My First Ever Grow (Advice more than Welcome)

[jamstigator]

Congratulations! Yep, she's a girl. Unlike humans though, if you don't treat her right she'll grow balls on you. Just think if humans worked like that. We'd have to treat all women like goddesses!

I keep bowls of water around too. Gets too dry indoors if I don't. Hell, still gets too dry when I do; almost bought a humidifier yesterday, but I resisted the urge and dragged myself out of WalMart before I spent every dime I had on me. "Stan... Stan... go on without me, Stan...."

Not sure what the droopiness prob is; it could be so many things. The soil looks good though, so I'd suspect overwatering, but since that's so obvious, then you've probably made sure that's not it. I had a plant get all droopy like those recently, but that was because I kept it in a small pot for a very long time and it was rootbound (purposely so). Your pots look big enough, so that's likely not it either. Soooo...I dunno. Wish I could be more helpful!

[soccergal]

I had a plant get all droopy like those recently, but that was because I kept it in a small pot for a very long time and it was rootbound (purposely so). Your pots look big enough, so that's likely not it either. Soooo...I dunno. Wish I could be more helpful!

You know...I bet that's exactly what it was. I had them in small pots before I transplanted them. I know they were getting rootbound...but that one was definitly worse off at the time. You know how it looks when you take a flower out of that 6pack tray? Well the root system on that one basically resembled that. HAHA.

And it's made remarkable recovery since I transplanted. In fact just since yesterday when I took those pics it looks better. I know the problem isn't watering...I make sure to let my plants dry out before re-watering. And I don't go by a certain amount of days, but by feel and weight of the soil. So you're probably right on that one. It hadn't occured to me.

Hopefully they don't go hermie!!! Everything seems to be stable so far.

Oregonsdank

How far down does that plastic lookin bag lining stuff go?

Well it goes all the way down to the bottom. I did that because the drainage holes were so big that I didn't want my dirt to come out...so that is essentially a plastic bag with TONS of small holes in it, which still allows the water to drain...but helps keep in my dirt.

How often do you let your plants get dam near bone dry?

Every time I water...I basically let them dry out before re-watering. I let them tell me when they need water if that makes any sense. I am using Earth Juice products as my nutes. They seem to love it.


I'll check out your grow oregon.

[jamstigator]

Ah! I didn't know you'd recently transplanted. Well, that's probably what it was then, especially if they're now recovering. Might've had a bit of transplant shock too. But as long as they're recovering now, should be smooth sailin' from here on out! Woot!

[PoolShark1321]

I recently found out about www.thegrowreport.com the 6 grow reports you can download have answered many of my questions in great detail. Thanks a ton Zandor!

[yabatab]

hows the grow going soccergal? update pics?

[SiXFeEtDeEp]

CJBHM52 I'll be honest with you, I really don't know my temps, or my humidity. I do keep a bowl of water in my growbox to add humidity. And I just make sure that the bulbs aren't too close to the plants and that the fan is going.

I haven't posted pics in awhile as after I topped it took awhile to see a big different...however now it is significantly visible that the undergrowth has continued...and I'm happy to say I now have two tops!!! YAY! I'm posting pics on Wednesday...for real this time.

first off ill start with LSTING i perfer going to use paperclips

Top the rest of your babies then you take the main stem and bend it parallel with the medium then tie a lose hope around the top of the main stem and tie it so it stayes parallel. just like you are doing excpet right now you only need one tie and you need to bend those stems over. this will expose the side branches to the light and they will start growing to the light. later you will tie these down to and thats when you have multipule ties. after the second tie down i would add a scorg net but that a lil ways from now.

now when you do finally decide to induce flowering, all the training will pay off. What would have been your tiny and airy bottom buds. Will now turn into nice, photogenic colas.

now for the main thing in the quote that scared me.

"I just make sure that the bulbs aren't too close to the plants"

NOOOO. lol keep the lights a MINIMUM 2 inches away. CFLS need to be as close as possable in order to get the most out of the lights. the penatration of a cfl is not very far so the closer the better. you won't burn them belive me. also this will prevent over streching of the stem.

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