New Dude + 1st Time Grow Log

[doco]

Your grow is looking good man. What PH tester did you end up getting? I've got a cheap eBay moisture/light/ph meter and I question how accurate it is.

doco Reviewed by doco on 10-13-2006. New Dude + 1st Time Grow Log Hey there, been doing my research and a lot of reading on here! I'm gonna start growing some bud and thought I'd post my set-up and see what kind of advice you guys could offer. I planted my germinated seeds (pics below) today so this is day 1. They're easy buds from femaleseeds.nl and they seem good for a first grow because of the shorter yield time. I got a 400 watt HPS and, as you can see. it's in a spare wardrobe. The soil is good stuff too, lots of worm casings and perlite, has the Rating: 5

[Zoidberg]

Hi doco, I bought this Ph tester http://www.basementlighting.com/Merc...=1/PROD/PHHEPH (plus a few of the related products on that page). Before that, I had a cheap, crappy tester that was just really inaccurate. It Phed my tap water about 7 whejn in reality, it was closer to 10.

[Zoidberg]

Check it out, I flushed one of my plants and then a few days later, growth has gone through the roof I'll be flushing the others today as well. The biggest one must be about 10 inches now and the others are still around 6/7 inches. Does this mean that I could have had some kind of ph lockout? Anyways, here's some pics, day 34! 1st one is of the biggest plant, 2nd is the smaller ones. Don't mind the leaf colour, the HPS turns everything yellow.

[hudson88]

Yeah its possible they could of had a lockout, i flush mine about once a month, or maybe they just needed a good watering, when i water i give them plenty so the water is coming out the bottom of the pot, but only water around every 4-6 days at this stage. Looking good zoid

Peace :rasta:

[Anathema2121]

Lookin good man, we're about the same stage in our grow, mine are a month and a week or two old I think (check the link in my sig for pics ), and finally got them under a 1000 watt HPS last night. We just transplanted yesterday into their final 5 gallon pots, so in a week or two they should fuckin take off. Keep us posted :rasta:

[Zoidberg]

Definitely will. Cheers for the comments lads, think I'll follow your lead hudson and flush the plants every month or so. I flushed the other 2 a few hours ago, hope to see them take off now 1000 watts.....nice. Is the quote in your sig from mallrats btw?

[Anathema2121]

Hey man does that external reflector on the cool tube help any? We have one just can't decide whether it looks better with it on or off.

[Zoidberg]

I'm not really noticing any great difference to be honest. Although I suppose it does reflect down extra light that would otherwise be wasted so it's giving me a little extra value on the electricity I'm using. I've never seen anyone else using one though.

[Zoidberg]

Hello again, today is day 39. After I flushed the other 2 plants, they've started to catch up to the remaining plant. They're all about 10 inches tall now and I can see the early signs of sex forming, looks why we have 3 females Although I'd say it'll be another few days until I know for sure and can see the white hairs. They're also starting to smell a bit skunky if I smell the latest growth, and it smells very nice indeed. Not much else to report though, I'm starting to think I'll have to transplant into bigger pots again, what do you think? Here's the pics anyway.

[virgin-grower21]

im on week one of my first grow i went for the nft system but found out once i bought it that it didnt fit in my cubbord so there is mistake one. i started my seeds off in jiffy pellets and once they came through i gave them some light im useing a 500 watt sodium light with reflector so any because i cant use my nft system at this time i opted for the natural way in soil so i went out and bought some mirical grow soil and transfered my seedlings into 5 4 inch pots sadley after two days 3 of them just fell over and died so im left with 2 very strong plants which i have named karma and lucy seems as tho they are femanised seeds i started with. but on day 5 the two leaves on the top of each plant the ones that have all the nutreant in have gone a bit yellow on the edges why is this i dont want to kill these two as well ive looked in the growers bible but cant find the souce of the problem can any one help me please many thanks