first real grow + grow log

[peace plz]

Hey all. Over the weekend I started my first real grow. The beans sprouted on Saturday (10/7/2006). I am growing a single lowryder plant right now. In a few weeks I will add another couple plants into the mix, but for right now, it's just the single plant.

Here's my set up:

It's in my closet. Well, part of it I guess. The space is about 3FTx1.5FT and maybe 3FT tall. I'm using CFLs. Right now I have one 42W and four 26W bulbs. Once I start the other two plants, I will be increasing it to atleast four 42W and six 26W.

The plants are in Fox Farm Ocean Forest organic soil. I will eventually be using Fox Farm Big Bloom for ferts, and possibly some more bat guano and some other organic micronutrients or something.

I didn't want to line my walls in mylar, so I simply cut out cardboard pieces and put mylar on those and have those up against the walls.

Before I started this grow, I did a little experimenting with growing some bagseed. They were just in some regular potting soil inside those red beer cups. Both of those are now on the verge of dying because I am concentrating all my lights on my new little guy. The two plants that are still alive are about 8-10 inches tall and are around 3 weeks old. Does anyone know if they would have any THC in them at all to make cannabutter or anything? Or should I just get rid of them?

I will be posting pictures quite often in this thread to document the growth, but I won't post any for a few more days until it starts growing more.

Let me know if any of you have any tips or anything along the way. Like I said, this is my first real grow. I've been reading this forum a lot for the past few weeks, and I think I've got a little grasp on what to be doing. But if at any time it looks like I'm messing up or you think I could do something better/different, let me know. This is also an all organic grow as well, so if you have any tips for that, I would appreciate it.

Thanks for reading this thread, and I hope you all continue to follow the growth of my little lowryder. (I'm growing lowryders because of the small space I have. Also, this is completely for my own use, and whatever it yields will be fine. I'm going to eventually have probably 4 plants going at once, but all staggered so that I harvest approximately every 2 weeks or so.)

peace plz Reviewed by peace plz on 10-10-2006. first real grow + grow log Hey all. Over the weekend I started my first real grow. The beans sprouted on Saturday (10/7/2006). I am growing a single lowryder plant right now. In a few weeks I will add another couple plants into the mix, but for right now, it's just the single plant. Here's my set up: It's in my closet. Well, part of it I guess. The space is about 3FTx1.5FT and maybe 3FT tall. I'm using CFLs. Right now I have one 42W and four 26W bulbs. Once I start the other two plants, I will be increasing it to Rating: 5

[peace plz]

Alright here's a little update. Not much really new to report. It just seems like my plant is progressing a little slower than those two bag seed plants were progressing. It's day 5 and I still only have the first set of "real" leaves and the second set is just starting to form. Does anyone know if lowryders just take a little while to really start kicking in and developing more foliage and nodes?

I don't really think I'm doing anything wrong. My lights are close, its well watered, the temp and humidity is fine.

Either I'm just really anxious or it seems like this little girl (hopefully, knock on wood) is taking her little time to start getting some girth to her.

Tomorrow I will have pics. But in the meantime, can anyone let me know anything about why the plant seems to be growing slow? Or is it even growing slow at all? I could just be overly anxious. Thanks for any help.

[lotus333clans]

you started your first LR grow same time as me exactly , and yes LR germinate slow , i soaked my beans til a tap root shown, then planted them sunday, my still havent broke the earth.... my temp is 78F soils moist not soggy, good humidity , reg m.g soil no ferts only b vitamins in distilled water. b4 they break the ground i no they dont need light however i put a cool 20w cpf 3 in above the soil.... worlds best virtue patients.... keep in touch through both our threads i can really use someone in same spot as me, even tho i know quite a bit about growing , every grow i feel like a noob again. i just wish they would beak ground i know then that i can kick ass then... good luck with yours.. and you cpf lights should be 3 in from you plants and a fan on low constantly blowing on them will work wonders plus let you get the lights closer.... PEACE

[peace plz]

Hey thanks for checking out my thread!

Yeah, the waiting part for them to break ground is a little rough. I just soaked mine in some water for about 12 hours then popped them in the soil. I put them in on a Thursday, and by Saturday afternoon they had popped out.

Also, my lights are about an inch and a half from the plant. And I do have a fan blowing on them as well.

Keep me updated with yours and I'll do the same with mine. Just check back every couple days. Once growth starts picking up, I'm going to try to have an update atleast every couple days or so. And pics, lots of pics.

Take care and happy growing!

[maryjanehaze]

sounds good man, waitin for those pics :thumbsup:

by the way, not all lights are the same so you don't have to, but i reccomend moving them to around 3 inches and keeping it around there for the whole growth. when my lowryder was a sprout my light was like 1.5 inches like yours and she got a little burnt (luckilly survived though.)

[peace plz]

Hey thanks for the tip. So far there hasn't been any burning of leaves. But I will probably move the lights a little further away once I get a few more in there.

I'm taking pictures tonight and will post them right after I take them. There's really not much too them yet. About an inch and a half tall with a couple leaves and some new ones coming in. But pics will be posted anyways.

Can I ask you, what kind of nute cycle did you use? When did you start them on nutes? What I was thinking was that since there is really no vegitative stage, and it goes straight to flowering, once the sex is determined, that's when I should use some bloom ferts. I'm going to be using Fox Farm Big Bloom. Should I even worry about using any sort of ferts before this, or should I just start them once I determine the sex (obviously if it's a male, I won't be doing that, but if it's a girl, then yeah)

Sorry, I'm really long-winded when I type.

[lotus333clans]

i soaked myn for same mount of time, thur, friday saw tap root , let them sit in a soaked towel in warm spot most of friday, then planted 1/4 inch insoil tap root down and soak the soil down nice, put plastic wrap over pot, 78f and still they havent poped up , soil is perfectly moist heat is right on where it should be, and the light isnt strong , its on 24hrs , i might turn it off tonyte... but the waits a killer.. prolly should have tooken off the skin of the seed like some of my bag seeds in the past.. peace

[peace plz]

Alright, as promised here are some pictures. Sorry, the quality isn't too great. I got stoned and couldn't find my gf's good digital camera, so I just used my really old one. Next time the pics will be better.

But, there's not much to them. A couple leaves. New ones forming. And you can see my little grow area. It's nothing fancy at all.

I'll update with some pictures again when anything more happens. Let's hope she starts picking up the pace in the next few days!

Enjoy!

[lotus333clans]

i envy you my slow ass LR beans, tho i did a lil experiment, im going to write bout it on my thread.. hope everythin goes welll, is that mylar or emergency blanket for reflection?

[DopeBOYmagic]

Basically have the same setup as you as of today
Just started