Need Help. First Grow and all stressed out!

[malus69]

I'm not familiar with foilar feeding, I'm also learning like you do. I read about it but still I have concerns about the foliar feeding of Root Booster. Since it's a supplement for the roots it should work for the roots more than the leaves I'm thinking. I would like to hear some specific answer from a trusted hand for that too if anyone experienced in soil, foliar feeding of root supplements.
I read the previous thread but you weren't talking about root booster there so advice you got from an experienced hand can't always point your exact situation.
I didn't foliar feed, I didn't use light mix in the beginning but my cotyledons lived for 20 days.

Just I'm trying to say is, simple details that you missed can be the main reason of your problem my friend.
Keep peace with you :hippy:

I do hope some guru in here will come and shed some light into this. I don't have any problems with my plants as of now anyway and I'm starting to feed in the soil now anyway so it's all good but I still want to learn. Will be using spray just to mist the plants with plain gathered rain water from time to time in an effort to simulate mama nature as much as possible!

PS. Don't my leaves look a little bit wide for being an almost pure sativa or it's just to early to really tell? I'm asking simply cause as I said the source of the seeds was questionable and not sure if they are indeed GH Hawaiian Snow feminized ones as they are supposed to be...



Peace mate!
:hippy:

[Weezard]

Dey too young to nosh on liverwurst.

I do hope some guru in here will come and shed some light into this. I don't have any problems with my plants as of now anyway and I'm starting to feed in the soil now anyway so it's all good but I still want to learn. Will be using spray just to mist the plants with plain gathered rain water from time to time in an effort to simulate mama nature as much as possible!

PS. Don't my leaves look a little bit wide for being an almost pure sativa or it's just to early to really tell? I'm asking simply cause as I said the source of the seeds was questionable and not sure if they are indeed GH Hawaiian Snow feminized ones as they are supposed to be...



Peace mate!
:hippy:

Still early, but full Indica starts have much wider leaves on average.
Hmmm, can't find da 'ling photos, but here's a fan;

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Yours looks like it has tendencies of the Indica persuasion but it is too early to say.

Good move with stopping the foilar feed nonsense.
Only FF I see nature do, is splash soil onto da bottom leaves sometimes.
They promptly die!
Then turn yellow which calls the whiteflies.
Then rot and give off Ethylene, which calls fungus gnats.
Then get moldy.
Roots and leaves have very different functions so common sense tells us to let each part do what it does best, yah?

Keep readin' while you practice patience, brah
And know that I killed my first 3 grows with love and attention.
Truth be told, most good growers killed at least their first grow.
Ya gotta care, jus' not so much.
Weeds thrive on benign neglect.

Only advice I'd offer here is to treat yourself to a decent digital camera with a macro setting, if you can.
A thousand true words in every jpeg!
Get much mo' betta diagnosis dat way.

And the video record is your best learning tool, even if you never post them.
Take a pic., apply a remedy, wait fo' a while.
Take a nudder pic.
Reviewing the pics, with your notes, can turn yer thumb green in no time.

Using Cannabis is not addictive.
Growing it, is!
Farm on, brah!

Alo Ha
Weeze

[malus69]

Still early, but full Indica starts have much wider leaves on average.

Yours looks like it has tendencies of the Indica persuasion but it is too early to say.

That's what I thought too. Oh well we'll see. That stupid fuck of a brother of mine got the seeds from an overpriced seedbank in Amsterdam that many ppl say it's a scam and other's say they're fine. It's supposed to be Hawaiian Snow feminized seeds. Anyway no biggie, first grow for experimenting/learning and most probably I'll end up killing em anyway... :chainsaw:

Good move with stopping the foilar feed nonsense.
Only FF I see nature do, is splash soil onto da bottom leaves sometimes.
They promptly die!
Then turn yellow which calls the whiteflies.
Then rot and give off Ethylene, which calls fungus gnats.
Then get moldy.
Roots and leaves have very different functions so common sense tells us to let each part do what it does best, yah?

Yeah I though I should. Always been a fan of common sense anyway, at least when my brain is functioning to its full potential lol. :S5:

Keep readin' while you practice patience, brah
And know that I killed my first 3 grows with love and attention.
Truth be told, most good growers killed at least their first grow.
Ya gotta care, jus' not so much.
Weeds thrive on benign neglect.

Not doing anything else in my free time any more other than reading. As for not caring it's kinda hard, comes out naturally :hippy: The thing is that something came up work wise and I'll have to go overseas for a couple of months so my 2 bros will be looking after them with me providing instructions remotely (with the help of cannabis.com of course), so they WILL be a little neglected after all. Maybe it will turn out to be good for em or maybe they will just kill my babies faster I've shown them the few things I know and left em some resources to read on too. After all they will be consuming it with me, they should contribute to something (we had divided the cost in between 3 anyway but I'm doing all the hard work lol)

Only advice I'd offer here is to treat yourself to a decent digital camera with a macro setting, if you can.
A thousand true words in every jpeg!
Get much mo' betta diagnosis dat way.

I have a 14MP one with macro and s.macro settings. I updated my album btw check it out!

