first real grow + grow log

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It's an emergency blanket, but those are made out of mylar. I have it surrounding the plant, but had to move a piece in order take the pics.

[peace plz]

Hi all!

Alright, well, in the last few days, the little girl has taken off a bit more. She now has that second set of real leaves and is working on her second node with more sets of leaves looking to expand. I believe it is Day 9.

This is going to be a busy week for me as I have lots of things going on, but I will definitely try to update with pics in the next two days. Infact, it will probably be later this evening when I update with pics. But maybe not.

But I promise pics soon.

Anyways, I watered her last night as the soil was looking a bit dry. But I did see a little bit of a problem going on with the leaves that I thought I might ask about.

I don't have any pics of this (yet), but I noticed after I watered the top of the soil a few days ago with a spray bottle that I had gotten a little water on the leaves. My fan was on, so I figured it would dry up that water pretty soon and I shouldn't worry about it.

Well, the next day, the leaves had these little white spots on it. It seemed like the water dried on the leaves and left little spots on there. It doesn't appear to be doing any damage, but do any of you know what I'm talking about and know if anything bad is going to happen? And if so, can someone help me fix it? Thank you so much!

Keep the support and encouragement and help coming guys. I appreciate it all!

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Alright, as promised, here are some pictures. Not a whole ton more growth, but more none the less. In a few of the pics, you can sort of see the white residue that was left after getting some water on the leaves. Can anyone give me an insight as to if this is a problem, and if so, how can I fix it? I would wipe the leaves off, but I'm afraid to do damage to the leaves. Thanks for any help.

Enjoy!

[Anathema2121]

Get an oscilating fan on that thing and it will have a tree trunk in no time. Look at the wonders it worked on the girls I had under cfls. (in my sig) Also, don't worry about touching leaves, plants are tough. And I wouldn't worry about that white water spot on the leaves, some of my plants had that from where water splashed up on them and nothing happened. You should brush dirt off though, it blocks light and causes a yellow spot if it sits on the leaf. If you add a very little bit of liquid dish soap in your water it acts as a wetting agent and lets its saturate the dirt better and it won't bead up on leaves and leave water rings. It wets leaves evenly. Give it a shot, it won't hurt them. You could also dilute the soap in water and spray it on the leaves to mist them instead of wiping if you still don't wanna touch the leaf.

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Hey man!

Thanks for the response and tips! I will look into the dish soap tactic. How much soap should be used per gallon of water, do you know?

Also, is there some dirt on my leaves? I'm not seeing it, and if you are, could you point it out so that I can fix that. Haha. Thanks.

[Anathema2121]

Just a little squirt, no need to measure. You don't want like soap suds though. The dish soap just lowers the water's surface tension so it doesn't bead. It's pretty cool. Oh, no no dirt on your leaves. Just we've had some from splashing up during watering. Looking good man. I'd try some lowryder but I have shitty luck with seed companies lol. My bag-seed bitches are lookin pretty good though.

[Anathema2121]

Also, be careful starting seeds in fox farms ocean forest. We are also using the Fox Farms system, and I found that ocean forrest can be a little too hot for seedlings. It didn't kill any, just burned the first few leaves. Your plant seems to be loving it. Here's something that might help with your fox farms stuff. Also, big bloom isn't really a fertilizer. Look at the npk ratings, only like .2% .04% or something. For flowering you'd need tiger bloom. And for veg you need grow big and big bloom (what we're using at the moment) and plants are loving it. So much darker green foilage this time around. Fox farms is the shit.

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Alright, sounds good man.

Also, I have an oscillating fan going in my space. But I don't leave it constantly on. I have it set on a timer to be on for 2 hours, then off for 2 hours, and so on. Should I just put it on the whole time the lights are on? Or all day? Any suggestions?

Also, I will check out your thread as soon as I can. I've got to get to bed soon. I've got a big midterm tomorrow, then another Tuesday, and another Wednesday. School is getting hard now. Oh well.

[bud breath420]

looking good mate keep it up!

[peace plz]

Also, be careful starting seeds in fox farms ocean forest. We are also using the Fox Farms system, and I found that ocean forrest can be a little too hot for seedlings. It didn't kill any, just burned the first few leaves. Your plant seems to be loving it. Here's something that might help with your fox farms stuff. Also, big bloom isn't really a fertilizer. Look at the npk ratings, only like .2% .04% or something. For flowering you'd need tiger bloom. And for veg you need grow big and big bloom (what we're using at the moment) and plants are loving it. So much darker green foilage this time around. Fox farms is the shit.

Hmmm...You pose an interesting situation. I am wanting to do this whole grow organically. Do you know any organic nutes that I could use? I'm pretty sure that Tiger Bloom is not organic. That is why I was just going with Big Bloom. I don't really know much about organic nutes, so I was just going to go with the Big Bloom because I heard it works great when paired with FF Ocean Forest. Thanks for the help.