at a time.

have several pics added to album, so feel free to have a snoop about! Below are a couple of one of the girls.....not sure why she has odd upper leaves....seems to be sprouting normally below though. 2 of the girls have upper leaves like this.....all the others look exactly like the rest in the pics in the album. Have a look and (hopefully) assure me this can be normal lol. The girls that weren't happy previously are growing very nicely and smelling very sweet :hippy:

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So, next stage will be nutes and then onto the HID lighting.......getting a little impatient for them to reach the suggested 10" though lol. We've been discussing light cycles.....some folks say to start on 18/6 while others swear by 12/12......what do you guys favor and why?

Off to catch up on some logs and Q+As now......peaceful smoking! :stoned:

[irydyum]

Plants in the 2 pics linked there look fine to me. Nice green color, green stems, perky leaves. All positive signs. As far as the abnormality of leaf shape goes, that could be a product of stress from the issues you have had. Now that things are stable as far as environment, keep and eye on em. New leaves should look normal as the next node pops out. I have had some crazy leaves in my day, thankfully none really ever seem to be a problem. If you were breeding or something, you would get rid of them, but just for smoke, you should be fine.

Here's a couple pics of some of my strange happenings lately, just so you know it indeed happens to all of us.

[flyinhi]

Thanks Irydyum.....I did consider it could be stress related, then I thought perhaps genetics....both the plants have 'normal' looking growth underneath the oddball upper leaves, so wasn't getting too upset about it. But its good to hear/see other's plants have similar traits! I did have a look around the forum and came across a pic with some odd leaves, just can't remember where it was! :stoned: No, not a chance of us breeding.....maybe in a few years/decades and a load of grows and experience under our belts lol. Quite happy to grow and smoke for now :rastasmoke:

:smokin:

[dooobster]

Hey man, cool. I grew a WW a couple years ago, check it out



I started it in 12/12 right from seed... Ended up with a 2ft lady that gave me about 42 grams of nice herb. She was awesome! Very easy to grow. She liked light nutes and the green flushed right out when I stopped giving nutes and switched to plain water before the chop.

Get a couple more cheapo fluoro strips if you can, 4ft 2-lamp T8 fixtures are an inexpensive way to increase lumens until you've got enough money saved for your HID light. Also, if you can, keep a fan blowing on them all the time. This will help make the stems stronger for later on when they need to hold up big heavy buds

Keep up the good work.

[flyinhi]

well......whats happening these days?

Been a bit awol, so do apologise for lack of updates and photos.....health has had a relapse and haven't been able to do much until last couple days.

anyway, got the girls in the tent with their big lights now. They were moved to larger pots last week, but are laready showing signs of wanting to go in bigger pots again.....damn they can grow fast!!

The 2 with the 'odd' leaves that we were a bit concerned about are thriving well.....in fact, it appears that they have at some point divided into 2 plants from one stem! Not sure if that's possible, but thats what they're looking like. We're calling them our 2 sets of twins :smokin:

Here are a few randoms shots of a few of the plants. The lighting in the tent has made the pics look a bit yellow, but will take some re-potting pics during the week, and you'll see the girls in all their nakedness :woohoo:

It's 38 days since the seeds went into the soil. The girls are being fed nutes (Canna A+B) and some ionic superthrive. PH levels are stable. humidity is stable, thought the temps have continued to cause a few headaches. We now have some air cooler units which will hopefully stablize temps (room temp is also a problem, even with the window open it's still hot in the room, so air coolers should also reduce room temps to an acceptable level). Plants have some fans blowing constantly also. there's a couple of leaves that have slightly yellow tips, but as they are old leaves, we understand it's old news....all other leaves and new growth are spot on and healthy :thumbsup:

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[flyinhi]

A few more photos of the girls. I think pic 4 shows one of the plants that had 'funny' leaves.....the odd leaves are attached to the middle stem, while the plant itself appears to have divided and become almost 2 plants. There are 2 of the girls like this, which leads me to think perhaps this is a result of genetics, as the rest of the girls are 'normal' single plants. Whatever the reasoning behind this, we're calling these 2 plants our twins lol. We also believe we are seeing the female parts developing, which I've tried to capture in a pic or two as well.....I took quite a few pics, the rest I'll stick in the album rather than take up space here. Hoping to enter flowering stages next week, so gearing up for that, but repotting tomorrow so will try to get some repotting pics too :thumbsup:

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Now, I have a question regarding interrupting lighting schedules. I've got some electrical work being done at the end of the month, which I cannot postpone. The electric supply will be cut off for around 20 minutes. This will coincide with the lighting schedule for the girls......I'm going to open up the tent during the electrical work to try to get as much natural lighting on them as possible, but it won't be direct sunlight. Will this have any impact on the girls? is there anything else we can do to promote light on the plants without any electric supply? We can't put the girls outside due to being overlooked by lots of nosy neighbors, and the lighting schedule (12/12) will be programmed for daylight hours, as the fans make a bit of a noise which is really noticable at night so attracts less attention being run during the daytime. Unable to use a petrol generator or anything like that (don't have one and also would draw attention). Any advice highly appreciated!! Thanks guys :jointsmile:

[CovertCarpenter]

...find a local 'dollar' or cheapie store, and pick up a buncha LED 'stick-em' lights... (the ones that are normally 8-9 bux at the WM or building supply store are buck-fitty knockoffs at the dollar store)...

and probably a buncha batteries, too, unless you're good with 5v DC power supplies.

As long as there's at least some light during the Period Of No Incoming Electricity, they should just interpret that 'day' as being a bit 'overcast'.