And the video record is your best learning tool, even if you never post them.
Take a pic., apply a remedy, wait fo' a while.
Take a nudder pic.
Reviewing the pics, with your notes, can turn yer thumb green in no time.

I'm a perfectionist in general when I'm doing something I really enjoy so I do keep notes and take pictures for each plant individually every day. :greenthumb: Now if my bros will continue to do so after I'm gone is another story... (notes they will, I doubt about the pics though)

Using Cannabis is not addictive.
Growing it, is!
Farm on, brah!

Alo Ha
Weeze

That I have realized already for good! :weedpoke: I'm totally hooked! :rastasmoke:

Thanks again for everything Weez.ostgood: I'm only a few days here but you are becoming my favourite already lol. I feel like a young padawan or something. :vader1: Still can't add rep btw and it seems that I can't even edit my signature

[malus69]

New pic as of today, plant is 20days old from seed, 11days planted.
Just gave it 250ml of water today with its first dose of nutrients. Does it seem a little over-watered or it's my idea? :wtf:

peace,
:hippy:

[kantgitwrite19]

Hey, I am a few weeks behind you but will be paying close attention to this thread! I ordered some BLUE MYSTIC seeds from Nirvana and got them in like.... 10 days... not bad from Holland to AZ. but I got them on the 31st of jan. All 10 popped!!! yea buddy! alrighty, well I wont steal your thread, I will start my own... but good luck and happy growing

[malus69]

Hey, I am a few weeks behind you but will be paying close attention to this thread! I ordered some BLUE MYSTIC seeds from Nirvana and got them in like.... 10 days... not bad from Holland to AZ. but I got them on the 31st of jan. All 10 popped!!! yea buddy! alrighty, well I wont steal your thread, I will start my own... but good luck and happy growing

Good luck to you too buddy and let me know when you start your grow log. I just started mine on a new thread check my sig!!!

Peace,
:hippy:

[Rusty Trichome]

Next time wait to transplant. That container is too big for the plant. Not a big deal if watered properly, but the tendency with pots that are too big is either underwatering and not getting water to the lower root zone...and overwatering, as the medium stay's moist too long and you risk root rot.

Find a way to ph your rainwater. But in most cases I'd say to avoid rainwater, since it's full of contaminates and can be pretty damn acidic. Plus, if you're using two different sources of water, your losing all the consistency that growing cannabis demands. Check online for your local water company's water quality report. It should tell you the average tapwater ph, what's in it and at what levels, what they treat it with...stuff like that.

ALWAYS start your girls on 1/2 doses of nutrients. This way...if they're not really ready for nutrients (not mature enough) you aren't overdosing them right out of the gate. If they're ok with a couple of weeks of half-doses, bump it up to 'normal' dosages.

Do not use your additives and nutrients except as directed. No "bright ideas' till you know what you're doing. Good idea's kill plants on occasion.

Check online for BioBizz weekly feeding instructions. It's usually better info than from the bottle itself.

[Lynhal]

No "bright ideas' till you know what you're doing. Good idea's kill plants on occasion.

Words to live by. :thumbsup:

[malus69]

Thanks for the feedback/help Rusty I appreciate it. And as I had said before, I'm here to learn and I don't mind fucking up. All criticism is more than welcome. One day I'll be able to offer back all the knowledge I'm draining from you guys to the next bunch of noob growers! :thumbsup:
I'll drop using rainwater, I just read somewhere that it's better that's why I used it in the first place. Will stick to tap water that I leave 1-2days to get rid of the chlorium and check with the water company too for more details and post em in my log once and if I get em. I already ordered a pH testing pen too. As for the nutrients I started at 1/4 of the dose and never planned on going beyond the recommended. Will just increase them gradually and alternate my feedings every other watering and see how it goes from there.

Words to live by. :thumbsup:

So true, will make that like my No1 principle when it comes to growing!!!

PS. It would be better if we transferred all discussion about my grow to my freshly made Grow Log. It would be easier to have everything in one thread and not spread around. My bad that I made it late I know but still...

Peace,
:hippy:

[malus69]

Check online for your local water company's water quality report. It should tell you the average tapwater ph, what's in it and at what levels, what they treat it with...stuff like that..

ok I did some research and I came up with those values regarding tap water in my area:

• pH: 7.4
• GΗ: 8
• ΚΗ: 6
• ΝΟ3: 0
• Water Alkalinity: 150 - 200 mg/lt CaCO3
• Water Hardness: 120 - 130 mg/lt CaCO3
• Calcium: 45 - 55 mg/lt
• Magnesium: 4 - 7 mg/lt
• Nitrogen: 3 - 5 mg/lt
• Sulphates: 30 - 35 mg/lt
• Chlorates: 3 - 15 mg/lt (higher values appear less frequently)
• Free Chlorium: 0,3 - 0,5 mg/lt
• Chromium: 1.6 μgr/lt

I hope I got the chemical terms translation right, being Greek and all Does it call for adjustments? Lower it maybe to 6.5 or so? And if yes how? Would some lemon juice work?

Peace,
:hippy: