PICS OF MY PLANTS: Tips and Info PLEASE!

[VermontVeggies]

Hey all,
My 3 plants are 3 and a 1/2 weeks old. The first one looks healthy, but the other 2 im a little concerned about. They are in an 80% garden soil and 20% cow manure mixture. The large one is around 7 inches and the smaller 2 are around 5 or 6 (which are the 2 I am worried about). They are outdoors and recieve as much sun as they possibly can during the day. Temperatures have been in the upper 60s at night and between 72 and 78 since I have planted them. This is not a picture of MY plants, but it looks nearly identical. The two that I'm concerned about look similar to this, but they are slightly smaller and the leaves on the "first layer" are slightly wrinkled.

Any suggestions on how to quicken the growing and make them heathlier?

Thanks,
VV

VermontVeggies Reviewed by VermontVeggies on 06-10-2010. PICS OF MY PLANTS: Tips and Info PLEASE! Hey all, My 3 plants are 3 and a 1/2 weeks old. The first one looks healthy, but the other 2 im a little concerned about. They are in an 80% garden soil and 20% cow manure mixture. The large one is around 7 inches and the smaller 2 are around 5 or 6 (which are the 2 I am worried about). They are outdoors and recieve as much sun as they possibly can during the day. Temperatures have been in the upper 60s at night and between 72 and 78 since I have planted them. This is not a picture of MY Rating: 5

[turtle420]

Well, I don't want to say they "look" good, because we haven't seen them yet.

What's your watering schedule?
They should be fine... they're, growing.

About the 1st layer of wrinkled leaves, leave the there... you can pick them from the ground.

They're growing! They're doing their thing.

[oldhaole]

I hope you aged the manure and did not put it in green.

[jagerbombs101]

I got a few here that are a lil over a month. Hopefully most of them are female. Any comments or suggestions feel free to post

[moody420]

I got a few here that are a lil over a month. Hopefully most of them are female. Any comments or suggestions feel free to post

did you really put them in the ground like that? they are super close together and the roots are going to fight to the death....just sayin...:jointsmile:

Unless you are a doing a huge outdoor grow (something over 30 plants) I would still stick with pots. You can control what is going into your soil, therefore getting healthier plants! I'd pull those and get yourself some 5g pots with some good soil....just my opinion though! good luck! :thumbsup:

[jagerbombs101]

I planted them like that so they wouldnt get super big. Kinda like a sea of green method but for outdoors. Their in my back yard so i need them to stay about waist high. Plus that hole is about as deep as a 5 gal bucket. I used miraclegrow soil for (inground) use and for fert am using miracle grow organic choice all purpose plant food concentrate which is basicly sugarbeet molasses.

[moody420]

I planted them like that so they wouldnt get super big. Kinda like a sea of green method but for outdoors. Their in my back yard so i need them to stay about waist high.

Well, SOG method is usually vegging the plants to about 12" then forcing into flower. You cannot force into flower when you grow outside! Mother Nature does not like to be bossed around!! :jointsmile:

I hope I don't sound rude, i really am trying to help. Those plants are WAY to close together. The roots will get tangled and eventually kill the plants. And if you aren't sure about sex, I wouldn't risk it. Get yourself some pots. It will be easier to move them if you need to. You can still do outdoor, but don't expect it to be like the SOG's you see on the forum. And you are starting pretty late in the season....Most people have their babies out the end of April/early May!

[jagerbombs101]

lol I get what your saying brother and no your not coming of as rude but I understand that these wont flower till the days start gettin shorter. And am goin to be watchin for the males so as soon as I spot one am goin to yank that dude. The hole I dug there is about as deep as a 5 gallon bucket. LOL Ill keep you posted with the results

[Prodaytrader]

You know what I think??? I think somebody found some bag seed and got clever. I think it's great what your doing, don't get me wrong, but somebody and I guess it's going to be me this time, has to inform you that your going about this all wrong. Will you get something to pop up, ya probably, but you likely wont be happy with the results. Keep in mind that marijuana is a lot like tomatoes in that the green stuff is pretty easy to grow, but the red tasty stuff isn't all that easy to grow. THC is a lot like that. The vegetation is required to get a healthy plant, but you have missed a lot of the other variables that will be required to get good production of THC. Your plants will require a lot of nutrients more so then what can be found in a 1 meter square patch of ground. Maybe it would work fine for 1 plant, but not 10 or whatever u have there. Everything else will be left to mother nature when you grow outside. You will want to learn more about nutrients, pests and disease not to mention proper watering, temperature and seasonal sun and weather variables. Things like when is the best time to plant for your area has less to do with the farmers comfort and convenience and more to do with proper temperatures and weather for the crop as well as day light length.

If that were corn seeds you planted there and your family needed that to live on, do you think you would have done more research and preparation then what you have so far? Do you honestly think farming is as simple as tossing seeds on the ground? Don't give up, just reset your expectations at least for now. All those images of big kolas and bud that you read about on the interwebs, have to be thrown out. I have no idea when it's the best time to plant in your area, but maybe your lucky and it wont be a long wait. If your unlucky, it might be as long as 12 months before you see a harvest if for example yesterday were the best day to harvest and that's instead when you tossed those seeds in the ground. Over the next 12 months you may have to weather; drought, pests, freezing temps, monsoon season in April, and on and on. You get the idea.

Good luck and remember, nobody here ever had a blue ribbon crop on the first get go. All these people here posting these clever little systems (me included, research my posts) all of them are going through beginners school so to speak. Eventually we all learn the variables and learn how to control them and somewhere around the 3 or 4th crop we finally start getting it right. Not me though, the first grow I did was perfect, the biggest baddest tallest, hermies you have ever seen! It gets easier and after awhile you learn how not to get hermies. Hermies are like herpes in that we all (again not me) secretly get them from time to time but we never fess up to it. LMAO

[jagerbombs101]

LOL That was very informative I understand what your saying but am not expecting big huge colas from this. Am goin to just see what happens and take proper care of them and give them the proper fert they need and let mother nature take care of the rest Oh yea and of course pull the males when they show and hopefully by mid Oct Ill have a lil decent bud to smoke.